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Oracle Bob

How well does Dylan understand America? Let’s keyword-search his lyrics at bobdylan.com!

Mentions of: Lohan (0); cocaine (0); out of control (3)*; crash (9)**; tabloid darling (0); tramp (3)***; needs a good spanking (0).

*From “Brownsville Girl”: “She knows this car would go out of control.” While not anticipating Lindsay Lohan—after all, she was born in 1986, the year this song was released—clearly Bob foresaw a careening young girl.

**From “Foot of Pride”: “He feeds off of everyone that he can touch/He said he only deals in cash or sells tickets to a plane crash.” While not Lohan-specific, it does accurately describe paparazzi.

***In “Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob famously sings of a “mystery tramp,” but he means tramp in the male-vagabond sense. The song, however, does seem to be about Paris Hilton.

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