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Dolly Parton Announces She's Releasing Her First Christmas Album In 30 Years

I know it's only August, but that does not mean I can't get excited for the most wonderful time of the year!

As someone who famously starts blasting Christmas music on November 1, I may have a good reason to start the festivities even SOONER this year as it has just been announced that QUEEN DOLLY PARTON HERSELF will be releasing a new Christmas album for the first time in 30 YEARS!

Dolly Parton and Christmas have a lot in common, tbh.

They both are sparkly, extra, and look ah-mazing in red!

So it's hard to believe our favorite songstress hasn't released a Christmas album in so SO so long!

Dolly's last Christmas ~collection~ was released back in 1990, which YEP, WAS THIRTY YEARS AGO!

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The fans have been needing new X-mas content and what better way to bring joy to such a joyless world than with Dolly's sweet voice singing the Christmas classics?!

*Billboard* announced the exciting news on Wednesday. The title? A HOLLY DOLLY CHRISTMAS. I KNOW, RIGHT?!

Dolly told the news outlet she wanted the title to be "cute and clever" and I personally think she totally nailed it!!!!

The title was, of course, inspired by the classic Christmas song "A Holly Jolly Christmas" by Burl Ives.

"He used to be on all of my Christmas specials all through the years. I think of him as Mr. Christmas," Dolly explained.

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"I thought, ‘Why don't [...] I call it something cute and clever, like that or Deck the Halls with Boughs of Dolly, something corny like that.' "

"A Holly Dolly Christmas" is comin' to town on October 2nd!

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