The horror.
I just saw a Victoria’s Secret ad on TV tonight featuring Bob Dylan. I nearly vomited. Besides the pure, abject horror at seeing him sell out to such an astonishingly low degree… HOW IN THE HELL IS THAT SUPPOSED TO SELL MORE UNDERWEAR? Pierce Brosnan, yeah. George Clooney, sure. But Bob Dylan? An incredibly unattractive old folk singer? What’s the demographic here, people?
Could have been worse.
Could have been Keith Richards.
Nope. Keith Richards has sex appeal. He’s ugly, too. Damn ugly. But he has sex appeal.
I’d heard necrophilia was making a comeback.
Can you describe the ad? Does it feature a Dylan song playing in the background while models prance around, or is Dylan himself showing his body off in lingerie?
Well, if I had to do it all over again,
Babe, I’d do it all over you.
Bob Dylan
Eww! I didn’t say I’d do him! I just meant I didn’t think it would be worse. It would still be bad, though. Very bad.
Something in between: A Dylan song playing in the background while the models prance around, then a tight shot of Dylan all soft-focus (not soft enough, Jack!) and turning to gaze at the camera.
All I really wa-nna do-o-o-o-o
Is baby sell 'wears to you.
Speaking of necrophilia, they could just have easily put Roy Orbison in (computers, etc). Now THAT would be creepy!
I saw that commercial last night and I was thinking “WTF?! Why is Bob Dylan selling women’s underwear?” I don’t see a problem with using his song, but why the heck use his face?
It is so many flavors of wrong, I don’t even know where to begin. Dylan stooping to being on an ad with a model who walks with the grace of Frankenstein in too-tight briefs. VS bringing the face of the undead onto my screen. I need Chlorox.
All along the watchtower
Princes kept the view
While all the women came and went
In a petal pink satin teddy and lace up tap pants sets
$28 + shipping.
Thank you, jsgoddess. At least someone understands the depth of my anguish.
LadyGrem and I caught that one as well. There was a long pause and then we slowly turned toward each other and said “What the fuck was that?” at almost the exact same instant. I had trouble sleeping…
I thought that was Vincent Price! 
I don’t know. I wondered the same thing!
Whoa. I actually did a search to see if this topic had been brought up. Apparently I didn’t look back far enough.
This ad is that old?
It’s just gross, is all. Eww. I’m all skeeved about the skivvies.
That was my reaction when I saw him perform on the Grammys a couple of years ago!
Atho there was a previous ad with Dylan music, IIRC correctly he did not appaer in the commercial.
The new commercial
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/html/popup/dylan/videoHigh.html
or
http://www2.victoriassecret.com/html/popup/dylan/videoLow.html
is different that the old one (different song, much more Dylan)
Brian
(who tends to remember VS ads 
)
I didn’t recognize him, and my reaction was more or less “Ewwww! What’s that creepy old stalker guy doing in that ad?”
Eek.
Yeah, it is that old. I can’t believe he agreed to do it. It’s just so, so …wrong!