{"id":639159,"date":"2026-09-29T03:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/639159\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T03:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T03:42:12","slug":"watch-kacey-musgraves-emotional-vmas-tribute-to-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/639159\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Kacey Musgraves&#8217; emotional VMAs tribute to Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last night\u2019s MTV Video Music Awards served incredible looks, sick performances and tons of accolades (to pop icons Madonna and Taylor Swift, especially), but there was also a powerful moment honoring the late, great <a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/usa\/news\/8-dolly-parton-movies-to-watch-in-honor-of-the-late-country-icon-082626\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dolly Parton<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A video of Parton when she was younger played during Sunday&#8217;s ceremony, in which\u00a0the singer made a sweet joke before\u00a0crooning her legendary ballad, \u201cI Will Always Love You.\u201d Country singer Kacey Musgraves then appeared onstage in a look that channeled Parton\u2019s big-hair glam, joined\u00a0Dolly at the chorus and then took over singing the rest of the track live.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.timeout.com\/usa\/news\/watch-celine-dion-performs-my-heart-will-go-on-for-the-first-time-in-six-years-091426\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Watch: Celine Dion performs \u2018My Heart Will Go On\u2019 for the first time in six years<\/a><\/p>\n<p>At the end of the song, Parton returned to the screen, saying: \u201cI\u2019ll always love you. Bye-bye!\u201d It was such a bittersweet moment, not only because of Parton&#8217;s recent passing (the music legend\u00a0died at the age of 80 on August 25, 2026, following a brief battle with cancer) but also because of Dolly&#8217;s\u00a0inimitable impact on the music industry at large.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the performance here:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Kacey Musgraves delivers a moving performance of \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d in tribute to Dolly Parton at the 2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/VMAs?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">#VMAs<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RCuEiM0G8n\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/RCuEiM0G8n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Kacey Musgraves Access (@KaceyAccess) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/KaceyAccess\/status\/2104378839027921396?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\">September 28, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musgraves, 33, previously worked with Dolly Parton at the 2019 Grammys to perform a medley of Parton\u2019s biggest hits. It\u2019s clear how much of an impact the icon had on Musgraves\u2014days after the star died in August,\u00a0Kacey dedicated her song \u201cRainbow\u201d to her and covered the 1977 Dolly favorite\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/Dcm8YxWO6xA\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Here You Come Again<\/a>\u201d in Boston, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/mtv-vmas-2026-kacey-musgraves-pays-tribute-dolly-parton-12137041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">People<\/a>. At her recent NYC show at Madison Square Garden,\u00a0Musgraves covered \u201c9 to 5\u201d in tribute to Parton as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>You can watch the full VMAs on Paramount+ and MTV starting today.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night\u2019s MTV Video Music Awards served incredible looks, sick performances and tons of accolades (to pop icons&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":639160,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[148903,93,61,60,278,148904],"class_list":["post-639159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-categories-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music","tag-news-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=639159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639159\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/639160"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=639159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=639159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=639159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}