[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Cue the Monty Python foot coming down on the Chix...

[Hildy]

If these girls just put out nice country CD and not used what happened as the means to their comeback then maybe they would have been forgiven...but their first single, NOT READY TO MAKE NICE or whatever paints them as the VICTIMS...it's an incredibly silly song and if they weren't hated enough before, in my estimation they nailed the coffin with that song.

[do the dhue]

The Dixie Chicks build the best disposable Frisbees.

[martin_fierro]

Disappointing airplay for the first two singles from the new album by the Dixie Chicks exposes a deep -- and seemingly growing -- rift between the trio and the country radio market that helped turn the group into superstars.

Time to sing their crap in another country.

[hsalaw]

Maines also said, "I don't want people to think that me not wanting to be part of country music is any sort of revenge. It is not. It is totally me being who I am, and not wanting to compromise myself and hate my life."

Well, honey, maybe the lousy reception of your new album is country music fans "totally being who they are and not wanting to compromise themselves" by buying into your foolish and self-centered tripe.

[Onelifetogive]

I suppose the Dimocrat response to this "injustice" would be to require everyone to listen to "sanctioned" music by "approved" musicians. We can't have people choosing for themselves what to listen to. What if some nut-job wacko leftists get left out???

[FlingWingFlyer]

Maines also said, "I don't want people to think that me not wanting to be part of country music is any sort of revenge.

ROTFL!!! Boy, has this ditz lost touch with reality or what?

Toby Keith continues supporting America and the troops while raking in the big bucks. How are "the chicks" doing?

[Clara Lou]

Natalie Maines sure thinks a lot of herself. The opinion doesn't seem to be widely shared.

[ansel12]

"rift between the trio and the country radio market that helped turn the group into superstars."



Seems like the rift is with their fans not "the country radio market".

The article has a non condemning, clinical detachment.

If this were a conservative band that declared war on its fans and were paying for it, I think the article would have a different tone.

[martin_fierro]

"Where are all my idiotic, mouth-breathing, Bush-ite customers?" the bankrupt restauranteur wondered.

[Pittsburg Phil]

Who cares what these three airheads say or do?

They're not the Dixie Chicks; they're the Dixie Sh*ts to me.

[jazusamo]

So I'm pretty much done. They've shown their true colors.

Uh, Natalie, you've got it a little backwards. Country is done with you and you've shown your true colors. Good old plain American's don't abide your spoiled brat in-your-face attitude.

[hosepipe]

Moonbats simply MUST BE Moonbats..

[joebuck]

Coming soon to local malls and Burger King openings everwhere.

[gondramB]

>>Disappointing airplay for the first two singles from the new album by the Dixie Chicks exposes a deep -- and seemingly growing -- rift between the trio and the country radio market that helped turn the group into superstars.<<

Its also possible the new music isn't good.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Maines also said, "I don't want people to think that me not wanting to be part of country music is any sort of revenge. It is not. It is totally me being who I am, and not wanting to compromise myself and hate my life."


I think this is exactly what the message being sent out is. Country fans dumped her not the other way around. She can't even save face in a dignified manner by just telling the truth and admitting that she must go in another direction because her fan base is gone.

[Don Corleone]

Words have meanings and actions have consequences!

[Grampa Dave]

They should go to Iran and Syria and sing Islamo Country music in Blue Burkas.

[Donald Meaker]

It is normal for artists to try new things. It is becoming for artists to be grateful and humble.

It is just bad business for artists to "deprive" us of their work, or to demean their potential customers.

[Enterprise]

"Taking the Long Wrong Way," "Not Ready to Make Nice Sell Albums." There, fixed it. Much better names for the new Chixie Dicks albums.