Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines rips country music, fans - National Ledger
Maines says she’s finished with the genre and is none too pleased with the fans, basically labeling them as redneck hicks. She tells Entertainment Weekly, “the stereotype is true.”
“So I’m pretty much done. They’ve shown their true colors. I like lots of country music, but as far as the industry and everything that happened… I couldn’t want to be farther away from that,” Maines told EW.
Ah, but she’s not done. Not only does she hate country music (the genre whose fans lined her pockets with money), she turns on the free market and democracy that made her rich as well.
“The entire country is controlled by money. And I think that’s what people feel, they don’t — their voice isn’t heard. They don’t have a say. It’s corporate America. My friend made up the word corpocracy. I love that word.”
http://www.nationalledger.com/pop-culture-news/dixie-chicks-natalie-maines-r-637817.shtml
“For me as a person, [The incident has] completely altered the course I was on,” Maines tells Entertainment Weekly. “For me to be in country music to begin with was not who I was. I liked Martie and Emily’s (the talented Dixie Chicks) playing, but I did not grow up liking country music.”
“And I guess I was ignorant to the fact that the stereotypes behind country music were true and it was disappointing.”
If I had a buck for every artist I’ve met who thinks the world owes him/her a living, I’d be a rich woman.
She attacks the group of people who she sold songs to and then everyone is asking why CW stations dont play their songs anymore.
Maines also said she didnt want Dixie Chicks CDs next to Reba Mcentire CDs. Well, That dont sound a problem anymore. Since Reba has class and sense enough not to offend the people who support her, she still has a following. The Dixie Chicks couldnt get gigs playing Childrens Birthday party unless they brought along a pony and a clown.
And I guess I was ignorant to the fact that the stereotypes behind country music were true and it was disappointing.”
..........................................................
She is ignorant to a lot more than that.