alt Hacker NewsDolly Parton has died
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My wife is at an eye appointment. I have no idea what to expect when she gets home. After Dolly's super bowl performance my wife (and her mother) were crying at just the thought of her passing away.
Sad news - she was a treasure.
I will be crying 9-5 today.
I guess this is why English Wikipedia was down. It's back up now.
Dolly was a force.
She was truly a gem. Beautiful inside and out. May she rest in peace.
We need more celebrities to step up like Dolly. You will be missed.
I knew she had been sick recently but always assumed she'd bounce back.
We're worse off.
I saw Dolly at Hardly Strictly in 2005. She was great.
She was such an impressively kind person.
Heartbreaking. Rest in peace Dolly.
RIP. One of the last real ones.
I remember in the early-80s, maybe 5th grade, being taught fractions, specifically the "Dolly Parton fraction", where the numerator is larger than the denominator. I've got a feeling they don't teach that anymore.
RIP Dolly, she was a good one.
She was, I believe, the largest or one of the largest private donors to the moderna covid vaccine
Here is her families statement https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9govup-IG3c
People suspected the health news in the last ~months before to be more serious than initially alleged to not be serious at all. Now they were confirmed.
Of all her songs I think Jolene is by far the most interesting. Several copied the song, such as Miley Cyrus, and while not bad, it seems to not quite capture the underlying idea of the song. I have a hard time Miley being as plausible in the "please don't steal my man just because you can" compared to Dolly. It's like a whole generation in between and the lyrics just don't really fit much at all to Miley, even if one reasons that it is the melody that is more important - but even then, Miley's voice seems to fit to other songs better than happy-go-lucky country songs.
Make time to listen to Dolly Parton's America podcast:
She did so much for children's literacy, underserved children have benefited from her reading program. I support her book club because it makes humans smarter. The world really lost a great spirit.
Dolly Parton seemed nice on that episode of The Orville.
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very, very sad. she was such a good person in this age of trump especially in the country music scene
I found this remix music video strangely hypnotic when I happened across it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExeQM08TwbE