In her decades in the music industry, it’s safe to say Dolly Parton has been dealt her fair share of advice, and the singer is opening up about the advice she’s grateful she didn’t follow. 

Dolly has long been vocal about the fact that she patterned her flashy look and costumes after the hooker who lived in her hometown of Sevierville, TN. And while she may have been met with resistance of her appearance over the years, the titan of industry stands firm in how she presents herself.

“The main advice that people wanted to give me was to change my look and to go simpler with my hair and the way that I dress, not to look so cheap, nobody was ever going to take me seriously they would say,” she explains to Adam Grant on his podcast, WorkLife. 

“The way I look and the way I looked then was a country girl’s idea of glam, just like I wrote in my ‘Backwoods Barbie’ song. But people wanted me to change…It was really like a look I was after. And I wasn’t a natural beauty, I just like to look the way I look,” she continues. “I’m so outgoing inside and my personality, and I need the way I look to match all of that.”

Dolly recently released a novel, Run, Rose, Run, that debuted at #1 on the New York Times’ best-selling fiction book list last month.   

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Jane’s Addiction will record new music this year, if frontman Perry Farrell has his way.

Speaking with Consequence about possible fresh tunes from the “Been Caught Stealing” outfit, Farrell shares, “I would love to see us record a couple of tracks this year.”

“Even if it’s two or three tracks,” he adds. “Two tracks, I feel two is nice. I think people can take two, like two aspirin.”

Jane’s Addiction’s most recent song is the 2013 one-off single “Another Soulmate,” which followed the band’s 2011 album, The Great Escape Artist.

In addition to potential new music, Farrell also hopes to add more Jane’s tour dates around their upcoming festival appearances, which include sets at Lollapalooza and Welcome to Rockville.

“We do have ambitions to hit the road this year,” Farrell says. “So it won’t be long before you’ll know if those ambitions have come to fruition.”

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Dustin Lynch has set a new chart record, as his and MacKenzie Porter‘s duet, “Thinking ‘Bout You,” is now the longest-running top-10 hit in the history of the Billboard Country Airplay chart. 

After parking at #1 on the chart for six weeks, the song has now spent 27 weeks inside the top 10; it currently sits at #8. “Thinking ‘Bout You” has surpassed the record previously set by Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood‘s hit duet, “If I Didn’t Love You,” that was in the top 10 for 26 weeks.

Rounding out the list of singles that have spent the most weeks in the top 10 of the chart since its inception in 1990 are “Famous Friends” by Chris Young and Kane Brown, which spent 23 weeks in the top 10; Lonestar‘s “Amazed” at 21 weeks; and, tied with a 20-week stay, “One of Them Girls” by Lee Brice and “Somebody Like You by Keith Urban.

“Y’all keep blowing us away with this song!” Dustin commented on Instagram.

“Thinking ‘Bout You” was originally recorded with Lauren Alaina as Dustin’s duet partner and was featured on his 2020 album, Tullahoma. But he re-recorded it in 2021 with MacKenzie and it became his longest-running #1 hit.

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Greta Van Fleet frontman Josh Kiszka has issued a statement addressing the #SpeakUpGVF social media movement.

Recent posts from the “Highway Tune” rockers have seen floods of replies with the hashtag, which began in an effort to get Kiszka to respond to and delete a series of 2017 photos that feature him wearing Native American clothing. Non-Indigenous people wearing traditional Native American attire, such as a headdress, is considered by some to be cultural appropriation.

In an Instagram post Monday, Kiszka posted an open letter addressed to “Our indigenous fans.”

“I see you. I’ve taken time to listen and gather my thoughts,” Kiszka wrote. “My appreciation for indigenous culture is bigger than myself. I recognize the harm that ignorance can have on marginalized communities, something I’d never want to perpetuate.”

“Hate, disrespect, and prejudice of any kind are not welcome in this community,” he continued. “As I’ve come into adulthood, I’ve been able to grow and learn. This growth has not stopped and will not stop here.”

Kiszka adds that the Chippewa tribe, an Indigenous people with populations in the northern Midwest and Canada, had a “particularly profound impact” on his early life growing up in Michigan.

“I have made a charitable donation [to] the First Nations Development Institute to help keep indigenous traditions like theirs alive and well,” he wrote.

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Bad Religion and All Time Low will headline the 2022 Four Chord Music Festival, taking place September 9-10 in Washington, Pennsylvania.

The bill also includes Jimmy Eat World, Descendents, Pennywise, The Story So Far, The Maine, Silverstein and Story of the Year, among others.

Originally created in 2014 as a local punk festival, Four Chord expands to a two-day event for the first time this year.

“This is the festival I had dreamed of being able to put on since this started in my apartment seven years ago in Pittsburgh,” says Four Chord founder Rishi Bahl.

For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit FourChordMusicFestival.com.

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Jada Pinkett Smith, her mother Adrienne Banfield Norris and daughter Willow Smith all take a seat at the coveted “Red Table” for the long-awaited return of the Facebook Watch show, Red Table Talk. 

The multi-generational trio shared the announcement on the show’s Facebook page on Tuesday, along with the season-five trailer, which reveals the star-studded guest lineup. 

Among the visitors who will join the ladies for honest and intimate conversation is eight-time Grammy nominee and fashion icon Janelle Monae, who will open up about her coming out at the age of 32, while also sharing details about healing from the trauma caused by her father’s drug addiction. Monae will be joined by her mother who, in the trailer, expresses gratitude for being invited on the show. 

Future episodes will feature the heartbroken parents of Miss USA Cheslie Kryst, who tragically died by suicide earlier this year. Ireland Baldwin and her mother, Oscar-winning actress Kim Basinger, will also appear and reveal how anxiety has impacted their lives. 

‘Tinder Swindler’ victim Ayleen Charlotte will also have a seat at the red table, as will Smith children Willow, Jaden and Trey, making their first solo appearance on the show. “The fact that we haven’t done this yet is ridiculous,” Willow says in the trailer. 

Last year’s Red Table Talk included candid discussion from guests including Alicia Keys, Kevin Hart, Snoop Dogg, Ciara and more. 

The Emmy-winning weekly series returns Wednesday, April 20 at 12 p.m. ET on the show’s Facebook Watch page.

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Kane Brown is getting real country on his next single.

On Monday, Kane posted a gleeful video that shows him and his eldest daughter, Kingsley, dancing around the kitchen while wearing cowboys as his new single, which is titled “Like I Love Country Music,” plays in the background. The track finds Kane professing his love for country music, so much so that he’s incorporated a snippet of Brooks & Dunn‘s hit, “Brand New Man,” into the tune. 

“You’ve got me feeling like/ I’m a brand new man,” Kane croons, followed by a clip of Ronnie Dunnrepeating the song’s title. 

During the fiddle-packed song, Kane throws in a reference to Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash, and asserts that the only way he’d survive on a desert island is with the love of his life — and a needle dropping on a vinyl country record.

“Baby, I love you like I love country music,” Kane sings in the chorus, bouncing his two-year-old daughter in his arms as they two-step and spin around the kitchen, the little girl giggling and smiling all the while. 

“3 things! 1: This will be the new radio single (like I love country music). 2: thank you @brooksanddunn. 3: this little girl is so damn cute,” the singer captions the adorable video. 

“Like I Love Country Music” follows Kane’s previous single, “Leave You Alone,” and his most recent #1 hit, “One Mississippi.”

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