“Does He Love You – Revisited” by Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton Nominated for Best Country Duo / Group Performance
“Does He Love You – Revisited” by Reba McEntire and Dolly Parton Nominated for Best Country Duo / Group Performance It’s just like country music superstar Reba McEntire said, “I’m shell shocked. How have we not done one?”
She also referred to the duet with Dolly Parton, her longtime friend, and country music superstar.
Last year the singers teamed up to reprise Reba’s 1993 chart-topper, “Does He Love You.” The song was originally done by Reba and Linda Davis. The new version was a part of Reba’s Revived Remixed Revisited project, where she gave refreshing versions of some of country music’s most beloved hits.
The revisited “Does He Love You” by Reba McEntire, and Dolly Parton has now garnered a Grammy Nomination for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 65th Grammy awards.
Now, this turned out to be like Parton described at the time of the collaboration when she called it the “perfect pairing.”
Aside from the amazing voices of both stars put together for this reprised song, the pair also tugged at heartstrings with a new music video that paid homage to the original “Does He Love You” video.
According to McEntire’s creative and marketing director, Justin McIntosh, “The goal of this treatment was to create an intimate, conversational moment between Dolly and Reba that is easy to shoot and pays homage to the original video in subtle ways that only true Reba fans will recognize – the colors of Dolly and Reba’s outfit, the audible director’s cut at the end, seeing the ‘real’ Reba and Dolly laughing and having fun similar to how Reba and Linda did at the end of the original video after the boat blew up,” he shared. “The performance would be beautifully and softly lit so that Reba and Dolly both look amazing – bring on the beauty lights!”
He was spot on.
Some similarities and differences you’d notice –
The scene was different- It was in “a dimly lit, intimate, mostly empty jazz club… [with] beautiful lighting [that] fills a somewhat smoky stage with a piano player, upright bass, acoustic guitar, and snare drum. There are two microphones in front of the musicians.” McIntosh described.
Some colors and accessories were similar or the same – In Reba’s original video, we saw her wearing a white fur shawl while walking on a red carpet. In the new clip, she wears the same white fur shawl as she enters the bar.
Reba and Dolly’s outfits were also similar to that in the original video. Reba wears a white suit as a nod to her white outfit in the 1993 video, while Parton’s teal green dress is also a reference to Davis’ outfit.
Something else that was different was how the video played out. The original video was more like a catfight, with Reba ultimately blowing up a boat carrying her cheating husband and mistress. But the new video was a confrontation that ended in a peaceful resolution.
The 65th Grammy Awards ceremony will be held in Los Angeles on February 5, 2023. The Grammys will air live at 8 p.m. ET on CBS and stream live and on-demand on Paramount+.
FACT: It turns out that even for some of the world’s biggest stars, Dolly Parton is a hard person to get a hold of…if you don’t have a fax machine, that is. In a new interview with the Southern Accents Radio podcast, country music legend Reba McEntire revealed that this is the main form of communication she uses to reach the “9 to 5” singer.
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