The reason why Dylan is perceived by so many as a sell out is because of the way he cultivated his career image over the years. It was in Dylan's heyday that the "spokeman for his generation" crap started, when his songs with political content were given as proofof that status, which many of us now believe wasn't really an accurate portrayal of Dylan at all. When it was advantageous for him to be perceived as a political radical in tune with the radical left at that stage of his career, he cultivated and courted that image. Many of us believe he was blatantly opportunitistic about it, just as we believe he is being blatantly opportunistic in this era of slick soft porn sex sells sensibilities. It's all about the image with Dylan, it seems to us.

For those of us who have perceived him negatively in this regard all along, or at least were suspicious and wary of it, it has appeared to us that he has continued to cultivate and court that iconic image of himself from those early days right on down to the Victoria's Secret commercial.

BTW, I don't know of any person who would use the words "advertising" and "honest" in the same sentence, but I do understand there are people who actually believe in sexualizing capitalism if that's what it takes to keep the public well sedated and preoccupied.