Comments on: Wide Open Spaces

By: ~Barb Gowen

~Barb Gowen — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 19:33:41 +0000

I’m not Ready to Make Nice………and I’m Ready to Take back the White House in 08.
Love the Chicks……..seems to me a man can say whatever he wants and get away with it, but the little woman is supposed to keep her mouth shut…..that’s my two cents.

By: Jose

Jose — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:02:15 +0000

Bush may not have the approval now but you still have to back your president, your armed forces, your country. First Jane Fonda, then Dixie Chicks, it doesn’t matter if your comments are well intentioned said at such fragile times left a sour flavor in most of us. Don’t say something you’ll regret as America will most likely make you pay the price.

By: Beth

Beth — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 21:39:54 +0000

Voting in BOTBs- I for one will always support the Chicks. The uproar was due to what they said, when they said it and where they said it. True, had this been an artist or group of another genre-the backlash would not have been so harsh. I also believe it was partly because they’re women. I’m not some kind of fem-nazi, in fact I’m a registered Republican. But the Country music world has been and most likely always will be a man’s world. Remember when Shania Twain was basically labled as an outcast because she showed her stomach in a video? A person’s politics has no influence on me unless they are attempting to force me to believe as they believe. The Chicks make excellent music-and I think the new CD is their best yet. Just my 2 cents worth :D

By: Scooter McGavin

Scooter McGavin — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 18:15:39 +0000

Wait, did you really state that the Dixie Chicks get heavy rotation on VH1. Flavor of Love gets heavy rotation, Hogan Knows Best gets heavy rotation, no musical acts gets heavy rotation on VH1 unless they are part of a reality show.

As for the “shock” of anti Bush comments being that they are country artist, I think the backlash had more to do with when they said it (when Bush had high approval ratings at the start of the war) than what kind of music they make. Had they said the same things just yesterday, I doubt there would have been a big of blacklash.

By: Jayne d'Arcy

Jayne d'Arcy — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 08:30:01 +0000

They were laughing at us, Stacey. To me, what the Chicks did was just rub salt in the wound. I will say on their behalf that what they did has really been blown out of proportion and part of that is due to the media and the internet.

They apologized and truly, that should have been the end of it.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 02:10:50 +0000

I still don’t get the uproar either. Famous country musicians have, for years, cheated on their wives, been promiscuous, been deadbeat dads, and battled hard drugs and alcohol and none of the above raises an eyebrow. But make one dissenting remark about the “leader” of our country and there are BOYCOTTS??? And, um, I have a feeling that, other countries were maybe ALREADY laughing and ridiculing the U.S.

By: Pribek

Pribek — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 14:47:00 +0000

Jayne, do you think that people in other countries put that much stock in what a country singer says about politics? She is probably guilty of pandering to an audience, I don’t know any performers who haven’t done that. You could maybe make a case that it was bad timing but compare the timing of Natalies’ benign remark to Geraldo Rivera giving away troop locations on live T.V.
To the matter of poor taste, shes a country music singer. Do we need to hold her up to that high a standard. I hear pundits and politicians issuing far more personal attacks on a daily basis. I still do not understand why this event has struck such a nerve.

By: Jayne d'Arcy

Jayne d'Arcy — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:37:00 +0000

I think what I truly resented about their remark was that it was said on foreign ground. If they had said the same thing in America, I really wouldn’t have given it a second thought. In saying that in another country it felt like the Dixie Chicks were inviting that country to laugh and ridicule the US. It was in poor taste.

By: Stacey

Stacey — Wed, 09 Aug 2006 04:13:04 +0000

Oh, the Dixie Chicks! A topic I know about! Now, Jack, if you think their response with “I’m not ready to make nice” was goofy, you evidently don’t know that they are coming on stage at their concerts to the tune of “Hail to the Chief.” Hehehe!

I think political controversy doesn’t necessarily HURT a career, but it can definitely change the PATH of your career, which is what I think has happened to the Chicks. They may not be getting air time, but their album debuted at #1, and for all the concerts they cancelled due to lack of sales, they added more shows in different places (ok, Canada and Australia. But still.)

I love my Chicks, and although my Des Moines (and K.C., and St. Louis, and Oklahoma City) shows were cancelled, I’ll be proudly wearing my cowboy hat in Dallas in December! And possibly a “Take Back the White House - 2008″ t-shirt. :)