Today is a bank holiday and I am packing to go on redneck family vacation to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. There will probably be way too many people, but this year is new, we normally go to Branson.
I thought this would be a wonderful time to talk about how much I love Dolly Parton.
You can see her influence on Courtney Love and the Kinder-whore style in general bleach blond hair, big red lips, I love a lot of people who would be generally uncharacteristic of me, being a punk.Mostly people like Madonna and Cyndi Lauper that I have an odd nostalgia attached to despite not growing up in their time of fame.
Punks aren't only allowed to like punk, I like tons of weird stuff I shouldn't like.My family mostly being good ol' southerners, I have heard a lot of country in the car while traveling. The men singing about their dogs and their trucks and their guns and their women, all of their voices sound the same. But I don't mind the women as much, sure they're just as repetitive talking about men cheating. But Dolly Parton is a regular donor to charities, and when the forest fires tore through Gatlinburg, she donated her money to other people who were affected as she wasn't. She also employs her relatives at her Dollywood park.
what an upstanding citizen.
Really, if you look at any woman in recent music history, she's probably been influenced by Dolly Parton, no matter who she is. Because Dolly is just that cool.
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