Dolly Parton’s Cowl of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” Has Arrived, and It Guidelines: Stream

Dolly Parton is in her rock ‘n’ roll period, and he or she’s able to develop into the champion of the style. To that finish, she shared her cowl of Queen’s “We Are the Champions” on Friday as the newest single from her forthcoming, aptly-named album, Rockstar.

With a dynamic, guitar-driven association harking back to Queen’s unique model from 1977, Parton’s tackle the tune is stadium-ready. At 77 years previous, she nonetheless belts with goosebump-inducing energy, hovering by means of the anthemic melody. Add within the tinge of twangy knowledge she brings to traces about how fame and fortune have been “no mattress of roses,” and the tune is elevated to a brand new stage of perception.

Parton additionally closes the tune with a short interpolation of “We Will Rock You” — full with the legendary beat, crowd chanting, and a few vocal ad-libs from Parton that unmistakably verify the truth that she’s going to, certainly, rock you. Hearken to the tune beneath.

“We Are the Champions” is the fourth single from Rockstar, which is because of drop in full on November seventeenth through Parton’s personal Butterfly Information along side Massive Machine Label Group. The album options 9 new, unique songs along with a heap of rock covers and an insane listing of visitor stars. It was impressed by Parton’s induction into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame final 12 months. “I suppose I’m a rock star now!” she declared in her acceptance speech. Pre-orders for the album are ongoing.

In Might, Parton unveiled the album’s lead single, “World on Hearth,” a warning concerning the state of the world which constitutes her most political tune to this point. Final month, she shared two extra singles: “Bygones,” a brand new monitor that includes Judas Priest’s Rob Halford and Mötley Crüe’s Nikki Sixx, and a canopy of Coronary heart’s “Magic Man” with none aside from Ann Wilson herself.

All of this would possibly look like loads of exercise for somebody Parton’s age, however she’s displaying no indicators of slowing down anytime quickly. She just lately revealed that she’s not planning on retiring, explaining that she would somewhat “drop lifeless in the course of a tune on stage sometime.”