Listen: Miranda Lambert’s ‘Geraldene’ Namedrops Dolly Parton’s ‘Jolene’
Miranda Lambert has released a new song from her upcoming album The Marfa Tapes called “Geraldine” and it name checks another famous song: Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” It’s actually a lot like…
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Miranda Lambert has released a new song from her upcoming album The Marfa Tapes called "Geraldine" and it name checks another famous song: Dolly Parton's "Jolene."
It's actually a lot like Parton's famous song as Miranda is threatened by another woman just like Dolly was in 1974's "Jolene." Lambert sings, "You're trailer-park pretty, but you're never gonna be Jolene."
The chorus sings, "Geraldene, Geraldene / Why you gotta be so mean? / Don't make me cause a scene now, Geraldene / Geraldene, Geraldene / You got 'em all on their knees / But you can't take a man from me, Geraldene."
At the end of the song, Lambert chats with her collaborators Jack Ingram and Jon Randall saying "That was fun."
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Nancy Brooks has been working in the country music industry for almost 30 years. She has interviewed pretty much any country star you can think of. In the late 1990s, she started working with Dolly Parton. And yes, Nancy reports that Parton is as sweet as you would think. She loves her life in country music and has been backstage at every CMA Awards show since the late 1990s.
Many of her stories are from her one-on-one interviews. She was there at the beginning of the incredible careers of many music superstars today, including Taylor Swift, Shania Twain, and Blake Shelton, and has interviewed them multiple times throughout the years.
