Country trio Chapel Hart finally met Dolly Parton three years later he released a song inspired by his famous ballad “Jolene.”
“Every country music fan has a wish list to meet Dolly Parton one day, and today our dream came true. We got to meet Dolly Parton in the flesh,” Danika Hartwho founded Chapel Hart together with his brother Devin Hart and his cousin Trea Swindleexclusively against Us Weekly at CMA Fest on Tuesday, June 4.
“Dolly is holding these two hands,” Danica continued. “I used to make fun of people who said, ‘I’m never washing these hands again.’ I need to go to the bathroom for a second and I’ve got some decisions to make because I’m going to wash or not?!”
Trea said that Parton “looks better than she does on screen” and joked about raiding her wardrobe.
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“If I was two feet shorter, I’d be in her closet right now,” he said, noting that Parton, 78, smelled “like baby dreams and angel tears.”
Chapel Hart released the song “You Can Have Him Jolene” in 2021 and performed during the audition for America’s Got Talent next year. The original song received a standing ovation from all four judges and was asked by the panel to use the Group Golden Buzzer for only the second time in the show’s history.
Danica Hart, Dolly Parton.
Getty Images(2)The song found a way for Parton, who retweet Hart Chapel AGT performance in July 2022, calling it “an exciting new request in my song.” Danica and Trea had the chance to talk to the country music icon about the song when they met him.
“She was like, ‘I heard that, that’s great,'” Danica recalled, noting that Parton’s hairstylist brought up the song because she and Trea were “speechless” with excitement. “That was the most down to earth thing I’ve ever heard in my life. He said, ‘Jolene that dog has made me a lot of money.’ And I was like, ‘And I hope they do the same for us.’ We just laughed for a second, it was a magical moment.
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Unlike the original “Jolene,” Parton asks a woman with “ivory skin and emerald green eyes” not to take a man even if she can, “You Can Have Him Jolene” tells another woman that the wandering man is her. the current problem.
“Oh, Jolene, you can have him because he’s not important to me / Yes, I cried until the rivers became the sea / Oh, Jolene, if you think he’s in love, he’ll be gone. like he did me / You can have him, Jolene,” Chapel Heart sings in chorus.
The action of the state has been heard Beyoncé‘s take on “Jolene” – the “Halo” singer, 42, released a cover of the song in March with lyrical changes that warned and intimidated Jolene instead of pleading with her – but they stood by their version.
“I know what Beyoncé did with her. Like, you know, ‘She’s my man, I’m going to fight for her.’ (But we were like), ‘Uh-huh, hold on to him. Ain’t nobody got time for that,'” Trea joked.
“But you look at the world, there is a solution to what Jolene has to do,” added Danica.
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The cousins also talked about the diversity of country music and the renewed interest in the genre after Beyoncé’s release. Cowboy Carterwhich many have called the country’s album, in March.
“I think it’s an honor for the rest of the world to experience the country at its core,” Trea said. “A country has no color. A country is a way of life. It’s a feeling. And it’s great that the rest of the world is starting to see it. It may be portrayed in the mass media in a certain light. But the truth is, this country is everywhere.
Danica agreed that she likes the “country moment” because it sheds light on what has been.
“There are a lot of people, as Trea said, who live in the country,” he said. “Now they need to be represented.”
With reporting by Jeremy Parsons
