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Ok. So I finally decided to look the Jolene song up on the net and had a listen and found it's a more recent song and that's why I hadn't heard of it before this bulletin board (I didn't even know Dolly Parton was still doing albums). Honestly, it's the singer- not Jolene- who sounds like (desperate) "white trash" (I really don't like that term). Song says nothing about Jolene actually deliberately trying to take him away- just that the way she is has the singer's man (boyfriend? husband? Can't tell which from the song) paying some attention and Jolene might even be clueless that it's happening... Some women are like that. Just the way they are and the way they look gets the attention of numerous guys, but that doesn't mean the gal will go out with any of them (when I was in high school, my friend Chareen always had lists of guys who were interested, but she wasn't even inclined to date the ones she wasn't personally interested in and would never have gone for one who was already attached). Obviously, the people in the song who are the problems are the guy who's giving more attention to this other gal than the one he's with and the singer who lets her life revolve around a guy who would do that. For all we know, Jolene may just be sitting there with a choice to make over this guy who likes her and if she's smart, she'll see that he's with somebody and that if he'd leave this other gal for Jolene, he could just as well leave Jolene for some other gal. Guys like that are to be avoided... Maybe it's the guy who's the jerk and the singer whose mindset would fall into one of the categories in Dr. Laura's book "Top 10 Things Women Do To Mess Up Their Lives".

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Guess that's what makes it a typical country song though... (but with horrible sound to it... yuck)

This message was edited 12/31/2008, 9:27 PM