![]() SEE Dolly Parton 15 best songs ranked for her Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction “I said to mom, ‘You and Dolly both are such, mega, mega legends.’ I believe I used the term ‘double barrel shotgun.’ Like, coming out of both barrels, just boom! And mom said, ‘Yeah, that’s what we are, we’re a double barrel shotgun.’ I had the opportunity to say that to Dolly yesterday and she goes, ‘Yeah, we’re double Ds!'” “This is something that I envisioned,” he says. The track titlted “Peace Like a River” will be released February 24 and is produced by Elliott. I’m certain that everybody’s gonna love it.” ![]() The song was sent to me by her and she requested that I sing it with her as a duet, which was my pleasure to do. “Vicariously I met her through Whitney, of course, but actually standing in front of her and saying, ‘Hey! How are you doing?’ was yesterday. Parton famously penned “I Will Always Love You,” the biggest hit of Warwick’s cousin Whitney Houston‘s career, but Warwick herself had never crossed paths with the country singer. “I met Dolly yesterday when we filmed our video, for the first time” Warwick reveals. ![]() Republicans saw big gains across the state’s school board races in 2022 and have used the positions to challenge policies from rules about transgender kids to COVID-19 restrictions.SEE over 200 interviews with 2023 awards contenders Wisconsin school board races, including in Waukesha, have become increasingly partisan in recent years. Spokespersons for Parton and Cyrus did not immediately respond to emails on Monday asking the artists’ thoughts on the ban. “These confusing messages about rainbows are ultimately creating a culture that seems unsafe towards queer people,” she said. But she was more concerned about what the ban and other district policies against expressing LGBTQ support meant for students. ![]() Parents have been angered by the song’s removal, Tempel said. They really liked this song and we had already begun singing it,” Tempel said Monday.Īdministrators also initially banned the song “Rainbow Connection” from The Muppets but later reversed that decision, according to Tempel. The class concert’s theme was “The World” and included other songs such as “Here Comes the Sun,” by The Beatles and “What a Wonderful World,” by Louis Armstrong. Oh, I’d be lying if I said this was fine, all the hurt and the hate going on here.”įirst-grade teacher Melissa Tempel said she chose the song because its message seemed universal and sweet. “Living in a Rainbowland, where you and I go hand in hand. “Let’s all dig down deep inside, brush the judgment and fear aside,” the song from Cyrus’ 2017 album “Younger Now” goes. Sebert has previously prohibited rainbows and pride flags from being displayed in Waukesha classrooms and suspended the school district’s equity and diversity work in 2021. Superintendent James Sebert, who did not immediately return a call on Monday, confirmed to Fo圆 that administrators had removed “Rainbowland” from the first-grade concert because it might not be “appropriate for the age and maturity level of the students.” He also cited a school board policy against raising controversial issues in classrooms. Parents in the district say the decision was made because the song encourages LGBTQ acceptance and references rainbows. Students at Heyer Elementary School in Waukesha had prepared a rendition of “Rainbowland” for their spring concert, but school officials struck the song from the lineup last week. Administrators at a Wisconsin elementary school stopped a first-grade class from performing a Miley Cyrus and Dolly Parton duet promoting LGBTQ acceptance because the song “could be perceived as controversial.”
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