Joy Behar tells The View panel she prefers Beyoncé's cover of Jolene because ... trends now
The View co-host Joy Behar says she likes Beyoncé's reworked cover of Jolene better because the Dolly Parton classic is 'anti-feminist'.
Behar, though still enjoying the 1973 original, took issue with Parton's character begging an attractive younger woman in the song not to take her man.
The central theme of the triple-platinum hit is that Jolene could easily steal him, and his partner asks her not to, out of the goodness of her heart.
Beyoncé's version instead has the woman straight-up threatening Jolene not to go after him - or else.
'I like the subject of Beyoncé taking over the lyrics. I just think that the original thing with Dolly Parton is so, like, anti-feminist, worrying about some good-looking woman taking your man,' Behar said on The View's podcast
The View co-host Joy Behar says she likes Beyoncé's reworked cover of Jolene better because the Dolly Parton classic is 'anti-feminist'
Beyoncé's version instead has the woman straight-up threatening Jolene not to go after him - or else
'If it's so easy to take your man, then take him! Beyoncé says, "If you take my man, you're gonna be in a lot of trouble," and I say, "Go ahead, take my man, take him!"'
Behar, 81, insisted she considered music legend Parton, 78, a feminist and 'the best', and her criticism was only with Jolene.
Beyoncé's cover of Jolene appeared on her new album Cowboy Carter, her first foray into country music, that was released on Saturday.
She replaced the line 'I'm begging of you, please don't take my man,' with a menacing, 'I'm warnin' you, don't come for my man... Don't take the chance because you think you can'.
Similarly, the pleading last line where Jolene is told 'my happiness depends on you' and whether she pursues the spoken-for man.
Instead, Jolene is warned: 'You don't want this smoke, so shoot your shot with someone else. You heard me.'
Parton herself gave Beyoncé's take enthusiastic support after hearing it for the first time on the day of its release.
'Wow, I just heard Jolene. Beyoncé is giving that girl trouble and she deserves it,' she wrote online.
The central theme of Dolly Parton's triple-platinum 1973 hit is that Jolene could easily steal him, and his partner asks her not to, out of the goodness of her heart
Beyoncé's cover of Jolene appeared on her new album Cowboy Carter, her first foray into country music, that was released on Saturday
There were other major changes to the lyrics
