{"id":23987,"date":"2023-04-04T05:55:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/uncategorized\/2023\/04\/kelsea-ballerini-performed-with-drag-queens-but-dolly-did-it-first\/"},"modified":"2023-04-04T05:59:48","modified_gmt":"2023-04-04T09:59:48","slug":"kelsea-ballerini-performed-with-drag-queens-but-dolly-did-it-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/04\/kelsea-ballerini-performed-with-drag-queens-but-dolly-did-it-first\/","title":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini Performed With Drag Queens, But Dolly Did It First"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kelsea Ballerini is catching heat but is also being praised for performing with &#8220;Drag Race&#8221; stars at the &#8220;CMT Music Awards&#8221; on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>She knew her performance of &#8220;If You Go Down (I&#8217;m Going Down Too)&#8221; it would divide her fans.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s been criticized a lot on social media but has also gotten a lot of LOVE.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CwJDLeCsVb0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>But one comment stood out, saying if you\u00a0want to hate on Kelsea for performing with drag queens, you have to hate Dolly Parton because she did it first!<\/p>\n<p>[twitter id=&#8221;1642857030229557251&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>One of the funniest stories she tells is about entering and LOSING a Dolly Drag Queen contest.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Entertainment\/dolly-parton-gay-rumors-losing-drag-queen-alike\/story?id=17812138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dolly talked about it in a 2012 interview with &#8220;Nightline&#8221;.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>She secretly entered a drag show and exaggerated her make-up so no one knew.<\/p>\n<p>But of all the Dollys on stage, she got the least amount of applause.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kelsea Ballerini is catching heat but is also being praised for performing with &#8220;Drag Race&#8221; stars at the &#8220;CMT Music Awards&#8221; on Sunday.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":23989,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[707,4606,65],"class_list":["post-23987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-cmt-music-awards","tag-if-you-go-down-im-going-down-too","tag-kelsea-ballerini"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-13 23:30:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/04\/kelsea-ballerini-performed-with-drag-queens-but-dolly-did-it-first\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23988,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23987\/revisions\/23988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}