It was a savvy move back in February when Sabrina Carpenter released a country remix of her 2024 summer hit “ Please Please Please ” that featured Dolly Parton. Not just because Carpenter is a genre-fluid performer and country-pop crossovers have been “in” for the past couple of years. Her commonalities with Parton have much deeper (dyed) roots.

“She looks like she could be my little sister,” the 79-year-old icon said of the 26-year-old Carpenter to Rolling Stone in June, the magazine pointing out that each is “ a five-foot-tall blonde with serious pipes .” The stronger link it overlooked is that both Carpenter and Parton are virtuosi of high-femme camp, particularly playing the role of the sexpot savant, the bombshell who’s really a brainiac. They’re in line there with the recen

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