Looks like Beyoncé obtained the message —and Dolly Parton obtained her want.
In a 2022 interview with Trevor Noah on The Daily Show, Parton was requested about her want to have the “Renaissance” singer cowl her iconic music “Jolene.”
“I don’t know if she’s even got the message, but wouldn’t that be killer?” Parton says within the interview. “I would just love to hear ‘Jolene’ done in just a big way, kind of like how Whitney [Houston] did my ‘I Will Always Love You.’ Just someone that can take my little songs and make them powerhouses.”
Beyoncé’s album “Cowboy Carter” arrived Friday, with Parton herself showing on an interlude previous the duvet of “Jolene.”
“Hey miss Honey Bey, it’s Dolly P,” the nation music legend says within the monitor. “You know that hussy with the good hair you sang about? Reminded me of someone I knew back when.”
The interlude connects Parton’s 1973 ballad with Beyoncé’s reference to a “Becky with the good hair” on her 2016 album “Lemonade.”
The nation legend has been heaping reward on Queen Bey’s newest music. When the “Cowboy Carter” single “Texas Hold ‘Em” hit No. 1 in February, Parton wrote on social media that she was “very excited that she’s done a country album.”
“I think she’s recorded “Jolene” and I think it’s probably gonna be on her country album, which I’m very excited about that,” Parton advised the Knoxville News Sentinel earlier this month.
But Beyoncé’s model of “Jolene” is not a line-for-line recreation —a change within the lyrics replaces “begging” and “crying” for a warning.
“I had to have this talk with you, ’cause I hate to have to act a fool. Your peace depends on how you move, Jolene,” Beyoncé croons on the monitor.
Parton appeared to be happy with the adjustments, taking to social media once more Friday to say “Beyoncé is giving that girl some trouble and she deserves it!”
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