when I was a kid i used to think this was the best pop song ever made. then i grew up and matured and realised that this is absolutely the best pop song ever made.
Imagine growing up in absolute dirt poverty in east Tennessee, daughter of a tobacco farmer, going to school wearing rags your mother stitched into a coat, and when you die the British royal family has its military band play your up-the-workers country-pop anthem in tribute.
I know she's sad to the core and I'm praying for her grief, but whenever Miley is ready? That baby is gonna sing a f*cking hole through the sky in tribute to make sure her godmother can hear her.
An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.
In the midst of the literacy crisis, we lose a person who has done more for rural literacy than probably anyone ever could. The world’s worse without Dolly in it.