I sense the invisible hand at work here
How long before the socialist liberal friends and backers of the Dick-zy Chicks start claiming "musical racism"?
The Grammies have been politically decided for years. Heck, I remember the year when that horrid song "Killing Me Softly" by Roberta Flack beat out such songs as "Stairway to Heaven" as "Best Song". They just had to have a black winner that year. Well, fine, but why not reward a good black performer? What a load of crap. I've ignored those stupid worthless awards ever since. They mean nothing especially since music appreciation is entirely subjective.
This award is just a load of political solidarity to reward the looney left.
Yes Natalie, there really is a Santa Claus.
In other news, Franco is still dead.
This makes the Grammy's into the joke I always thought it was.
The Nobel prize was exposed as crap when they gave one to Arafat and to Jimmy Carter, now the Grammy people are exposed for what they are.
5 nominations for an act that cant sell tickets to their performances.
Well I have stated here and in toher places that Country Music today is garbage anyway. Bring back George Jones.
Well, so far in this thread I've seen references to the Dixie Slutpuppies, George Strait and George Jones.
What are the differences?
None of the Slutppuppies are named 'George'.
George Strait and George Jones play REAL country music.
How DARE those radio stations refuse to play songs just because their audiences don't want to hear them?
Every single Drive By Media article wailing about the Dixie Chicks "conveniently" fails to mention the other reason country fans don't want to hear them. That reason, of course, is that the Chicks never pass up an opportunity to bash their fans as ignorant, racist, flag-waving hicks.
But mentioning that wouldn't fit into the the victim template they've created for the Dixie Chicks, now would it? Besides, the media attacks its customer base the same way, so to them, what's the big deal? And then they wonder why their stock prices tank and their newsrooms shrink.
They aren't country. They said they did not want to be country, they did not want any more "red-neck bambi killing hicks" fans, they preferred a small audience of "cool" people and we obliged.
If you are not country, your music doesn't get played on country stations. It is pretty simple really.
This infers they'll be forgiven someday.
Yeah, that'll happen!
Screw them!
Radio companies and industry experts insist the stations aren't picking on the Chicks. Instead, in an industry driven by research, they're making hard business decisions.
Translation: liberals in the music industry and media are doing their best to prop up the Chixie Dix but they're getting pimp-slapped by the free market. Sympathy awards, a movie (which is tanking badly), and good press do not make up for the fact that the current album sales are only 1/12th what they were in 1998 and the Chix can't sell out a stadium holding 12,000 people when they were routinely selling out gigs in stadiums that hold 30-40,000 back in 1998.
The media can try to put a happy face on it all day every day, but the 10,000-lb pink elephant in the room is that revenues are down drastically. The media can paste on a smile for the public but the business analysts know that that the Chixie Dix's music career has one foot in the grave and the other on a banana peel.
If this was only about snotty comments toward GW Bush, nobody would've cared a week after it had happened. Natalie put the Chix's career in the dumper when she said publicly that country music fans are just a bunch of dumb rednecks and that she's glad they're leaving because she'd rather a small core of hip fans who "get it". In other words, bye bye to the '87 pickup truck/Joe-Bob's Bar crowd, hello to the 2005 Land Rover/Starbucks crowd.
You got what you wanted Natalie, and now you have to live with it. Retirement is just around the corner.
I'm not surprised that they are getting Grammy nominations. The awards are always run by lefties.