Things Have Changed

"Things Have Changed"
CD single cover
Single by Bob Dylan
from the album Wonder Boys
B-side"Blind Willie McTell" (Live)
ReleasedMay 1, 2000
RecordedMay or July 1999
Genre
Length
  • 3:37 (radio edit)
  • 5:09 (video version)
  • 5:25 (full-length version)
LabelColumbia
Songwriter(s)Bob Dylan[1]
Producer(s)Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan singles chronology
"Love Sick"
(1998)
"Things Have Changed"
(2000)
"Someday Baby"
(2006)
Audio sample
"Things Have Changed"

"Things Have Changed" is a song from the film Wonder Boys, written and performed by Bob Dylan[1] and released as a single on May 1, 2000, that won both the Academy Award for Best Original Song[2] and the Golden Globe Award for Best Original Song.[3] It was also anthologized on the compilation albums The Essential Bob Dylan in 2000,[4] The Best of Bob Dylan in 2005[5] and Dylan in 2007.[6]

Brian Hiatt, writing in Rolling Stone, where the song placed first on a 2020 list of "The 25 Best Bob Dylan Songs of the 21st Century", saw it as a stylistic about-face from 1997's Daniel Lanois-produced Time Out of Mind and the beginning of an important new chapter in Dylan's career: "The effortless feel of the playful-yet-ominous, hard-grooving, utterly dazzling 'Things Have Changed' was an early indication of the renewed friskiness of Dylan’s 21st-century work — and the vividly live-in-the studio creations he would achieve as his own producer, with the help of engineer Chris Shaw".[7]

  1. ^ a b Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19th ed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p. 137. ISBN 1-904994-10-5.
  2. ^ Dansby, Andrew (March 26, 2001). "Dylan wins Oscar". Rolling Stone. Archived from the original on January 23, 2017. Retrieved November 28, 2016.
  3. ^ "Things Have Changed: Golden Globes: 1 Nomination, 1 Win". goldenglobes.com. April 1, 2001. Archived from the original on December 18, 2018. Retrieved November 29, 2016.
  4. ^ "The Essential Bob Dylan | The Official Bob Dylan Site". www.bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  5. ^ "The Best of Bob Dylan | The Official Bob Dylan Site". www.bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  6. ^ "Dylan | The Official Bob Dylan Site". www.bobdylan.com. Retrieved 2021-03-10.
  7. ^ Vozick-Levinson, Jon Dolan, Patrick Doyle, Andy Greene, Brian Hiatt, Angie Martoccio, Rob Sheffield, Hank Shteamer, Simon; Dolan, Jon; Doyle, Patrick; Greene, Andy; Hiatt, Brian; Martoccio, Angie; Sheffield, Rob; Shteamer, Hank; Vozick-Levinson, Simon (2020-06-18). "The 25 Best Bob Dylan Songs of the 21st Century". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2020-12-10.{{cite magazine}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)