Dolly Parton is a National Treasure, TBH

h3mlocke, 9 days ago

“Honey, I would never stoop so low as to be fasionable” Dolly to Barbara Walter’s in interview

cosmicrookie, 10 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2d00d24c-df9f-4c4a-9047-a04c14001f02.jpeg

FozzyOsbourne, 10 days ago

Why did these horrible flip-books of short captioned gifs ever become a thing? Was there a file-size limit on tumblr?

homesweethomeMrL, 9 days ago

Dunno. It doesn’t really translate as well to Lemmy -it has gaps between the images, . . . Hmmm. I wonder if i can get rid of those.

Edit: yep!

FozzyOsbourne, 9 days ago

I appreciate the effort but I always thought they were horrible to look at even on tumblr!

Shotgun_Alice, 10 days ago

Like for real, if people with wealth were half as kind as her there would be a lot less suffering in this world.

hitmyspot, 10 days ago

I love that she says: It takes a lot of money to look this cheap!

card797, 10 days ago

At the very least

9point6, 10 days ago

International treasure*

homesweethomeMrL, 10 days ago

Approved

Semi-Hemi-Demigod, 10 days ago

Interstellar treasure

Sekoia, 10 days ago

I… 100% thought she was a drag queen until the last slide lol

Lizardking27, 10 days ago

Uncultured buffoon

HowManyNimons, 10 days ago

That’s a brave admission.

kryptonianCodeMonkey, 10 days ago

Boo on you. Booooooo.

chumbalumber, 10 days ago

I think there’s some ‘truth’ to it in some ways. Dolly acknowledges that she plays a lot with femininity and feminine expectations, and that ‘look’ she has is a costume in many ways. She doesn’t dress like that when she’s out incognito.

In the same way drag is a costumed examination of what makes someone look ‘like a woman’, subverting in some ways and embracing in others

LemmyKnowsBest, 9 days ago

Now I’m curious what she looks like with no makeup, would nobody recognize her?

And oh my gosh isn’t she like 80 years old now?

TexasDrunk, 9 days ago

I bet her husband and Reba McEntire would be the only two people who would know.

baldingpudenda, 8 days ago

I read that, thanks to the way she has dressed all these years, dressing regularly gives her anonymity and she can go anywhere without too much trouble or attention

LemmyKnowsBest, 8 days ago

what’s interesting is that we’ve only ever seen her dressed up and gorgeous so we just assume that she wakes up looking like that every day. Oh but what I meant to say was her look doesn’t seem entirely over the top, she just looks like a natural beauty, but I suppose if she didn’t put any effort in at all she would be unrecognizable and that is interesting.

thesporkeffect, 10 days ago

Well, that’s because she’s so iconic that many drag performers use a similar look

Sekoia, 10 days ago

That totally explains it actually, neat.

(Just to be clear because I got a bunch of replies, my original comment wasn’t negative at all)

TexasDrunk, 10 days ago

Dolly Parton on losing a Dolly Parton lookalike contest:

They had a bunch of Chers and Dollys that year and so I just over-exaggerated, made the beauty mark bigger, made my eyes bigger, the hair bigger — everything. … All of these other beautiful drag queens had worked for months and weeks getting their clothes and all that, and they were dressed like me. So, I just got in the line and I just walked across [the stage] and they just thought I was some little, short gay guy. And I got the least applause but I was just dying laughing inside. I say it’s a good thing I was a girl or I’d be a drag queen.

Apytele, 10 days ago

This is the best comment on this topic. Brief, but clearly and nonjudgmentally identifies the cultural context that easily could have led the original commenter to have come to this conclusion.