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Don’t Think Twice (It’s All Right) — Bob Dylan

Hmm! This song. It’s so undeniably personal. Can it really be applied to Don Draper when it speaks to so many things and so many people? Bob Dylan’s mournful little break up song was released in 1963, and it was featured in the finale of season one “The Wheel”, which ends in 1960.

I don’t think it was a good choice! The sound works, for sure, but the lyrics just don’t match up. Dylan’s song is sad, certainly, but it’s not regretful. He’s a traveling gypsy, just like Don wishes he could be sometimes, but he certainly doesn’t wish it in the season one finale. He comes home to reunite with his family, not to walk down that “long, lonesome road.”

For a show that usually matches mood with song so well, and tries so hard to be chronistic, this song choice is jarring.

• footnote - by Natasha Simons

2 years ago
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    Holler at my title. I hear this criticism from a lot...purposefully jarring. I also think...
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