Dolly Parton’s always tried to avoid politics creeping into her music. However, things change, as her song “World On Fire” demonstrates. The track from her 2023 album “Rockstar” includes the lyrics, “Don’t get me started on politics. Now, how are we to live in a world like this? Greedy politicians, present and past, they wouldn’t know the truth if it bit ’em in the a**.” She explained what inspired the song during an appearance on “The View.”
Parton divulged she’d been making herself a coffee when the news suddenly crept into her head and pushed her to wonder, “What in the world are we doing to each other and to this world?” Ultimately, the questioning led to Parton taking pen to paper. “My heart was just heavy with all the stuff that I’m sure we’re all heavy-hearted about these days,” she said. “And I was just trying to throw a little light and try to make us think a little about what we’re doing and seeing if we might step up and try to make a change.”
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The “9 to 5” star spilled more political tea in a “Today” interview. When Jacob Soboroff asked which politicians she was referring to in “World On Fire,” Parton was uncharacteristically open — albeit firmly nonpartisan. “All of them! Any of them! I don’t think any of them are trying hard enough,” she declared. “I think that often they worry more about their party than they do about the people,” Parton continued.
