Dixie Chicks, again

[kellinator]

The thing that bugs me the most about the whole Dixie Chicks thing is how stupid it's making country music fans look. "Yeah!! Them bitches need to shut their pieholes and get in the kitchen and make me some pie!! Play that Have You Forgotten song!! Kill some Arabs!! Yeeeehaw!!"

I really don't think the outcry would have been as severe if a man had said it -- though there would still be an outcry.

(I was raised on country music so I get to say this stuff. Remember, you can say anything you want about a minority as long as you're in said minority.)

I think it will be funny if in a few months, all these people destroying their CDs realize that "Have You Forgotten" is a piece of crap and have to go buy second copies of their Dixie Chicks CDs.

Darrell Waltrip is a Republican. I wasn't thrilled when I found out, but I didn't stop rooting for him. Even though I think he sounds like an idiot when he talks about politics. Proposed rule: All celebrities should keep their mouths shut about politics unless they can talk about them without sounding like idiots.

And something else I've had it with: People who say that if you don't support the war, you don't support our troops. Bullshit. Part of the reason I don't support this war is because I love our troops (especially my cousin David, a father of three and a Navy chaplain currently in parts unknown because he can't tell us where he is -- we think it's Kuwait) and don't want to see them killed, hurt, or otherwise traumatized over a war which I believe is Junior's grudge match. I absolutely go through the roof when I hear people accusing protestors of that. I will never mistreat someone because they fought in the war (unless they committed war crimes) and I believe the vast majority of those against the war feel the same way.

So anyway, I like the Dixie Chicks, I think their music is great, I'd think that even if they said "President Bush is a terrific guy," I'm going to buy one of their CDs as soon as I get a chance and if I had the money, I'd buy copies for all my friends. Probably won't make much of a difference, but it'll make me feel better. Who knows, maybe I'll get up off my lazy ass and send them a fan letter to counter all the hate mail they must be getting.

Comments

Now what?

[satia.livejournal.com]

I take it the Dixie Chicks spoke out against the whole war?

Clearly I am out of the loop.

Re: Now what?

[mfree.livejournal.com]

They said, in front of a british audience, they they were ashamed Bush was Texan.

Oh

[satia.livejournal.com]

Well then, they must be witches.

Do they weigh the same as a duck? I guess that would be three ducks, all things considered.

[vestalvixen.livejournal.com]

Makes you think about all the crazies who destroyed their Beatle stuff after the "we're bigger than Jesus" brouhaha. Do they still hate them, or do they just feel stupid? And do they realize they're not really hurting them, as those cd's were arleady paid for? What I would really love is if people are buying Dixie Chicks music, just to destroy them.

[sirinek.livejournal.com]

Like I read in the AJC vent yesterday... all the people bitching about how celebrities should keep their mouths shut are the same people who voted for Reagan.

Martin Sheen has an excellent piece in the AJC today. You should go read it.

[azurelunatic]

I intend on combining the symbols of peace sign and yellow ribbon. I think that says it fairly clearly.

Re: Oh

[azurelunatic]

If I weigh more than a duck, can I still be a witch?

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

The Beatles thing was exactly my example in another conversation. The Beatles survived that, and frankly that was probably a dumber thing to say, at least at that time. I think the Dixie Chicks are one of the truly few great bands out today, and they'll survive this. If they don't, the world will be the poorer for it.

Love your last comment!

Depends

[satia.livejournal.com]

You have to float.

Can you float?

And were you the one who turned me into a newt?

I got better but I am still trying to find the witch who did that to me.

Re: Depends

[azurelunatic]

I can float, but as to the other... that's newt my bag, baby!

I'll keep looking then

[satia.livejournal.com]

Okay.

Must be some other witch then.

Darn.

[tenn-crichton.livejournal.com]

Well, they spoke out against a president that had an "R" behind his name and invokes God every other sentence. So, how could they speak against this God fearin' man whose doin' God's will... That's the mentality behind it (yes, I'm stating the obvious here...). As for that crap song "Have you forgotten", haven't heard it yet, but I imagine that I'll hate it after the first verse.

On a less somber note, haven't listened to the Dixie Chicks that much, but the few songs I've heard I like.

[deza.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder if the people wanting to censor the Chicks happen to have ever heard of a man named McCarthy...

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[kellinator.livejournal.com]

McCarthy? Sounds like a damn Yankee to me.

[jerseygirl1.livejournal.com]

You need to hear the song, "Travelling Soldier." Seems Country music forgot about that recent top ten hit.

And if anyone in the US can state their opinion, why can't Natalie Maines?

[cynical7.livejournal.com]

ha ha ha ha...

I don't know if I ever mentioned this to you but there is this tralier about a mile from my parents house. When I used to live there I'd go running past it all the time. They flew the confederate flag. And all the bus drivers in my school district refused to play anything other than country music.

This is exactly 45 minutes from the Canadian border. YEE HAW!

[mfree.livejournal.com]

Nah, just a drunkard from Wisconsin.

[tenn-crichton.livejournal.com]

Because it's unpatriotic to be critizin' the president. When there's a call for war, you go... And other such arguements. Just another way to stifle the debate so that we all go along blissfully to whatever end the administration deems best.

Haven't heard "Travelling Soldier". Whose it by?

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[jerseygirl1.livejournal.com]

Travelling Soldier is by the Dixie Chicks...

Oh, just so you know, I am a gulf war USAF vet... and I don't likme this "war"... Seems to politically motivated. I don't like the fact that our Vice President has a financial stake in going to war (Based on a company he owned receiving the contract to be part of rebuilding Iraq and putting out oil field fires)....

Among other questionable actions

Seems this war is not about freedom or a threat (since No Korea is really a larger threat) but about big business and politial buddies makine a fuck-ton on money on the blood of our brave, all-volunteer military.

[tenn-crichton.livejournal.com]

Guess I'm going to have to check 'em out now.

Isn't this always the case. The soldiers do the dying and the politicians reap the spoils... I also have to agree with you about North Korea. Saddam's contained, but North Korea is one hell of a loose cannon.

[tygerlilly.livejournal.com]

There is a teeny bopper pop station that I listen to sometimes on the way to my internship because I'm trying to see what they are listening to - especially in the morning before they start school. Today I turned it on and they were talking about the Dixie Chicks. They have still been playing "Landslide" apparently, though a lot of their viewers are anti-the chicks now due to Natalie's (?) comment about Bush being a Texan. There is a big military base by us, and one woman called in saying that her husband's troop had snapped the albums in half an her daughter is no longer allowed to listen to her favorite band. The dj made a weird comment and then said a few other things before saying Martin Sheen plays a president on tv, he isn't one for real. I don't know, some of the things this guy says disturb me sometimes and I never really know where he's going with what he says. Just an idea of what they are saying over here. Oh and apparently a teacher in another district got into TONS of trouble for wearing anti-war pins. Ok I don't know if any of this made sense - I'm tired, but erm there.

[pinkeffigy.livejournal.com]

To be perfectly honest, I think it would be best if we stopped caring what celebrities said about things. Honestly, did you all go out and buy the haircolor Beyonce' Knowles is advertising? They can all say WHATEVER they want. Just like the rest of us. And I really think we should all stop making a big deal out of it, whether it be pro- or anti- war. The stupidity is in giving a damn what any of them say. They aren't politicians. (with the notable exception of a few crossovers, and we all know about those)