Dolly Parton shared her thoughts on collaborating with singer Sabrina Carpenter on their duet version of the pop star’s hit “Please Please Please” — and revealed she had one big ground rule when it comes to language.
“Of course, she can talk a little bad now and then,” Parton said of Carpenter during a Tuesday interview with Knox News. “I told her, I said, ‘Now, I don’t cuss. I don’t make fun of Jesus. I don’t talk bad about God, and I don’t say dirty words, on camera, but known to if I get mad enough.’”
Taking Parton’s words to heart, Carpenter reworked the lyrics, removing the word “motherfucker” to make the song a little more, well, Parton-approved.
“She was so sweet,” Parton said. “And Beyoncé’s great, and Miley [Cyrus], you know I love her. So I’m just having fun with all of it.”
The country music star lent her blessing to Beyoncé’s reimagining of “Jolene” on the “Formation” singer’s March 2024 album “Cowboy Carter.”
“Wow, I just heard Jolene. Beyoncé is giving that girl some trouble and she deserves it!” Parton wrote in a message on Instagram.
In a video clip from E! News, posted last year, Parton praised Queen Bey’s “bold” take on the iconic song.
“When they said she was going to do ‘Jolene,’ I expected it to be my regular one but it wasn’t,” Parton said.
She continued, “But I love what she did to it. And as a songwriter, you love the fact that people do your songs no matter how they do them.”
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The Tuesday interview was Parton’s first since the death of her husband of nearly sixty years, Carl Thomas Dean, who died March 3 at the age of 82.
“Carl and I spent many wonderful years together,” Parton said in a statement after his death. “Words can’t do justice to the love we shared for over 60 years. Thank you for your prayers and sympathy.”