Dixie Chicks don't stick at country radio

Reuters ^ | May 19, 2006 | Phyllis Stark

[joebuck]

Coming soon to local malls and Burger King openings everwhere.

[gondramB]

>>Disappointing airplay for the first two singles from the new album by the Dixie Chicks exposes a deep -- and seemingly growing -- rift between the trio and the country radio market that helped turn the group into superstars.<<

Its also possible the new music isn't good.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

Maines also said, "I don't want people to think that me not wanting to be part of country music is any sort of revenge. It is not. It is totally me being who I am, and not wanting to compromise myself and hate my life."


I think this is exactly what the message being sent out is. Country fans dumped her not the other way around. She can't even save face in a dignified manner by just telling the truth and admitting that she must go in another direction because her fan base is gone.

[Don Corleone]

Words have meanings and actions have consequences!

[Grampa Dave]

They should go to Iran and Syria and sing Islamo Country music in Blue Burkas.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

They made their bed. They can enjoy sleeping in it.

[uglybiker]

I suppose the Dimocrat response to this "injustice" would be to require everyone to listen to "sanctioned" music by "approved" musicians.

It's called FM radio and it's been like that for a long, long time.

[kenth]

Moonbats simply MUST BE Moonbats..

Yep. If she didn't have the music venue, she would just be driving around with a thousand bumper stickers on the back of her car.

[Donald Meaker]

It is normal for artists to try new things. It is becoming for artists to be grateful and humble.

It is just bad business for artists to "deprive" us of their work, or to demean their potential customers.

[Enterprise]

"Taking the Long Wrong Way," "Not Ready to Make Nice Sell Albums." There, fixed it. Much better names for the new Chixie Dicks albums.

[poobear]

"When an artist says that they don't want to be a part of that industry, it made our decision a no-brainer," program director Mark Evans says. "There are too many talented new artists dying to have a song played on country radio, so I'd rather give one of them a shot."


Thank you Mark Evans. I don't know if the Chix are redeemable in the Country Music scenario.

[RedRover]

Pardon my ignorance, but how on earth could they knock Buddy Holly?

[kenth]

Why in the world would she be doing that, to Buddy Holly of all people? I suppose she is trying to alienate herself from the entire free world. Fine with me. Buddy Holly has more fans than she could ever hope to have.

[infidel29]

"I don't want people to think that me not wanting to be part of country music is any sort of revenge..."

I think that people don't want you to be a part of country music, as a sort of revenge.

[Jameison]

"They've shown their true colors. I like lots of country music, but as far as the industry and everything that happened ... I couldn't want to be farther away from that." "

/sarcasm on/ Hey Maines, we know its going to be read hard for country music to survive without 3 dumb bimbos, but we going to try real hard.
After all country music didn't exist before the brain dead Dixie Chicks, right? /sarcasm off/

I think the Dixie Chicks had better get on the phone to George Soros, so he can do what he usually does, and buy this Dixie Chicks album in bulk, like all the bulk purchases of "Brokeback Mountain" tickets he kept making.

[Tzimisce]

What we need is a "fairness doctrine" on music on the air. That way the Chicks song will get heard and become a hit. :)

(/sarcasm)

[Jameison]

"I think that people don't want you to be a part of country music, as a sort of revenge"

Yep.
She got it the other way round.
We don't want vermin like her stinking up Country Music.

Good bye and GOOD RIDDANCE!!

[MrLee]

It's the song "Lubbuck Or Leave It".
The Hollies are not too happy according to several reports I've read. Haven't heard the song myself-don't care to.
True, 50 years after their deaths, they won't have anywhere near the fans Buddy does today.

[Republican Red]

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,194092,00.html

Buddy Holly Family Not Happy With Dixie Chicks' Song

A reference to Buddy Holly on an upcoming Dixie Chicks album isn't setting right with brothers of the 1950s music legend.

In "Lubbock or Leave It," Natalie Maines, a native of this West Texas city, sings: "I hear they hate me now/Just like they hated you./Maybe when I'm dead and gone/I'm gonna get a statue, too."

Holly, whose statue is in downtown Lubbock, was born here and died in a plane crash along with singers Ritchie Valens and J.P. "The Big Bopper" Richardson in Iowa in 1959.

Holly's older brother, Larry O. Holley, said he doesn't know of anyone in Lubbock who hated his sibling.

"Older people in town thought rock 'n' roll was for kids," Holley said. "But no one hated Buddy."

The song is on the fourth Dixie Chicks album, a May 23 national release titled "Taking the Long Way." The songwriting credit lists all three Chicks — Emily Robison, Martie Maguire and Maines — and Mike Campbell.

Another brother, Travis Holley, said his brother was proud of Lubbock.

"He was loyal to his hometown, his church and his family," he said. "And I never knew of anyone who hated Buddy."

Maines, born and raised in Lubbock, seemed to be embraced by all until March 2003 when she told a concert audience in London the group was "ashamed" President Bush was from Texas. A free-speech debate ensued and radio stations across the country stopped playing the Chicks' music. Some still don't; only one in Lubbock does.

Kathy Best of Front Page Publicity, which handles Chicks' interview requests, said that Maines won't be available anytime soon for interviews.

On the Chicks Web site Maines writes that the song "is not just about Lubbock, but about any small, hypocritical town."

[Jameison]

"True, 50 years after their deaths, they won't have anywhere near the fans Buddy does today"

Huh?
Heck they don't have the fans that Buddy had today, let alone 50 years after their deaths.