Kacey Musgraves Mocks Trump’s Jesus Photo With Dolly Parton Homage

This is a good bit. Parton is maybe the only figure in modern music — or maybe even all of modern pop culture — that’s beloved enough to warrant such a depiction. And a quick search of, say, “Saint Dolly Parton” shows Musgraves’ photo is far from the first time Parton’s fans and admirers have teetered on the brink of blasphemy while celebrating the country legend. 

(Parton, surely, would rebuff such false idolatry — though to quote Javier Bardem in Dune: Part Two, “The Mahdi is too humble to say He is the Mahdi. Even more reason to know He is!”)

All that said, let’s refrain from being overly effusive when our pop stars clap back at the president’s AI slop by generating their own AI slop. Sometimes you have to fight fire with fire, but that leaves a lot of scorched earth, and there’s no need to make a habit of it. As one of Musgraves’ own fans replied to her post, “You get one ai pass queen.”