"Dixie" Chicks or "Dissing" Chicks

Seeking: Blue state residents to subsidize multi-millionaire pop stars who have alienated fan base after down-home, "we're just like you" charade exposed. Will belittle former fans with complete indiscretion to make a quick buck. Immediatly available for recording sessions in Malibu or other California venue. Contact Natalie, Martie, or Emily.


The way I see it, these Dissing Chicks have a limited future. There're done. They piss me off. Let's go over what we know.

1. March 10, 2003 the Dixie Chicks virtually eliminated their fans with a statement in London. "Just so you know," clueless crooner Natalie Maines told the crowd, "we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
2. Retribution for the statement was swift. Country music radio stations held CD burning events and banned the group from their playlists. Pinko commies and lefties lashed out at the country music fans who were offended by the group and participated in such events equating them to the Nazi book-burnings of the 1930's-40's. ("It's the people who have gone overboard and done such irrational things that take you back to the days of book burning. That is a concern for me," band member Maguire said.)
3. The Dixie Chicks come out of two months of hiding, appearing on the cover of Entertainment Weekly in May 2003 naked and covered with words/phrases ("free speech" and "boycott" and "Dixie sluts").
4. May 2006, the Dixie Chicks release their new album retracting previous apologies and appearing in a Time magazine cover story "Radical Chicks" in which Maines lets makes the telling statement, "I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President, but I don't fell that way any more. I don't feel he is owned any respect whatsoever."

My problem with the Dissing Chicks isn't Maines's statement about the President (or the fact that it took place outside of the United States) like many of their original fan base. My problem with the Dissing Chicks is that they really don't give a shit about the millions of fans that placed them in the position to make these very public statements.

Consider this, aren't Dixie Chick fans allowed to exercise their free speech right to stop listening to their crappy music? To whom does that First Amendment right really apply? Time and Entertainment Weekly want you to believe that it is the Dixie Chicks who have been maligned.

The bottom line on the Dixie Chicks is that they simply do not represent the same values as the people who listen to country music. For that reason, their music continues to move closer and closer to pop music. They say that they "blur the line" between country and pop. Let's be honest, that's because they have to find a new fan base. I took great note on PINK IS THE NEW BLOG the other day when Trent made it known he was purchasing the new Dixie Chicks album. This is representative of the absolute necessity for that group to reign in new listeners from blue states.

The Chicks, no longer recording in Nashville but in California, are now taking direct shots at their former fans. In "The Long Way Around" Maines sings about her teenage friends who married their high school beaus and live "in the same ZIP codes where their parents live." (Entertainment Weekly follows this quote up with a heartfelt "Take that, CMT viewers!") God forbid, Natalie, that some folks marry their high school sweethearts, grown old in their hometowns, and aren't able to move about at a whim because they ripped off their compatriots earning millions upon millions in the process. I am offended. I knew my wife in high school. If I could get away with it and earn a good living back home, I would be there. Does that make me shit? Does that make me small-minded, ignorant? Here's a big "F**K YOU" to Ms. Maines.

Hey, support the President, don't support the President, I don't give a good goddamn (but you'd better support the troops - failure to do so is an unforgivable sin). Don't cut off the hand that feeds you unless you can get away with it (and if you can, be prepared for your former friends and supporters to give you the middle finger right back at you). I get the funny feeling that the new battle cry will be Remember the Maines.