This is a little forward for Dolly, but, classically, it still avoids naming names or taking sides. They wouldn’t know the truth if it bit ’em in the ass. Now how are we to live in a world like this There’s something in this song for anyone who feels the government isn’t doing its job, conservative or progressive or in-between – the only difference is who, precisely, they consider the liar: The lyrics, which, as usual, she wrote herself, evoke a certain sense of climate anxiety, a suffocating sense of watching the world’s reliable patterns break down into a muddy mess, of watching politicians divide us even as existential threats bear down. But that’s how many of Dolly’s more “political” statements and artistic work come across - they tap into the zeitgeist without making any explicit political statements. It’s difficult to say whether Dolly explicitly intended “World on Fire” as a climate song, though people are hearing it as such. The song rocks a little harder than her usual feathery country oeuvre, and over a driving beat, she lets you know she’s about to get political.īut that don’t mean I don’t stay in touchĭolly spends the next four minutes outlining the sorry state of the world, or at least the nation, punctuating it with a rousing chorus: Blond hair piled and coiffed, her black dress glittering, she looks down into a pit of flames burning the earth. In the video for her new song, “World On Fire,” Dolly Parton sits atop a burning world.
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