Don’t, repeat not, try an analogy with an icon from occasions previous, ie ‘She is my/this/our era’s Bob Dylan’. This manner solely insanity and mulled wine-fuelled vitriol lie. Plus, if a song-for-song, head-to-head problem is initiated you’re positively going to lose: if solely since you’ll be fortunate to get by way of the primary two-and-a-half minutes of ‘All Too Nicely’ earlier than it will get swapped out for the entire of ‘Blonde On Blonde’. As an alternative, fairly than exhibiting them the TIME profile, simply steal and fireplace off a bunch of the zingers from the TIME profile – “She’s the final monoculture left in our stratified world” is my present fave – and transfer on to the following convo matter, as a result of… properly, how would you reply to that?