Zac Brown Says The Quiet Part Out Loud About Dolly Parton: “She’s Hot… She’s About To Be 80 Years Old & She’s Hot”

Shoutout to Zac Brown for saying what we were all thinking.

The frontman of the Zac Brown Band has a lot on his plate and on his mind right now. He and his group have entered a “new chapter,” and have a brand new album titled Love & Fear coming out on December 5. That’s the same day that they launch their Las Vegas Sphere residency, which is something that Brown has spent a lot of time – and money – on.

Somehow in all of that, he found time to sit down with the Bussin’ with the Boys podcast to discuss everything that’s going on in his life. They talked a lot about Brown’s collaborations, his wishes for the new project and the Sphere shows, and even got into what he considers to be his favorite song that he’s ever released.

It could be recency bias, but he says the latest song he released that features Dolly Parton is his favorite. He had a lot of good things to say about the “Queen of Country Music,” and to be honest, who doesn’t?

“We released the song with Dolly Parton. It just came out a couple of weeks ago. It’s called ‘Butterfly.’ She is such an incredible (person). There will never be another Dolly. The most published, most brilliant female writer ever. That was a dream.”

Brown said that he’s “crazy proud” of what he and Dolly were able to accomplish with the song. And all in all, he was just happy to be able to share a musical moment with the living legend that is Dolly Parton. The “Chicken Fried” singer couldn’t stop complimenting Dolly… and maybe even got a little carried away at the end of this thought:

“When you listen to what she sang on that, and how she sang it, you wouldn’t know if she was 25 or 80. It’s unbelievable. I just love her and everything she stands for. She’s done so much philanthropy throughout her career. Just can incredible woman… and she’s hot. She’s about to be 80 years old and she’s hot.”

Excuse me? How did we get from philanthropy to Dolly Parton being hot?

That’s what you call stream of consciousness right there. Zac Brown was praising Dolly for all the great things she’s done in her life, and then his brain was like “and she’s attractive for someone that’s her age” and that just came out of his mouth as well. And hey… there’s nothing wrong with him saying what everyone thinks and agrees with. No lies detected.

Check it out:

Hilarious. It’s about time a high-profile artist like Zac Brown put that out there.

Because ever since Dolly’s Thanksgiving Halftime Show a couple of years ago, pretty much everyone on the planet has been thinking the same thing. The legendary “9 To 5” singer set the bar very, VERY high in 2023 when she shocked the world and distracted men all across the country when she dressed up as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader for her halftime performance.

In case you needed a refresher on Dolly’s iconic performance at AT&T Stadium, Danny Nozell (Dolly’s manager) told Billboard that the idea to wear the Dallas Cowboys cheerleader outfit was all Dolly. No one else knew about it. Many people on Dolly’s team supposedly “fainted” when she walked out of the dressing room and they saw her for the first time:

“Dolly didn’t tell or show anyone that she was going to dress as a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader until it was time to go to the stage. It was completely her idea. She waited until right before she went to stage and came out of the dressing room to show us all.

When she came out, myself, the security and my staff fainted. I couldn’t tell the difference between Dolly and the cheerleaders. That is the genius of Dolly, and people are still talking about it.”

Yeah, I don’t think people will ever stop talking about it.

I personally think the performance will live on forever, and every time Thanksgiving rolls around, people will say, “I wish this was Dolly in a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader outfit instead of (insert artist/band here).” Something tells me that Dolly Parton knew exactly what she was doing when she donned the cheer uniform at the age of 77-years-old, and as she later revealed, the “9 To 5” singer had a great attitude about it:

“I thought, ‘Well at my age, if I can pull it off, it’s going to be good. And if I don’t, I can just pass it off as an old woman doing a stupid a** thing. I’ve always said my desire to do something is greater than my fear of it.”

Shoutout to Dolly for facing her fears:

Watch Zac and Dolly’s collab, “Butterfly.”

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