Dixie Chicks Fired Up!
Posted By Blair Lovern in Keep It Country on March 10, 2006
The Chicks of Dixieness are mad as hell (no kidding?) on their upcoming release, which was announced today that it will be released upcomingly on May 23.
I will be the first in line to say these ladies are fine musicians. I will be about 289,543,211,383rd in line to say their brains operate as smoothly regarding other subject matters. That's a mighty long line because according to Google that number "did not match any documents" anywhere on planet earth.
The Chicks can say whatever they want about anything they want, I honestly do not care. God Bless Kate Smith America for being able to speak/sing out about anything. But to get all floppity floo and flummoxed over what other people say back is just plain childish. I'm not talking about death threats or whatnot. That ain't right. But c'mon, Chicks.
Case in point: The upcoming single "Not Ready To Make Nice" is a joke.
Sample lyrics:
Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting.
Here's a big fat duh: Other people have opinions, too. Some folks won't ever forgive this band over what they said three years ago, and for some reason this freaks them out?
They've also got a song called "Lubbock or Leave It" about, what they say in a press release, "small-town narrow-mindedness."
What the hell is this? Agree with the Chicks and you are an ingenious humanoid computer named Brainiac? Disagree and you're an underdeveloped moron who's still playing an Atari 400 (with a tape recorder, not a disk drive)?
Man, this is laughable. Chicks, get over yourselves. I can't tell what color your tower is any more, it's too tall.
ScottChaffin, says:
Who, what? I think Charlie Robison married a singer called Dixie...
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AlanFraser, says:
You're crediting them with things they didn't say in your "What the hell is this?" bit. If someone points a gun at you and threatens to use it, how long are you going to stay hacked off about it. Long time, I suspect. I know I would and I'd probably write a song about it too.
They've done no harm to Lubbock. The Convention Center director said she doesn't even remotely have a budget to get the publicity the Dixie Chicks have given Lubbock. As far as she's concerned, there's no such thing as bad publicity. Here's a link to the article: http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?... (That's from KCBD in Lubbock)
As to small towns being narrow-minded ... north, south or Timbuktu, all of them are. Anyway, I've got four tickets to their show and can't wait to see them.
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Blair Lovern, says:
I'm not sure what you mean, Alan. The DC's are truly hacked off at people who disagree with them. It ain't about one death threat. They either cannot fathom how people can have another point of view, or they do understand and flat-out insult them and do not care about ruining their fan base. The Dixie Chicks are fine musicians but horrible thinkers.
And actually, I've had a loaded gun pointed at me and I didn't lump the entire populace with the temperament and/or lack of brain nesting in the skull of the person behind the trigger.
That story you linked explained one thing: It explained that several weeks ago, the Director of the Lubbock Convention and Visitors Bureau hoped any publicity would help the town.
Well, now that the CD is out I don't know about Lubbock, but I do know that the DCs have shot themselves in the foot that went in their mouth. The CD is a radio dud.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedconte... http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2006/05... http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/ap... http://www.timesrecordnews.com/trn/lo... http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArt...
However, online sales are bullish. And they've still got you among their non-narrow-minded fan base, so enjoy the show.
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