I sat down to talk with her, to ask her about this Dolly moment, how she thinks about it. And so when I started getting curious about Dolly as maybe the subject of a story, I was like, "You know what, Dad? I need you to introduce me." Like, my dad is not a doctor-to-the-stars kind of person. She shared this with me, by the way, and was totally fine with me sharing it. And one of the people who ends up giving her medical advice is my dad. JAD: 2013, Dolly Parton gets into a minor car accident, ends up at Vanderbilt Hospital. Anyhow, the second thing that happened that made this series possible, I'll be honest with you guys, was a strange twist of fate. I haven't dug into it too much so I can't claim to fully understand it, but Beyoncé? Number 52. And by the way, this Q Score data is fascinating. Like, people have the least amount of negative things to say about Dolly Parton than anyone besides maybe Adele. But she's almost number one when it comes to lack of negatives, if that makes any sense. ![]() What they do is they assemble a very diverse sample of people, they ask them a bunch of questions, and out of all of these different brands that are out there, all these different performers, she is in the top 10 globally in terms of everybody's favorites. If you look at her global Q Score, this is a measure of how well people think about your brand, globally. And after doing a little poking around, the data does kind of bear this out. That in this very divided moment, Dolly seems to maybe be a kind of unifier. JAD: So that was one thing that caught my attention. WAYNE BLEDSOE: You had a whole audience of people who absolutely their philosophies were in opposition to each other co-mingling, and everybody is polite to each other. Little girls who were there with their families. JESSIE WILKERSON: I remember just standing out in the lobby and just people watching, because it was the most diverse place I’ve ever been. And I kept bumping into people who would describe the experience of being at a Dolly show as, like, standing in an alternate vision of America than what was unfolding on the TV. JAD: Like, she tore right through all of that noise. JAD: And all this was happening, the pan flute, the tweeting, the touring, at exactly the moment when the 2016 election was turning very ugly. SARAH SMARSH: Pan flute was in all caps, which seemed important. And one woman in particular, she said, "That majestic bitch just started playing a goddamn pan flute." SARAH SMARSH: The people who were tweeting were all women. JAD: Writer Sarah Smarsh told me that her "Whoa" moment came around the same time when she was in Austin online, watching people live tweet that same Dolly show. SARAH SMARSH: So I was sitting in my home office, I was on Twitter, and. ![]() ![]() JAD: I was like, "Whoa, I - I missed this." PAMELA FOSTER: Dolly Parton is a goddess.įAN: To me, Dolly is a superstar who brings herself to the level of the people. And just the level of excitement of people around me was, like, other-worldly. And she comes and does a stadium show here in Flushing, Queens. She’d created this world, and I was just swimming through it. It’s a little bit like that joke, one fish says to another fish, "How’s the water today?" And the other fish says, "What’s water?" I was that second fish. ![]() So as a consequence, I didn’t really think about her a lot. She was looking down at you from billboards, coming out of car radios. I grew up in Tennessee, which means I grew up in. Let me explain how I got here to a podcast about Dolly Parton. DOLLY PARTON'S AMERICA - SAD ASS SONGS TRANSCRIPTĭOLLY PARTON: Well, Dolly Parton’s America would be the same as Dolly Parton’s world.
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