This summer, a particularly buoyant meme began bouncing around Twitter. Created by comedian Rob Dubbin, it hinges on the punch line "ran into jolene....she mentioned you left kind of an intense voicemail." Its giddy reception was a testament to the fact that a song written 46 years ago still resonates with The Youth. For further proof, look at the Gen Z members of the K-pop group BTS, who mouthed the words to "Jolene" as Dolly Parton performed it at this year's Grammys. The song's appeal, like that of Parton herself, transcends age, race, nationality, and pretty much every demographic factor out there, possibly including "home planet."
But Jolene herself was always kind of a cipher: We know she was a looker, with those flaming locks of auburn hair, but what, exactly, was going on behind her eyes of emerald green? A new Netflix series,
Dolly Parton's Heartstrings, premiering November 22, promises to let us in on her backstory. Each episode of the show, which Parton produced, narrates, and appears in, expands one of her songs into a mini movie."I'm as proud of it as anything I've done," she says. "All my life, I've felt my songs tell such stories. I've always dreamed about being able to make them into movies."
It's a natural extension.
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