Oh wait, you mean a person. Who is Dolly?

She was in 9 to 5, and sings country songs.

What is even worse is blue grass.

I was traveling through Kentucky, on my way to take some blacksmithing courses in North Carolina, when we stopped in Beria.

You really don't realize how other people live until you rub elbows with them. We walked into art shop after art shop, none of which actually had any art. The last one was hideous. The place was filled with people. Five folks sat facing one another. Each held an instrument of torture, ie a banjo, guitar, bass, and washboard.

Then they began to make noise. As CS Lewis called it, That Hideous Sound. Each sang in their own key, at their own pace, and with their own words. It was painful.

But I can respect the art or at least try too I just see Dolly as something different entirely.

He would come up with the most creative jokes about my taste in music, and I would return the favor about his. It was a hard fought contest, all in good humor. Working a porcupine's spines into one of his jokes was a masterpiece.

He was a really neat guy (except for his musical taste). He got an engineering degree and worked on off shore drilling sites. Unfortunately, a blast took his life on a Gulf of Mexico experimental rig. He was way too young to die.

Can't even think of a reason.

I'm not particularly fond of popular country music, but I can certainly see that she is a talented artist and entertainer.

And, she shattered a few glass ceilings of her own by achieving success on her own terms.

Parton.

It's just a question of whether people take advantage of that allowance.

It's astounding how many well known songs came out of her head! I am not a super fan of country music, but I like what she writes.


And, if she's putting on an act when she goes on those interview shows, she's a helluvan actor, too--because she comes across as someone I'd love to know. She seems very kind.

Her most famous work is arguably "I Will Always Love You," which she wrote and originally recorded nearly twenty years before Whitney Houston's cover made it a global sensation in the film The Bodyguard.

a dashing Burt Reynolds! She was very good in that film, as I remember, too! It's sometimes hard to hold your own in a farce, but she did a great job.


And I could live like royalty on the residuals from this song, alone:

"If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words."

Have a great weekend!

Hope you have a great weekend, too!

Dolly Parton's persona has never really screamed conservative Republican.

Makes sense she's for the big tent party of inclusion.

“I was the first woman to burn my bra - it took the fire department four days to put it out.”

"Let the gay people get married so they can be miserable like the rest of us!"

Enjoy your weekend!

Dolly has love for everyone.

Enough said?

I absolutely love Dolly Parton! And I never, ever listen to country music.

It's been awhile.

She insisted on living wages and benefits that included same-sex partners and families YEARS before it was common, and she had the integrity and guts to do this in the south, with a very conservative fan base.

"It takes a lot of money to look this cheap" is one of my favorite quotes.

So yeah...i'd say she's got a fan or two for a variety of reasons.

'Cause even people who aren't fans (like myself) know she's a very progressive person who favors Democrats.

Dolly Parton is a class act, and smart as hell, too.

"I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde."

So well with Fonda and Tomlin, also smart, clever people.

On of my favorites, when facing the endless repetition of "are they real?"

DP: "Well, if they aren't, I'd have a pair made."

Are less conservative than their current contemporaries, but even great ones like Johnny Cash were quote conservative, but he did support unions.

every now and then.

I see the snide remarks and the effete snobbery of some. This is the attitude of a section of so-called liberals that turns off voters...
the very voters that should come to the Democratic party.

Some care about "the masses", but in name only, not in reality.

How much fun have these two had over the years.

What an amazing couple.

I wanted to know if there was a picture of them together, and got a chuckle out of that one.

I love Dolly.

Just because someone is liberal does not make them a Democrat, and just because someone is a Democrat does not make them liberal.

and a democrat for decades.

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

"It costs a lot of money to look this cheap."

"My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved."

"If I hadn't been a woman, I'd be a drag queen for sure. I like all that flair and I'd be dressing up in them high heels and putting on the big hair. I'd be like Ru Paul."

"The only way I'd be caught without makeup is if my radio fell in the bathtub while I was taking a bath and electrocuted me and I was in between makeup at home. I hope my husband would slap a little lipstick on me before he took me to the morgue."

She's a giant.

They get all up in arms when a "Hollywood Liberal" makes a statement they don't agree with and they deride them as not being qualified to have and voice their opinion. Yet they are the ones who elect actors: Ronald Reagan, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Clint Eastwood for example. If the Dixie Chicks make a political statement, they try to destroy their careers but they put Ted Nugent front and center.

Republican hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Hypocrite as a synonym for Republican. They never met a double standard they didn't like.

Hypocrite:
George W. Bush
Example: "Wow, that guy's a G Dub"

The fact that some people won't be fans of an artist because of politics is sad.

and they announced that they donate books to poor children. Her charities are well known in the area.

tens of thousands of books to kids in Appalachia.

She is a remarkable woman, regardless of one's taste in music I am appalled at how many people on this thread seem unaware of how much of a great role model she is. She's been an LGBT ally for forever and a half, and supported all sorts of important issues for poor people and other disadvantaged folks.

I am not the type to get all up in arms about celebrities and their political/social work because so much of it is lip service, opportunism, or self-serving in some way. Nor do I tend to let shit on DU get me worked up. But Dolly is the real deal and the apparent snobbery on this thread is practically pissing me off.

I'm actually surprised at myself and my strong desire to defend her on this thread, LOL!

has set up partnership programs for people to do it in their area.

That's funny, I knew I was low-balling it with 'tens of thousands' but I was in rant mode and didn't feel like googling. That is amazing. Thanks for sharing that info.