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31.08.2023 - 15:29 / etcanada.com
For Dolly Parton, hearing Miley Cyrus’ “Wrecking Ball” for the first time was like getting hit by a wrecking ball.
The 77-year-old country superstar hit up the “Wrecking Ball 10” podcast produced by Billboard, which celebrates the tenth anniversary of Cyrus’s first #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100.
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Dolly, also Cyrus’ godmother, tapped back into the past to remember her first time hearing the pop-power ballad.
The country crooner says she was driving while first hearing the track, which almost caused her to get into a car wreck. The track also reminded her of another legendary pop ballad.
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“I remember the first time I heard ‘Wrecking Ball’, it hit me the same way it did the first time I heard ‘I Will Always Love You’ by Whitney Houston,” she said.
“I was driving, heard that one, and I almost wrecked. And when I heard ‘Wrecking Ball,’ I almost wrecked again! I thought, when it started into that chorus, I thought it hit me like a wrecking ball. I thought, ‘Well, how great can a song be?'”
Cyrus herself revisited her feelings towards the track during her “Endless Summer Vacation: Backyard Sessions” special on Hulu, which saw her remembering her once-heated feud with the late Sinead O’Connor.
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