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American rapper Lil Nas X has covered Dolly Parton’s Jolene and it’s fabulous! Even Dolly agrees.

Lil Nas X rose to fame with his country rap single Old Town Road and it seems he’s following the country vibe with this cover too.

YouTube commenter Jennifer Lavoie summed his version up perfectly: “Dolly sings it with desperation. He sings it like he’s already defeated. This is a glorious cover. I can’t stop listening.”

Have a listen and let us know what you think:

Dolly posted her praise of the cover to Instagram, writing: “I was so excited when someone told me that Lil Nas X had done my song “Jolene”. I had to find it and listen to it immediately…” she wrote.

“And it's really, really good. Of course, I love him anyway. I was surprised and I'm honored and flattered. I hope he does good for both of us. Thank you @lilnasx 🦋 ”

 

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Slow and steady might win the race, but it hasn't helped this turtle in catching a plane in Japan.

A small turtle has caused quite the scene at Tokyo's Narita Airport after wandering onto the runway.

The 30cm red-eared slider, a species of turtle native to the US and widely used as a pet, was spotted slowly meandering across the tarmac, forcing officials to delay five flights from taking off.

While the slimey little fellow caused quite the disturbance, many were happy to see him out of harm's way. The airline even released a statement saying they felt it was a sign of prosperity.

"In Hawaii, sea turtles are seen as bringing good luck, and we hope this turtle that came to see the flight off signals a bright future."

The airport's staff are familiar with having to evacuate stray cats and dogs from the tarmac, but turtles are expectedly an uncommon sighting.

Better Turtles On A Runway than Snakes On A Plane, am I right?

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You can now listen to music made by plants and boy does philodendron know how to jam.

A new device called 'PlantWave' is giving you the ability to literally tune into nature by listening to the music that plants produce.

PlantWave has two sensors that can be clipped onto a plant's leaves that detect slight variations of water moving around inside the plant.

"The result is this continuous stream of pleasing music that gives us all this sonic window into the secret life of plants," says PlantWave co-creator, Joe Patitucci.

Joe demonstrates what lavendar and mint sound like, how a vine sings, and what you'll hear when a plant gets watered.

To address the cynic in the room, yes, it seems way to good to be true. So, is this legit and if so, how does this flora black magic work?

The short answer: Yes, it is actually real and works by converting biorhythms into sounds.

The long answer: According to Italian plant physiologist, Dr. Monica Gagliano, this device is pseudo-science and works more around electrical signals.

"Simply put, the machines that translate the 'biofeedback' of plants into music have nothing scientific about them — the whole story has nothing to do with science or the sound of plants. The apparatus used in many of these instances is a simple multimeter measuring electrical impedance of the plant. The multimeter is then transforming those electrical signals into notes using a sound chip, like those sound cards in your computer, which is how the sounds make sense to our human ears."

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What plant would you listen to? I'm certain cactus know how to rock.

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epaselect epa09492885 An empty picture frame, an artwork titled 'Take the Money and Run' by Danish artist Jens Haaning, in on display at the museum Kunsten in Aalborg, Sweden, 28 September 2021. The frame should have been filled with around 550.000 Danish kroner in cash, which is supposed to match the average annual salary in respectively Austria and Denmark. Yet, when the art pieces arrived at the museum in Aalborg last week and staff members began unpacking the frames, there was no money in sight, only the empty frames and the tape, which was supposed to hold the money in place. Danish artist Jens Haaning is currently in possession of the cash that should have been inside the frames. The museum loaned him the money, which he is contractually bound to return to the museum, when the exhibition closes on 14 January 2022. EPA/Henning Bagger DENMARK OUT

An empty picture frame, an artwork titled 'Take the Money and Run' by Danish artist Jens Haaning, in on display at the museum Kunsten in Aalborg, Sweden, 28 September 2021. (EPA/Henning Bagger DENMARK OUT)

A Danish artist who was was given a pile of money by a museum with which to create a piece of artwork, submitted two empty canvases - titled Take the Money and Run.

Jens Haaning was given the equivalent of nearly $US84,000 ($A117,000) in Danish kroner and euro bank notes by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg.

For its exhibition on labour conditions and money, titled Work It Out that opened on September 24, the museum commissioned him to re-create two of his earlier pieces, which featured banknotes attached to a canvas representing the average annual wage in Denmark and Austria.

As well as lending him the notes, the museum also paid him 25,000 kroner ($A4500) for the work.

But when officials received the artworks, they were blank.

"The artwork is that I have taken the money," Haaning told a radio show on the P1 channel that is part of Danish broadcaster DR this week.

He declined to say where the money was.

Haaning, who is known as a provocateur, said the artwork represented his current work situation.

"I encourage others who have just as miserable working conditions as I to do the the same," Haaning told P1.

"If they are being asked to give money to go to work, then take the money and run."

The museum says Haaning has broken the agreement on how to use the money.

However, it has not yet decided whether to report Haaning to the police if the money is not returned before the exhibition ends in January.

Haaning, however, denies having committed a crime and insists he did produce a work of art.

"It's not theft, it is a breach of contract, and the breach of contract is part of the work,"Haaning told P1.

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