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  "id": 10325727,
  "title": "Kacey Musgraves Pays Heartfelt Tribute to Dolly Parton With ‘I Will Always Love You’ Performance at MTV Video Music Awards",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/kacey-musgraves-pays-heartfelt-tribute-to-dolly-parton-with-i-will",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-28T00:38:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Variety",
    "slug": "variety",
    "url": "https://variety.com/2026/music/awards/kacey-musgraves-dolly-parton-tribute-mtv-vmas-performance-1236876461/"
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  "summary": "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.\n\nDolly 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.\n\nMusgraves 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.",
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        "title": "Watch Kacey Musgraves Sing Dolly Parton’s “I Will Always Love You” at the 2026 VMAs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/watch-kacey-musgraves-sing-dolly-partons-i-will-always-love-you-at",
        "published": "2026-09-28T00:36:41.000Z"
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        "outlet": "Stereogum",
        "title": "VMAs 2026: Kacey Musgraves Honors Dolly Parton With “I Will Always Love You”",
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        "outlet": "Rolling Stone",
        "title": "Kacey Musgraves Pays Tribute to Dolly Parton With ‘I Will Always Love You’ at MTV VMAs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/kacey-musgraves-pays-tribute-to-dolly-parton-with-i-will-always-love",
        "published": "2026-09-28T00:42:57.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "Consequence",
        "title": "Kacey Musgraves Honors Dolly Parton with “I Will Always Love You” at 2026 VMAs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/kacey-musgraves-honors-dolly-parton-with-i-will-always-love-you-at",
        "published": "2026-09-28T00:48:47.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hollywood Reporter",
        "title": "Dolly Parton Honored by Kacey Musgraves During Tribute Performance at 2026 MTV VMAs",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/dolly-parton-honored-by-kacey-musgraves-during-tribute-performance-at",
        "published": "2026-09-28T01:03:36.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Billboard",
        "title": "Kacey Musgraves Honors Dolly Parton With a Heartfelt ‘I Will Always Love You’ at VMAs 2026",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/28/kacey-musgraves-honors-dolly-parton-with-a-heartfelt-i-will-always",
        "published": "2026-09-28T01:09:55.000Z"
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
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