Dean, who died in March 2025 at age 82, also inspired several of Parton's numerous love songs ... wrote "Just Because I'm a Woman," which begins with the lines, "I can see you're disappointed ...

I would never be like, ‘That’s a terrible song,’ because she’s so freaking good ... like when I played her ‘Lose You to Love Me,’ before it came out [in 2019],” Gomez said.