If it wasn't for the song "Landslide," many would not know what the Dixies Chicks actually sing.
I always thought it was pretty telling that of all the classic country songs that could have been done as a re-make... that they made their big song on the country charts from a re-make of a Fleetwood Mac song.
Landslide made it to pop rock stations, but were are quite popular before that. Their mistake was slamming Bush on foreign soil.
That didn't take long! I was waiting for some leftist moron to make the illogical leap that it was actually UnAmerican to not support people that you don't agree with.
They are so predictable.
If it wasn't for so called "News Channels" putting her fat arse on the T.V. everytime she hacks out another note, I wouldn't know what she sings either.
And I wish they'd keep all the other so-call "stars" off the T.V. whenever a charge of electricity happens to pass by one of their brain cells.
SALES OF THE DIXIE CHIXKS IS WAY DOWN...
The dixie chicks have one course left that is to switch to rock. They are finished as a country band.
In the half-week of charting after Maines' sermonette, the Chicks dropped on Nielsen Soundscan sales charts: their current album Home dipped 22,000 copies in sales, although it's still No. 1 on the Billboard country album chart. The video sales of the Chicks' live An Evening With the Dixie Chicks dropped by 3,000 copies and the single release of "Landslide" dropped by about 1,200 in sales.
They also lost at least 15 percent of radio spins for "Travelin' Soldier" and it dropped from No. 1 to No. 3 this week on the Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks chart.
And another lingering question is: how much of a steadfast country audience base have the Chicks actually built? A look at the Chicks' career suggests that much of their audience pull has been teenage girls, whose musical attention span traditionally has not been long and which certainly does not translate into the long-term loyalty that country artists have enjoyed.
Further, in looking over CMT.com reader polls over the last few months, I see a decided lack of support for the Chicks. In the most recent poll, on March 15, in response to the question, "How do you feel about the Dixie Chicks following Natalie Maines' comment regarding President Bush?," 68 percent of respondents said, "I don't like them at all." Even back on Feb. 21, when CMT.com asked readers if they would attend any of the Chicks' shows on their upcoming tour, 69 percent answered that they would rather stay home. On Feb. 8, a CMT.com poll question said that the Chicks' Home was selling well and asked readers if they had bought it. The response? "No way, I don't care for them," said 53 percent of respondents.
http://www.cmt.com/news/display/1470672.jhtml Chicks' manager Simon Renshaw suggested, in an e-mail that the Chicks' label Sony Music sent to country radio stations,
that the protest against the Chicks was orchestrated by the Free Republic, a right-wing Web site. The Free Republic certainly had -- and still has -- its share of anti-Chicks postings.
But I also have read literally hundreds of Chicks postings the last few days on a number of Web sites across the political spectrum, and they show a genuine consensus from country fans saying that Maines in effect filed for divorce from country audiences.