I was becoming a teenager, when this song first came out. Everywhere around me was racial injustice, senseless war, and oppression for the poor and women. Bob Dylan presented us with a series of big questions about war, oppression, and indifference throughout the song, treating these questions as global problems and the problems of every individual. Looking away was not the answer, especially regarding civic rights at the time. Bob Dylan was a great poet of my time. You have to remember the times in which he wrote this song. Thanks for reacting, I appreciate your insights.
As a true artist Dylan kept pushing his art forward at a pace even his most devoted fans had trouble keeping up. He would alienate some and win over new audiences and then do it again. Fascinating journey and still going.
This pushed the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's to another level. Dylan became a leader/spokesman because of his work but didn't want the title. I guess it reminds me of Forrest Gump running across America and asked by multiple reporters, "Are you running for (major cause here)?" and Gump said, "I just felt like running". I can picture Dylan saying, "I just wanted to write songs".
This was such an impactful song that it was the subject of study in my 8th grade music class in 69’. I still recall the teacher handing out copies of the lyrics and how it really made me stop and think about these concepts when only 13 yrs old. He really stretched peoples’ minds, even the children.
I believe you have a man like your father, very respectful and kind, loving you got lucky because they are few and far between! Peter , Paul, and Mary have a fantastic cover of this song also.
Great reaction! So many of Dylan's songs will be forever relevant. Whether he was writing and singing folk songs, protest songs with clear messages, love songs or surrealist, spiritual or faith based songs he always did so in a completely unique, poetic way like no other artist.
An old tough mining town. Hibbing mn. Ethnic groups came from all over Europe to mine Iron Ore. They built one of the best high schools in the world in the middle of nowhere. Education was important to them. It shows in Bob. I grew up there. That's where he came from.
1963! Eventually turning 1 (Oct.) Most of Bob Dylan songs I heard by others like Jimi Hendrix, ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER!! Great writer! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎🎸🤟🏼
Dylan played this song at a concert hosted by Pope St. John Paul II. On the truth of the answer blowing in the wind, the Holy Father responded “It is true, however not a wind that blows everything away into nothingness, but in the wind that is the breath and voice of the Spirit, the voice that calls and says, ‘Come'.’”
I think Blowing In The Wind is a metaphor for change. So the answers to Bob's questions are always changing depending on the times your living in. That's what makes this song timeless.
Bob Dylan is a poet, in Chile there is Victor Jara our poet, I recommend the song poem 15 by Pablo Neruda or Te Recuerdo Amanda ,... Regards to Chile ❤❤❤
A well-crafted song that asks its "sideways" questions without preaching the obvious answers. I'm proud of my fellow Minnesotan's contribution to music and society. :)
@@buretto66 you're going to remain curious, because I know better than to take-the-bait of a contrarian who wouldn't be satisfied with anyone's arbitrary answers. Besides, I didn't say preachy answers, I said obvious answers. There's a difference, obviously.
You raise some very insightful observations and that's what good lyric writing or any writing does, much to the credit of Mr. Dylan. So influential then and now.
Bob and many singer songwriters are hust gifted with tge ability to put words and music together, its amazing .for some its easy, for others its a struggle but they somehow get there... then you have guys like mozart who write like its hust dictation ,it pours out of them allready finished....
Repeated on another reaction, check out "Bod Dylan's Dream" to hear a 21 year old Dylan looking back on on his life with the wisdom of a much older mind.
Hi there 👋 I don't know if you're ever going to read this, but i really love your sincere reactions. This song, is more amazing, because Bob Dylan had 20/21 when he wrote those lyrics, before it was published. So,how many people had the mentality at 20 to write this level of deepness ? Not many. Take care ✌️ peace
WOWWW YOU GUYS, IT'S SO DIFFERENT FROM THE STUDIO ORIGINAL BUT STILL AWESOME!!! 💯😊BUT TO BE 22-23 WITH THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND THE JFK TIMES, AND OTHER STUFF, INCREDIBLE WRITINGS ANDREI & DOMENICA! 👍YOU GUYS TAKE GREAT CARE!
You should react to Pete Seeger singing If I Had a Hammer, Where have all the Flowers Gone, and this land is Your Land! He is the folk singer that most folk singers strive to be and wrote so many of the folk songs you hear today!
You loved The Band. I don't know if you realize it but The Band was Bob Dylan's band when he went electric. You should react to Bob Dylan with The Band!!!
Dominika, I enjoyed seeing the moment when you really discovered the meaning of the song. You got it. The questions address warfare and racial inequality, and you are right, they shouldn't need to be asked yet they remain, in the air, to this day.
Blowing in the wind means and innocent mind who sees the wrong in the world and in another person who turns his head and pretends that he just doesn't see ,, this feeling blows innocently in the wind and isn't heard but it is felt and not seen or highlighted as it should be ,, but Bob hit the nail on the head with this one ,, look into a innocents child's eyes then look into there minds and there heart and souls ,, all of this blows freely in the wind and passes by everyone in life without hurting . Try Bob Dylan ,, You gotta serve some body + Dignity by Bob Dylan
I would love to see you react to: "Morricone conducts Morricone's Once upon a Time in America: Cockey's song (Pan flute)" (I'm sorry if it makes you cry, but it's a piece precisely created to make us cry. If you've seen the movie you'll understand why I say this).
You may be correct assessing the youth of the 60-70’s. For example, elementary kids now are taught to come up with the correct answer in mathematics where us kids in the 60’s were taught how and why, not just giving correct answers? Something along those lines anyway😊
No, that's not the point. There are no answers. Or can you explain how many ears must one man have to hear people cry? No, you can't! The point it that you *already have enough ears* to hear people cry. What's so hard to understand?
The song was written when the civil rights movement was on the march, just before JFK was assassinated and before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Acts...then followed US greater involvement in the Viet Nam War....The song spoke to civil rights pretests and anti=war protests....I remember it being sung at Mass when i was a teenager....
I think Dylan was cluing us in to the answer. Biblically the wind has been associated with the breath of God. We can take/breathe in that inspiration and use it to solve our problems… or we can let if blow by. Either way, it's up to us to pay attention to it and do something about it if we really care.
@@garyquinn5724, stop criticizing what you can't possibly understand and showing your ignorance by assuming God is an imaginary friend in the sky. That's not where God is found.
@@johno1765 If you can't produce evidence, then any god is most likely imaginary. Or otherwise, stop using anthropomorphic language, and just call it nature or whatever. At any rate, stop acting like rationality is more ignorant than wish-fulfilling fantasy.
@, God is existence. "I am that I am." The evidence of your existence depends on you. Everything is subjective depending on how you choose to view it, your imagination. God is within you and has endowed you with that power. You can either have the courage to find and use it or deny it. It all up to you.
Yeah.....he's ok but the Beatles and most groups were singing "She Loves You Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Now that's profound! I may have loved Dylan, but my Mom thought he was dreadful. TURN THAT DOWN!
hollies and peter-paul and mary are the best covers i like your comments i am a subscriber for years but i don,t like it that we must pay for a song i ask you so many times for the song trojan horse luv
Overall, Bob Dylan's studio recordings of his songs are way better than his live performances. This live version, while not too bad, is far inferior to the studio recording of Blowin' in The Wind
@buretto66 This is a wonderful song that Dylan wrote, but vocally, I don't find him appealing. I place Dylan in the same category as Cohen... great writers, but as singers, there's something missing. I do believe, however, that if you wrote it, you should perform it.
I think hard questions have to be asked but the answers for me are found in a Person, even Jesus Christ. He’s not AI but he is wisdom personified. He speaks with authority on the most important subjects even calling himself the way, the truth, and the life. In him is life and his life is the light of humanity. Love, Joy, Peace.
Love your reactions… and the Bob Dylan hoards will come for me… lol….but he did not have a good voice. With Dylan, The studio versions were always 10 times better, just saying. Do yourself a favor, even if u don’t do it on here, listen to the studio version of this and other Dylan songs u react to.
I was becoming a teenager, when this song first came out. Everywhere around me was racial injustice, senseless war, and oppression for the poor and women. Bob Dylan presented us with a series of big questions about war, oppression, and indifference throughout the song, treating these questions as global problems and the problems of every individual. Looking away was not the answer, especially regarding civic rights at the time. Bob Dylan was a great poet of my time. You have to remember the times in which he wrote this song. Thanks for reacting, I appreciate your insights.
Not much changed then.
As a true artist Dylan kept pushing his art forward at a pace even his most devoted fans had trouble keeping up. He would alienate some and win over new audiences and then do it again. Fascinating journey and still going.
This pushed the Civil Rights Movement of the 60's to another level. Dylan became a leader/spokesman because of his work but didn't want the title. I guess it reminds me of Forrest Gump running across America and asked by multiple reporters, "Are you running for (major cause here)?" and Gump said, "I just felt like running". I can picture Dylan saying, "I just wanted to write songs".
This was such an impactful song that it was the subject of study in my 8th grade music class in 69’. I still recall the teacher handing out copies of the lyrics and how it really made me stop and think about these concepts when only 13 yrs old. He really stretched peoples’ minds, even the children.
You were lucky to have a teacher like that 😊
I believe you have a man like your father, very respectful and kind, loving you got lucky because they are few and far between! Peter , Paul, and Mary have a fantastic cover of this song also.
And it's still blowing in the wind.
Beautiful timeless song!!❤❤
Great reaction! So many of Dylan's songs will be forever relevant. Whether he was writing and singing folk songs, protest songs with clear messages, love songs or surrealist, spiritual or faith based songs he always did so in a completely unique, poetic way like no other artist.
An old tough mining town. Hibbing mn. Ethnic groups came from all over Europe to mine Iron Ore. They built one of the best high schools in the world in the middle of nowhere. Education was important to them. It shows in Bob. I grew up there. That's where he came from.
1963! Eventually turning 1 (Oct.) Most of Bob Dylan songs I heard by others like Jimi Hendrix, ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER!! Great writer! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎🎸🤟🏼
Watched ' A complete unknown' last night at the cinema. Very good!!
Songs like this are timeless.
Dominika nailed it!!!!
Dylan played this song at a concert hosted by Pope St. John Paul II. On the truth of the answer blowing in the wind, the Holy Father responded “It is true, however not a wind that blows everything away into nothingness, but in the wind that is the breath and voice of the Spirit, the voice that calls and says, ‘Come'.’”
Beautiful ❤️
I think Blowing In The Wind is a metaphor for change. So the answers to Bob's questions are always changing depending on the times your living in. That's what makes this song timeless.
Thanks 🎉 another great tune
Bob Dylan is a poet, in Chile there is Victor Jara our poet, I recommend the song poem 15 by Pablo Neruda or Te Recuerdo Amanda ,...
Regards to Chile ❤❤❤
A well-crafted song that asks its "sideways" questions without preaching the obvious answers.
I'm proud of my fellow Minnesotan's contribution to music and society. :)
They're called rhetorical questions, for the very reason there are no obvious answers. I'm curious, what do you think would be the preachy answers? 🤔
@@buretto66 you're going to remain curious, because I know better than to take-the-bait of a contrarian who wouldn't be satisfied with anyone's arbitrary answers. Besides, I didn't say preachy answers, I said obvious answers. There's a difference, obviously.
War, racial injustice etc..... but we had great music to get us thru back in the day!!!😊❤❤✌️
You raise some very insightful observations and that's what good lyric writing or any writing does, much to the credit of Mr. Dylan. So influential then and now.
Bob's message is clear...but the song's true beauty is found in Peter, Paul, and Mary's 100% upgrade cover.
Sometimes raw and original is the best way.
@@dougleclaire9424 I do not disagree.
You should react to Peter Paul and Mary singing Blowin in the Wind they covered the song and made it a number one song
Bob and many singer songwriters are hust gifted with tge ability to put words and music together, its amazing .for some its easy, for others its a struggle but they somehow get there... then you have guys like mozart who write like its hust dictation ,it pours out of them allready finished....
Repeated on another reaction, check out "Bod Dylan's Dream" to hear a 21 year old Dylan looking back on on his life with the wisdom of a much older mind.
Tangled up in blue is a great track by dylan. I think it is off blood on the tracks album. Scott 🇬🇧 Bournemouth.
In these very early videos , he lifts his chin high like his idols- Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger when sings
This song will always be relevant, seems like mankind has a hard time learning from our mistakes 🤷🏻♀️JMPO.
Really sad 😢
The answers to his questions have always been elusive and still unanswered by mankind. The answer blows away before we can catch it.
Hi there 👋 I don't know if you're ever going to read this, but i really love your sincere reactions. This song, is more amazing, because Bob Dylan had 20/21 when he wrote those lyrics, before it was published. So,how many people had the mentality at 20 to write this level of deepness ? Not many. Take care ✌️ peace
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WOWWW YOU GUYS, IT'S SO DIFFERENT FROM THE STUDIO ORIGINAL BUT STILL AWESOME!!! 💯😊BUT TO BE 22-23 WITH THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS AND THE JFK TIMES, AND OTHER STUFF, INCREDIBLE WRITINGS ANDREI & DOMENICA! 👍YOU GUYS TAKE GREAT CARE!
He had influences regarding the cultural turmoils of the time like Woody Guthrie and some early southern blues artists.
very insightful react
By todays standards Dylan was a barely a baby writing deep songs. He came on scene in his early 20’s.
You should react to Pete Seeger singing If I Had a Hammer, Where have all the Flowers Gone, and this land is Your Land! He is the folk singer that most folk singers strive to be and wrote so many of the folk songs you hear today!
Yes play Pete Seeger. A young,1950s Seeger looks very much like Andre.
If I Had a Hammer works well.
You loved The Band. I don't know if you realize it but The Band was Bob Dylan's band when he went electric. You should react to Bob Dylan with The Band!!!
Yes! 😁 We do know that. Love The Band 💚
Listen to Masters of War. My favorite Dylan song.
Dominika, I enjoyed seeing the moment when you really discovered the meaning of the song. You got it. The questions address warfare and racial inequality, and you are right, they shouldn't need to be asked yet they remain, in the air, to this day.
Sad really...😥
Listen to Peter Paul and Mary's version of this song. Of course Bob wrote it -- but Peter Paul and Mary nailed it. So powerful.
Always listen to the record version first. This has a much different feel, it's not as good.
Blowing in the wind means and innocent mind who sees the wrong in the world and in another person who turns his head and pretends that he just doesn't see ,, this feeling blows innocently in the wind and isn't heard but it is felt and not seen or highlighted as it should be ,, but Bob hit the nail on the head with this one ,, look into a innocents child's eyes then look into there minds and there heart and souls ,, all of this blows freely in the wind and passes by everyone in life without hurting .
Try Bob Dylan ,, You gotta serve some body + Dignity by Bob Dylan
I would love to see you react to:
"Morricone conducts Morricone's Once upon a Time in America: Cockey's song (Pan flute)"
(I'm sorry if it makes you cry, but it's a piece precisely created to make us cry. If you've seen the movie you'll understand why I say this).
Please react to Bob Dylan " Don't think twice it's alright".
The pups give it 6
You may be correct assessing the youth of the 60-70’s. For example, elementary kids now are taught to come up with the correct answer in mathematics where us kids in the 60’s were taught how and why, not just giving correct answers? Something along those lines anyway😊
Sadly we have to keep asking these questions even though we know the answers.
No, that's not the point. There are no answers. Or can you explain how many ears must one man have to hear people cry? No, you can't! The point it that you *already have enough ears* to hear people cry. What's so hard to understand?
listen to woody guthrie and you know where dylan got it.
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The song was written when the civil rights movement was on the march, just before JFK was assassinated and before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Acts...then followed US greater involvement in the Viet Nam War....The song spoke to civil rights pretests and anti=war protests....I remember it being sung at Mass when i was a teenager....
I'm a PK. I remember my father preaching a sermon based on Blowing in the Wind.
I think Dylan was cluing us in to the answer. Biblically the wind has been associated with the breath of God. We can take/breathe in that inspiration and use it to solve our problems… or we can let if blow by. Either way, it's up to us to pay attention to it and do something about it if we really care.
Stop looking for truth by babbling about your imaginary best friend in the sky... it's offensive to rational thought.
@@garyquinn5724, stop criticizing what you can't possibly understand and showing your ignorance by assuming God is an imaginary friend in the sky. That's not where God is found.
@@johno1765 If you can't produce evidence, then any god is most likely imaginary. Or otherwise, stop using anthropomorphic language, and just call it nature or whatever. At any rate, stop acting like rationality is more ignorant than wish-fulfilling fantasy.
@, God is existence. "I am that I am." The evidence of your existence depends on you. Everything is subjective depending on how you choose to view it, your imagination. God is within you and has endowed you with that power. You can either have the courage to find and use it or deny it. It all up to you.
Yeah.....he's ok but the Beatles and most groups were singing "She Loves You Yeah, Yeah, yeah. Now that's profound! I may have loved Dylan, but my Mom thought he was dreadful. TURN THAT DOWN!
Indecipherable ramble ramble ramble…. Blowing in the wind…. Classic Dylan lol
hollies and peter-paul and mary are the best covers i like your comments i am a subscriber for years but i don,t like it that we must pay for a song i ask you so many times for the song trojan horse luv
Overall, Bob Dylan's studio recordings of his songs are way better than his live performances. This live version, while not too bad, is far inferior to the studio recording of Blowin' in The Wind
The Peter, Paul and Mary version is best...an example where the original isn't the more famous.
No, Dylan's is the best, and the most famous, insofar as anyone knows the song at all.
@buretto66 This is a wonderful song that Dylan wrote, but vocally, I don't find him appealing. I place Dylan in the same category as Cohen... great writers, but as singers, there's something missing. I do believe, however, that if you wrote it, you should perform it.
I think hard questions have to be asked but the answers for me are found in a Person, even Jesus Christ. He’s not AI but he is wisdom personified. He speaks with authority on the most important subjects even calling himself the way, the truth, and the life. In him is life and his life is the light of humanity.
Love, Joy, Peace.
Love your reactions… and the Bob Dylan hoards will come for me… lol….but he did not have a good voice. With Dylan, The studio versions were always 10 times better, just saying. Do yourself a favor, even if u don’t do it on here, listen to the studio version of this and other Dylan songs u react to.