Dixie Chicks Slam Bush on Foreign Soil

www.hollywoodhalfwits.com, et. al. ^ | 3/10/2003 | many

[sentz]

The other night, at their opening for their tour in London, they indicated on stage that they were sad to know/hear that our President was from Texas. Again, it is sad to see and hear yet another "celebrity" announcing that they are ashamed of their President of their Unites States. I just wish we would get over and get back so that these "celebrities" would quit using all of these Grammy, Emmy, own concert "stages" to provide their political saitre.

[Mears]

Boycott,boycott,boycott!!

[Poincare]

Was it brave of them to sacrifice their record sales and their careers to speak out their convictions?

Naah. They are just ignorant.

I never much liked them anyway, they are not authentic. They copy country music. They parody country music. Let them play New York and London clubs. Heck, let them play Paris.

They never had soul.

[GilesB]

I USED to like them....

[Redcloak]

Fine. They can still kiss my American @$$!

(And I've already been here for a while.)

[Tailback]

I spent 2 months in Texas last year and lets just say that Texan women tend to be a bit thicker than most northern ones. Not unattractive as they are still very feminine (more so than up north) but I think the Cowboys like having a bit more to hold onto.

[lisaann8]

A true American country singer:

Darryl Worley
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/862827/posts

[ohiobushman]

I'm ashamed the Ditzy $H!TS are from America!

[BossLady]

Is anyone else tired of celebs going overseas and talking trash about the US, it's president and/or the ompending war? What....they don't have the guts to talk about it on their home turf???

[Porterville]

If they plan to sell country music, then they are alienating their base....Fuc# the Dixie bi####s

[oldironsides]

How dumb is that? Who buys their CDs?

[Steve_Seattle]

My favorite band as a teenager was The Animals (the original version, not the psychedelic one), and Eric Burdon later went very far left. But his political opinions are uninformed tin-hat stuff, and he's washed up, so it doesn't matter any more what he thinks.

[Hamilton2]

I recall O'Reilly saying that the company which is responsible for the "Dixie Chicks" and some other groups, is the same company which uses PORN STARS TO PROMOTE THEIR ATHLETIC SHOES (PONY).

And THEY think they are ashamed of GW????

[Steve_Seattle]

"They never had soul."

That was my verdict, which is why I never bought any of their stuff despite its superficial appeal.

[Timesink]

Sluts I tell you just sluts. Dixie Clits.

Hope they enjoy their Hollywood lesbian orgies with the Barbra Streisand crowd, because they're not going to be welcome east of Arizona or south of New Jersey much longer.

[ImpBill]

Here is the message I attached to their message board on Yahoo.

Title: Ashamed are you?

It is indeed unfortunate that whether you agree with the President of the United States or not that you would choose to state you are "ashamed he is from Texas" at a concert in a foreign country. For that matter it is unfortunate that you would make that statement at all from a stage where you are practicing your craft ... music. In that you opted to do so, I will exercise my option not to purchase any of your products and suggest that friends and acquaintances of mine follow suit. You stepped on it big time, young ladies.

[Steve_Seattle]

Is anyone else tired of celebs going overseas and talking trash about the U.S.?

As a matter of fact, we all are. Also former PRESIDENTS going overseas and doing the same. I've had it with Peanut Carter.

[uncbob]

WEll I always thought they were an over hyped no talent group with a gimmicky name ( I am a fan of REAL country music not some of the pseudo rock pop stuff out today )

Their career demise will be no loss of any significance

[Timesink]

In case anyone needs proof, this is a review from today's Guardian (who else?):

Pop

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The Dixie Chicks

3 stars Shepherd's Bush Empire, London

Betty Clarke
Wednesday March 12, 2003
The Guardian

The Dixie Chicks are the good-time girls the country establishment loves to hate. Too direct, too old-fashioned, too modern ... you name it, it's been slung at the Texan trio. The old vanguard liked their women fiesty but second-class, preferably wearing cowgirl outfits and a smile. But the Dixie Chicks were renegade ladies of country who sung gleefully about killing abusive spouses and dressed like an older Britney Spears. Add the success they have had selling a progressive bluegrass sound to fans ignorant of banjos and whistles and you have an emasculating threat.

And they don't know when to stop. "Just so you know," says singer Natalie Maines, "we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." It gets the audience cheering - at a time when country stars are rushing to release pro-war anthems, this is practically punk rock.

Aside from courting controversy, the band has sold 25m LPs since their debut album, Wide Open Spaces, was released in 1998 and made the fiddle sexy. Featuring two sisters, Martie Maguire and Emily Robinson, along with the effervescent Maines, their passion for tradition and love for pop made the country genre a contender again. Their latest album, Home, won three Grammys.

Although their outfits are more New York than Nashville, the music is proud of its roots. Long Time Gone adopts the chatty style of Loretta Lynn and the poignancy of Hank Williams, Robinson's nifty banjo flowing beneath Maguire's sparky fiddle. Tortured, Tangled Hearts is similarly quick and quaint, Maines recalling Dolly Parton before she became Country Barbie.

Bluegrass's charm lies in its rawness, but the Dixie Chicks have polished the mountain sound and made it palatable for a new audience. This does mean that Truth No.2 creeps into Celine Dion territory, Maines grabbing each phrase and shaking her head like a puppy with a toy. But it's in the giddy Sin Wagon, which turns religious worship into a hymn for sex, that the Dixie Chicks hit their stride, shrieking, shouting, unrepentant.

F'ing whores.

[Mister Magoo]

I agree. Freep the Dixie Chicks' official forum. Goto:

http://messages.yahoo.com/bbs?action=l&tid=dxc1&sid=22198844&ft=1

[Timesink]

On a recent Dixie Chicks special on CMT, either Martie or her sister said the original Dixie Chicks had performed at events for Texas Governor Bush on more than a few occasions.

You mean back when nobody had ever heard of them and they were still whoring for publicity?