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Be careful what songs you cut… you never know what might become a hit. Over the years, we’ve heard plenty of artists talk about how it can get old playing your biggest hits over and over… Waylon Jennings famously hated “Luckenbach, Texas (Back to the Basics of Love),” Tyler Childers doesn’t even play “Feathered Indians” anymore, and even Dolly Parton says her most iconic song can be boring to play live, even though it’s one fans always look forward to hearing the most. And while I completely understand how playing the same song night after night for years on end can get exhausting, of course, many of us fans also look forward to hearing the hits at a concert, so that’s why it’s important for an artist to be very careful when it comes to only cutting songs they really love, because you really never know what might take off. As a recent example, Ella Langley and Riley Green both have said they never thought “You Look Like You Love Me” would become the mega viral, award-winning success that it is, and I’m sure 20 years from now, they might now be as jazzed about singing it live, but that just comes hit hitting it big, and I think they all understand that… But Dolly has seemingly found some sort of solution to keep it exciting when she plays “I Will Always Love You” and that would be that she changes up the arrangement and tune from time to time. But she says fans don’t always appreciate that, because they want to hear it exactly how it was originally recorded, and I can’t blame them for that: “It’s different singing songs that are hits over and over than it is trying to do the same show over and over. You want to change all that up just for the color of it. But when you’ve got your songs… sometimes I’ll sing it a little bit different. I’ve had fans say, ‘I don’t like it when you change the tune,’ because they’re used to hearing it like they hear it on the record. They don’t like hearing a change in something that they love.” It’s a balance between staying true to the original, and keeping it fresh she doesn’t get too burnt out on it: “I try to be as true to the songs as I can, but you never really get tired of singing the songs that are hits, because you see the reaction that it gets and it gives you a feeling of great pride.” Dolly has played “I Will Always Love You” thousands of times over her illustrious, decades-long career, but she also says the audiences excitement for it helps keep her excited to perform: “You’d think singing ‘I Will Always Love You’ 2000 times in your life or more that you would get tired, but they’re always different because the audience is different, and that night your mood is different. I mean, it’s like you don’t feel the same every day. Something might have happened to someone you love or you might be going through something personal. My voice does take on different expressions in my songs. I feel it when it’s coming out, I never plan anything. I think that they mean something different all the time.” But being the savvy business woman that she is, of course, Dolly knows there’s a HUGE upside to scoring as many massive hits as she has over the years: “You never get tired of singing your hits, because they’re the ones that are making you the money.” Spoken like a true queen… You will have a chance to hear her sing all of her hits live, as Dolly heads to Las Vegas in September of 2026 for her residency at Caesar’s Colosseum, which was rescheduled from December of this year following some personal health issues. View this post on Instagram The post Dolly Says Singing Her Iconic Hits Can Be Boring, But There’s One Thing That Makes It Easier: “They’re The Ones That Are Making You The Money” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

Has anybody else noticed this recently, or is it just me? In just the past few months, I have come across half a dozen country and folk songs being released with the name “Adeline” in the title. And if you widen the scope to the last few years, there are several others songs that have come out with some variation of the name in its title as well. And considering I’ve never met anyone with the name… I don’t totally get it. I first noticed the name being used in a song in November 2023 when Shane Smith & the Saints released “Adeline” as a single leading up to their March 2024 release of Norther. I didn’t think much of it thereafter, but when Dylan Gossett, Briscoe, and Joshua Slone all released albums with a song about “Adeline” between July and October of this year, it really got me thinking – what’s the deal with country artists and the name Adeline? A quick Google search proves the name is more popular than I realized, with one source asserting it was the 54th most popular name for girls in the US in 2024. Still, it seems a bit peculiar that I was quickly able to track down 10 country/folk songs released over the past three years with “Adeline” or “Adaline” in the title. Maybe it’s more popular in Texas, where several of these artists are from? I’d imagine the actual answer is just that it rhymes well, but even then, I feel like artists would tend to use a more popular name like “Madeline.” Either way, Adeline has inspired some pretty awesome songs lately. And it’s pretty clear through these songs that Adeline is either a man’s saving grace or she has a whole lot of problems, and there isn’t too much in between. So, with that said, here are 10 songs released over the past few years that happen to be about girls named “Adeline.” Barrett – “Adaline” – Appalachian Home (October 2025) “Her eyes will cut right through you Make you think of all that you’ve been through And how she still loves you now So, please, be mine Oh please, Adaline” Ben Chapman – “Adeline May” – Make the Night Better (March 2022) “Well she came on a hot July day We called her Adeline May She had her mama’s green eyes When they looked into mine I knew I’d never be the same” Briscoe – “Adeline” – Heat of July (September 2025) “On the front porch, letting the walls come down You and me babe, burning the midnight hour Come tomorrow with a couple of states between I’ll be waiting like a dog for the day that you finally see So come on back, come on back, Adeline” Dylan Gossett – “Adeline (You’re Outta Line)” – Westward (July 2025) “Winter’s here in the breeze, babe, you remember what you’d say? You’d say that sunlight through dead trees reminds you of autumn days But you’re blowing smoke by the freeway, your skin as dry as your laugh Yes you know you’re numbering your days, getting closer to your last Oh, Adeline, you’re outta line” Henrik – “Adaline” – North Main Street (We Belong Here) (October 2025) “Adaline, it’s alright You’ve been staying up all night Scared if what your parents said was true You could spend your whole life looking through those closed eyes Missing out on what’s in front of you I hope you know you don’t have to pretend Adaline, you’ve always got a friend” JD Graham – “Adaline” – A Pound of Rust (June 2023) “Oh Adaline, did you miss another train that might have taken you home? And did you trade that ticket back for a bag of dope? And did your heart feel betrayed as you watched it go? And are you still scared to leave? Oh Adaline, are you happy with the choice you made? Did it make you the woman you are today?” Joshua Slone – “Adeline” – Thinking Too Much (October 2025) “Call me when you get back home You know, I can freak out when I’m all alone I’ll be waiting by the phone And I’d like to make plans, but we’ll never know When we can make time to waste time With your lips on mine ‘Til that aligns, I’m homesick for Adeline” Shane Smith & the Saints – “Adeline” – Norther (November 2023) “Adeline, I should have been fine by now But I am facing what we had ‘Cause in the night, I can’t deny The love from you I’m missing hurts me bad I should have let you hold me back” The Band of Heathens & Hayes Carll – “Adeline” – Hayes & the Heathens (October 2024) “I found you holding court at Central Station For the boys who prove their love through slow starvation I just skipped that strange initiation And hoped you would see me walk away Adeline” Tyce Delk – “Adaline” – Enough Ain’t Enough EP (November 2025) “Adaline, oh, Adaline Let’s make up don’t break up my heart Adaline” Honorable Mention: The Dip – “Adeline” – The Dip Delivers (February 2019) This one isn’t a country or folk song, and it was released several years before the rest of the tracks on this list, but it’s still a heater and another example of “Adeline” being used in music. If you aren’t familiar with The Dip, I highly recommend checking them out. The post Can Someone Explain This Massive Trend Of Country Songs About A Girl Named “Adeline?” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.

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When Cara Hunter, the Irish politician, looks back on the moment she found out she had been deepfaked, she says it is "like watching a horror movie". The setting is her grandmother's rural home in the west of Tyrone on her 90th birthday, April 2022. "Everyone was there," she says. "I was sitting with all my closest family members and family friends when I got a notification through Facebook Messenger." It was from a stranger. "Is that you in the video … the one going round on WhatsApp?" he asked. Hunter made videos all the time, especially then, less than three weeks before elections for the Northern Ireland assembly. She was defending her East Londonderry seat, campaigning, canvassing, debating. Yet, as a woman, this message from a man she didn't know was enough to put her on alert. "I replied that I wasn't sure which video he was talking about," Hunter says. "So he asked, did I want to see it?" Then he sent it over...