IMO, Dylan is to music what Picasso is to art. Open to an infinite number of interpretations while on the surface often ugly. Yet both are described as ‘geniuses’.
Picasso, btw, was part of the Soviet plan for screwing up American culture with meaningless garbage replacing traditional art.
Well, Picasso was 41 years old when the USSR was created. And very well known and wealthy by then and long established in his avant garde, so to speak, styles. I consider alot of what he did as crap, but he was certainly talented when he wanted to be.