{"id":2214131,"date":"2024-04-05T19:43:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:43:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-calls-beyonces-jolene-anything-but-empowering\/"},"modified":"2024-04-05T19:45:52","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T23:45:52","slug":"megyn-kelly-calls-beyonces-jolene-anything-but-empowering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/megyn-kelly-calls-beyonces-jolene-anything-but-empowering\/","title":{"rendered":"Megyn Kelly Criticizes Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s &#8216;Jolene&#8217; as Not Empowering"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmegyn-kelly-calls-beyonces-jolene-anything-but-empowering%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2214131&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>During &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; podcast, \u200cMegyn Kelly criticized Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s cover of \u200bDolly Parton&#8217;s &#8220;Jolene&#8221; as lacking empowerment, contrary to Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s intentions.\u200c Kelly highlighted the disparity in messages between the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/taylor-swift-re-recording-albums-success-sparks-changes-to-record-label-contracts\/\" title=\"Taylor Swift's successful re-recording of her albums prompts revisions to record label contracts.\">original song&#8217;<\/a>s theme of vulnerability and Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s more aggressive interpretation. She questioned the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/whatever-you-do-dont-call-them-biolabs\/\" title=\"Whatever You Do, Don\u2019t Call Them Biolabs!\">modern definition<\/a> of strength portrayed in the \u2062song. During\u2064 &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; podcast, Megyn Kelly expressed her critique of Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s\u200b rendition of Dolly Parton&#8217;s &#8220;Jolene,&#8221; noting that\u2062 it lacked empowerment compared to Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s desired message. Kelly pointed out the contrast between the original song&#8217;s vulnerability \u2064theme and \u200dBeyonc\u00e9&#8217;s more forceful approach. This\u2062 brought into question the contemporary perception of strength reflected\u2062 in the song.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/megyn-kelly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Megyn Kelly<\/a> called Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s latest version of Dolly Parton\u2019s song \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/beyonce-misses-the-point-with-forgettable-jolene-cover\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jolene<\/a>\u201d anything but empowering, despite what \u201cQueen Bey\u201d may have hoped to have portrayed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">During \u201cThe Megyn Kelly Show\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=q0s5UZ7N2R4\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">podcast<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  on Friday, Kelly talked about Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cbada** b****\u201d version of \u201cJolene\u201d on her album \u201cCowboy Carter\u201d and why she thinks it completely misses the mark, referencing an <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/unherd.com\/2024\/04\/has-beyonce-killed-jolene\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">article<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  that she said explained how she felt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe original \u2018Jolene\u2019 is a story about a woman feeling threatened by another woman who\u2019s prettier and more alluring,\u201d the host said. \u201cAnd she\u2019s basically begging her not to steal her man. That she can do it. She flatters her \u2026 but please don\u2019t because I love him and I could never love anybody as much.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThen of course because it\u2019s \u2018Queen Bey,\u2019 we have to change it to be \u2018f***ing take my man, I will hurt you b****\u2026&#8217;\u201d\u00a0 she added. \u201cAnd it\u2019s much more, like, threatening, which I guess Beyonc\u00e9 and Team Bey think is what empowerment looks like. For now, the threatened woman is just threatening to another woman who she thinks might have designs on her life partner\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAnd I have to say, I don\u2019t find this empowering at all,\u201d Kelly continued. \u201cThere\u2019s something strange about what\u2019s happening with the modern day definition of what a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/final-straw-hollywood-reporter-sources-say-disney-wanted-to-fire-carano-in-november\/\" title=\"\u2018Final Straw\u2019: Hollywood Reporter Sources Say Disney Wanted To Fire Carano In November\">strong woman<\/a> is. You can\u2019t have any vulnerabilities or insecurities. You have to be this bada** b**** who\u2019s, like, threatening, \u2018F***ing a, you mess with my man.\u2019 And it\u2019s to me, it\u2019s a turnoff. \u2026 The true power move is not to worry, and not to have to worry. But Beyonc\u00e9 couldn\u2019t quite get there\u2026\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1700760801843000&#038;usg=AOvVaw2PQrVSrJfhxNb4LcARqniG\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The host of the show pointed to the article again and said she agreed that there is something <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/top-doctors-reveal-vaccines-turn-our-immune-systems-against-us\/\" title=\"Top Doctors Reveal Vaccines Turn Our Immune Systems Against Us\">strange happening<\/a> in our culture that \u201cstrong female characters\u201d are now just basically \u201cmen with tits.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhy did we have to go from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/women-shouldnt-accept-third-place-in-a-race-they-won\/\" title=\"Women Shouldn\u2019t Accept Third Place In A Race They Won\">women shouldn\u2019<\/a>t work, women should only have babies, women aren\u2019t strong, women are too emotional, women have to be locked up for their hysterics if they express tears or anxiety,\u201d Kelly said. \u201cTo women have no emotion, women are total ballbusters, and showing any softness, tears, empathy, vulnerability, insecurity is somehow non-feminine, and no longer acceptable in what an ideal woman is.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWell, I think it was a swing and a miss,\u201d she added about Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cJolene\u201d and referenced <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/culture\/archive\/2024\/03\/beyonce-jolene-cover-dolly-parton\/677923\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Atlantic<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">  critic who wrote, \u201cBeyonc\u00e9 replaced the vulnerability that made \u2018Jolene\u2019 one of the best tunes of all time with a bunch of bad-b**** cliches.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIf you listen to the whole song, all the lyrics are changed,\u201d Kelly continued. \u201cShe\u2019s changed the entire meaning of the song \u2026 this is an entirely different message and I don\u2019t buy it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show&#8221; podcast, Megyn Kelly critiqued Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s rendition of Dolly Parton&#8217;s &#8220;Jolene&#8221; as lacking empowerment. Kelly shared her views on Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s portrayal in the album &#8220;Cowboy Carter,&#8221; suggesting it deviates from the intended strong message despite Beyonc\u00e9&#8217;s intentions to convey empowerment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":2214132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1044873286-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2214131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/04\/GettyImages-1044873286-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/219"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2214131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2214131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2214132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2214131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2214131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2214131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}