Dixie Chick's Natalie again....

[BuzzBoyMom]

I used to believe that I listened to someone becuase "I enjoyed their music"....but as we mature, we realize that in listening and buying ones music, we also support what they say. That doesn't mean I turn the radio off when someone I don't agree with is playing, but I certainly will not buy the music of someone whom I don't agree.

Sorry dixie chicks - but you guys need to move out of the US if you are not happy with things here

 

[LoraJ]

I used to believe that I listened to someone becuase "I enjoyed their music"....but as we mature, we realize that in listening and buying ones music, we also support what they say. That doesn't mean I turn the radio off when someone I don't agree with is playing, but I certainly will not buy the music of someone whom I don't agree.

Sorry dixie chicks - but you guys need to move out of the US if you are not happy with things here

You really forgot what being an American is all about. Those of us who despise the current administration stay here so that we can make sure that we can CHANGE it in upcoming elections to make it become the country we love again.

So funny, I bet so many of these people who just can't get over the whole Dixie Chick debacle are the same people telling dems to get over the 2000 election.

 

[Planogirl]

Sorry dixie chicks - but you guys need to move out of the US if you are not happy with things here

I sincerely hope that you don't really mean that. That type of thinking is kind of scary IMO.

I only avoid celebrities if what they think is harmful in some way. I even defended Charlton Heston when he was being slammed even though I strongly disagreed with him. One could even argue that his stance at the time could be harmful to others.

I guess that I just don't get the attitude that what someone else thinks matters. If my butcher or the guy at the cleaners hung up a Bush poster, I wouldn't stop patronizing their establishment.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

So funny, I bet so many of these people who just can't get over the whole Dixie Chick debacle are the same people telling dems to get over the 2000 election.

So we must buy a CD to get over it?


I think we are all entitled to our own opinions. I thought what they said originally was in poor taste as being said in a foreign country---but I also thought it was dumb the crazy backlash.

But unless W is calling all those who don't support him as being a redneck (or any other condescending name you can think of)--or Dixie chicks are somehow "stealing" listeners (instead of votes) you cannot compare the two.

DC spoke their mind and when they start talking about their fanbase--well..that is going to be a bit of a problem. Always easier to maintian the current customers than to try and earn new ones. This doesn't mean you have to sell out--but don't start assuming things about your fan base and say things that can be construed as insulting. I actually thought their song was a bit on the clever side--but then when you go in interviews and speaking of people like me as though we aren't worth your time..well, that is just plain rude. I didn't expect her to change her ways. However, insulting those who buy your albums is new--they didn't do that before.

We cannot vote who can be lead singer of the Dixie Chicks--but we can certainly vote with our wallets and if we don't wish to purchase a CD, that is just fine and dandy.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

I guess that I just don't get the attitude that what someone else thinks matters. If my butcher or the guy at the cleaners hung up a Bush poster, I wouldn't stop patronizing their establishment.

But would you still patronize if they resorted to insults?

 

[Planogirl]

But would you still patronize if they resorted to insults?

If they insulted me personally, I wouldn't go any more. If they insulted someone else once, I'd shrug it off. If they did it constantly, I'd say something.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

If they insulted me personally, I wouldn't go any more. If they insulted someone else once, I'd shrug it off. If they did it constantly, I'd say something.

I think that is what a lot of us are saying about the Dixie chicks.

Obviously it won't resort to "LLP is such a redneck" b/c obviously they don't know me from adam.

But they are directly insulting people who are buying their stuff (while making gross exaggerations of whom their fanbase is just b/c they don't see "Earl" or other redneck characature (sp?) in an audience at their shows).

I shrugged off the war comment. Didn't really care. In fact they had a touching song out at that time but the name escapes me at the moment.

 

[Annie68]

It will be interesting to see how they do after all this controversy. I personally found the comments about their not wanting fans who listen to other country music insulting, but to each there own! Here's a TIME article I saw this morning:

Dixie Chicks
Country's Defiant Darlings
By RICHARD CORLISS
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Posted Sunday, Apr. 30, 2006
Natalie Maines' 15 words can't top George Bush's 16—the ones about uranium in Niger—for political effect. But when the Dixie Chicks played London in 2003, 10 days before the Iraq invasion, and Maines said, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," the tremors in the conservative country music scene were seismic. The Chicks, whose previous two CDs had hit No. 1 on both the pop and country charts, lost album sales and radio play. Some fans stomped their discs to bits.

Maines, 31, Emily Robison, 33, and Martie Maguire, 36, didn't cringe and curtsy. On their tart, tasty new album, Taking the Long Way, they make stands and take hostages. The title song sets a defiant tone ("Wouldn't kiss all the *** that they told me to") that peaks in the CD's first single, the power-pop Not Ready to Make Nice. Maines' vocal intensity counters that of fans whose doting curdled into death threats, including "a letter/ Sayin' that I better shut up and sing/ Or my life will be over."

The Chicks, bless 'em, don't just carry a macrochip on their shoulders. There's instrumental virtuosity and a songwriting range that spans regions and decades. One country and one form of music aren't enough to contain them or stifle their passion. They'll sing but they won't shut up. That seems downright American.