“It Was Very Daring Of Her”: Dolly Parton Mentioned She Had No Concept Beyoncé Was Transforming “Jolene”

Dolly says within the interlude, “Hey, Miss Honey Bey. It’s Dolly P. You know that hussy with the great hair you sang about? Reminded me of somebody I knew again when. Except she has flaming locks of auburn hair. Bless her coronary heart. Just a hair of a distinct colour, nevertheless it hurts simply the identical.” Dolly is referencing “Becky with the great hair,” a determine Beyoncé referenced all through her 2016 album Lemonade, which charted how she navigated her husband Jay-Z’s infidelity.

In Beyoncé’s model of “Jolene,” she switches up a few of Dolly’s traditional lyrics. Instead of begging “Jolene” to not “take” her man, Beyoncé warns her to not “come for” him, singing: “Takes greater than magnificence and seductive stares / To come between a household and a contented man / Jolene, I’m a lady too / Thе video games you play are nothing new / So you don’t need no warmth with me, Jolene.”