"they plot how to circumvent the core country audience and, eventually, how to reroute a tour and cancel shows due to poor ticket sales"
Plot? Who needs to plot? They've "circumvented" their core country audience quite effectively already. Trouble is, next to no one else wants to see or hear them, either, despite a big, politically motivated push to fill the arenas with DUmmies and Kos Kommies.
Natalie. "I don't want to be played on those [Country radio] stations," she says. "And when I watched people smashing our CDs I just thought, Good. Smash 'em. Please don't listen to me. I had no idea you thought I was one of you, because I'm not."
Wait. She's not done. "And I don't want to go to any [country music] award shows. And if we did win, what would I get up there and say? I have nothing to say to these people." In fact, Natalie, who issued an apology at the height of the dustup, says that today it is the apology, not the original offending comment, that she'd take back if she could. "It was all mine - nobody made me apologize and nobody wrote it for me - but when I look back and read it, I don't stand behind what I said. That will make people extra-mad, because some were like, Well, at least she apologized."...
from "Heroines Among Us", Vogue Magazine, December 2003, p. 279/333.
So tell me why they are still whining again? They got what they wished for, and they got it in spades. Deal with it bitches!