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Even Pitbull stopped his Madison Square Garden show to memorialize Parton and all the other “powerful women” in the crowd
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But one of the strangest, and most viral, eulogies did not come from a celebrity.
Key facts
- Manning, who is 25, lost his sister when she was 13, before the advent of generative AI
- A June report from the estate management and planning service Empathy found that only 6% of 6,000 respondents in the US, UK and Canada reported leaning on “digital tools” such as memorial apps
- Onlookers include the late Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston and Kenny Rogers, as well as Cher, who is still much alive
- On TikTok, YouTube and Spotify, the song credit is Country Mile, an “artist” with over 6,000 monthly listeners (that’s not many)
Summary
T ributes rolled in after the death of Dolly Parton last month. Even Pitbull stopped his Madison Square Garden show to memorialize Parton and all the other “powerful women” in the crowd. Run Jolene, at under five minutes, is an earworm of a country song, containing all the cliches of the genre: twangy singer, banjo licks, corny lyrics. The accompanying video depicts Parton, clad in a bedazzled white jumpsuit, hunting down Jolene, a busty redhead with prom curls. On TikTok, YouTube and Spotify, the song credit is Country Mile, an “artist” with over 6,000 monthly listeners (that’s not many). Run Jolene is only one part of a ghoulish online ecosystem of content dubbed “deathslop”.