Country music star Dolly Parton recently teamed up with pop icon Sabrina Carpenter, but the 79-year-old issued a clear warning to the Please Please Please singer ahead of their recording session
Dolly Parton gave Sabrina Carpenter four rules before they collaborated.
The country music legend recently teamed up with pop sensation Sabrina for a remix of her smash hit song Please Please Please, which went down a treat with Carpenter fans.
Sabrina is known for her racy lyrics, daring stage outfits and cheeky innuendos, but that isn’t so much Dolly’s style. The 79-year-old made things clear by laying down some ground rules before working together.
Dolly told Knox News: “Of course she can talk a little bad now and then. I told her: ‘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!”
One of Sabrina’s most iconic lyrics is the line: “I beg you don’t embarrass me, m***********. Please, please, please,” however Dolly had another verse in mind.
Instead, Parton changed the words to: “I beg you don’t embarrass me like the others.”
For Sabrina’s original music video for the song, the five foot tall songstress can be seen alongside her boyfriend at the time Barry Keoghan. Scenes showed the pair in prison but obviously he wasn’t involved in Dolly’s version.
Their new video ended with a man bound and gagged in the back of a truck with a bag covering his head, much to many fans’ amusement. Some took to the internet to notice the dig at Keoghan and couldn’t resist pointing out the cheeky scene.
One person wrote: “Her getting Dolly Parton on this song, dropping it on Valentine’s Day and shading Barry in this music video is such a slay, I love this so much.”
Another said: “Barry was the only man to ever survive a Sabrina video so she had to come back and make things right,” while a third wrote: “This is so much shade to Barry and I couldn’t love it any more.”
Sabrina isn’t Dolly’s first collaborator – the singer previously worked with Beyonce on three tracks for her Grammy award winning album Cowboy Carter back in 2024.
She spoke to Knox News about her career so far and admitted she’s all about looking on the bright side: “I’ve always had fun (in my career). I’ve had a lot of hard times, but you have to go through all those things, but I always enjoyed my work.”
Now that she’s so well established, the country music artist has a lot more freedom: “I don’t have to worry about a record label saying, ‘No, you can’t do that,’ because I own my own music, I own my own label. So, I’m pretty independent. I can do what I please.”
“I love being able to have that freedom. I think freedom is a great word for everybody, anybody, in anything you do.”
“Just having the freedom to work and the freedom to express yourself the way you want to. To do what you want to, go where you want to.”
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