Dolly Parton and Sabrina Carpenter Team Up for a PG Remake of 'Please Please Please', See the Lyric They Ditched

After Friday's batch of single releases, we, at Holler, are asking – no, begging – please, please, please for more Dolly Parton and Sabrina Carpenter collaborations.

The two powerhouse blondes recently teamed up for a remake of Carpenter's smash hit, 'Please Please Please'. The duet appeared on the newly dropped deluxe release of her Grammy-winning Short n' Sweet album.

Aside from the addition of a few twanged-up flourishes and Parton's sugary lilt, the tune doesn't stray far from the bop that was seemingly inescapable during the summer of 2024. However, there was one alteration to the tune that effectively removed its original explicit rating.

In the chorus, the pair sing: "Please, please, please / Don't prove I'm right / And please, please, please / Don't bring me to tears when I just did my makeup so nice / Heartbreak is one thing, my ego's another / I beg you, don't embarrass me like the others, uh / Please, please, please."

Their version of the song gets cleaned up slightly, editing the initial lyric – "I beg you, don't embarrass me, motherfucker" – for a more Parton-friendly audience. This rewording is even more toned down from the song's radio version, which replaces the insult of "motherfucker" with "little sucker."

It's a change that feels natural within the song, a suitable fix for both of their fanbases and perhaps a draw for even more admirers.

Alongside the release, the pair also dropped a vintage-tinted music video, in which the two of them sing side-by-side in a pickup truck while on the run from the law. In the black-and-white footage, they can be seen enacting a high speed chase with a man tied up in the truck bed, a nod to the pop song's original visual.

"I am so honored to have one of my biggest idols on a song that means so much to me," Carpenter shared of the duet in a post on social media, writing, "Love you forever [Dolly Parton]."

Carpenter has long been an admirer of Parton. Maybe she manifested such a collaboration last October when she pulled out a rendition of the legend's iconic '9 to 5' during her Bridgestone Arena performance in Nashville, Tennessee.

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