Parton remd her gay fans precisely why she's such a lastg in - performg special versn of 'Jolene'.
Contents:
- DOLLY PARTON SANG A “DRAG QUEEN” VERSN OF “JOLENE” FOR HER GAY FANS
- DOLLY PARTON PERFORMS SPECIAL VERSN OF 'JOLENE' FOR 'MY GAY FANS'
DOLLY PARTON SANG A “DRAG QUEEN” VERSN OF “JOLENE” FOR HER GAY FANS
"Jolene for Gay People" by Natalie Fedak.
A gay anthem, ed. Dolly Parton jt honored her gay fans by performg a special “Drag Queen” rendn of one of her classic untry mic legend appeared on “Late Night Wh Seth Meyers” Friday to promote her new Netflix seri Heartstrgs, an anthology of stori based on her mic. “This is for my gay crowd, ” she yelled before sgg, “Drag queen, drag queen, drag queen, drag queen/please don’t take him jt bee you n.
DOLLY PARTON PERFORMS SPECIAL VERSN OF 'JOLENE' FOR 'MY GAY FANS'
” “I’m so over-exaggerated and I have so many fans that [are part of] the gay muny, ” she said a 2018 terview. One episo, based on her song “Two Doors Down, ” foc on a gay uple (played by Andy Mient and Michael Willett) who have to nont fay secrets that start to unravel at a New Year’s Eve weddg.
“Everyone has gays their fay… I tried to give all the different angl the stori. Parton's nnectns to the LGBTQAI+ muny may n even eper, as her inic h "Jolene" may actually be filled wh homoerotic unrton, acrdg to Nade Hubbs, the director of the Lbian-Gay-Queer Rearch Iniative and a profsor of women's studi and mic at the Universy of Michigan.
To get technil -- and untry -- for a quick send, all starts by analyzg the trope of 'the other woman' song untry mic, acrdg to Hubb's 2015 paper, "'Jolene, ' Genre, and the Everyday Homoerotics of Country Mic: Dolly Parton's Lovg Addrs of the Other Woman. While Dolly nied the tentn of homoerotic unrton "Jolene, " tellg host Jad Abumrad he's "overthkg , " she said she uld see why the song uld be terpreted this manner. Parton, on ocsn, has leaned to the implied nnectn, sgg a versn of the song for her "Gay crowd" on Seth Meyers, swappg the tular "Jolene" for "Drag Queen, " and further cementg her stat as a te pop in.