God I Love Dolly Parton- Backwoods Barbie

[EndersDame]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NId4ZmpiYsw

[edbermac]

1. She looks like a Barbie nowadays.

Too much plastic surgery and way too skinny. The younger plumper Dolly was way more sexier.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. She was a beauty. (Still lovely now, but I agree about her looking her best back then.)

[Drunken Irishman]

3. She's still amazing,..

[EndersDame]

4. Didnt she something like "It costs a whole lot to look this cheap"?

I love Dolly any way she is I think Backwoods Barbie is a great song and I love it because I am fan of MAC (vvery dramatic) make up and like to were crazy clothes.She is so much her own person I think that Dolly is way more punk than Lady Gaga

[jobycom]

5. I suspect Dolly would love Lady Gaga.

She'd recognize a lot of herself, as a songwriter and singer people don't take seriously because of their gender and their understanding of how to use sex to make people listen. I remember Dolly in the early days, and I doubt you'd find anything said about Lady Gaga that wasn't said about her early on.

[EndersDame]

7. I see them as using sex but their sexiness comes from them being secure in who they are

I think they are both wonderfully flamboyant

[jobycom]

9. I agree with that. There's also a bit of social satire in the way both of them use it.

Dolly very deliberately overdid the Barbie look not just to create an image but to mock that image. I see Lady Gaga doing that, too, I think, especially with her whole "hermaphrodite" thing. It didn't just get attention, it also teased people into thinking about gender and sexuality and attraction. And from what I've heard of her lyrics and her life, I'm convinced she meant to do that. They both have a way of presenting what society wants to see in an extreme that society doesn't know exactly how to deal with.

Having said all that, while I like Lady Gaga, she's got a long way to go to come close to Dolly. :)

[EndersDame]

10. Way to convey what I was thinking in my head!

I also think Dolly Parton is totally overlooked as a feminist icon!My mom introduced me to her and said that she was a 100% liberated woman and I agree!

[jobycom]

11. I agree with that, too.

:) We need to find something to fight about. :rofl:

She was as liberated as country music and country culture would allow, and that brought the idea to an audience who wouldn't have accepted it in another form, probably.

[supernova]

25. If you watch the old Porter Waggoner Show

Dolly's leading every one of them around by the nose.

:rofl:

[jobycom]

6. My favorite Dolly quote--I don't mind it when people call me a dumb blond.

I know I'm not dumb. And I know I'm not a blond.

:rofl:

[argyl]

14. I've always thought Madonna,another non dumb non blonde, learned a few things from Dolly.

And she's a great songwriter. I'll take her simple heartfelt singing of "I Will Always Love You" over Whitney Houston's bombastic rendition anyday.And I'm sure Dolly would no doubt gladly accept the songwriting royalties should Whitney turn another one of her tunes into a multiplatinum smash hit.

Anyone else remember way back when she was on TV with Porter Waggoner and the show was sponsored by Breeze detergent? Dolly'd sing a little verse about the free towel that would come with every box of Breeze sold.

[supernova]

24. I only recently got rid of

the last of the Breeze towels we collected long ago. First they were new towels, then towels to wash wrap your hair in when you colored or permed it, then they were housecleaning rags, then they really were threadbare.

I always associated them with her.

:D

[jobycom]

27. Whitney's version was fantastic. It's a great study in how the same song can be totally different.

Dolly sings it as a heartwrenching pledge to an impossible love. Still makes me cry every time I hear it. I swear that's the song that first made me feel what love feels like.

Whitney's is a triumphant declaration of her love. It's a little sad, but mostly proud, like an anthem. I love both versions. I love Dolly's more, but still love Whitney's.

It amazes me how they can make the same words and lyrics mean something different just by how they sing it. You can add Leanne Rhymes in there, too, she does a great version of it.

It's all Dolly's songwriting, though. She's an amazing songwriter. I think Jolene and "Coat of Many Colors" may be even better written.

[jobycom]

8. Most underappreciated songwriter in any genre ever. nt

[elshiva]

12. I love Dolly Parton. She sang the Oscar nominated song

for "TransAmerica" about a MTF transsexual. She said years ago, "If I wasn't a woman, I'd be a female impersonator." She's also very much of a feminist especially in her movie role "9 to 5." She made "Steel Magnolias" for me something I love to watch.

She looks good here:

[old mark]

13. Great singer, very great writer and a very smart person all around.

I think she is one of the most intelligent people in American music, has been for several decades.

mark

[Captain Hilts]

21. Yes, she is. nt

[ThomCat]

29. Agreed, entirely.

[logosoco]

15. Dolly is an amazing person.

She has a program (can't think of the name) where she sends kids in poor areas a book every month.
As made up as she likes to get, she is a very down to earth woman! And a terrific song writer!

[Captain Hilts]

22. Yes. nt

[dugaresa]

16. always liked her music, she reminds more of the old style country music I like

[madrchsod]

18. you mean like this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQam9m9LqFE&feature=related

[dugaresa]

19. yes exactly

[madrchsod]

20. i wonder if that concert is on dvd...

i suppose i`ll just save it off of youtube. be sure to check out why she did stairway to heaven.

[madrchsod]

17. there are a few in each generation that are truly gifted...

and dolly is one of them.

[EndersDame]

23. She is one of the few celebrities I would totally be starstruck if I saw her walking down the street

[jobycom]

26. I saw her when I was a kid at a country fair in Mississippi.

It was in Biloxi, and they had several acts. OB McClinton was one, and I can't think of the others. But Dolly Parton and the Parton Family were there. This was after Porter Wagner but before her real fame.

I bought a fan packet which had a photo of her and an autograph book, and after the show she signed autographs from the wagon that was her stage. I stood in the crowd, fighting my way forward, never taking my eyes off her. Never forget it. I was a smitten kid, and fantasized about her seeing me in the crowd and pulling me up on stage and talking to me... I had no idea what else was supposed to happen, I was very young.

So anyway, I watched her smile at everyone as she took their little books and signed them, and I plotted out my smile, and how I would charm her with my cute little eyes. I was like Ralphie visiting Santa for his BB gun.

Just as I handed her the book, her brother tapped her on the shoulder. She took the book, looked back and said something to him as she signed it, then handed it back to me without glancing down.

Broke my little heart. :rofl: I saved that autograph well into my 30s, though. I think I still know where I have it, actually. The same book has Conway Twittie's and Jerry Clower's autograph, IIRC.

[EndersDame]

28. You better find it and take care of it!

Thank you so much for sharing that story