{"id":1024672,"date":"2026-08-26T06:03:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1024672\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T06:03:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T06:03:24","slug":"dolly-parton-dead-taylor-swift-pays-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1024672\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolly Parton Dead: Taylor Swift Pays Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTaylor Swift<\/a> is honoring the late country music<\/a> icon Dolly Parton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tParton died<\/a> Tuesday in Nashville at 80, her family announced. She died after a \u201cbrief battle with cancer,\u201d her reps told People<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA world without Dolly doesn\u2019t feel possible, real, or right,\u201d Swift began in a statement shared with The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cBut because of the eternally generous way she spent her time on this earth and the countless lives she changed for the better, her legacy will be an everlasting one.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cShe was truly the gift that kept on giving. Dolly gave us someone to look up to while encouraging us to be who we are as individuals. Somehow she was able to give us her lessons about the world gently and honestly, simultaneously, and oftentimes hilariously,\u201d Swift continued. \u201cShe managed to give the world the ultimate mystery and fantasy in some corners of her life, but to give full transparency in the ways that counted. Somehow she was true grace and true grit, all in one dazzling person. She possessed the softest heart when it came to the struggles of others, and a backbone of steel to defend her own self worth as an artist.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tShe concluded, \u201cAlong with her other fans, I am so grateful for all of it. For the melodies and lyrics she wrote that thawed even the coldest hearts. For the millions of books she provided children all over the world so that they might fall in love with stories the way she did. For the tightropes she walked so that young girls like me could grow up dreaming of joining the circus too.\u00a0Dolly, I\u2019ll think of you each step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLast September, the \u201cJolene\u201d singer announced she was\u00a0postponing a set of Las Vegas concerts<\/a>\u00a0to deal with \u201csome health challenges.\u201d\u00a0In May, she canceled<\/a> her Las Vegas residency, but continued to put on a brave front, telling her fans that she was OK.<\/p>\n

\n\tIn July, just ahead of her Madison Square Garden wedding, Swift and Travis Kelce donated $26 million<\/a> to varying organizations, including to Dolly Parton\u201ds Imagination Library. Parton shared an Instagram<\/a> video thanking the married couple for their donation, where she said she was \u201cblown away and overjoyed with that gratitude.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cNow, it\u2019s evident, that you have made giving back a key part of your lives, so hey, when you have you firstborn, can I have it?\u201d she joked. \u201cBecause that is gonna be\u00a0one\u00a0special baby!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 14-time Grammy Award winner also reflected on the two-time Oscar nominee\u2019s legacy in Parton\u2019s 2023 profile with The Hollywood Reporter<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cDolly is a force of evolution and transformation in our industry, but she does it with such playful levity it almost looks effortless. Her sense of humor and mischief are easily my favorite things about her, because I think it forces the world to reconcile that a woman can be a serious artist and writer who also has raucous fun with it, can make people laugh and be in on every joke,\u201d Swift told\u00a0THR. \u201cShe\u2019s never stopped challenging herself to clear new hurdles and explore new territory artistically, and I think that speaks to her great curiosity about the human condition. She\u2019s a legendary empath and the storyteller for the ages. She\u2019s also having the most fun doing it.\u201d<\/p>\n