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Well, the Dixie Chicks have returned from the dead with a new video and a new CD to be released in May. For anyone in a coma prior to 2003, the Dixie Chicks were the hottest country act on the planet. Maybe any genre, not just country. It seemed like every other video and every other song on the radio was the Chicks.
Well, that all changed on March 10, 2003 when lead singer Natalie Maines said while performing in London "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas." Not long after that, the Chicks virtually disappeared from radio. Fans called stations, threatening to boycott if the Chicks were played. Radio stations (unlike Natalie Maines) knew who their customers were and quit playing the Chicks. During all this, a feud erupted between country star, Toby Keith (who found gold in waving the flag and putting his boot up various asses). Picture Jimmy Cagney singing Yankee Doodle Dandy, then add a foot and 100 pounds and you have Toby singing American Soldier.
I give Maines credit for saying what she thought. But I wonder if she stopped to consider who her fans were and the ramifications. The Chicks, realizing that their millions would soon be reduced to thousands, offered an apology just a few days after "the comment." It didn't work. We have virtually been Chickless for three years.
Now that the sentiment for the war is changing, will the Chicks be welcomed back to the fold? Do they care? Will they try some kind of crossover to pop...folk...rap?
Well, that all changed on March 10, 2003 when lead singer Natalie Maines said while performing in London "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas." Not long after that, the Chicks virtually disappeared from radio. Fans called stations, threatening to boycott if the Chicks were played. Radio stations (unlike Natalie Maines) knew who their customers were and quit playing the Chicks. During all this, a feud erupted between country star, Toby Keith (who found gold in waving the flag and putting his boot up various asses). Picture Jimmy Cagney singing Yankee Doodle Dandy, then add a foot and 100 pounds and you have Toby singing American Soldier.
I give Maines credit for saying what she thought. But I wonder if she stopped to consider who her fans were and the ramifications. The Chicks, realizing that their millions would soon be reduced to thousands, offered an apology just a few days after "the comment." It didn't work. We have virtually been Chickless for three years.
Now that the sentiment for the war is changing, will the Chicks be welcomed back to the fold? Do they care? Will they try some kind of crossover to pop...folk...rap?
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My name is Maximus Decimus Meridius, commander of the Armies of the North, General of the Felix Legions, loyal servant to the true emperor, Marcus Aurelius. Father to a murdered son, husband to a murdered wife. And I will have my vengeance, in this life or the next.
