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Dolly Parton Revealed That She Didn't Know Beyoncé Was Rewriting “Jolene” As She Shared Her Thoughts On “Cowboy Carter”


“I, of course, would’ve loved to have heard how she would’ve done it in its original way, but… you know, it’s Beyoncé. Her life is different than mine.”

Just a hair of a different color, but it hurts just the same.” Dolly is referencing “Becky with the good hair,” a figure Beyoncé referenced throughout her 2016 album Lemonade, which charted how she navigated her husband Jay Z’s infidelity. In Beyoncé’s version of “Jolene,” she switches up some of Dolly’s classic lyrics. “She wasn’t gonna go beg some other woman like I did,” Dolly said with a laugh.

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