{"id":828288,"date":"2026-08-28T04:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828288\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T04:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T04:30:11","slug":"vin-diesel-sings-i-will-love-you-as-a-tribute-to-dolly-parton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/828288\/","title":{"rendered":"Vin Diesel Sings ‘I Will Love You’ as a Tribute to Dolly Parton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tWho among us hasn\u2019t taken a few minutes to belt an overly sincere version of \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d in the privacy of our own homes in the 72 hours since Dolly Parton\u2019s<\/a> death?<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on his latest Instagram post, Vin Diesel<\/a> has. Unlike most of us, Vin Diesel, a world-famous celebrity with hundreds of millions of social media followers, decided to make his Parton rendition public.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe results are almost moving in their self-seriousness: At one point, Diesel\u2019s falsetto cracks when he sings the word \u201cplease\u201d in the line \u201cgoodbye, please don\u2019t cry.\u201d Diesel, an occasional hobbyist musician, seems to have spent some time actually recording whatever this is. By the time he gets to the second chorus, his vocals are seemingly double-tracked. Whether these are real musicians or an AI-prompted arrangement, he has a sparse full band backing him as he takes on Parton\u2019s immortal 1973 hit. The caption? A prayer-hands emoji.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe clip has barely caused a blip in his social media: It has significantly less engagement than recent posts of a car revving its engine<\/a> or a blurry photo <\/a>of Diesel holding a black dog while standing near water. But on a week when everyone\u2019s timelines have been filled with sentimental Parton tributes, Diesel\u2019s post \u2014 perhaps the most sentimental of them all \u2014 has been something of a moment that\u2019s divided the internet and provided lots of comic relief. (One recent headline<\/a> put it kindly: \u201cVin Diesel Leaves Dolly Parton<\/a> Fans Speechless With Musical Tribute to Late Country Icon\u201d).<\/p>\n

\n\tThose encountering Diesel\u2019s Parton cover this week with no context may not know that there\u2019s a rich history of Diesel singing dead-serious torch songs. In 2013, Diesel broke a much more innocent version of the internet with an out-of-focus video<\/a> singing Rihanna\u2019s \u201cStay\u201d that seemed so earnest it felt like performance art (Diesel later clarified<\/a> he sang the song as a tribute to his longtime partner).\u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tNot two years later, a staggeringly bizarre (and yes, moving) video<\/a> of Diesel singing karaoke to Tove Lo\u2019s \u201cHabits (Stay High)\u201d emerged, with Diesel singing the early aughts pop hit in his turtle-adjacent baritone while wearing a white tank top. The performance was assumed to be a tribute to Diesel\u2019s late co-star, Paul Walker, after he posted<\/a> the video with the caption \u201cthe ever continuing process of healing.\u201d Diesel dabbling in music used to be so much of a thing that Vice once published<\/a> a list of his \u201cbest musical moments\u201d while Mic ran<\/a> a story called \u201cThe Strangely Beautiful History of Vin Diesel\u2019s Singing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\n\tDiesel leveled up his music career in 2020, when, months into the pandemic, he debuted<\/a> his solo career in earnest with a pair of dance-pop singles released on Kygo\u2019s record label. One highlight of this period (among many): Diesel launched his solo career on the Kelly Clarkson Show, where the remote studio audience danced by themselves<\/a>, on screens from their own homes, to the music.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s unclear if Diesel had any connection to Parton apart from being a fan, like the rest of us. But perhaps the only other thing that can bring the internet together like remembering Dolly Parton is Vin Diesel trying to do music.\u00a0<\/p>\n