I can. She alternates between sounding like a car alarm and a car alarm out of breath. The only reason you notice either is because you want them to shut the fuck up.
Seconded. I also consider her a class act for the way she sings back up on other singers’ songs. My favorite is her back up of Faith Hill “Breathe” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIp9vmH6ZYM Listen to the song; during the chorus, especially, you can hear Dolly.
Some say Dolly Parton lacks taste in clothes. To quote the multi-millionaire herself, “Honey, it cost a bundle to look this cheap!”
Love, Phil
Also DP in her own words:
"I patterned myself after this woman that was the town tramp back home. She had blond hair and high heels and red fingernails and lips, and to me she was like what movie stars were to other kids. We’d see her, and I’d say, ‘Oh, look, she’s got plastic goldfish in her heels!’ and my mama would say, ‘She ain’t nothin’ but trash, nothin’ but trash,’ and I thought, “Ooh, that’s what I’m gonna be when I grow up — trash!”
I kind of have to agree with this, all be it through gritted teeth. The worst example is the Phil Spector produced album, Death of a Lady’s Man. Some great songs spoiled by weird production (apparently everyone was off their faces the entire time). In its defence it is quite interesting to listen to a stoned Bob Dylan and Allen Ginsburg shouting the backing vocals to Don’t Go Home With Your Hard On.
Additionally, if the keyboards weren’t originally meant to be ironic, they are now:
Note the skill that goes into pressing the “Bossa Nova 2” button.
I know you ain’t sayin’ nothing about Dolly Parton.
I mean, I’m not saying you’re wrong, but you better shut your mouth about Dolly Parton. When I go to heaven and look up at the throne I think God is going to be Dolly Parton.
That was before Billy Elliot. The man is a genius.
As for Rod Stewart, You’re in my Heart is one of the best songs ever.
Amy Grant.
You can certainly argue that you don’t like her singing (I don’t like it either, and looking at a couple of her videos on Youtube, I just want to punch her in the face when she does stupid trills and flutters her fingers at the same time), but she can carry a tune. She is technically able to sing quite well. She just abuses her talent. Ooh, that reminds me of another great example of this - Celine Dion. She has one of the best voices of our time, and uses it to sing complete crap.
You’re welcome to stop by my house for a cup of coffee any time.
Do you mean “Wonderful Tonight”?
The title track to Death of a Lady’s Man was my first introduction to Leonard Cohen as a performer, which was unfortunate because my reaction was pretty much “What the…is this a real song? Who IS this guy?” I remembered the name but figured Cohen was just some pretentious weirdo* until several years later when I found out that he’d also written quite a few songs I knew as covers by other artists: “Hallelujah”, “Susanne”, “So Long, Marianne”, etc. So I decided to give the guy another chance, and I’m glad I did.
*Heh, that gave me a chuckle. 
It took quite some time before I could hear Cohen’s '80s stuff without remembering my family’s old Casio keyboard…
*I guess he arguably is a pretentious weirdo, but he isn’t JUST a pretentious weirdo. 
Pink. I think she has a great voice and could be legendary in the realm of bad ass women but everything I’ve ever heard from her seems to cater to jr. high girls who think that tough means hanging out with a group of friends that say the F word a lot.