Comments on: The Dixie Chicks: No. 1 with a backlash

By: Tim K

Tim K — Thu, 08 Jun 2006 23:19:41 +0000

I am a Dixie chick fan and have always been a country music fan but I can see how close-minded and backward thinking Nashville is when I hear that music station programmers are excluding the Chicks from their playlists. This is unbelievable considering how tame those comments were. Doesn’t Jay Leno call Bush an idiot every freakin night? Lets just say I have a huge smile on my face after seeing the album charts the last 2 weeks.

By: The Doctor

The Doctor — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 13:51:20 +0000

As a Texan, I see nothing wrong with what the Dixie Chicks did or said [many have said that Texas voted twice to send Bush to Washington in order to get him the hell out of Texas], and those who called for a boycott of their music due to their policital statements mightbe very happy in followislamiclaworbebeatenistan.
For the record, why does no one call for the boycott of artists who openly support the Bush administration? Should artists and Hollywood types keep their opinions to themselves, or only if they are in opposition to the administration?

By: Alan T

Alan T — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 17:44:13 +0000

I’m a big fan of The Dixie Chicks with or without any politics. I own the new CD and I love it and it will do well for one simple reason…it’s a great album. As far as the Chicks being “victims” goes I think that it’s unfair to accuse them of playing to that for sales. I haven’t heard them ask for anyone’s sympathy and I don’t think they want any. Unfortunately they’re going to be labled by some pepople no matter what they do and that’s sad. It’s sad that some people can’t find other ways to express their patriotism then to attack American’s who have expressed their constitutional right to freedom of expression. Get over it already!Anyway, just by the CD, you’ll like it.

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:10:05 +0000

Let’s not forget they made their first anti Bush remark from the comforts of Londonistan.

By: DBL

DBL — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 19:01:15 +0000

I threw away my last Dixie Chicks CD, unopened, and I won’t be buying this one. I don’t care how good they are. Pandering to anti-American audiences abroad in order to sell albums, well, count me out.

By: Joel

Joel — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:21:05 +0000

How much courage does it take to Bush bash in the music industry these days anyway?
It takes courage though to tell the truth about Islam.

By: Michelle

Michelle — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:47:51 +0000

Does this ‘horrible price’ involve comfy chairs or soft pillows?

By: Drew W

Drew W — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 17:11:42 +0000

Indeed. Meryl was the kind of eagle-eyed typesetter who didn't flinch in the face of such unforeseen Billboard dilemmas as the time that Mike + The Mechanics changed their name to Mike & The Mechanics. (And on one particularly bad day, when he was really ticked off at his band, Mike renamed the group Mike > The Mechanics, but that's another story.) At any rate, I get a kick out of hearing MSM reports about the horrible price the Dixie Chicks have paid for their anti-Bush comments. I can think of an awful lot of musical artists who wish they'd have to pay such a price: magazine covers (appearing clothed and unclothed); top-grossing concert tours; and now a No. 1 album. And yet they're automatically portrayed as victims. What crap. This point really shouldn't have to be made, but: The Dixie Chicks are not Alexander Solzhenitsyn; Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon are not Andrei Sakharov and Yelena Bonner; etc. etc. The list goes on.