Oh I want to shoot Saddam, just let him loose at my house... I might play with him a little... kneecapping and such... it'd be as bbq.... there'd be beer and betting and a lot of laughin' as well skewered Saddam....
OK, its not a song... but someone should write one...
"The censoring of the Dixie Chicks was only the most extreme example of how media consolidation is killing country music."
Who's censoring?
Such lyrics must really upset these effeminate leftist fops.
So President Bush is responsible for the Chicks' lack of sales too. I suspect it was the millions of Americans (aka Bush's biggest financial backers) who were turned off by Maines' remarks.
The GOP did not attack Natalie Maines she did a fine job on herself with her big fat mouth.
This guy claims all Country music is GOP he forgets Willie Nelson smoking dope at the White House with his friend Bubba Clinton.
Of course Country fans like songs praising the courage of our fighting men and the patriotism of our country. WE are Americans , not traitorous scum like the Hollyweird crowd.
Interesting. I heard a report on NPR back in 92 about how you could predict elections based upon the themes popular in country and western music. According to this report, Clinton would beat Bush because C&W was all about people being worried about their jobs, out of work, etc.
While I hate to say this, NPR may have been right. You can predict elections by country music themes. And, according to this, I'd say the dems are in deep horsehockey. C&W reflects what people are thinking, what they agree with. And, right now, they support the WOT. Too bad for the dems.
Of course, you won't be able to print much of the lyrics without blanking most of it out!
Big & Rich, Montgomery Gentry, et al are killing "Country" Music, not Karl Rove.
Then what would you call hip-hop/(c)rap?
Drum-beat desperation? Mumbled misogyny? Booby-and-booty-bouncing bull@()%? Hate-fueled humbug? Jungle jabber?
I'm occasionally pleasantly surprised with Country. On the whole it seems to have better lyricists than rock. Then "Tequila Makes Her Clothes Fall Off" comes on, and I realize that some rednecks do deserve their dishonorable reputation.
Isn't it great that the Ditzy Chicks' demise is the fault of "the right-wing noise machine," George Bush and his apparatchiks in the media (wherever THOSE phantoms hide!), and ominous legislation that consolidated radio stations. But it's not due to the banal prattlings of an overpaid porker whose judgement of her audience is as poor as her political vision.
No bias here...
Citing the "public outcry," Cox and Cumulus quickly issued a directive to local programmers not to play the band on their hundreds of stations; Clear Channel "advised" its 1,200 affiliates to "pay attention to their listeners." Before long, DJs were holding events where listeners could throw their old albums in a bonfire or run them over with a tractor.
First, "Paying attention to your listeners" is not the same as "directing" them to take the band off the rotation. Second, since when is pleasing your consumers "censorship"?
Blacklisting the Chicks was an easy way for the media behemoths--run by some of Bush's biggest financial backers--to demonstrate their patriotism on the eve of the war.
Huh? Who in the heck are they talking about?
But the Chicks are still feeling the aftershocks. Two years after the incident, Home hadn't yet moved 7 million copies, and the band was reinventing itself as a pop act. For the rest of the industry, the message was clear: Shut up if you want to sing.
The actual message is: Do not piss off your paying audience if you want to continue to make money. As far as "Home" not selling anymore, the Chicks have released a couple more albums since then. One would assume the record label would put it's marketing dollars towards selling the new product.
Honestly, I bought "Home" before all this crap happened. It was good music with tight harmonies. I didn't buy any subsequent DC recordings mostly because they sucked in comparison. The fact that I don't listen to them at all now is the result of Maines' big mouth.
Interestingly enough, the term "jingoism" was coined by the early 20th century author John Dos Passos, who was at the time, a dedicated socialist and Communist sympathizer. Later in life, he became a Conservative, and a frequent contributor to National Review.
In These Times is a real far-left publication. I'm sorry, "progressive". In short anything that slanders the U.S.and paints a rosy picture of our enemies is just fine with these Marxist losers. Their motto should be : "9/11?- we deserved it".
This idiot must moonlight as a consultant for the DNC. What a biased piece of garbage.