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Toby Keith Pulls Freeper's Punch at Dixie Chicks
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| October 31, 2003
| Chris Willman
Posted on 10/27/2003 2:46:31 PM PST by L.N. Smithee
Toby Keith, in an interview published in the current issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine, speaking of his public feuding with the we're-not-country-anymore group the Dixie Chicks, says the following:
But it's his feud with ''miserable person'' Maines that's earned Keith the most attention lately. ''She said my song makes country music look ignorant and you've gotta have more tact and be responsible,'' says Keith. ''They had a song called 'Earl Must Die' or something ['Goodbye Earl']. How hypocritical is that? How can you come off of a song with the message that if your husband abuses you, you're supposed to kill him and stick him in the trunk, or whatever -- I never heard it, but people told me about it -- and then call me ignorant for saying, 'Hey, you flew these planes into these buildings. We're angry about it, and we're gonna come get you'?'' Despite the F.U.T.K.-wear, Keith has no intention of lighting up Maines' world anymore. Last summer, his crew ''put up on our big screen an Internet picture somebody [concocted] of her and Saddam. The crowd went nuts. It was funny for a few nights, and then it started eating at me. I thought, You know what? I don't have that mean of a heart, to be able to kick somebody in the crotch like that. Just because she's young and spouted off, that's a little hardcore. So I put an end to it.''
Toby Keith -- the let-bygones-be-bygones, not-so-angry American? Well, maybe. But also, he adds, ''if I'm gonna do anything, it's gotta be funnier than that.'' In other words: Watch your a--, Natalie.
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To: SamAdams76
Like his new song too. Heard it a few times - something about "I love this bar." Video *here*.
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posted on
10/28/2003 5:12:14 AM PST
by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: philman_36
Toby loves to do a video that pooks fun at his own lyics and sentiments...wait until you see the "I Love this Bar" video before you make a final judgement.
His new CD was pushed back to November 4th release.
When I saw him live at the end of August, he was still expressing his strong sentiment about the war and 9/11, but he was purposefully avoiding mentioning the DixChix even though the crowd wanted him to knock them. He is a class act as far as concert behavior goes. He also doesn't portray himself as any sort of well behaved guy in his past. He as a "bus song" (one that he doesn't record), about an evening with Willie Nelson and how getting on Willie's travel bus is like getting in the heart of a bong. Something like, We're Not Ever Going to Smoke on Willie's Bus Again. This guy is headed for even more status as far as I'm concerned and I'm not even a big country fan in normal listening preference.
I recommend catching him live.
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posted on
10/28/2003 5:29:40 AM PST
by
KC Burke
To: L.N. Smithee
Toby can beat the pants off those Doxie Chumps!
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posted on
10/28/2003 7:03:23 AM PST
by
Pippin
(world's TALLEST hobbit)
To: KC Burke
Willie Nelson's a big Demonrat.
To: Bigg Red
What does that mean??Forgive Us, Toby Keith
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posted on
10/28/2003 7:51:22 AM PST
by
AppyPappy
(If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Be Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
To: KC Burke
The name of the song is "I'll never do weed with Willie again", and it is hilarious.....
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posted on
10/28/2003 8:57:54 AM PST
by
tarawa
To: L.N. Smithee
(I *LOVE* TOBY!)
BTTT
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posted on
10/28/2003 9:32:29 AM PST
by
Sweet_Sunflower29
(If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bull$hit!)
To: Sweet_Sunflower29
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posted on
10/28/2003 9:37:16 AM PST
by
Sweet_Sunflower29
(If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bull$hit!)
To: KC Burke
Toby loves to do a video that pooks fun at his own lyics and sentiments...wait until you see the "I Love this Bar" video before you make a final judgement.
The video is the very thing that I thought was stereotypical. I probably don't/didn't understand the sentiment Toby was trying to get at.
To: tarawa
"I'll never do weed with Willie again" LOL!!
IMHO, Willie is Willie - "been there, done that, sold the T-shirt, and the IRS got the money."
"My heroes have always been cowboys..."
My favorite TK is "...Beer for My Horses."
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posted on
10/28/2003 10:17:09 AM PST
by
talleyman
(Caviar emptor (a warning from the sturgeon general))
To: Pippin
Those "Doxie Chumps" are so over.
To: freekitty
Hope so! :O)
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posted on
10/28/2003 10:36:38 AM PST
by
Pippin
(world's TALLEST hobbit)
To: Cap'n Crunch
Naw, the real Cap'n Crunch was a War Eagle, then a Dolphin!
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posted on
10/28/2003 11:21:56 AM PST
by
Redbob
To: KC Burke
My wife and I have. Once was at the Flameworthy Awards in Nashville in April and the other was here in Memphis last Saturday. We were not dissapointed. In Memphis, he didn't even bring up the chix. His presentation isn't high energy like Tim McGraw, but he doesn't need to be. The Pyramid was rocking. He did what he called "bus songs" and one was about the Taliban. I wish he'd release that one. It was funny like "I like this bar" is. If anyone want two good hours, go see Toby. You, too, won't be dissapointed.
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posted on
10/28/2003 11:37:58 AM PST
by
NCC-1701
((Good luck, happy hunting, and God-speed to the US military and our allies in this operation.))
To: Sloth
That's the one I had in mind, and the one that was featured in the Entertainment Weekly mag for which the DixChix posed nude.
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posted on
10/28/2003 12:21:19 PM PST
by
L.N. Smithee
(Just because I don't think like you doesn't mean I don't think for myself)
To: talleyman
Beer for my Horses...for some strange reason, my favorite too.
To: archy
I may have to take up listening to country music over this.
Not.
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posted on
10/28/2003 4:32:39 PM PST
by
txhurl
To: NCC-1701
My wife and I have. Once was at the Flameworthy Awards in Nashville in April and the other was here in Memphis last Saturday. We were not dissapointed. In Memphis, he didn't even bring up the chix. His presentation isn't high energy like Tim McGraw, but he doesn't need to be. The Pyramid was rocking. He did what he called "bus songs" and one was about the Taliban. I wish he'd release that one. It was funny like "I like this bar" is. If anyone want two good hours, go see Toby. You, too, won't be dissapointed. You are invited to come catch me picking my banjo around Beale some weekend; I have not run across so many others so armed that there's much chance of mistaking me for another one, but if you should run across a feller picking a little shortneck 4-string tenor banjo, that's me.
I make no promise you won't be disappointed, however.
-archy-/-
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posted on
10/28/2003 5:06:49 PM PST
by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: txflake
I may have to take up listening to country music over this. Not.
I make a serious differentation between country, country-western, and Nashville Top 40. I would be glad to offer you some examples of the first two, but I suspect that I Love This Bar is going to end up one of the all-time greats, to be requested to a fare-thee-well.
-archy-/-
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posted on
10/28/2003 5:09:47 PM PST
by
archy
(Angiloj! Mia kusenveturilo estas plena da angiloj!)
To: L.N. Smithee
Maybe some "Damn-wear" is order.
DUMB-ASS-Maimes/Natalie.
just trying to help Tobie....
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posted on
10/28/2003 7:22:50 PM PST
by
Prolifeconservative
(If there is another terrorist attack, the womb is a very unsafe place to hide.)
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