• Spendrill
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    1 year ago

    Twenty hours in and it’s up to me to remind people that Dolly Parton is the full package?

    • She’s got tunes, OK ‘I Will Always Love You’ is a bit cloying but the rumour is that she also wrote Jolene the same day
    • She supports other women. When porn star Julia Parton was around and telling people that she was Dolly’s cousin, Dolly’s public response was something like, ‘She ain’t my cousin but I can’t condemn what she does… it’s not like I ever tried to hide my breasts. Good luck to her.’
    • She produced Buffy The Vampire Slayer through her production company Sanddollar. She kept a low profile publicly but behind the scenes was very supportive of the show because it provided good role models for young women.
    • She funds the Dolly Parton Imagination library which mails free books to kids under five.
    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      Dolly Parton is a rich theme park owner who has abused her employees and she pals around with mass murderers like George W. Bush.

      At a certain point she had credibility. She came from a poor Appalachian background and made music reflecting that. After a certain point though, after decades in the industry, she completely flipped. Her 9 to 5 song used to be a genuine anthem for struggling working class people, then she flipped it a few years ago as “5 to 9” for a Sqaurespace commercial, glorifying the idea of working a second job after your main one.

      She’s the exact problem of modern country music. It’s made and financed by people too rich to be connected to humanity anymore.

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        I’m going to need a reference on that staff abuse allegation, I’ve tried Googling but haven’t turned up anything.

        I don’t have a tv so I didn’t catch the Squarespace commercial, don’t know if it even played in the UK.