--- title: See Dolly Parton's Video for Song When Life Is Good Again description: After appearing on TIME100 Talks, Dolly Parton premiered her music video for a new track written in isolation, "When Life Is Good Again," with TIME. canonical: https://time.com/5843323/dolly-parton-when-life-is-good-again/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2020-05-28T18:00:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-24T08:48:20.789Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Hear Dolly Parton's New Song 'When Life Is Good Again' og:description: Parton's new song is a ballad for the post-pandemic future, complete with a video filmed in isolation og:url: https://time.com/5843323/dolly-parton-when-life-is-good-again/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Hear Dolly Parton's New Song 'When Life Is Good Again' twitter:description: Parton's new song is a ballad for the post-pandemic future, complete with a video filmed in isolation twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Dolly Parton's New Song 'When Life Is Good Again' Is a Vision for the Post-Pandemic Future > Sponsored content. 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But for Parton, the beloved [country music and silver screen icon](https://time.com/5770992/dolly-parton-challenge/) and longtime [philanthropist](https://imaginationlibrary.com/), thinking about what comes next means writing music that brings that future into sharper focus. “When Life Is Good Again,” out this week with its music video premiering exclusively during Thursday’s [TIME100 Talks](https://time.com/collection/time-100-talks/), is a tribute to the post-pandemic world she imagines. During her first ever Zoom interview with TIME, Parton shared the emotional connection she has to her new song, written during isolation at her Tennessee home. “When life is good again, I’ll try to be someone on which you can depend, a helping hand to lend,” she sings in her signature soprano. Parton’s voice is as expressive as ever, breaking into a delicate vibrato as she sings bittersweet lyrics before rising for an optimistic chorus. The music video, also filmed in isolation, sees Parton queuing up a film projector to play a reel of home-video-style clips of life as we lived it before the era of social distancing. The clips are then overlaid with video portraits of masked [essential workers](https://time.com/5836736/essential-workers-hazard-pay/), including hospital staff and delivery workers. The message of song and video together: even when life returns to togetherness, we need to recognize the contributions of these selfless contributors—and strive for better in whatever comes next. “When Life Is Good Again” is Parton’s first new original solo in a few years. Since her 1967 debut, she has released 50 studio albums, which have solidified her place as the best-selling female country artist of all time—and one of the most prolific. Her most recent, _I Believe in You_, came out in 2017\. She also created the soundtrack album [_Dumplin’_](https://time.com/5473721/dumplin-netflix-danielle-macdonald/) for the Netflix movie of the same name in 2018, which earned her a Golden Globe nomination, and had a recent EDM hit as a featured artist on [Galantis](https://time.com/5337217/5-songs-you-need-to-listen-to-this-week-57/item/satisfied-galantis-feat-max/)‘s 2019 track “Faith.” Before life “is good again,” as she sings, Parton is doing her part to make this time a little easier for fans: earlier this spring, she launched [“Goodnight with Dolly,”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tT9fv%5FELbnE) a weekly YouTube video series in which she reads children’s book aloud. Parton has long made children’s literacy her personal cause, donating over 140 million books to kids in five countries through her [Imagination Library](https://donate.imaginationlibrary.com/goodnight-with-dolly/). 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