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Posted on 12/22/2016 1:32:50 PM PST by drewh
“If anyone does do it, I hope that the check that they get is in the nine figures. Because it’s probably the last check they’re ever going to get,” Simon Renshaw tells TheWrap
The Dixie Chicks’ manager says the title of one of their songs sums up why Donald Trump’s inauguration team can’t book A-list talent: Hollywood isn’t ready to make nice with the president-elect.
Trump’s inaugural committee is still struggling to lock in A-list talent for his big festivities, according to Hollywood insiders, and even offering ambassadorships to anyone who can wrangle top singers.
“If anyone does do it, I hope that the check that they get is in the nine figures. Because it’s probably the last check they’re ever going to get,” Dixie Chicks manager Simon Renshaw told TheWrap.
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Renshaw said the Dixie Chicks’ “Not Ready to Make Nice” should be the anthem of anyone asked to perform.
“In my mind that’s the theme song to the Donald Trump presidency,” Renshaw said. “If anyone wants to know what we’re singing, that’s it. It’s what we should all be singing.”
He said he knows of no top artist who would be willing to take the gig.
“No one is prepared to normalize what is going on in the country right now,” said Renshaw, whose clients include “American Idol” alum Haley Reinhart and who has represented Clay Aiken and Paulina Rubio in the past.
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In a statement to TheWrap, Trump’s team denied offering any ambassadorships and said top-tier acts are “eager” to perform.
“There is no truth to this insinuation,” said committee spokesman Boris Epshteyn. “First-class entertainers are eager to participate in the inaugural events. The inauguration as a whole will be an exciting and uniting celebration of freedom and democracy. We will be releasing further details at the appropriate time.”
Despite his obvious desire for Hollywood approval, Trump may only now be realizing how unpopular he is with many in the entertainment industry, Renshaw said.
“People are just shaking their heads in incredulity,” Renshaw said. “It’s mind-blowing.”
The Dixie Chicks famously drew attention and criticism near the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq when singer Natalie Maines said in 2003: “Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y’all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”
“Not Ready to Make Nice,” relased June 2006 in response to the backlash, is the band’s biggest hit to date.
Also Read: Trump Team Scrambles for A-List Inaugural Performers: 'They Are Willing to Pay Anything' (Exclusive)
Thus far, the only artist publicly set to perform at Trump’s inauguration in January is 16-year-old former “America’s Got Talent” runner-up Jackie Evancho. The list of artists who have publicly refused to perform include Garth Brooks, Idina Menzel, The Chainsmokers and Elton John.
When Kanye West met with Trump this week, John Legend, who has collaborated with the rapper, said he was “pretty disappointed with Kanye that he says he would have voted for Trump.”
That’s the kind of peer pressure other artists can also expect, said Renshaw.
“Sort of, ‘What on earth were you thinking,’ is the common perception,” he said.
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He cited two artists of the caliber the Trump team is seeking, saying they would never kowtow to him like his fellow Republicans are.
“Someone like Katy Perry or a Justin Timberlake actually has a morality and it would never allow them to behave in the way that politicians are behaving around the office of the president-elect right now,” Renshaw said.
But he insisted the situation isn’t as dire as it appears, noting there is still one place where Trump could easily find all kinds of “eager” talent.
“His team’s got it all wrong. I think what they should be after for the inauguration is the Moscow State Circus,” Renshaw said.
Dixie Chicks Manager: Trump Inauguration Can't Book Performers Because Hollywood's 'Not Ready to Make Nice'
Performers including Garth Brooks, Celine Dion and The Chainsmokers have made other plans for January 20
Donald Trump is so unpopular with Hollywood that two talent wranglers told TheWrap they were offered ambassadorships in exchange for booking top singers. Here are some artists who said they wouldn't perform for the world.
Well, Hollywood, and the ditzy twits, can piss up a rope.
Bears repeating.
Rubio, Cruz, Jeb, etc. would have gotten the same disrespect, or worse.
Aren’t they technically the “Dixie Hens” now?
Aren’t these the same types of f*%^wits who were appalled by the hollywierd blacklists of yore....? When, after the publishing of the Venona papers, the FACT of communist infiltration was validated.
Love movies.....could just stop with what is currently in the library..
Sad
KYPD
Who do these people think they are? How many millions of voters chose Trump over them and their acolytes. That means that at least 50% of the country would love whomever performed. Most likely half of the other 50% don’t really care what the left thinks, or Hollywood says. If someone bucks the Chixie Dicks and their manager, they will rake in MORE than they previously would.
Wow, talk about an adult child stuck on himself and his low IQ bully gang of mouth projectors. They really won’t understand what’s happened to them in not too long a time.
New headline for the Dipsey Chicks manager: Hollywood not gonna get a dime from Trump supporters.
An Oldie But A GoodieClick The Dixie Chicks Logo.You're Gonna Love It!
That's a Promise. It's Too Good!
Click the Pic
Sour Grapes. What they don’t get is that the market sets the rules. The Dixie Chicks were blackballed by the Audience, not the management.
Hah!
How about this: MAMGA
Make American Music Great Again
Enough with ghettotrash hiphop rap garbage.
Nope. A Lexus-Nexus search over the last 8 years yields nearly nothing from them. At least one of the members isn't even talking to Natalie Maines anymore. Natalie gets the Chicks' name in the paper once every couple of years making noise about something like this, usually right around the time that an awards show is coming up and she wants an invite or because she wants to keep getting invited to Hollywood parties.
It's ridiculous that the MSM still touts the lie that the Chicks were ran out of the music business by Bush-supporters. I'm sure the music media will be reporting that sh!+ when they get some lifetime achievement award in the year 2040, too. No, Natalie single-handedly blew the career of the Dixie Chicks by saying that most of her fans are dumb rednecks. Nowadays, she's just living off the money that she got as a Dixie Chick because she has no career.
Trump should invite the Grambling University Marching Band.
They’re fantastic. And that would set BLM heads exploding.
They toured last year. I don’t think it was all original members. No idea if anyone showed up.
Dixie Chicks? Wasn’t that a fried chicken joint off old US80 that went out of business when the Interstate came through??
‘Sorry kids, mom and dad will not be paying for any more movies or music for the foreseeable future.’
Wow they are full of themselves.
They’re not. One of the Chicks is not even on speaking terms with Natalie Maines anymore. Natalie went solo with “Mother” (yeah, I never heard of it either, I had to stumble on it during an internet search).
A big cancellation of cable, Sirius XM and boycotts of movie theaters sustained over six months would do.
I have an aunt who is minorly connected in Hollywood she has acted and produced a few movies and she said that the biggest problem is that most of the actors live in an echo chamber and believe the propaganda that they put out. lots of conservatives that work on the sets as crew keep there mouth shut because if it gets out that you are conservative and politically active in any way you wont get hired at your next job. if you have a long term job on a TV series suddenly key actor will complain about the job you are doing and if there is a way to get rid of you they will....you can tell who is conservative because if politics does come up they keep there mouths shut and never offer an opinion.
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