Will Music’s Dilemma SERIOUSLY Require Dolly Parton’s Magic Touch?

Blog entry written on 21 July, 2025, by Corinne Devin Sullivan, at the Archive Coffee & Bar located at102 Liberty Street NE, in Salem, Oregon.

Photography at the Archive Coffee & Bar by Corinne Devin Sullivan.

Full disclosure: The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas, starring Dolly Parton, was my absolute best go-to movie on a rainy Saturday afternoon when I was, say, nine years old. In it, Dolly just sings to her heart’s content. The lively attitude of Ms. Parton is so joyous. It helped me learn to smile at other people and help them out when they’re in trouble.  But the subject matter of The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas made my mom angry with my dad. He had purchased a box of sixty movies right after he bought the family our first VCR. But he didn’t look inside the box.  

I still feel like I’m a more balanced adult due to having been thoroughly educated by Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds in that film, even though the subject is tough to deal with. I still learned about love, trust and honesty. I have always felt a deep respect for everyone I meet in life. It doesn’t matter their background. In fact, the worse they tell me they have been, the sunnier I feel I need to be just to brighten up the entire picture there because what else is there to do?

Revenge is wasteful. Fighting is a gamble. Talking behind someone’s back recoils on the speaker themselves! The only guaranteed road to win on is being kind and helping the other person live with honesty.

I sound trite, and probably insecure. I just do believe it’s never too late for everyone on earth to make a fresh, new start.

Dolly Parton’s good nature is needed to help end more than 100 years of abuses in the music industry. These people in government and at ASCAP are trying for a “fresh new start”. I think they ought to get there. I believe earning a “fresh new start” is what everyone involved in music, and music law, could be doing. That would heal things. Main thing is, we are all trying to survive. We should help each other do so.

There, in that small setting, the women employed inside a Texas whorehouse won’t put up with anything without a fight.

I know the people who wrote the Music Modernization Act, and who abuse all those poor artists in music every day just so they can have fun in a rich style, did so much bad that they probably don’t believe they will ever be accepted. Thing is, someone has to accept them back or we just get into another big war.

I’d like to work together to get the Music Modernization Act thrown away. Once that’s done, it would be great if people who honestly enjoy music and choose it as their profession get a chance to pick up all the pieces without any distraction anymore.

If that can happen, then everything in the future will sort itself out.