Dixie Chicks still taking their licks - did quip kill goose that laid gold records?

The Dallas Morning News ^ | July 6, 2003 | By MARIO TARRADELL / The Dallas Morning News

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

I don't know if you would still like their music if you thought a little more about the timing of their actions. They made those statements in London at a time when Blair was hanging on by a thread because of his support for Bush. Blair didn't need a trio of popular morons from the US stiring his people up against him. Had we lost the UK coalition support, things might not ahve been so easy.

Their treasonist actions are more serious than people think. I can't look at their picture without thinking of Hanoi Jane and getting hostile.

[MeekOneGOP]

Just so you know, I'm ashamed Natalie is from Texas.

LOL ! Me too. Good one.

[MeekOneGOP]

Yep. I was pleasantly surprised by the presentation of this article.
Especially since it is from The Dallas Moanin' News.

[MeekOneGOP]

I just saw your profile page. Love the part about how you got your screen name, lol !! And the Archie pics.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

Thanks Meek....thanks for all the Pings too.

[Dark Wing]

You should never crap on your core audience like the Maines not once, not twice, but did three times.

I forsee a new lead singer in the Dixie Chick's future.

[MeekOneGOP]

Oh, thank you. My pleasure.

[tiamat]

I saw that on Cavuto

what that liberal is missing is that many people bought their non-refundable concert tickets weeks and months in advance. At today's prices, few people are going to be willing to just "eat" that.

Obviously, the liberal has money to burn and does not understand how "the little people" live.

Tia

One of the "little people"!

[tiamat]

Or the other two Chicks being brought up assault or homecide charges!

tia

[JoeSchem]

And who told them to appear naked on the cover of Entertainment Magazine with magic market all over them?

The article refers to this as 'damage control.' How????

[Burkeman1]

I think the Dixie chicks have "hollywood" agents and image makers when they should have stayed with some Nashville advisors.

[SamAdams76]

The current single, "Godspeed (Sweet Dreams)," released after the ACM performance, is inching up Billboard's country singles chart. It sits at No. 48 after five weeks.

According to my recent copy of Billboard, the song is stalled at #48. That is, it was #48 last week as well so forward momentum has stopped.

That is actually a pretty good song and it would have been certainly headed for the Top 5 (maybe even another number one) had they kept their anti-American sentiments to themselves.

Absolutely, this controversy has had a negative effect on them. I already threw my copy of Home out in the trash and I won't be buying anything else they put out.

[Republican Wildcat]

Entertainment Weekly, where the Chicks appeared nude with slurs painted on their bodies, couldn't quell the ire from the naysayers or prompt record sales from the curious. Essentially, they were momentary media events. (The group members declined to be interviewed for this article.)

All this time I thought that was some sort of a parody someone ginned up.

[SamAdams76]

Only one country station in all of Boston?

There used to be two but the dominant one bought the other out and now they have a talk radio format (which features conservative Jay Severin). I live north of Boston so I pick up the big New Hampshire country station (97.5) loud and clear. Anyway, when I get tired of modern country, I have a stack of classic country CDs in the car. Everything from Johnny Cash to Waylon to Hank Williams.

There is a college station in town (MIT = 88.1) that has some excellent country programming every Saturday. "Sleep Holler" from 6-8AM, "Lost Highway" from 8-10, "Backwoods" from 10-12 and finally "Jake's Juke Joint" from 12-2. ("Backwoods" also focuses on early American rock and roll). You can listen live from anywhere. Beware however, like all college radio stations, this is a radio station with a leftist-Marxist political bent. But Saturday mornings is a welcome reprieve from their usual nonsense.

[MeekOneGOP]

"All this time I thought that was some sort of a parody someone ginned up."

Oh, no. It's true. Check out the pic at #8 and the article too.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/900882/posts?page=20#20

[Burkeman1]

Treason? They didn't look through the view finder of an Iraqi Anti aitcraft gun or betray POWS to their masters like Hanoi Jane did. One of them mouthed off about Bush at a concert and said some other stuff I think as well. I hardly equate them with Hanoi Jane and certainly don't call it treason- that cheapons the term.

[Cicero]

I think they or their agent confused popularity with the Hollywood crowd and the TV circuit for popularity with their country music fans. They got a lot of attention and a lot of name recognition, but none of it was bankable.

At this point, probably their only hope is, as the article suggests, to drop country music and do something else that would be more popular with leftists and America-haters. Maybe punk rock or heavy metal. But I doubt whether their natural talents lie in that direction.

[OldEagle]

Treason?
I agree with you. Not treason, but very poor judgment, arrogance and purely unenlightened damage control combined with a total ignorance of and regard for their fan base spelled adios chickees.

[Burkeman1]

Agree. Truly a self inflicted wound for the ages. It is truly one of the stupidest "damage control" campaigns ever mounted.

[tickles]

I went to the concert because we had bought the tickets, don't know why I bothered since I can't stand the sound of her voice off cd, but thought she might sound better in person.....nope her voice still grates on my nerves, the rest of my family thought she sounded fine. LOL

The one part of her concert that I really didn't like was the song about the civil rights era, I really thought the graphics and such were off base. The lecturing thing. there was alot more to that era then the side that was shown. And I wasn't the only person sitting there who didn't like the way they put the whole thing across, many others refused to clap for the song to.

Don't get me wrong there were problems in race relations back then, but there was something in the way they put them in viuslization that just didn't seem right, can't really put a finger on it but it was off. (IMO)