Kacey Musgraves Pays Heartfelt Tribute to Dolly Parton With ‘I Will Always Love You’ Performance at MTV Video Music Awards

Kacey Musgraves performed a tribute to Dolly Parton at the MTV Video Music Awards, singing "I Will Always Love You". The performance was pre-taped and began with footage of Parton introducing the song. According to Variety, Parton had introduced the classic 1974 tune at the start of the performance.

Dolly Parton died last month at the age of 80. Kacey Musgraves has been covering Parton's music on her Middle of Nowhere tour, including "Here You Come Again" and "9 to 5" at previous shows.

Musgraves is nominated for Best Country Music Video this year for her song "Dry Spell". She has been nominated for VMAs twice before, but has not yet won.

Brief written by urgent.news from Variety, Pitchfork — 2 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.