And I don't think they've had a hit since then.
They are doing a new tour, I learned at a classic country music forum, and I suppose she wants to go back and rewrite history, since she didn’t do so well the first time she ran her fat mouth. But she probably knows that along with “country” music, the “country music audience” today is a different animal, and this new one will probably support her this time.
This is another instance of the left’s mopping up of any formerly recognised conservative entities, in this case the country music industry (it may not have been “truly” conservative back in the day, but it was generally recognised as more family-friendly and patriotic back then than other genres, and certainly more than it is now since the left sneaked through the back door with Americana, red dirt, etc, and “bro-country” and “country rap”, and through the front door with the taking up of things like the rainbow gestapo cause in mainstream country music).
Plus just watering down a more rural sound, less sophisticated sound (in general, or stereotypically) with “country pop” killing off the sound of country music.
Natalie Maines infamously spoke her mind about war and then-President George W. Bush back in 2003...
And I don’t think they’ve had a hit since then.