Simon Cowell doesn’t suppose that Bob Dylan would have made the lower on American Idol.
In an interview with the Rolling Stone Music Now podcast, Cowell gave his ideas in regards to the legendary singer auditioning for the truth competitors that he judged.
“Once I heard Bob Dylan’s model of that Adele music, ‘Make You Really feel My Love,’ I didn’t know he wrote the music,” stated Cowell, referencing Dylan’s 1997 observe famously coated by Adele in 2008. “I feel if he’d walked in and sang that model, I’m not gonna lie, I might’ve gone, ‘Overlook it.’ Critically. As a result of I didn’t even know he wrote the music, after I heard his model, I used to be like, ‘Whoa.’ I simply don’t suppose that might have been a terrific audition.”
Cowell acknowledged that despite the fact that he doesn’t like Dylan’s music, he realizes everybody has completely different preferences. “Look, I’m not a fan of Bob Dylan, but when folks like him, then they like him, and in the event you don’t, that’s what I learnt from my profession,” Cowell stated. “All people has completely different tastes, whether or not it’s meals, leisure, or no matter.”
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This isn’t the primary time Cowell has criticized Dylan. Again in 2007, he stated that the singer’s music “bored him to tears.”
“I’ve bought to let you know, if I had 10 Dylans within the closing of American Idol, we might not be getting 30 million viewers per week,” Cowell added. “I don’t imagine the Bob Dylans of this world would make American Idol a greater present.”
In different information, Dylan earned an Honorary Doctorate from Berklee School of Music earlier this month.
