Dixie Chicks sing bold tune to new fans (Barf Alert! DefCon1!Think of it as cleansing!)

Yahoo.Com ^ | Al-Rueters | By Rachelle Younglai

[.cnI redruM]

TORONTO (Reuters) - One sentence, a political comment as bombs rained down on Baghdad in 2003, changed the careers and the fan base of Texas-based Dixie Chicks, but not their spirit or their tune.

"In the past, I think we thought we had a purpose, to entertain (the audience)," said lead singer Natalie Maines, whose 2003 comments criticizing U.S. president George W. Bush made the band a pariah in the country music world.

"Now you feel like they feel like they have a purpose, in supporting free speech and supporting us, so it's amazing. And it's definitely a new audience."

The country music trio was in Toronto for the premiere of "Dixie Chicks: Shut up and Sing," a documentary that looks at the dramatic backlash after Maines told a London audience in March 2003 that the band was "ashamed" to come from the same state as Bush.

The country music world, which had propelled the band to fame and pushed their albums to platinum status, shut them out, and radio stations stopped playing their songs and destroyed their discs in public.>>>>>>>

[weegee]

There hasn't been "rock" at MTV in over a decade.

[interrogatorgirl]

No big surprise they made this in London and are playing it in toronto. They had to leave their own country and take it to places where islamic extremists are breeding like mold. I can picture the moops in Toronto eating this up, remember this is the same place that gave you the plot to chop off the heads of their politicians and blow more stuff up.