I wonder when the mainstream fans who are trying them out BECAUSE of the heat they are taking are gone, will Bubba Biblebelt, the fans they need for long term success, be there for them.
Remember, Beatles fans are a LOT different than people whose dream it is to visit Dollywood before they die. People who consider the Grand Old Opry a Mecca of sorts.
My only guess is that they are trying to make a jump over to pop with the nude move.
McCarthyism by most definitions is not just about government action. It includes the blacklisting of people based on leftist political beliefs, as happened in the 1950s in Hollywood. However, what’s happening to the Dixie Chicks is hardly on this scale; only if all the major record labels and stores abided by a decision to blacklist would you have something comparable.
All is not as it seems. [Consider](www.courier-journal.com/cjextra/ editorials/ed0420_edwards.html ):
Hooray for Dixie Chicks!
Thrilled that they haven’t backed down.
Even more thrilled that they’re spending more time on politics and les time on music. With any luck, they’ll give up the latter altogether!
I read that last word as movie, and I was going to beg for a cite.
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Even more thrilled that they’re spending more time on politics and les time on music. /QUOTE] (bolding mine)
With Melissa Etheridge and kd lang?
That has got to be a doctored photo. The Natalie in the photo looks 30 lbs lighter! Amazing what you can do w/ Photoshop nowadays…
Photoshopped picture of a Photoshopped picture . . . courtesy of a farker at fark.com
THis is almost exactly what I posted in another thread, so forgive the redundancy:
To those who wonder if the nude photo was doctored, I can tell you this: the Dixie Chicks live near Austin, and (believe it or not) they’re real trivia buffs! I see them semi-regularly at a weekly trivia contest downtown (big disclaimer: I don’t know them, never attempt to talk to them, and am NOT trying to pass myself off as a close friend of theirs; truth to tell, I’m not even a big fan of their music). And I promise you, Natalie is NOT fat, no matter what impression you get on television, and no matter what jokes you hear on TV. And her bandmates are just flat-out SKINNY!
I can’t judge whether there was ANY airbrushing, but they’ve told the local Austin paper that, yes, they really WERE naked, and they didn’t just have their heads attached to some models’ bodies.
I’m about as far-right as any SDMB regular, and I wasn’t crazy about the WAY Natalie phrased her criticisms of the President… but my superficial impression of the Chicks is that they’re genuinely nice people. Natalie has apologized to the President- not for opposing the war, but for doing it in a crude manner- and that’s good enough for me. It’s probably good enough for most of their fans.
The Dixie Chicks certainly have the right to express their opinions, and people certainly have the right to buy their music or tickets or whatever, and they also have the right to boycott them for any reason, including their political statements. What the people don’t have the right to do is to threaten the Dixie Chicks. I’d like to see Bush make a statement like “hey, I don’t like what this girl said but let’s not take it too far. Lay off with the threats, people.”
That’s what i thought, but I wasn’t sure…
But in all fairness, that quote, presented as fact, came from an editorial.
So, when were there Congressional hearings regarding the Dixie Chicks?
Remember, folks, ordinary people DO NOT HAVE THE RIGHT TO DISAGREE WITH RICH LIBERAL CELEBRITIES. Remember that. Say it 100 times every single day. It is the new religion. It shall soon be a felony to refuse to buy Dixie Chicks merchandise.
From an interview with Bush by Tom Brokaw (I got this blurb via CNN, though)
I went 30 years without watching Hanoi Jane movies; I think I can live without Dixie Chicks CDs.
I am surprised that none of this recent hullabaloo has prompted people to remember something for which I dislike the DC’s: Their ode to Loretta Bobbit, “Goodbye Earl”.
I think there is a prohibition about posting the entire lyrics, but in short Wanda marries Earl, Earl hits Wanda, and Wanda instead of leaving, conspires with Mary Anne to murder Earl.
Would it make much of a song if the sexes were reversed?
Kinda like Guns n Roses’ “I Used to Love Her”?
I love that song, and apparently others do to as it still gets radio play around here. And I love “Goodbye Earl.”
I mean, they’re just songs. Sheesh.
But in all fairness, the sentences quoted were factual. I’m sure it’d be trivial for someone to find out whether or not Colin Powell’s son is, in fact, chairman of the FCC, or what Clear Channel’s official position is regarding corporate ownership of media properties.
No, it would just be Eminem.
Did Bush seriously say that? That’s exactly my opinion, and a really good statement of it.
I hadn’t heard about the ClearChannel connection, that’s very sinister.
The thing is, I didn’t take their comment as an opposition to the war. It was a personal insult against the President, plain and simple. That’s what I think has gotten the ire of so many Bush-supports raised against them. It was a remarkably stupid thing to do, and I’m sure they are sorry that they did it. I fully endorse any actions taken against them by consumers, up to and including boycotting or bulldozing their albums.
Mostly I was just glad that it meant the radio stopped playing their godawful Stevie Nicks cover.