Dolly Parton hits back at cancel culture and defends doing a song with Kid Rock

Dolly Parton isn't the biggest fan of cancel culture.

The country singer is gearing up to drop her latest album, Rockstar, later this month.

It's her 49th solo studio album (yes, really) and features loads of collaborations with some of the music industry's biggest names.

Dolly has Beatles members Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr on one song, Sting on another and even the likes of Steven Tyler and Stevie Nicks.

However, people were a little taken aback when they saw the track listing and noticed Kid Rock was amongst these superstars.

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The two have done a duet called 'Either Or' and some were surprised the singer would team up with someone who has been mired in controversy.

Rock recently sparked a bit of backlash when he decided to unload a bunch of bullets at a pack of Bud Light because he was opposed to the beer company teaming up with trans activist Dylan Mulvaney.

He announced he was boycotting the beer and then weirdly was seen a few weeks later taking a sip from a Bud Light can at an event.

But that's not the only issue the singer has been embroiled in during his lengthy career.

He's been charged with assaulting a DJ in a strip club, he got into a fistfight with Mötley Crüe drummer Tommy Lee, made 'inappropriate and inflammatory statements' about certain celebrities during an incident in 2019, and was 'was accused of 'desecrating' the flag during his 2004 Super Bowl performance.

And that's only a few of the things that have allegedly happened to him.

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Despite this, Dolly doesn't hold any grudges.

In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, she was asked why she would collaborate with someone like Kid Rock.

She replied: "I did that before the controversy that he had, but somebody was talking to me the other day, ‘How could you do this [song] with Kid?'”

“I said, ‘Hey, just because I love you don’t mean I don’t love Kid Rock. Just because I love Kid Rock don’t mean I don’t love you.’ I don’t condemn or criticize. I just accept and love.”

However, on reflection, she said she still would have done the song even after the Bud Light controversy.

“I’d have probably still done it, because he is a gifted guy, and that song was about a bad boy; it was about a boy that was cheating and mistreating her,” she said.

“But like I say, I love everybody. I don’t criticize, nor I don’t condone nor condemn. I just accept them. But anyhow, just because I love you don’t mean I don’t love Kid Rock in that God way.”