Dolly Parton won’t let cancel culture win: ‘Truth was, I didn’t care’

Dolly Parton’s glitzy style and big hair have long been a signature of the music legend, and she has long refused to let cancel culture take that away.

When she arrived in Nashville at the age of 18, Parton was told her style would cause people not to take her seriously. She doubled down and continued to model her style after a woman in her hometown who she thought was beautiful despite everyone calling her the “town tramp.”

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“I guess everybody was probably thinking they were trying to protect me. I was a country girl, too, and they thought I didn’t know any better,” Parton, 77, recently said, according to a report. “And truth is, I didn’t. But the greater truth was, I didn’t care.”

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The I Will Always Love You and Jolene singer would go on to become the first female country artist to sell one million copies of an album.

Parton released a book this past week that details through photos her career and fashion journey. In the book, Behind the Seams: My Life in Rhinestones, Parton recalls country music executive Chet Atkins being concerned about her “big hair and all those gaudy clothes.” Yet when he saw her success, he recanted his concern as Parton remembers him telling her: “Ain’t you glad that you listened to me back then?”

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Last year, Parton was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, despite her saying she didn’t feel she deserved it. She would accept the induction after learning that other artists who may not have been strictly categorized as “rock” singers had also been inducted, such as country music legend Willie Nelson.

The induction inspired her first rock album, Rockstar, which will be released in November. Included in the album is an original track that she wrote titled, World on Fire, which included lyrics challenging “greedy politicians.”

“Now, how are we to live in a world like this? Greedy politicians, present and past. They wouldn’t know the truth if it bit ’em in the a**,” Parton sings.

“I wasn’t talking about Biden and Trump any more than I was talking about all the leaders of the world when I said that line,” she admitted. “I might as well have said, ‘Leaders of the world, present and past, we better make a change, and we better make it fast,’” adding that world leaders “are just not doing what we need to do to have a world that we can be happy in.”

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The 10-time Grammy winner recently noted that she avoids discussing politics because of how divisive it can be.

“Even within my own family, especially the last few years since Trump and Biden, all that, it’s like we can’t even go to a family dinner anymore. Especially if people are drinking, they get in a damn fight at the table. Don’t get so trapped where if you’re a Republican, you got to be this way, [and] if you’re Democrat, you got to be that way. You’re not allowed to think nothing else. Well, how crippling is that?” she said.