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.
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.
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.
So much raw talent... so little combined intellect...
such a shame.
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.
Larry the Cable Guy's line about Natalie still apppears to be on target: "If it wasn't for those two sisters, Natalie would just be another clerk at a Lane Bryant store in Nashville."
I don't know why radio stations would be uneasy about playing the Ditzy Chits. I mean, I don't swear at the radio or anything. I just change to another station for as long as I think the song will be playing. Car bombs are used by the people that the Ditzy Chits root for, not folks like me. And I have called my local radio station to *assure* them that my only reaction to playing the Ditzy Chits *will* be the peaceful act of changing to another station.
For anyone who is curious about the validity of the claims the chicks are making regarding the backlash etc... a study was indeed done, however buried..
You can find it here...
http://www.princeton.edu/~artspol/workpap26.html
Notice the conclusions of the study....heaviest reaction around military bases and reaction across the board in both A/C and country.
The study was done to see if there was indeed truth to the charges that corporate decisions were the cause of the loss of airplay for the Chicks....and the conclusion was no, actually corporate America chose profit over principle....and that radio responded to one of the largest recent unorganized grassroots movements in this country. The Chicks crossed over into pop early on and that's really the main reason their sales were so high. Country just isn't that big a genre -- it doesn't generate enough sales for numbers that big.
Along the way --these past few years since the boycott began --I'd read the VH-1 board for the Chicks from time to time. Those folks who'd been their a/c fans were fighting the exact same fights about the Chicks that the country fans were. And very few fans supporting them in VH-1 too.
It was never a "Country" boycott. It was an AMERICAN one. Always has been!
Its over for them!
Oops. Was that out loud?
freep this poll about their new video!
http://music.aol.com/franchise/firstview.adp
Our local country station played their new song and had a poll on their website asking if the listeners wanted to hear them. 65% voted against them. So they won't be on my local station. However, I switched over to the top 40/pop station (owned by the same company that owns the country station) and they were playing the Chicks' version of Landslide.
There's no doubt they are going to get back on country radio. Viacom-owned CMT will do an all-out knob-slobbing Dixie Chicks worship month and play their videos every ten minutes. But their sales will never reach the levels of 'Fly', 'Wide Open Spaces', and 'Home'. They will not sell out a concert tour (unless they play low-capacity arenas) - heck, they couldn't sell out their Vote for Change dates.
As for the song (which I've listen to twice) - the music sounds fine, but that is just a trademark of Rick Rubin's (producer) work. He is really good. The lyrics and singing came across (to me) as a "F*** you" to anyone who disagreed with them.
Radio Still Uneasy with Dixie Chicks ping
(not really an official ping list, but if you're sick of hearing about the Chicks on FR, please let me know)
In DC, of course they'd buy it. Let's hear from others.
I dont buy their music. They never interested me. I dont like them , never did, never will.