'Who wouldn’t wanna sing ‘Jolene’ with Beyoncé?” Parton responded when asked about teaming up with the Cowboy Carter star
Dolly Parton has made it clear, on more than one occasion, that she thinks Beyoncé kicks a lot of ass—up to and including the bit where she literally recorded an interstitial for her fellow superstar’s country album Cowboy Carter , about as ringing an endorsement as you’re going to get. So it’s not wholly surprising to hear that, when asked about a pretty obvious hypothetical situation—i.e.
I mean, who wouldn’t wanna sing ‘Jolene’ with Beyoncé?” Which did raise a question, though: Which “Jolene”? After all, one of the oddest choices on Cowboy Carter is Beyoncé’s decision to transform Parton’s song—one of the most plaintive songs about heartbreak ever written, practically a love ballad directed at the woman stealing the singer’s man—into a fierce declaration of war. Parton gets it— “She wasn’t gonna go beg some other woman like I did,” “‘Don’t steal my man.
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