You're crazy
I don't care to be honest.
Bob Dylan is probably the most directly influential songwriter of the second half of the 1900s, so Justin Bieber will never be comparable to him.
Should have made it clearer I don't care what your opinion is on my sanity.
You like Dylan, and since I it's not like I dislike him, I don't mind. I'm speaking my mind on him since the guy before compared Lindemann and him. It's 2 totally different writers, with 2 different approaches, one works for me personally the other doesn't. And I don't buy into that God-like status of Dylan. He's good though.
My point was that popularity in the eye of the general public doesn't equal quality. Masses will listen to Bieber or shit about Anacondas and buns. Not sure how you'd go about measuring influence on song-writing, but I feel like that's a bit of an exaggeration and very genre specific.
His influence extends across multiple genres of music. It's worth noting that a good part of his influence is due to him bringing existing musical ideas to the attention of a greater audience than other musicians managed to do, but he also had some originality to his work.
I'm not particularly enamored with him and his music, especially because the quality is uneven, but there's no denying that he was massively influential, for better or worse.
He's a whiny cunt
The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Nirvana, Neil Young, Bruce Springsteen, Nick Cave, The Clash, The Who, Tom Waits, The Doors, The Stooges, Jay-Z, The Velvet Underground, Johnny Cash, U2, Hootie and the Blowfish, Jimi Hendrix and Eminem are a handful of well-known artists that I know consider Bob Dylan to be influential on their music. I could probably list hundreds more if I did something as simple as a Google search.
Speaking of Jimi Hendrix, he wasn't directly responsible for a lot of the ideas that are attributed to him either. He was massively inspired by Buddy Guy's live appearances. There is even a video of one of Guy's concerts where Jimi Hendrix is in attendance. Unfortunately, Buddy Guy's conservative record label considered his style uncommercial and wouldn't allow him to create studio recordings in that style until after Hendrix popularized the idea. That's not to say that Hendrix didn't also have original musical ideas as well.
I personally detest almost anything "-core" (probably because most of what I've seen appears to be vapid, hyper-simplistic horseshit to me) but there's no such thing objective musical taste, so if you like what you like, so be it. And I know it's more than "noise, whining, and screaming", but from a purely technical musical rubric it seems kinda cruddy to me, and I haven't seen much in it that struck me as inspired. Then again, that's just me. If you like it, I ain't gonna be an ass about it, that's your taste, and you have every right to it.
The "dear diary" part was an important part of my comment's context. I didn't forget "Skin Her Alive" and songs written from the point of view of serial killers and the like is pretty common. Because it's fantasy. Death is escapism.
Death metal is like what Nosferatu is to the vampire genre and deathcore is basically Interview With A Vampire. Same topic, totally different approaches.
Suicide Silence lyrics:
Dismember lyrics:
Decide for yourself.
I look forward to it. Even though I consider him wildly inconsistent, he has a lot of gems.