Dixie Chicks get last laugh

Florida Today ^ | May 2, 2003 | Breuse Hickman

[Chirodoc]

That breeze you feel is courtesy of a sigh of relief echoed from the handlers of the Dixie Chicks as the "there's-no-such-thing-as-bad-publicity" rule plays out once again.

Rest assured that a girl group singer's off-the-cuff remarks and ensuing success will fuel plenty of jingoistic rants to keep group-thinkers' proverbial prayers and guns aimed at anyone who dares utter dissent.

[skeeter]

Last time I saw anything like it, it was being sported by a 14 year-old skate punk whose underwear was hanging out.

The last time I saw hair like that it was atop KD Lang.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Dare to be......

A WANKER!!

[PsyOp]

The last time I saw hair like that it was atop KD Lang.

A pair of mullets!

[Fraulein]

And the "Six Flags" airbrushed T-shirt look.

LOL! Or else it is Spring Break in Panama City, Florida; year 1987.

[Snidely Whiplash]

The books are cooked by the leftist Hollywood crowd at Billboard. The only reason their shows are filled to capacity is that many tickets had to be given away.

You sound like the leftist whackos who say there's no evidence Iraq had WMD, then say that any evidence that may be presented has been fabricated.

This week's Phrase Of The Week Is: Cognitive Dissonance.

Snidely

[scott7278]

She looks like she should be holding a beer can in her right hand while listening to "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet."

[Old Student]

Not that Robert Heinlein's character Lazarus Long is really a good model for morally intending people, but his line "All my enemies are sick or dead" seems very applicable here. From our keyboards to the eyes of God.

[ETERNAL WARMING]

Do they? Based on ticket sales? I wish the media would clue them in...ticket sales were probably sold out before they opened their fat mouths. Those who canceled were probably snapped up by the Democrats in an attempt to make them look good. It's BS.

[lainie]

freebird!

[Timesink]

The broward (aka miami) concert was not sold out. On saturday evening if you wanted you could STILL buy tickets for the sunday concert. Concerts that are not sold out are unlikely to be sold out. I have not seen any information about the selling of concert memorabilia. This must be because its not selling.

Check the just ending Dixie Chicks eBay auctions. Before the controversy, most of the really great tickets were getting anywhere from $750-1500/pair, and even crappy ones were getting $400-500. Now only the VERY BEST tickets, like in the first couple of rows, can pull down a couple hundred bucks, and most are going for less than face value or not getting a single bid at all.

There simply is no better proof that the Chicks have lost and the author of this article is a bald-faced liar. If those tickets were refundable, or Fatalie had barfed her hate before the tickets went on sale, they'd be playing to 1/4-full stadiums.

And they WILL be next time.

[scott7278]

Bananarama's "Cool Summer"

[Mo1]

"Don't get me started," Maines said of the Keith song to the Los Angeles Daily News. "I hate it. It's ignorant, and it makes country music sound ignorant. It targets an entire culture -- and not just the bad people who did bad things. You've got to have some tact.

Hey Maines .. maybe you need find some tact?

BTW .. I don't plan on buying any FUTURE cd's from the Dixie Chicks

[A CA Guy]

The career of the Dixie chicks is going to slide downhill like a greased up bowling ball going down a mountain of ice.

They are hist-or-wee!

[lainie]

(well, that hair is halfway to flock of seagulls, at least)

[chicagolady]

In Chicago we are Hopefully putting in the final confirmations for the Dixie Chicks Counter Concert. On May 30th at the Sundance Saloon in Mundelien Ill.
Again The Marshall Tucker Band has offered to do a military Benefit-Counter Concert as they did in Carolina.

To me what ist is really about is people standing up and doing what is right. Also to me what makes it a COUNTER concert is people who have been blessed with finances, talent, etc etc use their gifts to be a blessing to others. Like what the Artists, Club Owners, Talk show hosts are doing at this and other events.
This counters what Maines did. Using her Platform to tear down the President who probably has one of the toughest jobs that no one here would want.

It is about standing up for what we believe is right..I do not care how many tickets they sell or cd's they sold.

[slasher82]

AAAAAMMMMMEEEEEENNNNN!!!!!Finally out with the truth by mrb1960........ Also, boycotting COULD work to bring down arrogant, eccentric, overpaid, leftist hyenas snarling in the limelight. Some family think I'm a little stubborn with an attitude at times, but it's just because I've been tired of all this type of b.s. I still boycott certain professional sports because of all the crying in the 80's & 90's concerning salaries and certain entertainment "artists"(sickening)also over the years. They took/take drugs and were/are highly immoral beings and were supposed to be role models for our children???? Jesus Christ is The Role Model. So I vowed not to contribute by attending, listening or watching period.....The Chickys are the newest on my list. Still going strong and life could not be better considering all of the extra time(& money saved) I've had and still have with my family. Anyone else out there with 15yr. "staying power"??????

[nonliberal]

Country is the Special Olympics of music.

[Cathryn Crawford]

raspberry

[puroresu]

Actually, the Dixie Chicks have been hurt by the boycott. Their album had been hovering in the top 10 on the pop chart for many weeks. After Natalie shot her mouth off, it plunged to (I think) #33.

What's happening now is a lot of lefties are buying their album as a counter-boycott. It's boosted them back up some, though not nearly to where they were before Natalie shot her mouth off. The Billboard charts are accurate, and are not cooked, as you noted.

The thing is, those lefties are eventually going to move on to something else. They listen to alternative rock (R.E.M., etc.), Streisand-type pop, or Jazz. They could care less about three bimbos with fiddles. They won't be lining up to buy the Dixie Chicks' next CD. Neither will a lot of country fans.

The Chicks lost a lot of fans, and some of that loss was alleviated by lefties rushing to purchase their current CD for political reasons. Those political purchases will fade.

For the record, I don't think this will destroy the Chicks' career completely. They won't be playing the lounge at a Holiday Inn this time next year. But they will never hit #1 again or routinely sell-out tours again. They'll always be thought of by many country fans as those stupid bimbos with the big mouth.

Just my opinion!

[jonalvy44]

they'll never see my money...

This week's "Celebrity Hollywonk" Award:

"I can't stand watching history roll right over us. It's like they're asking you to bend over, put your head in the sand, and put a flag in your ass. ...There's been such an assault on democracy here, and the mainstream media is complicit in it. We are living in neo-McCarthy, post-democratic times. Democracy is being criminalized. Democracy is being ignored. ...I never thought that anyone who spoke out for peace, and diplomacy, and social justice would be pilloried." --Janeane Garofalo

++ And Garofalo earns a "Dumb and Dumber" Award with this one:

"I don't know what is more alarming over at Fox News. Is it that they know that, in the bigger picture, there's a lot of problems over there [in Iraq] and they scrub the information or, B, they don't know because they don't watch the news."

From the "Village Idiot Buster" Files:

“What we’re having now is a round of whining by entertainment celebrities who asked to be taken seriously about something other than their entertaining and then when they are taken seriously enough that people criticize them harshly, indeed threaten to boycott them, they find that they cannot stand the heat and they don't understand what they need to do is get out of the kitchen.”
--Brit Hume