Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan is an extremely poetic lyricist and an excellent musician. It is very difficult to master the technique of playing harmonica and guitar at the same time. Despite this, Dylan has always had one major criticism: He cannot sing. Though this is widely viewed as negative criticism, I wonder if Bob Dylan would have been such a success if he could sing. The sound of his voice compliments his style of music and his metaphorical lyrics, making his singing more like reading a poem at a coffee house than singing lyrics for a song. Not only that, but his style offstage matched his music very well. I think that this made the music more personal because it showed the audience that he is the same guy on and off stage, which made him, in a way, trustworthy to the crowd. He was not the musician who was portrayed in the media as friendly and nice in order to gain popularity, but was actually a jerk off camera.