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How do you explain the unwavering and universal appeal of Dolly Parton? – Sydney Morning Herald
The legendary singer and songwriter is beloved by people on diametrically opposed sides of politics and life experience. She thinks she knows why.
But it doesn’t answer one of popular culture’s most confounding puzzles: why she is so beloved, globally, to people on diametrically opposed sides of politics and life experience.
Parton is held up as an unsung feminist hero to white working-class women (see the book She Come By It Natural: Dolly Parton and the Women Who Lived Her Songs, released in October) and embraced by the LGBTQI+ community (her Netflix series Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings won an award at this year’s GLAAD Media Awards). She…
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