[MarkL]

Their careers are over, at least at the "superstar" level.

The problem is that they "made their bones" in country, and then had their greatest success in their crossover to top-40/pop with their accessible country style.

But then they alienated their core audience, and just assumed that their "new" fans would continue to support them. The problem was that the crossover fans were more interested in "something new" than their music.

I remember some time ago how they said that they were going after a wider audience, especially since they felt estranged from the country audiences.

Too bad. They did have some songs I really liked, but I've lost interest in them.

Mark

[hattend]

Hey Natalie,

Karma sucks doesn't it?

[Rocky]

Maybe they could get Air America to play their music. I'm sure that would work wonders for their CD sales.

[kittymyrib]

When you can look at all the Britney Spears wannabees on the Country videos, chubby little Natalie just can't cut it. They were lucky to have had a measure of success and ought to stay home and raise their kids now.

[Bernard]

As the dull gray mantle of obscurity settles around Natalie Maines' shoulders, it makes you wonder how many other celebrities from the past were saved from similar fates by agents who kept them from saying stupid things like what the Dixie Chicks got into.

[Soul Seeker]

I already told my station if I hear their music I won't be turning back in. So far, the boycott continues here.

[linn37]

The video that goes with the song 'not ready to make nice' sucks.

[jordan8]

But -- at least as far as Maines is concerned -- the drop-off at country radio was part of its plan.

MARTY: The last time Tap toured America, they where, uh, booked into 10,000 seat arenas, and 15,000 seat venues, and it seems that now, on their current tour they're being booked into 1,200 seat arenas, 1,500 seat arenas, and uh I was just wondering, does this mean uh...the popularity of the group is waning?

IAN: Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no...no, no, not at all. I, I, I just think that the.. uh.. their appeal is becoming more selective.

[Recovering_Democrat]

I turn the Vichy Chix off when they come on the radio. Darn shame, too, they let their politics bash the President on foreign soil during a war. I enjoyed their music, but that action was too much for me.

[zip]

ping

[Vision]

You can't be an ACLU member, let alone a poster spokesman for them, and be in country music. That is just the natural law.

[B Knotts]

I think Country radio stations should try something different: play some Country music.

The Dixie Chicks ain't Country or Western...that's for sure.

[relictele]

Politics aside, there are plenty of overproduced, over-reverbed, over-chorused, over-Harmonized "hot new country" acts out there to waste your money on.

[Niteranger68]

Move over Indigo Girls. This girl-like cause-head homeless band looks to be the next icon with the comfortable shoes brigade.

[A CA Guy]

Country won't support them.

Question is, how willing are the left wing to go out of the way to pick up and buy their album in support of their drum beaters?

IMO I think the left are either broke or cheap, so I see them sinking like a rock.

[LucyJo]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12900709/

Dixie Chick: Bush owed ‘no respect whatsoever’
Maines takes back apology for ’03 remarks she made about president

Evan Vucci / AP
The Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines apologized for disrespecting President Bush during a London concert in 2003. But now, she's taking it back. "I don't feel that way anymore," she said. "I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."
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Perhaps if Nat had been as unambiguous about that "apology" as she has been about "taking it back", she would find more people willing to believe her, or give her the benefit of the doubt, about ANYTHING she has to say these days.

I think she'll find that while she was talking about "moving on", her former fans have actually done it.

[FreedomCalls]

Hix Nix Chix Lix

[sandbar]

>>>Not Ready to Make Nice>>>

So after all that's happened, all they've said about THEIR fans, they come out with a single called "Not Ready to Make Nice" and they are perplexed as to why it didn't do well?

Idiots

[JFC]

I know Natalie Maines, and she is a *&^%$, She hates her home town of Lubbock Tx and their new song on their new cd is about hicks in small towns in America and who biased we are etc etc... and our churches on every corner.


She is what you see... plus abot 100 times worse.

[Ignatz]

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."

You mean being two Snickers bars short of a managership at Lane Bryant?