I put her in my pantheon with Johnny Cash. Turns out Cash introduced her on her Grand Ole Opry debut in 1959, when she was 13. She killed it. Parton said later she was best friends with Johnny and June.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcfyzJW-BA4

I don't think I've ever seen the interwebs talking about one thing as much as right now.

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dsiegel2275 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

As a performer, sure.

But Dolly was 1000x the songwriter that Johnny Cash was.

	▲	antonymoose an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I’m no artist so I’m left to ask - how exactly is that metric determined?

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shadowgovt 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

When Michael Jackson died, reaction online was so sudden it made Google search backend stumble... They didn't have a solution to auto-hotspot-protect half the planet searching his name suddenly.

I'll be interested to see if the mitigations hold today.