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Natalie Maines Sez: Dixie Chicks Were FReepers' "Wet Dream"
indieWIRE ^ | Thursday, September 14, 2006 | Peter Knegt and Brian Brooks

Posted on 09/14/2006 8:25:48 PM PDT by kristinn

SNIP

Oscar-winning doc filmmaker Barbara Kopple ("Harlan County USA," "American Dream") teamed up with collaborator Cecilia Peck to co-direct a behind the scenes look at the best-selling female group of all time, "The Dixie Chicks." The film, "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing" was initially envisioned as a much more modest project, according to the band's Natalie Maines who spoke at a press conference this week at the Toronto International Film Festival. "We originally thought of having a filmmaker [to capture footage] for ourselves or as a supplement to some concert DVD release," said Maines. But Maines' now famous off-handed comment during a March, 2003 concert in London not only caused a tidal change for the Dixie Chicks' relationship with many of their fans, it also motivated Kopple to and Peck to expand the scale of the project.

"After the comment, we were really excited to do something more with the Dixie Chicks because they were willing to put everything on the line to stand up for what they believed in," said Kopple in Toronto. Lubbock, TX-raised Maines' remark, which caused an avalanche of criticism by right-wingers in the U.S. on the heels of the Iraq invasion was: "We're embarrassed that the President is from Texas." Perhaps not since John Lennon uttered the infamous remark that the Beatles were more famous then Jesus over three decades earlier had the reaction been so swift and vile. Right-wing groups responded with radio boycotts and CD burnings, and even a death threat against Maines.

"If we had been someone like Merle Haggard, it might have been spun like some kind of [cool] rebellion," said fellow bandmate Emily Robison about the early days of the controversy. "But people just don't like mouthy women in country music."

While the fallout from Maines' London comment is a focus of the film, "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing" also takes viewers into personal arenas of the band, including balancing careers with motherhood, and there's also segments on Maines and fellow Chick Martie Maguire's in-vitro pregnancies in addition to their journey in the studio creating their latest album "Taking the Long Way," which debuted at number one on the Billboard charts this summer.

But it was the controversy and its repercussions that received the biggest attention at Wednesday's press conference. "We were their wet dream," said Maines about the right wing as well as political website The Free Republic in particular for organizing a substantial portion of the backlash. "We've been playing to about half the audiences we used to, but they're great and it feels like they have a purpose for being there... for free speech," added Maguire about their latest tour. "I have sat among the audience and it's been electric," said Kopple. "People have been singing, and holding up signs saying, 'Thank You!'"

Now a few years on, the band is still surprised that a one-off remark could cause such an uproar, and repeatedly referenced that surprise during the conversation in Toronto. "I would've never thought that me saying that would've brought on the reaction it did - with people banning us from the radio and me getting death threats." Yet, when asked by a member of the press about their feelings about Bush, they are steadfast. "A major disappointment... A major disgrace [when seeing] footage of Hurricane Katrina's aftermath. [Bush] has been a disaster, and seeing Spike Lee's documentary ("When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts") was awful."

At the world premiere of their film the night before in Toronto, co-director Cecilia Peck paid tribute to Canada on stage ahead of the screening, which the three band members recalled during the hour-long conversation with press the following day. Said Peck, "It's great to have the world premiere in a country where something like that which happened to the Dixie Chicks could never happen." "I think Americans should think about that," added one of the Chicks. [Brian Brooks]


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
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To: kristinn
"We've been playing to about half the audiences we used to, but they're great and it feels like they have a purpose for being there... for free speech,"

That's what I love about the First Amendment. It makes it easier to identify the idiots living among us.

141 posted on 09/14/2006 9:30:31 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can't defeat your enemy unless you are willing to get down in the mud with him.)
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To: Armedanddangerous
1. They are playing to half the audience they used to. And it's probably pissing them off big time.

Given the numerous cancellations on their current tour, that's not surprising. After all, their music is normally patronized by conservative-leaning fans, and when Maines made that stupid remark in 2003 the Dixie Chicks promptly lost a huge fraction of their audience.

142 posted on 09/14/2006 9:31:17 PM PDT by RayChuang88
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To: kristinn
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143 posted on 09/14/2006 9:31:51 PM PDT by Tzimisce (How Would Mohammed Vote? Hillary for President! www.dndorks.com)
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To: Lancey Howard

You owe Ms Piggy an apology!! Although they have similar voices??

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


144 posted on 09/14/2006 9:32:36 PM PDT by bray (Voting for the Rats is a Deathwish)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

I remember when John Lennon made that "famous remark". My cousin burned her Beatle records. I had given up on them by that time.


145 posted on 09/14/2006 9:32:42 PM PDT by Ciexyz (Leaning on the everlasting arms.)
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To: Charles Henrickson
Cast member Natalie Maines displays a chicks paws tattoo on her foot. . . .

Cast member Natalie Maines displays a chicks paws tattoo on her hoof . . .

There ,fixed it for ya. ; )

146 posted on 09/14/2006 9:33:04 PM PDT by afnamvet (It is what it is.)
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To: kristinn
They inflate their importance.Movie will bomb.Cecilia Peck should grow up and do a real movie.
147 posted on 09/14/2006 9:33:43 PM PDT by fatima
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To: kristinn
"...it feels like they have a purpose for being there... for free speech"

Per the Lefty Dictionary, boycotts organized by private individuals are a threat to free speech, but Congressmen openly threatening retaliation against a broadcast network is just A-OK.

148 posted on 09/14/2006 9:33:44 PM PDT by denydenydeny
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To: kristinn
"We've been playing to about half the audiences we used to. . . ."

"Ten people on a Thursday night is not bad!"

149 posted on 09/14/2006 9:34:41 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (DIX CHIX.)
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To: kristinn; blu

Pinging their biggest fan.


150 posted on 09/14/2006 9:34:54 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: kristinn

And of course the article fails to mention how they repeatedly insulted their former fans, instead making it all about the Bush comment.

Stupid cows.


151 posted on 09/14/2006 9:35:56 PM PDT by stands2reason (ANAGRAM for the day: Socialist twaddle == Tact is disallowed)
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To: kristinn
Natalie Maines Sez: Dixie Chicks Were FReepers' "Wet Dream"

About the only guy who might associate Natalie and wet dreams would
be that hill-country guy in "Deliverance":
"Natalie...SQUEAL LIKE A PIG!"
152 posted on 09/14/2006 9:36:45 PM PDT by VOA
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To: shankbear
Al-Qaeda grew while Monica blew.

Hmmmmmm....now that has real rally sign potential!

153 posted on 09/14/2006 9:37:25 PM PDT by TheDon (The Democratic Party is the party of TREASON!)
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To: kristinn
To Natalie Maines:

Exactly how many falming liberal gay cowboy country music listeners do you think are out there? Is there some Bizaro planet where independent films (gay cowboys eating pudding) is the norm that you think you can market music to?

154 posted on 09/14/2006 9:38:20 PM PDT by Centurion2000 (Property tax is feudalism. Income taxes are armed robbery of the minority by the majority.)
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To: CindyDawg

Wet dream? More like Canada Dry.

155 posted on 09/14/2006 9:38:27 PM PDT by Charles Henrickson (DIX CHIX.)
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To: kristinn

ROTFL!
They certainly flatter themselves don't they? Wet dream indeed. What arrogance. That is the MO of the left however.


156 posted on 09/14/2006 9:39:49 PM PDT by ladyinred
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To: kristinn
Just keep flapping your substantial gums girls. Your crowd prefers the Che Guevara t-shirts because he was better looking than y'all.

Same flawed philosophy, but somehow, twenty years from now I don't envision Dixie Chicks t-shirts on the young skulls of mush.

AKA, you're irrelevant. Get over it.
157 posted on 09/14/2006 9:40:18 PM PDT by mplsconservative
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To: kristinn

If I had a wet dream about Maines it would be because I had diarhhea in bed.


158 posted on 09/14/2006 9:40:48 PM PDT by pankot
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To: kristinn
That was one of many. I was digging in the archives today and found that thread.

You're right lots of threads back then:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/keyword?k=dixiechicks

This is a good one too:

The Dixie Chicks Official Thread

159 posted on 09/14/2006 9:43:05 PM PDT by CedarDave
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To: Charles Henrickson

Good,Hehe:)


160 posted on 09/14/2006 9:46:05 PM PDT by fatima
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