Dolly parton song when i think about love

You f-k with the Dollyhive at your peril. I know god damn well MILLIONS of people hate Oasis. In fact, you’re almost certainly rolling your eyes when I tell you that Oasis ranks among them. You’re equally free to despise MY favorite artists. It’s a pretty little hammer to the cranium. And Parton’s original version of “Jolene” is considered unimpeachable by people I know who are YOUNGER than me. In fact, Dolly Parton’s songwriting credits extend far beyond her own singing career, including arguably the most famous love song of all time. That includes Jack White, who remains, to this day, the most insufferable man in rock. It’s been covered by a zillion other artists. I swear whoever added it to the playlist added 19 duplicates of it.ĭolly Parton performs live at The Boarding House Nightclub in 1976 in San Francisco. Every day I sat there trying to think of newspaper headlines for Roy Rogers while Mindy droned on, seemingly forever, about this god damn Jolene. Someone else added “Jolene.” Not Dolly’s original version, but a cover by Mindy Smith. I added a Sigur Ros song because I was the kind of person back then who thought Sigur Ros was SUPER deep. My boss had an iPod hooked up to speakers, and anyone who wanted to could add to the continuously running office playlist. I worked in an ad agency in the late 2000s. Everyone who has ever worked an office job has an office music nemesis, and mine is “Jolene,” a song so determined to make you remember the name Jolene that Dolly repeats it 7,000 times. When Pras reworked it into “Ghetto Supastar” in 1998, he did the whole world a favor.īut still, I was not free. I heard “Islands in the Stream” on TV, in cars, at stores, and at every f-king award show.

“Islands in the Stream” came out in 1983 and again I was routinely pummeled by Dolly’s old-time blend of country music and yacht rock. I hate it now, especially in reworked tech sector branding form. I was born in 1976, which means that “9 to 5” was one of the first songs I remember hearing out of a car radio.

Dolly parton song when i think about love