Dolly Parton Now Says She’d Settle for 2022 Rock Corridor Induction

After the 2022 Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame nominations had been introduced, first-time nominee Dolly Parton stated that she was “respectfully bow[ing] out” of competition for induction. Not lengthy after, the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame Basis confirmed that Parton might nonetheless be inducted. Now, in an interview on NPR’s Morning Version, Parton stated that she would settle for her potential induction “gracefully.”

NPR’s Rachel Martin requested Parton, “What do you do if, regardless of your objections, you’re nonetheless inducted?” The nation famous person responded:

Nicely, I’ll settle for gracefully. I’d simply say thanks and I’ll settle for it as a result of the followers vote. However after I stated that, it was at all times my perception that the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame was for the folks in rock music, and I’ve came upon these days that it’s not essentially that. But when they will’t go there to be acknowledged, the place do they go? So I simply felt like I’d be taking away from somebody that perhaps deserved it, actually greater than me, ’trigger I by no means thought-about myself a rock artist. However. clearly, there’s extra to it than that.

Pitchfork has reached out to representatives for Dolly Parton and the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame for added remark and knowledge.

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