Joni Mitchell harshly criticized Bob Dylan in a recent interview with the L.A. Times:
“Bob is not authentic at all. He’s a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.” (via.)
Just a thought: Is an alias really fake? Really a deception? Or isn’t actually more authentic – after all it is the name you chose yourself to fit your identity, not the name your parents chose before your identity as it is right now even existed.
Thoughts?