Mentions (14)
"they'd been together for like 60 years. maybe it's just the postpartum hormones but I'm in tears"
"The beauty of Jolene is in Dolly's vulnerability, making the girl boss version of that is just gay and played out"
"You turtle neck wearing, Brow Beating, Puritan English literature degree having males with a BMI of 19 fail to appreciate when an female artist dollypartonmaxes."
"I saw someone counter this by saying Dolly Parton is a Christian, and a good person, and 'the Left' love her."
"Am I going crazy or has there been a noticeable uptick in people talking about her over the 2-3 months? Did she do something of note that I seem to have missed recently?"
"Popular music in the US has a long history of 'divas' or female superstar vocalists whose music, style and personality has elevated them to royalty status. From Diana Ross, Aretha Franklin, Etta James to Dolly Parton, Cher, Donna Summer, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey to modern day divas Lad"
"They either steal it from other races, steal it from their own past (where someone stole it back then), or poor white poeple did it (good desserts, Dolly Parton, grunge music), and then upper middle class and up white people come in and add a professional sheen then call it their own"
"How can you like Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers but think Dolly Parton or Townes Van Zandt is inaccessible and impossible to listen to?"
"None of that overproduced, completely indistinguishable from pop, mass-market appeal that plagues the genre today (there is some great country-pop out there, Dolly Parton being the prime example, but that isn't all country music should be). It's just simple, effective, minimalist country."
"they'd been together for like 60 years. maybe it's just the postpartum hormones but I'm in tears"
"Am I going crazy or has there been a noticeable uptick in people talking about her over the 2-3 months?"
"How can you like Taylor Swift and Phoebe Bridgers but think Dolly Parton or Townes Van Zandt is inaccessible and impossible to listen to?"
"there is some great country-pop out there, Dolly Parton being the prime example"
"My mom said he was a pretty well known drag queen around my city and would always do Dolly Parton impressions when he did his shows"