Saturday, April 08, 2006

Dolly Parton used to be Pretty

I was watching a Biography Channel special on the women of country music, which included footage of Dolly singing with Emmylou Harris. Watching a 30ish Parton work her charm it occured to me: Dolly Parton used to be pretty. I know, it's shocking. But it's true. Before she got to the point where she looks like a cartoon, she was actually truly beautiful. I am too young to remember a young Dolly, so seeing her onstage wearing just jeans and without a lot of makeup, her hair down, picking her guitar, well, I was shocked. It's strange how some famous people seem to have been famous for so long and you can't really remember why and they sort of slowly morph into this version of their image that was never truly who they were and then you see old footage of them and you realize something like, "Wow, Dolly Parton used to be pretty." In regards to another country music legend, WHAT HAPPENED TO KENNY ROGERS? I saw him on American Idol the other night and oh, man, talk about plastic surgery not being subtle. His face looked as though someone had taken his cheeks and pinned them behind his ears. He also had that oh-so-telling stretched-eye look going on. Kenny Rogers, the down-home country legend, the gambler, the honest story-teller who used to look like a youngish Santa Clause, KENNY ROGERS HAD PLASTIC SURGERY? Kenny, I surely don't need to remind you that you need to know when to walk away (before you make people run).

1 Comments:

Blogger JUSIPER said...

I was totally shocked to see Kenny Rogers look like that too. It was freaky. I was even more shocked to hear him sing that simple song really, really well. He was the best guest they ever had--I liked when he told that one guy to tone down all the runs, adding, "your job isn't to move them. your job is to make them cry."

Dolly was such a great songwriter in her time, one of the greatest of the last half century.

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