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.

[patriciaruth]

Had a boyfriend in college and a roommate who was a music major (she later became a lawyer) who both got me interested in classical music. I developed a taste for Stravinsky cause my roommate had him on a lot of the time.

Dvorak and Smetana. Those names bring back memories. Great listening, as was Tchaikovsky Got to get my phonograph fixed or a new one, so I can start listening again to those hundred or so "albums" my husband and I have from the 60's and 70's.

[Newbomb Turk]

More like dare to be FAT.

[patriciaruth]

One of these days get yourself a copy of Madame Butterfly (Pucini) with an acclaimed soprano and orchestra.

It's the best opera for repeat listening. Many operas only have one good aria. This one has several, plus lots of other incidental goodies.

[Burkeman1]

I stand by what I said. If our troops can't stand the criticism of a gaggle of chicks who sing then God help us!

[Burkeman1]

I identify with Bush. I am a drunk just as much as Bush is a drunk. I hope I can be half the man he is!

[sushiman]

Check out Christian girl group ( non-country ) ZOEGIRL ! My daughter and I love them !

[ConservativeMan55]

Please take care of this one....

[CaraM]

President Bush is NOT a drunk.

[ConservativeMan55]

PRESIDENT Bush...I hate it when people just call him "Bush" because it is very disrespectful.

[asneditor]

Sunday morning bump

[Idlewise]

Good reply from the home front. It is not just the troops who are offended or hurt by these acts of loosely called freedom of speech words or staged acts of defiance. It includes all the families of the service personnel who feel betrayed by these flippant remarks.
They cut very deeply and affect the wives, children, and parents of the service person who have to carry on with their everyday activities.
It also adds to the weight of the troops over seas as they feel the additional pain their families bear knowing that some one doesn't respect their loved ones due to the uniform they are wearing and the job they are doing.
What President Bush did on the USS Lincoln was much more than a political message. It said the he respects their sacrafice, is supportive and thankful to all the military and puts the hollywood/entertainer remarks in the trash. Who's respect is more important?

[2nd Amendment]

After reading these posts exhaustively, I have decided to weigh in on the grammar question. The proper expression is "The Dixie Chicks ARE stupid". If we are talking about one member then it is appropriate to say "The dixie chick IS stupid". I hope this helps the debate.

[Hillary? Hell no!]

How many troops do you know? I'll tell you I know hundreds of them and yes they are offended by what the Chickie Dixs did overseas. They see them as cowardly and disrespectful of our nation, and our President during war.

Gee, that's odd. Usually the military has a maturing, toughening affect on people. The folks that I know who serve and others who I served with could give a s%^& what some big-mouthed blowhard has to say. Risking your life to defend your country generally makes you focus on what's important and teaches you to forget frivolous crap like the Dixie Chicks. You must know an awful lot of fresh recruits. Either that or our military is in a lot of trouble.

[manic4organic]

Photo from Thursday's concert:

OK, is that some kind of reverse Mullet hairdon't she's sportin'?

Please don't accept it as the norm for Texas coiffures.

[handk]

This "jet-eye" dickwad wouldn't know his ass from a hole in the ground. The Dixie Chick's "music" is not music. It's manufactured crap, poll-tested, demographically calculated jello pudding. The Dixie Chicks are not artists, they are corporately ordained "entertainment" whores.

Give me a freakin' break!

The Dixie Chicks are to country music what "The Monkees" were to rock-n-roll in the sixties.

[sultan88]

j and F, see #26. Need your opinion of the hairdo!

[jla]

Need your opinion of the hairdo!

Looks like Mz. Nat is tryin' to make up for lost sales by appealing to the more butch consumer.