Posted on 12/01/2006 9:45:07 AM PST by beansox
"I find Natalie Maines, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire conspiring with manager Simon Renshaw to intentionally deepen the rift separating the group from its fans. They're clearly shown planning ways to get the media to buy into the group's pleas of right-wing victimization, and trying to turn the anti-Chicks phenomenon into the band's defining element. That's it. I'm appalled. I've had it with these Chicks. The most remarkable thing about "Shut Up & Sing" is that although it's not a hostile documentary taking shots at the band, it reveals its members to be smug, arrogant and manipulative, intentionally growing the monster that cripples their career, then whining about it to the press.
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You are wrong on both counts....Yes, they were here...and no, I am not interested. What surprises me is that you are interested. I do not have a dog in this fight. It is surprising to think you think you do for whatever reason you are so interested and I am not interested at all.
Just out of curiosity, can you please tell me why, after three years, you are interested in this story? Thanking you in advance for your reply.
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Oh wow. I did not know that. Amazing, isn’t it? I cannot imagine the interest.
That's predictably dumb. You can't burn what you don't have. You can't "further reject" what has already been rejected, written off, and forgotten, as in never gives them a thought until some dumb article like this brings them to mind and you just have to roll your eyes at the fact that they still don't get it.
The Dixie Chicks are just playing to their new fan base.
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