The Cult of Dolly Parton
Sounds Like A Cult
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Dolly Parton's Cult
I feel like when we're talking about does Dolly have a cult? I'm 30. So I can't speak for her die hard. Listen, since the 60s fans. If you're not giving yourself to that pair of social relationship, you can't create that. And so there is a distance between Dolly and her fans that makes it so that you can't really have a cult because how could you follow her? You don't know where she is. That's so true. Also, when she initially blew up, she didn't have social media. So she already has this like less parasocial relationship with her fans. She just has a fandom that is like loving her
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