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Miley Cyrus clearly has the best godmother in the world: Dolly Parton. The โMidnight Skyโ singer has even teamed up with the country music icon on a few projects, including a Super Bowl commercial โ and Cyrus couldnโt help but call out an irony while she spoke with Seth Meyers on his talk show. During her appearance on Late Night with Seth Meyers, Cyrus reflected on the T-Mobile commercial she and Parton appeared in, which aired during Super Bowl LVI. The cell phone commercial was ironic because, according to Cyrus, Parton seems to prefer an unexpected form of communication:
โโฆIt was amazing because, you know, she was doing it for the phones, yet every time I coordinate and kind of communicate with Dolly, itโs still through fax. So, I donโt know what sheโs talking about. Sheโs rarely on the phone. โฆWe do use the phone, but she does a fax, and then someone scans the fax, and then they put it into a text message, and then that gets sent to me. Yeah. And itโs always signed. So now Iโve kind of started my own version where I go into the notes, and Iโve started to try to make my own letters, because thereโs something so amazing just about a connection. Itโs just not casual, you know? You know, that she took the time to get out, I guess her typewriter? She also made me a demo one time where she talks about being super high-tech, but it was all through a cassette, which then she voice demoed onto a flip phone, which someone then put on to the iPhone, which then got sent to me.โ
โShe has a phone. She just doesnโt use it, I donโt think,โ Cyrus continued. โI think someone uses it for her and does the fax machine through the phone.โ
Meyers couldnโt help but clarify that, despite the jokes on his show, โnothing would make me happierโ than receiving a knock at his door from someone saying, โFax from Dolly Parton.โ Partonโs goddaughter quipped that the message might instead come โfrom like, a pink pigeon or something. A flamingo probably delivers it. โฆwith long acrylic nails, big boobs, and a blonde wig. The Dolly Pigeon.โ
Cyrus also talked about a previous appearance on Saturday Night Live, covering one of Partonโs songs. She said Parton โloved it, and she loves when I introduce my fans to music in a way thatโs still me, rather than โ Dolly doesnโt want anyone to copy/paste. She doesnโt want anyone to just sing her songs. She wants them to infuse themselves into her musicโฆโ Cyrus said Partonโs authenticity is what makes her legendary godmother so loved, and said:
โIโve taken a poll. I think Dolly is the most loved person on the planet, right? And again, itโs just, sheโs been so consistently caring, and kind, and herself. And again, she didnโt look like the standard female country music artist that was polite and wearing long dresses. She had big hair and big boobs and sheโs left this big mark on the entire world that all of us are just trying to fill her crystalized shoes, which is never going to happen.โ
Watch the full interview clip here: