Posted on 08/04/2006 3:51:08 AM PDT by jimbo123
The Dixie Chicks' Oct. 7 concert at Sunrise's BankAtlantic Center has been canceled. No one wants to say precisely why or whether the show will be rescheduled -- at press time a venue official said confirmation is forthcoming, and the Chicks camp in Nashville did not return phone calls or e-mails.
But according to Pollstar, the concert industry's trade organization, the Oct. 7 date is now reserved for a concert in Australia.
The conservative country music community has had a beef with the Chicks ever since lead singer Natalie Maines spoke out against President Bush and later criticized country fans for their reactions. Ticket sales in Red States have been sluggish throughout the tour.
They will spin it as the Chicks wanted to spend time promoting their new film rather than playing to empty concert venues.
More details will become available today...
Who?
Ha ha.
Excellent. They go in the trash bin with Hanoi Jane.
Send those dumb clucks to Iran for a performance, I would dearly love to see the interaction between those 9th century jihadists and these latter 20th century semi-musical sluts.
I might even pay a cover charge for that kind of entertainment!
Overly dumb twits(sp).
HA!! AND they got all that publicity from the MSM??? Fat lot of good that did them.
The Chicks career here is DEAD!!
Look, you can spaz all you want about their big mouths, and their idiot rants. You can even not like their music, but they are GOOD musicians. This is coming from one who doesn't listen to their music in a regular rotation and doesn't really care to listen, but I know decent musicians when I hear them.
My bet is that those few who bought their new CD in the US are probably the same folks who bought Hillary's book a couple years back. People who bought it only for "political" reasons, and who never even opened the package.
I wonder if their management or someone scooped up copies just to boost sales. Is it possible?
Whatever. They have the right to free speech. We have the right to respond.
They disgust me.
People give me guff about my tag-line. They say it is not in line with the current polling. I say the Dixie Chicks are conducting a poll of their own, and it is a heck of a lot more accurate about attitudes in the Heartland than anything Gallup is doing. And at this point, indications for the Republicans are very favorable.
Their last CD was just bad. Full of anger and vitriol, but with no good music. It had one listenable and one emotionally involving tune in the whole thing.
I am a big fan of their earlier work. This latest CD was just not up to their earlier standards. Nobody wants to hear about their poor widdle hurt feelings and their political nonsense.
Sometimes You Gotta Dance, and there is nothing to dance to here.
***TONIGHT***
PUPPET SHOW
and WILLIAM HUNG
with THE DIXIE CHICKS
I'd say that the Chicks have "jumped the shark", but nat would just figure it to be sushi.
Now, I will be the first one to say NAtalie is a very immature person and a COMPLETE IDIOT and, she, basically, has cost the entire band millions and millions of dollars....just so she could run her mouth. And, when told she was being an idiot, rather than heed advice and warnings, she chose to ramp it up and totally destroy the bands future.... basically the same thing many 10 year olds do when they are told to shut up or get smacked....they end up getting smacked. Some learn...some don't. NAtalie seems to weak and immature to accept her consequences, shut her mouth and try again....she'll keep pushing and pushing - insisting she was right and the millions of people not going to their concerts are stupid, backwards, country hicks....which, unfortunately for her - IS HER AUDIENCE!!!! They wanted to "cross over" to more top-40-ish type music...but they won't be able to. They are regarded as a country act...so top40 won't touch them...and they are doomed in country circles. They will either break up (when MArnie & her sister realize that Natalie screwed them good) or languish in a semi-limelight forever (this is probably the best as it will cause permanent dissatisfaction with life, regret and angst in all of them - which they deserve).
However, they are an EXCELLENT band. One of the best in country music. I have their first 3 CD's and LOVE each one and would consider them amongst my favorite CD's (along with Queen II, Yessongs, Rush - Hemispheres, Crack the Sky Live WBAB, and CLint BLacks - D'lectrified and ALice in Chains "Jar of FLies" , oh and don't forget ALice Cooper "Love it to death" - I have an extensive and well-rounded collection - and a wide range of taste!).
So, my poiint is, trash the chicks all you want...they deserve it. But, don't "diss" their music...I guarantee they are better musicians than YOU probably are (unless, of course, Freeper Tony Kaye is reading - in which case - you can say ANYTHING you want - you HAVE that right!).
I just hate the "groupthink" mentality around here sometimes....reminds me of DU. ANd, it's embarassing.
"Their last CD was just bad. It had one listenable and one emotionally involving tune in the whole thing."
Sounds about like 98% of the CD's that get released today.
hey is anyone really surprised? What Boobs these twits are.
I agree with you...it's why I haven't bought their latest CD (I will "steal" it one day from a friend instead). I can't give them my money....but I can appreciate their music and musicianship.
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