Nation singer and popular culture icon Dolly Parton has bowed out of her Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame nomination.
In a choice shared to her social media accounts Monday, Parton wrote: “Dolly right here! Regardless that I’m extraordinarily flattered and grateful to be nominated for the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame, I don’t really feel that I’ve earned that proper.”
“I actually don’t need votes cut up due to me, so I have to respectfully bow out,” she wrote within the assertion.
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Parton, 76, additionally wrote that whereas she hopes the Rock Corridor will perceive, the nomination has impressed her to create “a hopefully nice rock ‘n’ roll album sooner or later sooner or later.”
That is Parton’s first nomination to the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame. She was nominated alongside different artists together with Beck, Devo, Kate Bush, Eminem, Rage In opposition to the Machine and Carly Simon.
In an interview with Billboard, Parton admitted her shock concerning the nomination.
“I used to be completely floored once I heard that,” she mentioned. “I’ve by no means considered myself as being rock and roll in any sense of the phrase — however I assume they decide it on the music and the affect sure songs have had, and I assume I’ve had songs with different folks in that realm. However I don’t understand how they decide that.”
This isn’t the one honour Parton has declined. Final yr, amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Parton was requested to have a statue in her likeness erected on the Tennessee capitol in Nashville.
With a gracious angle, Parton thanked the Tennessee legislature, however requested that the invoice be faraway from “any and all consideration.”
She additionally mentioned, “Given all that is occurring on the earth, I don’t assume placing me on a pedestal is suitable presently.”
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