We all sometimes wonder how would some iconic songs sound like if they were written in this modern age. Well, The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon had the same itch and decided to reimagine Bob Dylan’s “The Times They Are A-Changin’“, changing its lyrics to reflect more the 2018 and current events including Me Too movement and “fake news”. Fallon not only did an amazing job singing the song but he even got Dylan’s look spot on. Check out the video below.
Bob Dylan wrote the song in 1963 with the intention to create an anthem for a change. The song ended up being released on the eponymous album in 1964 and remained influential over the years with universal lyrics and lasting message of change.
“This was definitely a song with a purpose. It was influenced of course by the Irish and Scottish ballads …’Come All Ye Bold Highway Men’, ‘Come All Ye Tender Hearted Maidens’. I wanted to write a big song, with short concise verses that piled up on each other in a hypnotic way. The civil rights movement and the folk music movement were pretty close for a while and allied together at that time.” – said Dylan about the song back in 1985.
