Dolly Parton is weighing in on Beyoncé’s new model of “Jolene,” and like nearly everybody else who’s heard the drastically revised lyrics, the creator appears blown away.
“Wow, I simply heard Jolene,” Parton posted on Instagram this afternoon. “Beyoncé is giving that woman some hassle and she or he deserves it!” She indicators the message, “Love, Dolly P.”
Beyoncé lined Parton’s 1973 nation traditional on her new album Cowboy Carter, changing the unique’s “begging” lyrics with fierce calls for.
Take heed to each the Beyoncé and Dolly variations of “Jolene” beneath.
The place Parton beseeched of the auburn-haired Jolene, “I’m begging of you please don’t take my man,” Beyoncé sings, “Jolene, Jolene, I’m warning you, don’t come for my man.” Later, Bey threatens, “Jolene, I do know I’m a queen / Jolene, I’m nonetheless a Creole Banjee bitch from Louisianne (Don’t strive me).”
On the brand new album, Parton supplies a quick introduction to the brand new model, saying, with a reference to Beyoncé’s 2016 “Sorry” and its lyric “Becky with the great hair”, “Hey miss Honey B, it’s Dolly P. You understand that hussy with the great hair you sing about? Reminding me of somebody I knew again when, besides she has flaming locks of auburn hair, bless her coronary heart. Only a hair of a distinct colour however it hurts simply the identical.”
