Dolly Parton’s collaboration with Sabrina Carpenter for their “Please Please, Please” version came with one rule. Recently, Parton told Knox News about imposing one regulation before working with the pop sensation on the hit remix, which dropped on February 14 as part of her “Short n’ Sweet” deluxe album. That one pre-collaboration condition led Carpenter to slightly and creatively tweak the lyrics of her smash hit to accommodate the wishes of one of her biggest idols.
Dolly Parton to Sabrina Carpenter before collab: ‘Now, I don’t cuss’
Before collaborating with Sabrina Carpenter on the “Please Please Please” remix, Dolly Parton claimed she had only one major rule. In Tuesday’s interview with Knox News, she disclosed that Carpenter “can talk a little bad now and then,” but that didn’t suit her. While heaping praises on her, Parton recalled telling the Grammy winner, “I said, ‘Now, I don’t cuss. I don’t make fun of Jesus. I don’t talk bad about God, and I don’t say dirty words, on camera, but known to if I get mad enough.'”
After hearing the 79-year-old country icon’s condition, Carpenter tweaked the lyrics of her popular track. She crossed out “motherf—er” from the chorus, switching the iconic words of the song, “I beg you, don’t embarrass me, motherf—er” with “I beg you, don’t embarrass me like the others.” As for the music video, which has amassed 11 million views on YouTube, it was shot inside a truck and displayed hues of black-and-white in a retro-like, grainy film, which happened to be Parton’s style.
Besides that one rule, Dolly Parton described Sabrina Carpenter as a “sweet” artist and person. Carpenter previously dropped a teaser of the music video on Instagram, getting overly excited in the caption, “Dolly and me singing in a pickup truck!!!!!!” In addition, she called Parton “one of my biggest idols” and declared her honor in working with the country star “on a song that means so much to me.”
