Posted on 04/15/2006 8:34:15 PM PDT by freedom44
The Dixie Chicks release their new album, “Taking the Long Way,” late in May, but don’t look for them to soften up.
A few stations around the country are playing the first single, “Not Ready to Make Nice,” which refers to the backlash the band received for speaking against the Bush administration in 2003.
The song features the lyric “I’m mad as hell and I can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should,” and the video shows the trio as leads in “The Crucible,” Arthur Miller’s play based on the Salem witch trials.
The video can be seen on the usual suspects — AOL, Quicktime, Yahoo! Music, VH1 and MTV — and on the Chicks’ site, dixiechicks .com.
Oh, good grief. (chortle) When you have absolutely no cognitive point to make mention the "Salem witch trials". It will at least demonstrate you know something about something that happened in history ... even though it is totally irrelevant to what you are talking about.
These chicks are just plain dumb.
"The Crucible" was a thinly-veiled allegory about McCarthyism. What the Dixie Chicks are implying is that any retaliation against them for speaking out against Bush and the war is a neo-McCarthyist blacklisting
Screw 'em. They should have thought about the likely results of going into country music, with politics directly opposed to what most country-music listeners stand for
Ha! All she did was follow the commie judas goat. If she wanted the truth, it's out there. We here at FR found it.
Maybe they can tour with babs.
I would love to see the figures of their sales and tour revenues since they got so vocal about topics they don't know anything about.
Chickie just thinks she's mad - she "ain't" seen "mad" until her former fans see the video played on CMT. So, the video being aired by CMT could do more harm than good for their popularity. Hope so.
Actually, a crap group.
Which was really a play about the McCarthy hearings, by that overrated blowhard of a leftie, Arthur Miller.
I see they still think they have a right to say whatever they want, but the rest of the world doesn't have the right to not see, hear, buy or watch it. Yep, they've really "matured".
An Adrian fan here. And I hate it when I like a big lefty. Hate when that happens.
"CMT is playing the video. I would say what the hell is CMT thinking, but as pop-oriented as they have become and their apparent desire to be indistinguishable from VH1, I guess I shouldn't be surprised that they'd show the videos of a band that not only used their influence to attack a U.S. President on foreign soil, but who themselves have said they really don't consider themselves country, more pop than anything."
I went into the Dixie Chicks message board on CMT and it seems most of the posters are behind them. But, most (I think) are teens who don't know any better. They can't spell either. lol
Here are some other items:
"Country music fans in the US are mostly a Middle-America, conservative bunch, who vote Republican for President."
"There is, for instance, one song entitled "Lubbock or Leave It", apparently an attack on narrow-minded small-town America. We have not heard it yet."
More at: http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/music/features/article353503.ece
No radio station or advertiser wants to be associated with the Toxic Dixie Chix. They a commercial poison. This is probably their swan song under some contractual obligation.
Now that this is in the bargain bin, they will fade as an example of entertainer stupidity.
(I still can't take Lipton products seriously)
I think CMT is mistaking "urban cowboy" with county/western mindset.
A cowboy hat and boots does not a western make.
CMT is "stuck on stupid" and the board needs a serious freeping.
Hollywood still never learned that McCarthy was correct.
The Dixie Chix are anti-americans. You can disagree with american without being anti-american. THey are defenitly not it.
This album diatribe finishes their career permanently.
I don't want to see them on ANY news program. The are viewership poison.
Last night, I was channel surfing, and on BBC channel, they had the BRIT awards...????
Never heard of it, but it must be similar to MTV or something, rock & roll groups and singles...
..Anyway, some dude (weird looking) who I had never heard of or seen here in the states, came out and introduced himself as 'an American'...
...(he was designated to hand out the major award for something or other)
Anyway, he said (paraphrasing only slightly)...
..I'm an American, and I want to get this said first thing to qualify my being here...
"George Bush is an idiot".....
...To the audience credit, they were rather nonplussed and didn't give a standing ovation or overtly clap to his stupidity....
..they probably were thinking ...
...'who is this idiot on our stage.'
See what the Dixie Twits have started!
The "american" must not have been so american. Sometimes it is a performer who is in europe trying to rehab or build a career by being from somewhere else.
According to the MC, he introduced the guy as 'famous' for whatever, and said it like he was well known.
Now maybe he's well known to the MTV crowd....but I'd never heard of him...
..and there was nothing memorable about him.
I think your suggestion is correct.
Now she claims she was NEVER country.
"For me to be in country music to begin with was not who I was. I liked Martie and Emily's playing, but I did not grow up liking country music. And I guess I was ignorant to the fact that the stereotypes behind country music were true — and it was disappointing. And so at this stage, I can never... I would be cheating myself and not setting a good example for my children to go back to something that I don't wholeheartedly believe in. So I'm pretty much done. They've shown their true colors. I like lots of country music, but as far as the industry and everything that happened... I couldn't want to be farther away from that. And it's easier when you're financially set, because you can be a little more ballsy, and just do what you want to do."
She is a fraud. She was faking country and now she is faking activism. Only lemmings are falling for it.
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