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Beyoncé inflicts unspeakable horrors on Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’
It is a truth universally acknowledged that all sane and decent people like, if not love, Dolly Parton. Another universal truth is that Dolly Parton’s “Jolene” is one of the greatest country songs ever written. But one of the truths...
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It is big news that Bouncy (Beyoncé) has pulled a genre bender and put out country music. Even I am mystified by this move. Perhaps it is a move to feature her in Daisy Duke cut-offs?
The R&B/soul/pop queen has recorded a version of Dolly Parton’s iconic song, “Jolene”, and completely re-did the lyrics to make it about a ghetto “Queen” getting ghetto with the “bitch” that wants to get with her man.
Now, we all know this is the antithesis of the original “Jolene”. It is like re-writing the “Star Spangled Banner” to lament losing a battle to the American colonists.
You do not simply step into another genre of music and take a dump on a classic. “Jolene” epressed the vulnerability emotional angst of every trad wife for generations; i.e., the Power of the Strange (POS). Some men are powerless to it. The title character - Jolene - is the prototypical homewrecker.
Bouncy screws all this up by her attempt to convert the song to some sort of vision of “I am woMaN, hear me Roarrrr!!” I have no qualm with this message, per se. But do it in an original and creative way rather than completely bastardizing someone else’s work.
I find Bouncy’s act to be gross, shallow, lazy, and tacky. It is also rather contradictory in a sense since she is still married to “Jay-Zzzz”, even though he has cheated on her many, many times. This fact makes Bouncy’s remake of “Jolene” seem sort of unhinged and a delusional sense of herself.
There is more alleged country music she had released. I pray that it never reaches my ears. Also of note in the linked article is the mention that Hannah Montana Miley Cyrus is related to Dolly Parton, which explains the popular success of the former child star. This never made sense to me, even with a country singer daddy famous for a song called “Achy Breaky Heart”.