Yuletide Weirdness With Your Host, Bob Dylan
Is yet another Christmas album from a recording artist who just might be phoning it in really necessary? Bob Dylan apparently thought so. He's released his own holiday collection, "Christmas in the Heart," from which this odd little polka number -- and its even stranger accompanying video -- has sprung.Is yet another Christmas album from a recording artist who just might be phoning it in really necessary? Bob Dylan apparently thought so. He’s released his own holiday collection, “Christmas in the Heart,” from which this odd little polka number — and its even stranger accompanying video — has sprung. It’s not entirely clear whether Dylan’s even mouthing the words through much of his screen time here, but that’s not even the half of it.(?!) –KA
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