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Favorite Women in Music :: DOLLY PARTON
She’s been there, God knows, she’s been there. She has seen and done it all. She’s a woman. She knows how to dish it out or take it all. Her heart’s as soft as feathers, still she weathers stormy skies. And she’s a sparrow when she’s broken, but she’s an eagle when she flies.
Literally no one on here cares but Jolene and Emily from the Dolly Parton Netflix show are gay and in love and you can’t convince me otherwise
Stop ironically stanning Dolly Parton and start acknowledging her for the genius that she is
her nonprofit the imagination library sends out monthly books, completely free of charge, to any child that wants it. anyone who knows anything about reading education will tell you that simply putting books into children’s homes is the best way to promote literacy. they even have braille and audio options!
we love dolly
As a Children’s Librarian I can testify that kids who grow up w/ books, see people reading, and have access to books grow up to be readers.
Dolly Parton also is a musical and songwriting genius. She's written over 3,000 songs and plays seven instruments.
She's supported charities benefiting Appalachia and shut down racism and misogyny for decades. She's incredibly brave.
Everyone needs to put some respect on her name.
jolene
My Queen.
I do love Dolly.
Here in Tennessee, Dolly has an organisation called The Imagination Library. It donates books that she chooses every month to EVERY CHILD born in Tennessee from the day they’re born until they turn five. TWELVE BOOKS A YEAR FOR FIVE YEARS EVERY CHILD! Thank you, Dolly Parton!
Actually its not just Tennessee! It’s not even just AMERICA!
It’s USA, Canada, UK and Australia ! If you know a kid GET THEIR LEGAL GUARDIAN TO SIGN THEM UP RIGHT NOW !!!!
“Jolene, please don’t take my heterosexuality, I mean… my man. Please don’t take my man. Who I’m totally into. Because I’m straight. And not in love with you. Have I mentioned that your smile is like the breath of spring?”
“Jolene, you’re so beautiful, Jolene, you’re so perfect, Jolene, your voice is just like the sound of summer rain, don’t mind me I’m just going to sublimate my anxiety about clearly being super in love with you into anxiety about my boyfriend, who is basically a featureless blob in this song that I wrote ostensibly about my love for him that’s really all about you, Jolene”
Happy 70th birthday Dolly! Photographing you was a true honor. No drama, and so lovely and kind. I will never forget the advice you gave me when I asked what the secret was to a long and lasting marriage like yours. You said, “travel a lot, and not together!” Thank you for being an example of a person who is true to themselves and doesn’t apologize for it! #dollyparton #idolworship #icon #70thbirthday #dollyontheroad
See more of Gillian Laub’s portraiture on the Reportage website.
in my ideal world dolly parton leaves her man for jolene.
I’ve always love dolly parton’s Jolene and I finally realized why
the song isn’t about a woman terrified of losing her husband to another, more beautiful woman
the song is about a woman transfixed with desire for a red haired woman named Jolene whose voice is “soft like summer rain”
and the only way she can voice that desire is through a plaintive entreaty not to “steal her man”
an entreaty during which “the man” is never described, while line after line praises Jolene’s beauty and allure
and in which the singer admits to Jolene “my happiness depends on you” and “I could never love again”
it doesn’t matter that after each stanza on Jolene the singer quickly inserts a hetero relationship
because it’s all there in the song, and how it’s not called Don’t Leave Me [insert generic man name] or Don’t Take my Man
it’s called Jolene
and you can’t sing it without lingering yearningly on her name over and over again
Jolene…Jolene…Jolene
what ultimately terrifies the singer is not her man leaving her for Jolene
but what happens after the man has left
and she still can’t stop singing about Jolene
what happens when there’s no tenuous hetero relationship in place which can cloak her very real, very queer desire
for a woman whose “beauty is beyond compare”
Dolly forever
