If you boycotted the Dixie Chicks...

[JPN4265]

As to their popularity, I don't think they will ever make it back to where they were. As to the grammy awards, this was just another dig at President Bush. The grammies have become political in nature and not a true example of talent. The country and western fans still are not coming back and probably won't in the very near or distant future. They chicks will need to move to the left of the entertainment industry in order to sell records and music.

 

[auntpolly]

Well somebody isn't boycotting them anymore - obviously.

I think the grammys are ridiculous and have for years - they are not anything to do with music excellence and everything to do with a pop music contest - emphasis on "pop" - "popular" - people like them and that's how you win a grammy.

I'm still wondering how Carrie Underwood is best new artist....

I'm confused and maybe a little amused by people who are enraged by some girl singer with no political power and not at all by our president and his crew.

Are you guys still boycotting French stuff too?????

 

[Tiziminchac]

Since I don't wanna insult fat people or those that look like crows. Or perhaps crows themselves. I will refrain from my right to free speech concerning the Dixie Chicks.

 

[Fitswimmer]

I DON"T condone death threats, hate mail and the record burning parties-but I got really tired of the Dixie Chicks on Oprah, the Dixie Chicks on the nightly shows, The Dixie Chicks documentary, the Dixie Chicks on the cover of Rolling Stone, Time, Entertainment Weekly...it was all victimhood, all the time. "poor us, we were just exercising our right to free speech and people were mean to us!"

Having said that, their music is on my iPod-even the new album and I like it. I just don't feel sorry for them. The CD sold millions, it was #1 on Amazon for quite a while and now they've won FIVE Grammy's for it. I think they can drop the victim tour now and just make some music. If it's good, people will buy it.

 

[Charade]

Have you even listened to the album/songs they were nominated for? They are great music, passionate and timely. They deserved to win what they won. .

Have you noticed that taste in music is highly subjective? I hate jazz. It's like 5 guys sitting around tuning up to 5 different songs. After 5 minutes they call it a rap and press the record. I'm sure they're passionate about it too! Still yucky to me.

 

[Disney Doll]

Didn't care for them before they made their political statement.

Good that they don't care about their fan base and will say what they want. When they fade away, it won't matter to them.

 

[MassJester]

Their 15 minutes of fame was over a LONG time ago.

Apparently not.

 

[Nancy]

Perhaps it is time for the people who felt insulted to just shrug and move on? What do you want? Should they beg you to like them again? Should they apologize for how they felt? Everyone can have an opinion and perhaps they could have been nicer about it, but I would bet that they privately got a lot of BS from the other country people for daring to be "Anti-American". I can understand why they would say screw it and just seek out a new fan base rather than deal with the BS sent to them by die-hard All-Americans like Toby Keith. (Can I just say that his Proud to be an American song, while meant well, is just too over the top for me?)

To each their own, but perhaps it is time for those fans who have hurt feelings to just move on?

Just as the Chicks should move on too...they have done everything they can to remind us over and over again about the whole incident...even last night at the awards Natalie made a comment about how she better "shut up before I say something I shouldn't"

I like the Chicks, I like the song "ain't ready to make nice". I've heard the album and quite frankly it didn't sound too much different from their "country" stuff that own. I do think it was a HUGE joke that with all the country music out there that there album was even in a category with country music when they ahve made it very clear that they do not want to be associated with that genre of music anymore, but that is not their fault...they didn't put their album in that category the Grammy committee did.

 

[shirleyb]

Nope, not ready to make nice with the Dixie Chicks. It's more their attitude and disrespect of their fans than anything they said about GWB. Natalie is very immature, IMO.

 

[Luckymommyx2]

I've never cared for them or their music. Apparently they don't care if I care.

 

[salmoneous]

Their newest CD / Tour was a "bomb" when compared to the previous stuff, if I have my facts right.

Let's see - album went to number #1 on both the country and pop charts (despite large numbers of radio stations that refused to play it) and was one of the top 10 selling albums of the year. Multiple Grammy's. Top of VH1 video chart.

I think a lot of people would love to have a "bomb" like that.

 

[cardaway]

Let's see - album went to number #1 on both the country and pop charts (despite large numbers of radio stations that refused to play it) and was one of the top 10 selling albums of the year. Multiple Grammy's. Top of VH1 video chart.

I think a lot of people would love to have a "bomb" like that.

Amazing success given the almost complete lack of support. Even the tour did quite well despite very few promoting their tour dates on country stations.

This whole thing reminds me of a grade school playground where the kids are pressured by a bully to ignore the kid they liked and played with the year before.

 

[Chattyaholic]

I wasn't thrilled when they made their political views known during a concert, but didn't boycott them. They have the right to their political opinions but I don't think a concert is the place to be so vocal about it. I still enjoyed their music though. But when they said they didn't want to be included with fans of Reba McEntire and Toby Keith, well, then I pretty much gave up on them, and especially when they came out with that song "Not Ready to Make Nice." That is just wrong. I hate the song and their unwillingness to "get over it." They are no longer "country" and when a group "changes" their music genre like that I just don't have the desire to support them. I will still listen to their older music, but won't buy any in the future.

 

[Fitswimmer]

Amazing success given the almost complete lack of support. Even the tour did quite well despite very few promoting their tour dates on country stations.

This whole thing reminds me of a grade school playground where the kids are pressured by a bully to ignore the kid they liked and played with the year before.

But that's the point, there wasn't a lack of support, they just got it from different people. The statement pushed them onto the cover of everything, on all the TV shows and even a movie-people who would never have listened to them because they didn't like country music heard about them and bought their stuff.

don't get me wrong, they did NOT deserve death threats or CD burnings, but they really can't say that it hurt their career given the evidence to the contrary.

 

[magicmato]

Wow, of course I was being completely serious because no one has ever made a joke on a message board before.

On the other hand, I wouldn't really call Coulter "someone". She's some sort of demonic creature sent from the bowels of Hades.

LMBO. Yep, could not have said it better... though I tend to think even the demonic side would not wish to claim her, lol.

 

[pansmermaidzlagoon]

I probably would never have listened to them if they hadn't taken a political stance, and now I have their songs on my ipod. In general, I don't do country music.

this is me too - I don't mind bluegrass once in a while, but overall do not do country..


I am hoping to get an Ipod soon - this album will be on it!!!

 

[magicmato]

Just as the Chicks should move on too...they have done everything they can to remind us over and over again about the whole incident...even last night at the awards Natalie made a comment about how she better "shut up before I say something I shouldn't"

I like the Chicks, I like the song "ain't ready to make nice". I've heard the album and quite frankly it didn't sound too much different from their "country" stuff that own. I do think it was a HUGE joke that with all the country music out there that there album was even in a category with country music when they ahve made it very clear that they do not want to be associated with that genre of music anymore, but that is not their fault...they didn't put their album in that category the Grammy committee did.

I agree, they should move on... however I am not convinced it is just them keeping it in the limelight. They did not make the documentaries, nor, I am sure, did they beg Oprah to have them on. If they went around completely avoiding history or the issue, then everyone would be screaming about how they are avoiding it because they know they were wrong, yadda yadda.

They cannot win either way.

 

[cardaway]

But that's the point, there wasn't a lack of support, they just got it from different people. The statement pushed them onto the cover of everything, on all the TV shows and even a movie-people who would never have listened to them because they didn't like country music heard about them and bought their stuff.

don't get me wrong, they did NOT deserve death threats or CD burnings, but they really can't say that it hurt their career given the evidence to the contrary.

The lack of support was only in response to people who say they didn't support them. Lack of support from the same groups that had supported them up until they dared to speak out. Lack of support from people who still support other artists that say similar things, but fall on the "right" side of the issue.

 

[magicmato]

The lack of support was only in response to people who say they didn't support them. Lack of support from the same groups that had supported them up until they dared to speak out. Lack of support from people who still support other artists that say similar things, but fall on the "right" side of the issue.

Yep. Toby Keith, IIRC, came out against the Dixie Chicks at a concert, basicly calling them unamerican... but that seems to be an *ok* use of free speech, even though it was at a concert and a harsh criticism of another person, lol.

 

[wvrevy]

A few thoughts...

- I wonder how long it would take some of the people here to get over death threats? Somehow, I'm thinking those posters wouldn't be all that ready to make nice, either.

- They never said they didn't want country fans or that all country fans were rednecks (although, they certainly implied the latter when it comes to Toby Keith's fan base...but if the boot fits ). What they said was that they were looking for an informed fan base, not just fans of a particular style of music. They weren't bashing Reba...just using her as an example of a country artist. But, of course, these "fans" couldn't be bothered to examine what was meant by the comment, taken out of context. They just took it at what it seemed to imply. Gee...I wonder if those same fans weren't already inclined to dislike them for their political comments?

- I love the comments about how unsuccessful the Chicks are now. As if a platinum album and 5 Grammy awards are somehow the mark of failure.

- At a guess, I'd say those that are most indignant - or acting that way, at least - are the same ones that were most hopeful the Chicks would just fade away. Imagine their disappointment seeing the girls be rewarded last night. Must have really been hard on them.

- When throwing things at Anne Coulter, try not to hit her Adam's Apple. The rebound could be dangerous to those around you.

WAY TO GO CHICKS!!!!