When you are in the entertainment business it doesn’t make sense to piss of your audience.
That isn’t entertaining it is just plain stupid.
Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines rips country music, fans - National Ledger
Maines says she’s finished with the genre and is none too pleased with the fans, basically labeling them as redneck hicks. She tells Entertainment Weekly, “the stereotype is true.”
“So I’m pretty much done. 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,” Maines told EW.
Ah, but she’s not done. Not only does she hate country music (the genre whose fans lined her pockets with money), she turns on the free market and democracy that made her rich as well.
“The entire country is controlled by money. And I think that’s what people feel, they don’t — their voice isn’t heard. They don’t have a say. It’s corporate America. My friend made up the word corpocracy. I love that word.”
http://www.nationalledger.com/pop-culture-news/dixie-chicks-natalie-maines-r-637817.shtml
“For me as a person, [The incident has] completely altered the course I was on,” Maines tells Entertainment Weekly. “For me to be in country music to begin with was not who I was. I liked Martie and Emily’s (the talented Dixie Chicks) playing, but I did not grow up liking country music.”
“And I guess I was ignorant to the fact that the stereotypes behind country music were true and it was disappointing.”