KC Radio Stations Dump Dixie Chicks

Yahoo! News ^ | March 14, 2003

[PJ-Comix]

If you tuned in to any of Kansas City's country music stations Thursday, you did not hear the Dixie Chicks.

Several stations in town have dumped the group's music over the lead singer's controversial comments about President Bush, KMBC's Jeremy Hubbard reported.

At a concert in London earlier this week, Natalie Maines, the band's lead singer said, " Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

The Guardian, a London paper that reported the comment, said Maines' remark got the crowd cheering.

Many local residents, however, were not excited about the singer's point of view.

"If you guys play another Dixie Chicks song, we'll never listen to you again," one country music fan told KBEQ.

The station logged nearly 700 phone calls Thursday, denouncing Maines' comment.

The reactions from listeners were enough for programmers at all three big Kansas City country radio stations to pull the Dixie Chicks from their playlists, Hubbard reported.

But some Dixie Chicks fans didn't appreciate the ban.

"There are some artists that I like that have said things I don't agree with, but it doesn't stop me from listening to their music," said radio listener Shawn Peterson.

One radio station is even taking the boycott a step further.

Friday morning, one local station will take the ban a step further. They have invited their listeners to come to the station's studios and dump their Dixie Chicks CDs in a big trash can, Hubbard said.

The Dixie Chicks are scheduled to play to a sold out crowd in Kansas City next month.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I said I wan't familiar with many of their songs. (Leaving some songs I am familiar with.) The ones I have heard turned me off to them as a group because I thought they were male bashing. I have heard their cover of Landslide, and I thought it was pathetic ( bad, not good, did not want to hear more). I am not sorry to see them go...

[MarMema]

Email kmps, Seattle's largest country music station -
email@kmps.com

Let them know the dixie chicks should be sent to France.
Ask them to stop playing their music.
I did. Hope you will join me.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good bump! here for economically 'taking down' the Dixie Sluts.

For Good.

And as a lesson to other smartass actors and performers who bad mouth the United States publicly while overseas.

[chiefqc]

What's the name of the short, fat, moron in the middle. Look like she needs to be back at school in the 9th grade.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Hey Natalie, come back home and repeat your comment in front of a crowd in say, Dallas or maybe Houston.

I guess the Dixie Chix have just become too sophisticated for the country music fans who have made them all rich. Hope their next performance is in a Karaoke bar in Lubbock, not that I would really wish that on the Karaoke fans in Lubbock…

[TomB]

Can they replace members like Menudo?

I think they have a weight limit.

She's gone.

[MarMema]

They are coming back, to tour. Perhaps we should keep track and show up where they play with our feelings.

[Free State Four]

Like PJComix said - listen to Patsy Cline. That girl could croooooooon a ballad.

And as for snotty little Miss Natalie: I'd like to see her say the same thing in a roadside bar in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She'd be diving behind the chicken wire for sure.

[MarMema]

TOUR INFO FOR THE DIXIE CHICKS

[alaskanfan]

At a concert in London earlier this week, Natalie Maines, the band's lead singer said, " Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

Pretty brave of Natalie to make that statement in a foreign land. I wonder if she would do the same in Dallas or Nashville?

I heard Laura Ingraham say yesterday that Natalie had made this statement after the tickets for their U.S. tour had sold out. I'd guess it was time for a refund. Maybe they could book a tour in France.

[Kevin Curry]

It was all SEX and a GIMMICKY NAME

Yep. Saw that from day one. The music itself was unremarkable; it will not endure.

[HIDEK6]

Yes, "Goodbye Earl" was satirically homicidal. But surely, you do not equate with revenge on a serial wife beater as man-bashing.

BZZZZTTT!

Let's hear Earl's side of the story, huh?

[MarMema]

I hope Austin, Texas creams them when they get there in May.

[heckler]

MEMO to the Chicks: Remember K.D. Lang.

[Mad Dawgg]

"Remember K.D. Lang."

Heheheh Who?

[KneelBeforeZod]

[Lockbox]

Memo to the Dixie Chicks fans:

Put some ice on it.....................

[alaskanfan]

It would be justice for them to play in an empty auditorium. (insert cricket sounds here)

[Diva Betsy Ross]

It is the squeeky wheel that gets the oil.

How do you think the civil rights movement affected change in this country?

This is a conservative movement. Welcome to the changing of the gaurd. You are welcome to jump on the bandwagon... however, even if you don't we are going in without you.

[Kevin Curry]

Yes indeedy! Patsy was a true icon. Beautiful voice.

Patsy would have never badmouthed and undermined the Commander-in-Chief--especially on unfriendly foreign soil on the eve of a battle in which American soliders were about to place thier lives on the line.