Why I Hate The Dixie Chicks - I prefer intelligent women

AllSouthwest News Service ^ | 05-02-03 | Don "Jet-eye" Loucks

[asneditor]

The Dixie Chicks is one of the most talented musical groups ever. Their music is very, very tight. Another Texas group shares that accolade, Asleep At The Wheel. What distinguishes both group’s music is not that it is catchy, or clever. Coming from someone with a little background in music, what impresses me most is that their music is extremely hard to do right. And, boy, they do it right!

AAW and the Chicks have true talent and enjoy rare gifts. It’s too bad the the Chicks also have stupidity and arrogance in equal, large measures.

Performers are loved for what they do to entertain. They endear themselves by the escape they provide. In a sense, they are not real people.

The harsh reality performers of all disciplines are discovering is that when one of them uses his recognizability and notoriety to draw attention outside his usual environment, he steps out of character.

Just like a stage actor who goofs-up and becomes a different persona at an inappropriate time during a play, the error is nearly impossible to overcome. The audience no longer trust him and is sceptical of what he is doing on stage. The show is ruined.

The Chicks did just that in England when Natalie Maines pandered to the foreign audience and announced that “Just so you know, we are ashamed George Bush is from Texas.” She made the mistake that arrogance encourages by thinking the audience wanted to hear what she thought instead of what she sings. She was stupid for doing it overseas.

The only possible way for the Chicks to salvage their future was to fire Maines on the spot and look for someone else. They didn’t. They’re history.

Oh, there will be more concerts, more CD releases, but the love affair is over. The country music-loving men of America can no longer listen to the Chicks and not remember the disloyalty the Chicks showed, and can no longer see them slip back into character. Many stupid and arrogant actors are also discovering this phenomenon. The American public has stopped spending money on what they are trying to sell.

I loved the Dixie Chicks. Their beautiful, exquisite music still rattles around in my head. And it makes me mad.

You see, they done me wrong.

This is Jet-Eye, Over and out.

[marron]

Exactly. This is not a boycott. The boycott is a media-driven phenomenon. But the magic is over. I can't listen to them anymore. The cable channel and some of the radio stations are trying to start playing their music again. It isn't working, at least for me. I don't wish them ill, I don't want them to have a bad life. I just can't listen to them anymore, them and several others who have made similar remarks lately.

Its not a boycott; they're just over.

[ConservativeMan55]

I agree I can't stand the Dixie Chicks.... But sometimes I see grammar mistakes and have to point them out!!

"The Dixie Chicks is one of the most talented musical groups ever. Their music is very, very tight.

[asneditor]

ping

[ConservativeMan55]

Have we become a Nation of DUMBIES???????????

[patriciaruth]

NunAlveras Pereira has been signed up Since May 4, 2003

[patriciaruth]

The Dixie Chicks IS a group.

[ConservativeMan55]

NunAlveras Pereira has been signed up since May 4, 2003.

[T'wit]

> Their music is very, very tight.

It's their thinking that's loose.

[ConservativeMan55]

Is would refer to ONE. As in Michael Jackson is a freak.

The Dixie Chicks are stupid.

You would not want to say

"The Dixie Chicks is stupid"

[ConservativeMan55]

They must be loose. They supported Clinton in every election he has ever been in.

[patriciaruth]

You're right about the last sentence, but wrong about your lecture. Check an English grammar or talk with an expert if you don't believe me.

[asneditor]

ok............. ???

[WarrenC]

'beautiful, exquisite music'?? I tried to listen to it once and it sounded like the closest thing to Muzak ever to go by the name of country music.

[E=MC²]

I Hate The Dixie Chicks - I prefer intelligent women

They miss on both counts.

[Burkeman1]

I love the Dixie Chicks. I don't tangle art with politics. I am from Boston. I bought the Dixie Chick CD about 2 days before the story broke about them in England. I don't care what one of them said! If our troops can't stand what a blond from a country band said then we are in trouble. I like their music and will even see them when they come to Boston.

[I_dmc]

Agree, thats basically how I see it.

[ConservativeMan55]

Any time I hear their blasted music I can't think of anything else other than the fact that they insulted one of the greatest leaders of all time. They insulted my President, and they will now pay through the nose for it.