Posted on 03/27/2006 12:38:29 PM PST by Coop
NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- Country radio may be ready to make nice with the Dixie Chicks.
The grudge dates back to 2003 when many country stations stopped playing the popular trio after lead singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush.
But the Chicks' new single, "Not Ready to Make Nice," is now in rotation in several major markets, pushing it to No. 36 on Billboard's country singles chart after its first full week of airplay. Other stations, however, have been slower to embrace it.
"I think a lot of people are in a wait-and-see mode," said Wade Jessen, director of Billboard's country charts. "The next couple of weeks are really going to tell the tale."
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98.7 WMZQ, a country station in the D.C. area, played this single a week or so ago in the evening and solicited listener feedback. I'm sorry to say that more folks reacted positively than negatively to this hate-filled, rancid verbal vomit. (Put me down as "undecided.") :-p
Lyrical excerpt:
It addresses the controversy head on, with Maines singing in the chorus, "I'm not ready to make nice. I'm not ready to back down. I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time to go round and round and round."
She also sings, "How in the world can the words that I said send somebody so over the edge," and "I made my bed and I sleep like a baby."
Yes but Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are now apparently on the bandwagon as acts to avoid due to Bush/US-bashing.
I have no use whatsoever for the Dixie Sluts.
Course I'm waiting for Hell to freeze over as well.
From the sounds of this recording, they're still in a snit.
I thought we had said good bye to bad rubbish with this trio. The lead singer still looks like the Snoopy blimp.
It takes too much time and energy to hold a grudge.
Time perhaps, but judging by ol' Natalie's photo I don't think it takes much energy at all.
But it takes less time and energy than going to the store and purchasing a Dixie Chicks CD.
I'm getting a little "3 Stooges" vibe from the picture. I don't know why...
No country station should be playing their music. They wanted to go pop so the country stations should just let them.
These women are too old to be "chicks." How about Dixie Hens?
Who is "over the edge"? Seems after all this time, the only person still talking about this is her. I have never given a rat's behind what she thinks, says or feels.
Ironic, given that she hates President Bush - and I'm fairly certain they're not drinking buddies.
So much raw talent... so little combined intellect...
such a shame.
It might be helpful to visit Mississippi and see the damage there. That kind of damage can make rational people irrational.
I'll cut them some slack for the moment.
IIRC, they had sold over 6 million albums when TSHTF. They still haven't hit 7, unless they've done so very recently. 36 on the Billboard country charts probably puts them ahead of spider monkeys playing wash tubs, but it's not very high. I just crossed them off my purchase list three years ago, and haven't seen anything to make me put them back on. I didn't like their music that much, anyway.
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