Dolly Parton is a legend, an icon — and, at times, a total mystery. We're always finding out new things about her!
The latest revelation: Dolly still uses a fax machine as her primary mode of communication — and she also doesn't really even use a phone all that often, if ever.
None other than Miley Cyrus revealed this fact on a recent Late Night with Seth Meyers appearance, and there's a little bit of context as to how it came up.
So, you may or may not have caught Miley and Dolly's Super Bowl LVI T-Mobile ad earlier this year, as the duo jokingly urged viewers to "Do It for the Phones" on behalf of the wireless provider.
"It was amazing because, you know, she was doing it for the phones," Miley explained, "yet every time I coordinate and kind of communicate with Dolly, it's still through fax."
"She's rarely on the phone. Next time we have to 'Do it for the fax machine.'"
Miley then explained how, exactly, Dolly is still communicating with people — famous people, even — by fax in the year 2022.
So, basically, Dolly will write a message to Miley via fax. Someone then scans that fax — which is signed by Dolly, of course — and texts the scan to Miley.
"She has a phone. She just doesn't use it, I don't think," Miley explained. "I think someone uses it for her and does the fax machine through the phone."
Miley also recalled a time in which they collaborated on a song through similarly archaic technological methods.
"She also made me a demo one time where she talks about being super high-tech," she recalled. "But it was all through a cassette, which she then voice memo'd onto a flip phone, which someone then put onto the iPhone, which then got sent to me."
Mind you, Miley doesn't sound annoyed by all the technological time-traveling — if anything, she says it's made her appreciate communicating with Dolly even more.
"I've started to try and make my own letters because there's something so amazing just about a connection. It's just not casual," she said. "You know that she took the time to get out, I guess, her typewriter."
