U2 released their first full-length album since 2017’s Songs of Experience and the last track on the project includes a duet with Dolly Parton that turned out to be her last recorded vocal performance.
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The duet, titled Torn, is featured on the album Carnaval De Luz, and was co-written by U2, Parton and singer-songwriter Johnny McDaid.
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Torn is described as a “tender country song detailing broken family ties that holds wider resonances,” according to Parton’s website.
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The late country superstar recorded the song in Nashville, Tenn. in June this year, making it her final recorded vocal performance prior to Parton’s Aug. 25 death.
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The song is produced by Jacknife Lee and also features Daniel Lanois playing pedal steel.
“I can’t deny this passion and desire / But I know it has to burn me /
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/ What am I supposed to do? / And how am I supposed to choose?
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I love ‘em both and I just feel so torn,” Parton sings on the duet.
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“Torn apart these loving hearts / That beat and break the same / We share a house divided / And the blood that fills our veins /
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Brothers turn to strangers / And sons deny their name /
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Somebody loses either way /
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And every heart is torn,” the duo sings together.
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Parton’s Instagram page teased the track in a post on social media, with a written message to Bono, dated June 2.
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“Hey Bono, Hope you like what I did.
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I did quite a few things.
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Take from it what you want and what you need, but I love the song, and I think it could be something really special.
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I’ve always loved you and always will,” Parton wrote.
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Bono told Rolling Stone that Parton “sang her heart out” for the new track.
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“I cannot believe that’s an 80-year-old woman,” he added.
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Parton was able to approve the final mix of Torn before her passing.
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“Dolly loved it,” the album’s producer Garret “Jacknife” Lee told the outlet.
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She was thrilled with it.
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We were very nervous that she might not approve, or would be uncomfortable with it, but she loved it.”
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Bono said the loss of Parton is still settling in for him.
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“It’s very moving to have had these intimacies with such a figure,” he said.
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“The fact that they’re not there now, in any way you can call back, other than through her songs, is very sobering.”
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On Aug. 25, Parton’s nephew Bryan Seaver announced the singer’s death in a video, saying, “I am representing the Parton and Owens family today, announcing the passing of my Aunt Dolly Rebecca Parton Dean.
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This video announcement is something Dolly asked of me years ago, before I fully absorbed it as a future reality.”
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“As her head of security for more than two decades, a role my father Larry held before me, I have imagined the heaviness of this moment, but haven’t truly felt it until now.
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It is an honour, an honour that is mixed with absolute pride and great sadness.
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But sadness lies with us, not with Dolly.”
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“Our family and the team she has entrusted with her legacy will work diligently to ensure her spirit will live with us forever,” Seaver added.
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It was later revealed that the county music icon died after “a brief battle with cancer,” her representatives said.
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In a statement to People, Parton’s team wrote: “Our beloved Dolly Parton spent her life and career bringing joy, laughter, hope and integrity into everything she touched.
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Her unmatched generosity reached the lives of countless people whom she would never meet, yet she was always there to offer a helping hand.”
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“Whether it be the hundreds of millions of books donated through her invaluable Imagination Library or funding research that helped create a lifesaving vaccine used around the world, Dolly’s unconditional love for all people was the guiding force for her lasting impact.
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“After bravely facing a brief battle with cancer, Dolly departed her Earthly life today at the Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center surrounded by loved ones.”
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The type of cancer Parton was diagnosed with was not disclosed.
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