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.

[FBD]

No comment, I think the "do" speaks for itself.

[WellsFargo94]

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.

The military members that I know are not dwelling on the Ditz Chix as your comment above alludes to, but rather they are informed, enlightened, and of high moral standards and they just won't support that kind of talk from the entertainment industry. Is it getting in the way of fighting? Not for them persay, but some of the young men and women may be, have been, affected as they are at that point in their lives where they are trying to sort out their own emotions about their families, career, friends, peers, social influences, and they are dealing with all this amidst having to live with being at war or with the possibility of going to war. Incorporating the entertainment industry and some of their wack-job ideas into their collective psyche while at war is a hard pill to swallow. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, etc. don't need to have conflicting messages from a bunch of blonde twits while we sit our fat fannies in front of the TV eating dinner while watching the very war that they are fighting and dying in.

As far as the "fresh recruits" that you mentioned, I wish that I knew more of these fine young adults who made the decision to serve this great nation of ours. The military folks that I know are people that you may read about in the news, or in a military publication, they are also the battery commanders, company commanders, senior NCO's, pilots, spouses, children, retirees, and they are stationed in Qatar, Kuwait, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Germany, Argentina, Belgium, Greece, and all over the U.S.

[WellsFargo94]

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.

Thank you. That's exactly what it is like.

[Hillary? Hell no!]

The military members that I know are not dwelling on the Ditz Chix as your comment above alludes to,

My comment didn't allude to it at all. That was your comment.

but rather they are informed, enlightened, and of high moral standards and they just won't support that kind of talk from the entertainment industry.

That may be, but the way you describe them makes them sound whiny, prissy, and having entirely too much time on their hands.

Incorporating the entertainment industry and some of their wack-job ideas into their collective psyche while at war is a hard pill to swallow. Soldiers, sailors, airmen, etc. don't need to have conflicting messages from a bunch of blonde twits while we sit our fat fannies in front of the TV eating dinner while watching the very war that they are fighting and dying in.

With all due respect, these people you claim to know need to collectively grow a set and get over it. Criticism of the president is not criticism of the troops. When Rush Limbaugh and others rightly took Clinton to the woodshed during Kosovo, no one claimed our fighting men and women were so thin-skinned and sensitive as to take it personally. Has so much changed in five years?

[from occupied ga]

I am from Boston

Please stay there

[Burkeman1]

Well, technically no- he is not. But "drunks" who don't drink any longer refer to themselves and other's who no longer drink as "drunks".

[Burkeman1]

I will call him what the heck I want to call him. I refered to Reagan as Reagan, Bush I as Bush, and Clinton as Clinton (though usually with an explitive adjective before or after his name.) If I were to ever write a formal letter to Bush or if I ever meet him personally I will call him President Bush as is the custom. But this is not Russia where I have to preceed my statements with formalities in every day conversations about those who govern us. Even conservative magazines don't do what you suggest. You might be a bit tinged with personality cult syndrome.

[Burkeman1]

I plan to never leave. Hub of the world. Come visit Boston some time- a nice big little city.

[ConservativeMan55]

You crazy bastard! You ought to be thrown in jail!

[ALS]

"Nuthin' finer'na ConservaBabe"

[Burkeman1]

LOL!

[Teacher317]

The magic is over. Bump. I still like remembering how their music would affect me, but I don't listen to it as much anymore, I'll never buy any more of their CD or tickets, and the reason I have to remember how their music affected me is that it does not do so anymore. They took that away from me, those Indian-givers! ;^)

[Uncle Meat]

If a guy did a similar song, the same women that are their fans would be out on the streets demonstrationg and apearing on CNN and ABC blaming the male dominated American culture for it.

Ever heard of The Climax Blues Band?They had a song called"Shoot her if she runs".Went like this

Going to run into her house

Grab a razor and a gun

I'm going to cut her if she stands still

And I'll shoot her if she runs

[Brian Allen]

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

Should be: "The Dixie Chicks is one of the most talented musical groups ever. Its music is very, very tight."

But the tyranny of political correctness and decades of having that bastard offspring of the Communist Party of America in charge of our nation's brainwashing facilities [AKA (See what I mean!) "schools"] -- long ago put paid to America's command of English!

[Brian Allen]

<< I am an American. I don't have a "leader". Our executive is called the President. And according to our Constitution such an Executive in not a "leader". YOu may have a "leader" as did followers of Hitler and Stalin but I don't. >>

That sounds like the spinning of a person who would debate the meaning of "is."

Hitler and Stalin were not leaders. Leaders inspire.

Hitler's and Stalin's only "incentive" was terror.

America's Chief Executive's office suite has been squalidly squatted and bemanured by many effective Hitler/Stalin characters, every one of them constrained only by the tattered remnants of Our Nation's Constitution -- and every one of them less constrained than the one before.

History will record the most recent of those as the one that armed our enemies and who parsed "is." The one before him as the traitor who gave our enemies America's Canal and who singlehandedly and cravenly, in Teheran in 1979, started World War Four.

On the other hand, America's present President and Armed Forces Commander-In-Chief, a man and an American President who INSPIRES other Americans to share in, to follow and to serve his ideals for Our Beloved FRaternal Republic's future, will be remembered as the American Leader who lead US into and through and to winning the War on Terrorism's Battles -- and, with their winning -- World War Four.

[jwh_Denver]

"The Dixie Chicks is one of the most talented musical groups ever."

Yep, pretty soon they'll be singing so beautifully "Fries with that?"

[from occupied ga]

Visited it many times. My kid graduated summa cum laude from Harvard so we went there all too often while said offspring was enrolled, and you know, Ma and Boston sucked every single time. High prices, bad traffic - people in Boston seem to regard stop signs as suggestions, and when you've done the patriot/historic tour bit (real irony there) there ain't all that much to see. If I want to visit an expensive statist hell hole, I'll stick to NYC in the future. At least the restaurants there are relatively cheap.

[dinok]

When was that? pre-historic times?

[SerpentDove]

If she just had a tusk in the middle of her head, she could be on Star Trek.

[SerpentDove]

What is a "neo-conservative"?

I'm serious. I've heard the term, but never seen it defined.

Just wondering.