I’m going to go ahead and blame the rampant shittiness that has been life the last few years for it, but I’m still kinda disappointed in myself for not having gotten around to listening to Dolly Parton’s “Rockstar” album even though it came out like two damn years ago.
Here she is, from that album, covering “What’s Up?” with Linda Perry of 4 Non Blondes doing some background vocals. It’s quite good.
You’ll likely notice a couple of lyric changes. “All of these years” instead of “25 years” which makes sense since Dolly hasn’t been 25 for a long time, and “I take a deep breath and I wonder why” instead of “get real high” which also makes sense if you’re one of those folks who still gets twitchy about anything that might be a drug reference here in the 2020s. I’m not sure how she herself feels about it, but changing it for the sake of her usual audience is an understandable enough call regardless of how silly it is.