KC Radio Stations Dump Dixie Chicks

Yahoo! News ^ | March 14, 2003

[PJ-Comix]

If you tuned in to any of Kansas City's country music stations Thursday, you did not hear the Dixie Chicks.

Several stations in town have dumped the group's music over the lead singer's controversial comments about President Bush, KMBC's Jeremy Hubbard reported.

At a concert in London earlier this week, Natalie Maines, the band's lead singer said, " Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

The Guardian, a London paper that reported the comment, said Maines' remark got the crowd cheering.

Many local residents, however, were not excited about the singer's point of view.

"If you guys play another Dixie Chicks song, we'll never listen to you again," one country music fan told KBEQ.

The station logged nearly 700 phone calls Thursday, denouncing Maines' comment.

The reactions from listeners were enough for programmers at all three big Kansas City country radio stations to pull the Dixie Chicks from their playlists, Hubbard reported.

But some Dixie Chicks fans didn't appreciate the ban.

"There are some artists that I like that have said things I don't agree with, but it doesn't stop me from listening to their music," said radio listener Shawn Peterson.

One radio station is even taking the boycott a step further.

Friday morning, one local station will take the ban a step further. They have invited their listeners to come to the station's studios and dump their Dixie Chicks CDs in a big trash can, Hubbard said.

The Dixie Chicks are scheduled to play to a sold out crowd in Kansas City next month.

[PJ-Comix]

Good! Maybe they can replace that air time with Patsy Cline.

[The Wizard]

a real country band would have never said this, these are tarts dressed up to sell records

[The Wizard]

and it begins

[PJ-Comix]

Yeah, this marks the point where the Dixie Chicks career goes on a steep downward slope. I guess that dumb statement the singer made in Europe will be known as the Dixie Chicks "Jump The Shark" moment. It's all DOWNHILL for them from now on.

[peteram]

.....And so it begins. Rush mentioned that it would be interesting to see how the fans take to this, seeing as how most C&W fans lean conservative.

My conservative wife can't stand these women. She thinks they're a bunch of man-hating feminazi's. Every time one of their songs came on, she insisted on changing the station.

[PJ-Comix]

Have your wife listen to Patsy Cline albums. I can't stand most Country Music but the BIG EXCEPTION is Patsy Cline. I love everything she sings!

[ewing]

Way to go KC!

[YOMO]

On their site chat room two days ago worried about getting tickets. Yesterday they had over 3,000 posts most unfavorable about their comments. Site: http://messages.yahoo.com/?action=m&tid=dxc1&sid=22198844&mid=11275
There are post refering to FREEPERS as TERRORISTS. It seems like they don't appreciate anti-chicks comments. At least it will be easier for some of their remaining fans to get tickets. Posters have also stated some of the stations that will no longer play Chicks stuff.

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I don't know many songs by the dixie chicks... now I never will. I thought the cover to Landslide was pathetic. Since I am the proud mother of two boys and married to a wonderful guy, I don't appreciate the male bashing in their songs either. Glad to see them GO!!!

[texson66]

Ya think so...????

Yep!

[Conspiracy Guy]

"Boycott fever". I'm beginning to think that if someone posted, "There is scientific proof that the air belonged to France and the US was paying a royalty to France based on how much we use". A lot of people would quit breathing and die. Well at least they would claim that they will no longer breath or they never breathed because they already knew France was paid for the air. It's getting a little silly. "I'm not making this up I heard it on the Rush Limbaugh show. I read it in a magazine too, this is serious".

[JohnHuang2]

Bump!

[Living Free in NH]

Imus had fun with this story today. He was referring to the singer as a "fat slob" who couldn't find Iraq, or Texas for that matter, on a map.

These celebrities just don't get it. They're losing more and more fans each day when they open their mouth. Just a few weeks ago, Imus was saying that the Chicks w/ Dicks (my title) were one of the few country bands who play real country music. Now, as far as he's concerned, they're relegated to "Fat whore" status. And the same goes for me, although I always thought they sucked.

[jimbo123]

[theDentist]

Here in the Norfolk, VIrginny area they've been pulled from the airwaves too.

[Quilla]

Just heard on a local radio call-in show that the biggest country music station in Panama City, Florida will no longer play any Dixie Chicks' songs. To top it all off, everywhere a chick song was scheduled, a number by Toby Keith will be played.

I understand perfectly why comments about freepers can only be in the form of insults. Logic and well thought out responses escape them.

[uncbob]

a real country band would have never said this, these are tarts dressed up to sell records

Anybody believes these bimbos are country doesn't know what REAL country is

Sweethearts of the Rodeo --The Forresters-- and some of the Judds wre real country

Never could figure out all this BS about these creeps

It was all SEX and a GIMMICKY NAME

[SkyPilot]

I heard the tall one is very angry at the fat one because of her comment.

[rabidralph]

Excellent choice. And I hated their re-puke of Fleetwood Mac's Landslide.

[PJ-Comix]

I heard the tall one is very angry at the fat one because of her comment.

Since the fat one's dumb statement marks the beginning of the end of their careers, I can understand that. Maybe they will have to have a public expulsion of the Fat Chick to make amends with the public.

[glory]

There are some artists that I like that have said things I don't agree with, but it doesn't stop me from listening to their music," said radio listener Shawn Peterson>>

Sorry Shawn, but the station has to look out for their business and if people start banning them, they are in deep doo doo. Nobody is stopping you from listening to them--their CD's are still in stores.

[prairiebreeze]

Good! Maybe they can replace that air time with Patsy Cline.

Yes indeedy! Patsy was a true icon. Beautiful voice.

Prairie

[ladtx]

I agree. Patsy had one of the sharpest and clearest voices I've ever heard. My leading female singer of alllll time. Her voice defined the term "clear as a bell".

[katana]

the air belonged to France and the US was paying a royalty to France based on how much we use

Wasn't that one of the main provisions of the Kyoto Treaty? Now I can see why they're so upset we won't sign.

[nina0113]

ping.

Can you call WFLS? As of last night they were still playing Blixie Chicks - I switched over from WTOP hoping to hear "Have You Forgotten?" but heard their stupid little soldier song instead.

I sat in the parking lot in Wally's listening to the whole thing, hoping there'd be anything but the overdone trite soldier-dies/girl-sad ending, but that's what it was.

[TroutStalker]

I heard about this yesterday on KMBZ at the top of the hour news.

[katana]

PS: These Fonda-wannabees are in the wrong end of the music business. The next time I hear "and the landslide brought me down" there will be a toilet flush sound at the end, such is their CW career.

[Archie Bunker on steroids]

More proof that Hollywood has hijacked Nashville. These morons are trying to suck up to California based producers. The cost.....flyover country fans.

[Conspiracy Guy]

That is correct, there is always some truth in fiction.

[Cboldt]

Maybe they will have to have a public expulsion of the Fat Chick to make amends with the public.

I recently saw a "history of the Blixie Chix" program, and trust me, the chix are ruthless. I suspect the expulsion real soon, after the cash flow slows.

[writmeister]

If you are not familiar with many of their songs, how can you describe them as man-bashing?

Yes, "Goodbye Earl" was satirically homicidal. But surely, you do not equate with revenge on a serial wife beater as man-bashing.

That said, I think Nathalie's comments were stupid and ones which she will commercially regret. Frankly, I think her Daddy needs to call her back home and reeducate her on keeping your political opinions to yourself if you want to be successful in public life.

[Alouette]

"Les Poulettes Renduées" (The Surrender Chicks)

[Martus]

Where's Earl?

[Charles Henrickson]

POLITIX CLIX DIX CHIX

[Marauder]

Patsy was a true icon. Beautiful voice.

I miss her terribly.

[FrankR]

"These celebrities just don't get it. They're losing more and more fans each day when they open their mouth"

All of these celebs, sponsors, etc. that people complain to have a standard comeback, like, "They have the same free speech rights as anyone...blah, blah, blah".
Well, that's true. but

The freedom of speech is the prohibition of the government stifling free speech...but what these brain-dead celebs don't get is, it doesn't mean we have to listen to it, or SUPPORT them in any way, if we disagree. They really don't get it. Do they expect us to say, "Oh, well your anti-Bush, anti-American bullsh*t is PROTECTED by free speech...well, why didn't you say so, I'll start buying your records/movies again then." (sarcasm off). And as one post said, many of those claiming to be "country", are garage rock bands who couldn't make it in the rock world, so they water down rock songs and call them country. Sort of reminds me of some liberals who run as "Conservatives" to get elected.

[grumple]

Glad to see that it was not only me that despised their Landslide remake...now if we could just get CMT from playing their stupid videos as well...

[bushfamfan]

That was a cheap shot that the bimbos took against President Bush overseas. Well, now word's out and they should've known that many people will not bother to listen to them anymore.

[vannrox]

Personally, FYI...I destroyed all of my Dixie Cicks CD's. (Only one) but it was symbolic.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Maybe they will have to have a public expulsion of the Fat Chick to make amends with the public.

Can they replace members like Menudo?

[Diva Betsy Ross]

I said I wan't familiar with many of their songs. (Leaving some songs I am familiar with.) The ones I have heard turned me off to them as a group because I thought they were male bashing. I have heard their cover of Landslide, and I thought it was pathetic ( bad, not good, did not want to hear more). I am not sorry to see them go...

[MarMema]

Email kmps, Seattle's largest country music station -
email@kmps.com

Let them know the dixie chicks should be sent to France.
Ask them to stop playing their music.
I did. Hope you will join me.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Good bump! here for economically 'taking down' the Dixie Sluts.

For Good.

And as a lesson to other smartass actors and performers who bad mouth the United States publicly while overseas.

[chiefqc]

What's the name of the short, fat, moron in the middle. Look like she needs to be back at school in the 9th grade.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Hey Natalie, come back home and repeat your comment in front of a crowd in say, Dallas or maybe Houston.

I guess the Dixie Chix have just become too sophisticated for the country music fans who have made them all rich. Hope their next performance is in a Karaoke bar in Lubbock, not that I would really wish that on the Karaoke fans in Lubbock…

[TomB]

Can they replace members like Menudo?

I think they have a weight limit.

She's gone.

[MarMema]

They are coming back, to tour. Perhaps we should keep track and show up where they play with our feelings.

[Free State Four]

Like PJComix said - listen to Patsy Cline. That girl could croooooooon a ballad.

And as for snotty little Miss Natalie: I'd like to see her say the same thing in a roadside bar in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She'd be diving behind the chicken wire for sure.

[MarMema]

TOUR INFO FOR THE DIXIE CHICKS

[alaskanfan]

At a concert in London earlier this week, Natalie Maines, the band's lead singer said, " Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas."

Pretty brave of Natalie to make that statement in a foreign land. I wonder if she would do the same in Dallas or Nashville?

I heard Laura Ingraham say yesterday that Natalie had made this statement after the tickets for their U.S. tour had sold out. I'd guess it was time for a refund. Maybe they could book a tour in France.