Or perhaps Jolene is one hot female-identified tomato, and as far as the singer’s man’s concerned, his pastor and his granny can go to hell! Jolene’s the only one for him. Perhaps the singer’s man craves the comfort of a more socially acceptable domestic situation. Or maybe the singer and his man live in a place where same sex unions are frowned on. That's a 25 percent slower speed than it's meant to be played. Jolene’s prodigious feminine assets could also prove worrisome to a gay man whose bisexual lover’s eye is prone to wander. Dolly fans have discovered the track takes on a completely different vibe if you spin it on a record player at 33 rpm. Parton told NPR that women are “always threatened by other women, period.” The pain is the same, but the situation in much less straightforward, thanks to blurrier gender lines. In the slow ass version, it’s plaintive and sad. In the original version, the irresistible chorus wherein the soon-to-be-spurned party invokes Jolene’s name again and again is plaintive and fierce. Wouldn’t it be wild if she grew up to be a bank teller? Yes, the kid had red hair and green eyes. Parton was so taken with the child, and her unusual name, that she resolved to write a song about her. Jolene was a pretty little girl who attended an early Parton concert. I don’t believe we’ve got that kind of money.’ So it’s really an innocent song all around, but sounds like a dreadful one.įor the record, the teller’s name wasn’t Jolene. It was kinda like a running joke between us - when I was saying, ‘Hell, you’re spending a lot of time at the bank. In an interview with NPR, Parton recalled a red-haired bank teller who developed a big crush on her husband when she was a young bride:Īnd he just loved going to the bank because she paid him so much attention. The song is somewhat autobiographical, though the situation was nowhere near as dire as listeners might assume. Instead, she appeals to Jolene’s sense of mercy: Is this another build up to say that commercially successful songs are better/worse, or that there is a definite one way that music can be expressed with regards to song structure.Apparently she also knows better than to raise the subject with him. I am curious what the “definition” of shit music is, as what is shit to you may be gold to another listener. Then there was always the late night dulcet tones of Zamfir or Kenny G as they flogged off their latest instrumental set of LPs, but were they any shittier than the played out super groups of the 70s, or the New Wave inspired sounds of the 80s, or the ever present generic pop sound since the 90s? Demento who is considered to be a purveyor of some of the finest shit music around. I grew up on much delta blues inspired rock, but at the same time when i was a pre-teen I was absolutely enamored with Dr. This gets into some seriously subjective taste, especially re: what exactly is shit. One example that made me stop and take note of might even be an interesting exercise to refer to:ĭolly Parton’s “Jolene” slowed down from a 45 to 33rpm (from her 1973 album of the same name)Īnd here why, if you are not already Reply giving a chance to a second listen to a song I would have otherwise passed on, or not listened to in the first place. Somebody has tinkered with the song and slowed it down to 33 RPM (revolutions per minute) which turned it into a whole different piece and actually, it sounds pretty cool. I listen more and more to CBC’s under the covers. Well maybe, you don’t have to look far as this slowed down version of Jolene, a classic country-style song by Dolly Parton, proves. A song that you might like/ love might say nothing to me. shit songs by whose criteria, bad lyrics? wrong voice, commercialized, in a style the listener does not like. it comes across as so fake to me, that i often don’t bother giving the lyrics a chance.īut your question also makes wonder. Hearing a vocal treated by autotune also drives me to change the channel too. Very few songs make me want to immediately change a station if I come across it.
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