Posted on 09/06/2006 6:30:01 AM PDT by reagandemo
Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck have crafted an insightful and heartfelt look at the experiences of the Dixie Chicks over the last three years, chronicling the often bizarre consequences of singer Natalie Maines' anti-Bush wisecrack on a London stage. Maines' statement is captured in "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing," as are the meetings where they plot how to circumvent the core country audience and, eventually, how to reroute a tour and cancel shows due to poor ticket sales. It's the rare thorough documentary on a musical act whose dilemmas are faced in the here and now, one that should win over fans of the Chicks on the fence and of music docus and perhaps create a little cultural stir as well.
(Excerpt) Read more at variety.com ...
"they plot how to circumvent the core country audience and, eventually, how to reroute a tour and cancel shows due to poor ticket sales"
Plot? Who needs to plot? They've "circumvented" their core country audience quite effectively already. Trouble is, next to no one else wants to see or hear them, either, despite a big, politically motivated push to fill the arenas with DUmmies and Kos Kommies.
Having heard them sing,I'd just tell them to "shut up".
I guess that Michael Moore or Spike Lee will be making a movie soon.
This is your captain speaking. Please fasten your seat belt and pull it snug. This landing is going to be a little
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
abrupt.
Ker-SPLAT!!
(Voice tapes taken from the wreckage of the Dixie Chick's film "Shut Up and Sing" approximated by the trajectory of the ticket sales.)
[Charlie Rose is funded by PBS also...he's a disgrace with his interviews. Once in a while he's forced to have interviews of folks on our side but mostly it's the anti crowd.]
Natalie. "I don't want to be played on those [Country radio] stations," she says. "And when I watched people smashing our CDs I just thought, Good. Smash 'em. Please don't listen to me. I had no idea you thought I was one of you, because I'm not."
Wait. She's not done. "And I don't want to go to any [country music] award shows. And if we did win, what would I get up there and say? I have nothing to say to these people." In fact, Natalie, who issued an apology at the height of the dustup, says that today it is the apology, not the original offending comment, that she'd take back if she could. "It was all mine - nobody made me apologize and nobody wrote it for me - but when I look back and read it, I don't stand behind what I said. That will make people extra-mad, because some were like, Well, at least she apologized."...
from "Heroines Among Us", Vogue Magazine, December 2003, p. 279/333.
So tell me why they are still whining again? They got what they wished for, and they got it in spades. Deal with it bitches!
They made a movie out of "Shut up and sing"? I sure hope that Laura Ingraham is getting some royalties for her book.
It took a few years but she got her wish. Good.
the sisters are just rich dtrs of a banker you know, and Maines is the rich dtr of a musician, who probably made all his money in the likes of Nashville, Austin, and Memphis....
I just hate their guts now... so I'll just add them to my list......its a growing list.....
they later came out and clarified and stated that they still want to get the country grammies. but of course.
everything about them is fraudulent. they calim they are "dixie" but the sisters were born in PA and MA and nat west TX. none of which is considered "dixie".
I would piss on them if they were on fire.
Freep this poll!
http://dixiechicks.msn.com/polla.aspx
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.