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Dixie Chicks: Shutup And Sing

Jimmydean55Jimmydean55 Posts: 1,439
edited December 2008 in Other Music
I just caught this movie on cable. A pretty good flick. I can't believe how much shit they took for one offhand comment. You look at Ed and how he rails on bush every night, nothing happenes. And The dixie Chicks do it one night for 5 seconds and they're banned on radio, "fans" have cd burning parties, etc. Just.... Wow. Guess that's one difference between being in a rock band and a country band.

Also = Holy crap, Chad Smith from RHCP played drums on the DC last album. He was featured for a bit in the movie.

Double Also, Holy crap = Chad Smith looks just like Will Ferrell.
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  • SVRDhand13SVRDhand13 Posts: 26,543
    Its funny you posted this as I'm watching Live at the Showbox and its up to Bushleager. I wish they'd play it live more. Fuck Bush.
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  • dharma69dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    Chad Smith has long looked like Will Ferrell. Or vice versa, actually.

    Country music is the difference and gender is the difference and running one's mouth overseas is the difference.

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  • Back_PedalBack_Pedal Posts: 1,171
    Then again, Eddie is known for his views and by now people have accepted it.
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  • celebrationcelebration Posts: 318
    the chicks sure did take a beating from that one little comment. great movie.

    i'm not big on country but i definitely GET the chicks.
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  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    Country music could possibly be MORE Corporate controlled than any other form of popular music....that is what killed the Chicks.
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    Maybe they took a beating b/c they were spineless and backed off their comments when they realized they were gonna lose $$$.
  • celebrationcelebration Posts: 318
    DewieCox wrote:
    Maybe they took a beating b/c they were spineless and backed off their comments when they realized they were gonna lose $$$.

    did you do your homework?


    tybird...the chicks are hardly dead...maybe in southern usa, but ;)
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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    celebration wrote:
    did you do your homework?

    What does that even mean? If you are implying that they didn't retract the statement, and they should be applauded for their actions, you are dead wrong.
    A Dixie Chick makes some big bold statement, overseas, to people that already hate GWB. When country radio started boycotting the chicks, they apologized. Then waited til people started hating GWB everywhere, came out with a new album and a big shocking movie to help promote it.

    The Dixie Chicks may have terrific opinions on GWB, but the way they expressed them was horrible and wreaked of a cash grab.
  • digsterdigster Posts: 1,293
    DewieCox wrote:

    The Dixie Chicks may have terrific opinions on GWB, but the way they expressed them was horrible and wreaked of a cash grab.

    Although I'm not a fan of the Dixie Chicks, I'm not sure any country band with an arguably majority conservative fanbase dissing a sitting conservative President during a time of intense patriotism and nationalism could ever be a successful 'cash grab.'
  • chromiamchromiam Posts: 4,114
    digster wrote:
    country band with an arguably majority conservative fanbase dissing a sitting conservative President during a time of intense patriotism and nationalism

    Here is the real reason why the DC caught the kinda of backlash that they did... they didn't take into account their fanbase when making the statements.
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  • PorchsitterPorchsitter Loganville, GA Posts: 1,078
    chromiam wrote:
    Here is the real reason why the DC caught the kinda of backlash that they did... they didn't take into account their fanbase when making the statements.


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  • DewieCoxDewieCox Posts: 11,430
    digster wrote:
    Although I'm not a fan of the Dixie Chicks, I'm not sure any country band with an arguably majority conservative fanbase dissing a sitting conservative President during a time of intense patriotism and nationalism could ever be a successful 'cash grab.'

    Ever heard "there's no such thing as bad publicity"? I think it applies here.
  • digsterdigster Posts: 1,293
    DewieCox wrote:
    Ever heard "there's no such thing as bad publicity"? I think it applies here.

    Well, some may say that. I think publicity that results in mass boycotts, death threats, and canceled tours counts as 'bad publicity.'
  • tybirdtybird Posts: 17,388
    celebration wrote:
    did you do your homework?


    tybird...the chicks are hardly dead...maybe in southern usa, but ;)
    ...on corporate controlled radio stations...I heard that they were extinct. :D They're actually too good for corporate country stations IMHO.
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  • celebrationcelebration Posts: 318
    DewieCox wrote:
    What does that even mean? If you are implying that they didn't retract the statement, and they should be applauded for their actions, you are dead wrong.
    A Dixie Chick makes some big bold statement, overseas, to people that already hate GWB. When country radio started boycotting the chicks, they apologized. Then waited til people started hating GWB everywhere, came out with a new album and a big shocking movie to help promote it.

    The Dixie Chicks may have terrific opinions on GWB, but the way they expressed them was horrible and wreaked of a cash grab.

    ha! so the chicks did it all for the publicity? LMFAO!

    maybe that's why ev does it too? OMG!

    i really hate publicity whores ;)

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  • celebrationcelebration Posts: 318
    tybird wrote:
    ...They're actually too good for corporate country stations IMHO.

    true dat.

    i've seen the chicks talent. the people who left are the same people who complain and leave the venue when ev bashes gw. it's tiresome.
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  • dpmaydpmay Posts: 643
    can anyone explain to me the 'foreign soil' part of this issue i always hear about? like it's OK to talk shit on the government in the US, but once you step outside our borders, it's not? what's the diff?
  • dharma69dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    dpmay wrote:
    can anyone explain to me the 'foreign soil' part of this issue i always hear about? like it's OK to talk shit on the government in the US, but once you step outside our borders, it's not? what's the diff?
    I can only speak for myself here: I think dissent is good, but I also think that it has a lot to do with living in a post-9/11 world. At least it does for me.

    Personally, I wouldn't run my mouth about how much I think my President sucks and is a criminal while outside of the US because, for better or worse, I am an American. Yes we're faulty and fucked up but I will still defend it for all that we are, have been, and have the potential to be. Talking shit about the US on other peoples' soil in this post-9/11 world does nothing but encourage those who viscerally hate us on that unreasonable level already to continue trying to hurt us. And being any celebrity means that you have an audience that will go far beyond that of the average joe (unless you're a plumber, of course) and your words will probably be taken to heart a lot harder.

    It's just a matter of judgement. Not Natalie Maines' finest hour as an American but, admittedly, others have done worse.
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  • searchlightsoulsearchlightsoul Posts: 583
    dharma69 wrote:
    I can only speak for myself here: I think dissent is good, but I also think that it has a lot to do with living in a post-9/11 world. At least it does for me.

    Personally, I wouldn't run my mouth about how much I think my President sucks and is a criminal while outside of the US because, for better or worse, I am an American. Yes we're faulty and fucked up but I will still defend it for all that we are, have been, and have the potential to be. Talking shit about the US on other peoples' soil in this post-9/11 world does nothing but encourage those who viscerally hate us on that unreasonable level already to continue trying to hurt us. And being any celebrity means that you have an audience that will go far beyond that of the average joe (unless you're a plumber, of course) and your words will probably be taken to heart a lot harder.

    It's just a matter of judgement. Not Natalie Maines' finest hour as an American but, admittedly, others have done worse.

    Without turning this into a political debate I've never undertsand how Americans just fall in behind their president no matter how bad. Infact I always thought more highly of american travellers willing to speak up than those whom didn't see it as politically correct or important.

    All power to the Dixie Chicks.
  • dharma69dharma69 Posts: 1,275
    searchlightsoul wrote:
    Without turning this into a political debate I've never undertsand how Americans just fall in behind their president no matter how bad. Infact I always thought more highly of american travellers willing to speak up than those whom didn't see it as politically correct or important.

    All power to the Dixie Chicks.
    You misunderstand me. Political correctness has nothing to do with it.

    You don't know Americans very well if you think that they just blindly fall behind anyone no matter how bad. I say again, I'm all for dissent; we probably do it better than anyone else and I've had many conversations with non-Americans where my opinions have been less than complimentary about some of our issues, but again, there's a time and place for everything. Natalie Maines' opinion shared over a dinner with random people in Europe, great and subject to a more in depth discussion. Natalie Maines' opinion yelled from a stage with an open mic for the world to take and run with and little else to qualify it, bad form.

    Again, a time and place for everything.
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  • angie76angie76 Posts: 646
    Yeah I haven't caught that yet..im surprised..i have so many cable channels you would think one would play it. Yeah, it's hard to beleive now that they got so much flack for what they said. But I guess like someone else said i guess their is a difference between what you can say in rock music and what you can say in country.
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  • stargirl69stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Great film.
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  • reversedarwinismreversedarwinism Posts: 1,151
    angie76 wrote:
    Yeah I haven't caught that yet..im surprised..i have so many cable channels you would think one would play it. Yeah, it's hard to beleive now that they got so much flack for what they said. But I guess like someone else said i guess their is a difference between what you can say in rock music and what you can say in country.

    Its not just being "country" or "rock". Its also the image you've established for yourself. PJ was never hill-billy rock, something more viseral about it. Now if Nickleback or Kid Rock said something like DC or PJ, red-necks mouths would open, french fries and quarter-pounders would fall out, and angry dumbasses would riot and burn pictures of kid rock - "oh lordy, I thought he was stupid like us. He has all those songs about being brainless, how could could he betray the ol redwhite&bluuuuuuue"
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