The Dixie Chicks Are Back in Business

Posted on February 13, 2007
Filed Under America, Music |

Remember those death threats they got after this? Do you remember this too? Well it looks like their career ain’t over. They just won a freaking Grammy. I guess we can now safely say that the Dixie Chicks are back in business. Anyways, me think Shania Twain is better.

Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines and Emily Robison from the Dixie Chicks

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3 Responses to “The Dixie Chicks Are Back in Business”

  1. Twosret on February 14th, 2007 3:16 am

    They were right weren’t they? Oh and Americans give death threat over a remark ?

  2. Finnpundit on February 15th, 2007 9:31 am

    No, they weren’t right. They were simply stupid young people parroting secular Western ideology that imagines that it espouses multiculturalism.

    The fact that they won the award is more about LA-based media power structures than about the merits of their music. In the long run, American Country Music remains the domain of right-wing, red state Republicans, which is the reason it was disdained for so long. If there is any justice inherent in the awarding of this prize, it is in that these idiots wound up making Country Music palatable as a worthwhile genre for richer, affluent markets on the two coasts, who used to look overseas for new inspirations for music.

  3. Finnpundit on February 16th, 2007 9:54 pm

    More, via AP:

    NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Country radio still isn’t ready to make nice with the Dixie Chicks.

    With a haul of Grammys Sunday, the Texas trio topped their comeback from their 2003 Bush-bashing comment that turned them from superstars to pariahs — but Music Row isn’t welcoming them back into the country-music fold.

    “Most country stations aren’t playing the Chicks, and they aren’t going to start now,” said Jim Jacobs, owner of WTDR-FM, a country radio station in Talladega, Ala.

    The awards might have the opposite effect, sparking another radio backlash against the group. Country broadcasters said Monday that the group’s five Grammys show how out of touch the Recording Academy is from the average country fan.

    “I think (the listeners) are outraged,” said Tony Lama, program director for KXNP in North Platte, Neb. “This is rural, conservative America. They are just disgusted.”

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070212/ap_en_ot/music_dixie_chicks_revenge

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