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Cake day: March 28th, 2022

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  • I’m one of those ignorant people who didn’t know she wrote the original. The original is great.

    Some choice quotes from the wikipedia page:

    Dolly Parton revealed that she wrote her signature song “Jolene” on the same day that she wrote "I Will Always Love You.

    When the 1974 recording of the song reached number one on the country charts, Elvis Presley indicated that he wanted to record the song. Parton was interested until Presley’s manager, Colonel Tom Parker, told her that it was standard procedure for the songwriter to sign over half of the publishing rights to any song Elvis recorded.[24] Parton refused.






  • Great to see he’s enthusiastic about it, not sure genpop is though.

    /Edit post from Nilay on the comments

    It’s more like - what if I just posted here on The Verge, and you could follow me on Mastodon natively? That’s way bigger than ICQ, I think.

    The idea you could post from your own business/personal/group website and not have to run through social an intermediary that holds you hostage is a killer feature.