Beyonce’s Jolene is a warning not a plea. But a man who wanders isn’t worth fighting for

More than 50 years after Dolly Parton begged another woman to leave her man alone, Beyonce has reprised Jolene..

Partons Jolene with its sapphic undercurrents acknowledges the beauty of the other woman with her flaming locks of auburn hair, ivory skin and eyes of emerald green, a smile like a breath of spring and a voice soft like summer rain..

And while she acknowledges the other womans beauty, she follows it up with a brutal, Takes more than beauty and seductive stares / To come between a family and a happy manWeve been deep in love for twenty years..

Unlike in Sorry, Beyonces Jolene is putting the onus of a mans infidelity on the woman..

Beyonce tells Jolene, Theres a thousand girls in every room/ That act as desperate as you do, and it is as if we walked back a few decades on the idea of one woman sticking up for another..