#41

Easy 5

#42

:heart:

Also that thing on Netflix where Reese Witherspoon went to her house and Dolly let her try on her costumes was really good.

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#43

Happy to go 5 despite only knowing about 4 songs because she’s Dolly M’fing Parton.

Also I read she wrote Jolene and I Will Always Love You in a single day or something.

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#44

by the lack of votes I’d say that not enough people have heard Baby I’m Burning

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#45

Easily a 4 for the music, bumped up comfortably to a 5 for everything she represents.

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#46

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I knocked Led Zeppelin down a few for being shit fuckheads, so conversely bumping her from 3 to 4 for being a lovely, wonderful person. And another 1 for having the most fun in the biggest crowd I’ve ever been in.

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#47

5 from me. She’s amazing.

Saw her at the Glastonbury legends slot thinking I’d give it a few minutes then wander off. By the end I was holding my bag of wine in the air and shouting ‘Amen’ at the top of my voice. It was joyous and completely life-affirming.

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#48

Only really knew Jolene this morning, but had her in my ears all day and loving this. Melodies for days!

Good thread for getting me listening :grin:

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#49

Yes! I was at that. Magnificent.

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#50

I don’t know enough of her music! All the songs of hers I do know bang though. Where is best to start @kermitwormit?

I really want to give her a 5 because I think she’s an absolutely incredible person and literally everything I hear about her personally is fantastic, but I think I should have at least a bit more knowledge of the music before I do it :eyes:

#51

She was pigeonholed to be just a pretty face with a great voice on Porter Wagoner’s country program for years and years. Porter never wanted her to leave and being a woman in country music at the time, she didn’t have many options for opting out.

Yet she still had the wear with all to stand out on her own, while many in the industry said she would never make it. And while Porter was domineering in trying to hold her back, she still found it within herself to write “I Will Always Love You” for him.

A genuine force for good in a completely male dominated industry at the time (with the exception of the Carter Family, Tammy Wynette and Loretta Lynn, some others).

Absolutely revered as someone who grew up from a poor background and did it her own way from the bottom up. She deserves all the absolute praise in the world.

5/5

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#52

Love me some Loretta Lynn - she’s a total badass. Strong recommendation for anyone in this thread who isn’t up on her music.

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#53

Ok I’m giving her a 5. Probably not in the spirit of what a 5 vote should be because I don’t really know most of her stuff, I know basically just a greatest hits playlist. BUT that greatest hits playlist is solid gold despite me not being into country at all, AND she seems like a genuinely amazing person, AND her Glastonbury set was an all-timer despite the fact that we were stood near this girl who was making a big display of loudly complaining to her friends about how everybody else there was a ‘fucking pretender’ and should leave to make way for her as the one true Dolly Parton fan and omg these people don’t know her deep cuts and wouldn’t go to one of her own shows and omg SHUT UP you absolute bore, why can you not dig how beautiful it is that all of these people have come together all happily and enthusiastically to see your favourite artist? Seriously, she went on and on but we weren’t moving because do you know how hard it is to get a good crowd position for the legends slot?, AND she’s Miley Cyrus’ godmother and we’ll never get a HGATR Miley Cyrus and you’d all probly be rude even if we did so it’s also kind of a proxy 5 for my queen, AND irrespective of all these other things 9 to 5 is one of the greatest of all time songs so you pretty much just get an automatic 5 for making that masterpiece even if the rest of your discography was you burping rude limericks, so there you go!

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#54

I’ve always meant to get round to listening to her more. My knowledge of country music is patchy to say the least.

Anyone who can write Jolene and I Will Always Love You on the same afternoon is plainly a genius though.

She’s a very cool and decent person too. 4.

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#55

That’s what you think!

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#56

Everybody was. Just… Everyone.

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#57

secretly financed buffy 5/5

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#58

Source?

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#60

Should never have doubted you Sir

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