The Dixie Chicks new album, Taking The Long Way is due out tomorrow and along with it comes a nice article in Time about the controversy that put the Dixie Chicks in the national spolight as a strong anti-war voice (excepts from Huffington Post):
"I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President. But I don't feel that way anymore. I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever," Dixie Chicks' Natalie Maines tells TIME's music critic Josh Tyrangiel, of her remark to a London audience in 2003: "Just so you know, we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." TIME's cover story, "Radical Chicks," hits newsstands Monday, May 22nd.
You can read the entire article at Time.com (subscription required) or the rest of the review at the HuffPo.
I would like to take a second to remind everyone to please support the new anti-war music and help send a message to the music executives that we want more of this. The best way is to call and request these songs on your local station and even better is by purchasing their albums. I have a list of current anti-war songs, which can easily be ordered through Amazon, on the right hand side of the page. Just click the link and it will take you to Amazon's page for that album. The more albums sold the more of this music we will see being released.
Comments
Hats off to the Chicks! I went to see them at Nationwide Arena in Columbus during the height of Clear Channel's smear campaign against them. (Remember the decals of Calvin (of Calvin & Hobbes) pissing on the Dixie Chicks?) Anyway, it was a sold out show and I had to sit in the nosebleed section, but I am glad I went. I was a little disappointed that Natalie had "apologized" for exercizing her right to free speech, but I was also hoping that more artists would speak out. Those Calvin decals, along with Clear Channels' staging of anti-Dixie Chick rallies, showed the power of media conglomerates to actively manipulate events. It helps make the case that they should be broken up and that tough, new ownership rules should be in effect to encourage more independent and minority ownership.
So Natalie, what would you do?? Do you have a stategy that would get our troops out of Iraq safely and end this horrible war? If not, I think you ought to stop spouting your mouth off and study and analyze ther ENTIRE situation and advise the administration because you apparently know way more than anyone in the nation. Love your music but hate your attitude. Do something, and stop shouting your mouth off because that does no good. You come across as totaqlly anti-American and this disturbs me. It is very McCarthyism.
HELP OUR NATION
Suzi
PS Your is spelled you're, unless you are from the south, I suppose.
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