Dolly Parton continues her all-star run of not giving a single hoot what the world thinks, and has given us all of the early vacation reward of the right excuse to not talk through textual content message. “I’m a low-tech lady in a high-tech world,” Parton mentioned Monday on The Drew Barrymore Present. “I don’t need to discuss to everyone that wishes to speak to me. I don’t textual content ’trigger I don’t need to need to reply.”
That’s proper: Parton, 77, isn’t about to textual content you, and even when she was, she’d haven’t any downside leaving you on learn. And it’s anybody’s guess whether or not she’s selecting up while you name, too.
“If someone calls me, I’ll reply it if I need to discuss to ’em or I’ll name ’em again once I can,” she mentioned. “In any other case, I’ve bought an excessive amount of to consider than to litter my thoughts up with every part else.”
Parton’s too busy, truthfully. “I simply don’t have time to sit down with my face within the cellphone all day,” she mentioned. “I’m actually not a silly individual. I might be taught it if I needed to, however I’d relatively simply have my fax machine [and] name in my artistic stuff to my crew.”
That fax bit, by the way in which, is a reality. In Could, Bebe Rexha informed Kelly Clarkson about collaborating with Parton on a track and being requested not solely to make a bodily CD (keep in mind these?) of the proposed monitor to share with the nation icon, however to fax her correspondence. Clarkson, who has additionally labored with Parton, confirmed.
“Y’all, she nonetheless sends faxes,” Clarkson mentioned of Parton. “You gotta ship a chicken for that one, like a pigeon.”
Earlier this month, Parton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. We will solely assume the invitation was despatched through good old style snail mail.
