There is someone capable of wooing the Capitol raiders, RuPaul's lovers and the farmers of South Carolina. At a time when impartiality is punished and good-naturedness is slammed, someone making jokes about his breasts to dodge questions about politics and celebrating his 75th birthday with motivational messages online seems unthinkable. Unless, of course, we're talking about Dolly Parton. The singer, songwriter, businesswoman and philanthropist is the image of the American dream, although her aesthetic is closer to that of an erotic dream. "It's a country girl's idea of ​​glamour," she told Michael Parkinson in an interview.

That girl, born into a family of 12 siblings, recorded her first single at the age of 13 and reached fame in 1966 with Dumb Blonde. Here is the first reason why, as confirmed by Q Score, the acceptance rate of celebrities, nobody hates her. As a good looking dumb blonde, she has made her exuberant physique and her sense of humor her allies to entertain the world while she made out with him. The best thing is that she has never hidden the strategy from her. When in 1977 Barbara Walters asked her to show her figure to the public, she knew how to win him over with her sharp tongue and an immense brain that, as she herself says, “is under the wig”. “I know that people laugh at me, but the one who laughs is me. I know what I'm doing, that's why I mess with myself more than anyone. I'm not going to stoop so low as to be chic, it's the easiest thing in the world. I thought it would be best to attract attention.” She made it. Four years earlier she had written, in one afternoon, Jolene and I will always love you. On her debut album Hello, I'm Dolly (1966) she gave voice to the pain of invisible working-class women, though she refuses to define herself as a "feminist." No one has criticized her for it, something that in times of Twitter is unthinkable... Unless, of course, we're talking about Dolly Parton.

Knowing how to laugh at herself, having series, movies and Christmas specials on Netflix, having written books (the last one, Dolly Parton: songteller), having several productions (she is co-creator of Sandollar Entertainment, birthplace of Buffy the Vampire Slayer) and a long etc. explain his fortune of nearly 600 million dollars. However, neither her checking account nor her cleavage is the biggest thing about Dolly. The woman to whom the cloned sheep owes her name is responsible for her being part of the medical and history books, since she has donated a million dollars to Moderna's vaccine research against Covid. Dolly is the glue of America. She also the savior of the planet. Convinced that not only money, but also reading, can create a better world, for 25 years she has donated more than a million books a month to children through Dolly Parton's Imaginary Library.

Dolly's success is because she seems so contradictory and impossible that she works. Being a feminist without saying so, bragging about surgeries, playing dumb without having a hair of it (hers is hidden under an infinite collection of wigs) and having a heart so big that not even she can make fun of its size seem irreconcilable attributes... Unless, of course, we're talking about Dolly Parton. And we are doing it.

Gucci's spring/summer 2019 collection includes garments with her face on them. Sesame Street created the Polly Parton character in her honor. The singer has also gone through The Simpsons. She has been married to Carl Thomas Dean for 55 years. The secret of her love? He doesn't like her music too much. She owes her little waist to Sylvester Stallone, who recommended a diet. She plays 20 instruments and estimates that she has written some 3,000 songs. “They are my legacy”, she assures her in her book. With Jolene she turned songs about infidelities: goodbye, vindictive tone; Hello, despair. She put a song in a time capsule that will be unearthed in 2045. "I'll be 99," she says optimistically.