Dixie Chicks launch full-frontal attack - "not...standing their ground...pushing it even farther"

The Dallas Morning News ^ | April 25, 2003 | By TOM MAURSTAD / The Dallas Morning News

[AlbionGirl]

They're probably not finished; at least in the near term. No doubt they've converted others not usually prone to like Bluegrass or C&W, but those fans aren't likely to stick around once the dust has been substantially settled.

Their loss will be the large number of true Bluegrass and C&W fans who are now just repulsed by them. They won't need to talk themsleves into not buying the Chicks CDs, it will be a reflexive thing. What remains to be seen is what the financial ramifications will be, in terms of future sales and advertisers putting their names behind the Chicks.

I hope they get booed off stage just as SINEAID did. They really have that coming.

[Bonaparte]

In answer to the question, "Is that really you, Natalie?" here is Exhibit #1 --

[Eaker]

The Dixie Chicks made the center square!!!!!

Originally posted by FReeper Martus!!!

[Jael]

Is it just me? I can't see how those photos are not airbrushed. Especially Natalie Maines. She is so chubby. One of them just had a baby. Their heads look like they are at a weird angle. I'm not buying the no airbrush thing.

[Eaker]

You be quicker than me!!!

[Bonaparte]

Exhibit #2 --

[Search4Truth]

I think it was a masterful PR move. Their PR agent knows that the Ditzi Chicks are history in the Country Music scene. They are using the negative publicity, generated by their previous Country Music fan-base, to create positive publicity for their new Pop Music fan-base.

PR people will give their first born male child for this kind of publicty. And they have used it to target a new fan-base.

[Bonaparte]

Exhibit #3 --

[Remedy]

When they shoot themselves in the foot, they empty the clip.

LOL

They are better cartoon characters than singers.

[Paul Atreides]

RE: Exhibit #3...

There is no better fashion statement than a California King waterbed sheet.

[Felis_irritable]

I'm getting a light case of CRS as I get older, but I could swear I heard Tony Snow say it *was* airbrushed earlier today. Didn't present it as opinion, but didn't source it either. But it looks too good to be true to YT also.

[Mark]

They really should try crack cocaine. It's helped so many celebrities with their careers.

[Revolting cat!]

"It's gonna be tough fight; gotta get ready for it and gain me some pounds!"

[Zevonismymuse]

Natalie has lost about 40 pounds in ten days!

And managed to get through pregnancy without a single stretch mark!

[Paul Atreides]

We can see through their artsy-fartsy explanation of that cover. They are trying to appeal to the neo-hippie Sheryl Crow crowd who think that such as that is so deep and so powerful a statement. They are publicity hogs.

[Paul Atreides]

And, people say class is dead!

[Revolting cat!]

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[Scothia]

PR people will give their first born male child for this kind of publicty. And they have used it to target a new fan-base.

Exactly, and we've all bought into it. Dang.

[lsee]

I've always believed one reason the Dixie Chick's comment inflamed so many people was their apparent hypocrisy. Sheryl Crow never pretended to be anything but liberal and anti-war from the beginning.

In contrast, the Dixie Chicks were riding a wave of popularity largely based on a military-themed song. When Natalie said what she did on foreign soil, on the eve of war, her attitude seemed a slap in the face to these military families and their commander-in-chief.

Her apologies have been a tangle of self-justifications and have revealed her deep dislike of President Bush and her lack of understanding of the war and the gravity of her actions. Her leftist (self-serving) thinking has once and for all been revealed, leaving many of her fans disillusioned. The three of them may yet emerge victorious by refashioning themselves as a leftist group, but they will probably not regain their previous, largly conservative audience.

[Enterprise]

It seems to be some sort of feminine logic I guess. Say something stupid, and instead of defending it with logic, get nekkid!