Singer Jessica Simpson has pulled out of a tribute to Dolly Parton after she was unhappy with her second attempt to perform Parton's hit song 9 to 5.
Simpson got the song's words mixed up during a tape of the annual tribute show for the US Kennedy Center Honors.
She recorded it a second time but was again unhappy and asked for it to be removed from the tape.
"She really wasn't happy with her performance," said Simpson's spokeswoman Cindi Berger.
"She did want it to be perfect for Dolly, who she idolises," she added.
Simpson fled the stage after getting flustered during the first take.
Let's briefly mull this one over. Dolly Parton, country music icon, terrific singer, wonderful songwriter, great sense of humor, astute businesswoman (she even out-foxed Col. Tom Parker, Elvis' manager). Think of the high quality of female singers & songwriters in country music now, all of whom owe a lot to Dolly. But the producers of the Kennedy Center Honors show booked Jessica Simpson, a "celebrity" of proven witlessness & marginal musical talent to do homage to genius Dolly, apparently on the basis of her realistic portrayal of Daisy Duke, the sort of dumb country comedy character Dolly has been satirizing for 40 years. Jessica blew the song onstage & then wasn't even able to perform it later in a controlled retake.
# posted by Bob : 2:09 PM
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