Dolly Parton and Lil Nas X.Photo: Dolly Parton/Instagram
Dolly Partonis showing some love forLil Nas X!
On Wednesday, the iconic “9 to 5” singer shared a photo on Instagram alongside Lil Nas X as she responded to hiscoverof her single “Jolene,” which he performed last week at the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge.
“I was so excited when someone told me that Lil Nas X had done my song ‘Jolene.’ I had to find it and listen to it immediately…and it’s really, really good,” wrote Parton 75. “Of course, I love him anyway. I was surprised and I’m honored and flattered. I hope he does good for both of us. Thank you@lilnasx🦋.”
Lil Nas X, 22, later quote retweeted Parton’s tweet with the same message, andwrote"HOLY S—."
“We originally were going to do a Nirvana song and then like, we were kind of goofing around and you know, like doingJolene,it was like, wait a minute. What if we actually didJolene?” Lil Nas X said.
He continued, “And I feel like, you know, the context to it, like completely changes as you just said, I was like, ‘Oh, that’d be really cool.’ So I went for it. Hey, [I] have like my history with country. So I was like, ah, this is perfect.”
This isn’t the stars' first rodeo, however — in 2019, Parton toldEllethat she had the opportunity to feature on Lil Nas X’s breakout hit “Old Town Road,” but hoped to instead work with him on another project in the future.
“I had an opportunity to be part of that [song], but it had done so well with so many people,” she said. Lil Nas X released remixes of the track withBTS,Billy Ray Cyrus,Lil WayneandDiplo, among others. “I thought, ‘Well, I’ll wait and do something later on. No point in going down that same Old Town Road. We got other roads to travel.’ "
“I was so happy for him,” she added.
Lasso wrote “That’s funny, when it comes to small talk I often ask myself what would Dolly Parton do? Start with the 9 to 5 and end with God Only Knows.”
source: people.com
