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Radio still uneasy with Dixie Chicks
CNN/AP ^ | 3/27/06 | Unknown

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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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: bush; chicks; countrymusic; dixie; iraq; means; traitors
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I don't know why we're even discussing this, because I distinctly remember Natalie Weighs a Means throwing her little "We're not a country band anymore" hissy fit.

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."

1 posted on 03/27/2006 12:38:30 PM PST by Coop
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To: Coop

Yes but Faith Hill and Tim McGraw are now apparently on the bandwagon as acts to avoid due to Bush/US-bashing.


2 posted on 03/27/2006 12:39:49 PM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Coop

I have no use whatsoever for the Dixie Sluts.


3 posted on 03/27/2006 12:40:22 PM PST by Astronaut
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To: Coop
I'm still waiting for the Dixie Broads to apologize.

Course I'm waiting for Hell to freeze over as well.

4 posted on 03/27/2006 12:40:31 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (A Moose Once Bit my Sister. Yeah. She Turned Moose-lim.)
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To: Responsibility2nd

From the sounds of this recording, they're still in a snit.


5 posted on 03/27/2006 12:41:24 PM PST by My2Cents ("The essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth." -- Winston Churchill)
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To: Coop

I thought we had said good bye to bad rubbish with this trio. The lead singer still looks like the Snoopy blimp.


6 posted on 03/27/2006 12:42:09 PM PST by DOGEY
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To: Coop


It takes too much time and energy to hold a grudge.


7 posted on 03/27/2006 12:42:19 PM PST by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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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.

8 posted on 03/27/2006 12:43:22 PM PST by Coop (FR= a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Tzimisce
It takes too much time and energy to hold a grudge.

But it takes less time and energy than going to the store and purchasing a Dixie Chicks CD.

9 posted on 03/27/2006 12:44:15 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Coop

I'm getting a little "3 Stooges" vibe from the picture. I don't know why...


10 posted on 03/27/2006 12:45:16 PM PST by AmishDude (Amishdude, servant of the dark lord Xenu.)
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To: Coop

No country station should be playing their music. They wanted to go pop so the country stations should just let them.


11 posted on 03/27/2006 12:46:12 PM PST by jazusamo (Excuse me Helen, I'm answering your first accusation. - President Bush)
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To: Coop

These women are too old to be "chicks." How about Dixie Hens?


12 posted on 03/27/2006 12:46:50 PM PST by kittymyrib
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To: Coop
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."

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.

13 posted on 03/27/2006 12:48:01 PM PST by jennyjenny
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To: Pookyhead
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger

Ironic, given that she hates President Bush - and I'm fairly certain they're not drinking buddies.

15 posted on 03/27/2006 12:53:00 PM PST by Coop (FR= a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Coop

So much raw talent... so little combined intellect...

such a shame.


16 posted on 03/27/2006 12:54:04 PM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: the OlLine Rebel

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.


17 posted on 03/27/2006 12:57:57 PM PST by Eagle Eye (There ought to be a law against excess legislation.)
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To: Pookyhead
You mean this shirt?


19 posted on 03/27/2006 1:02:20 PM PST by Coop (FR= a lotta talk, but little action)
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To: Coop

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.


20 posted on 03/27/2006 1:12:22 PM PST by Richard Kimball (I like to make everyone's day a little more surreal)
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