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Offline Dago

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« on: October 04, 2005, 12:06:50 AM »
Dont hear much about the Dixie Chicks anymore.  

Looks like with one ill-advised comment from a mouthy singer, they have all but disappeared.

Kind of a shame really, they were talented and made some good music, they were at the top of their games and careers, making a ton of money.

Now, never hear from them anymore.  I wonder if they will ever regain any of the fame they had and lost.

I dont really mourn them, I was angry at the comment and the pandering it represented.

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« Reply #1 on: October 04, 2005, 12:10:28 AM »
One of them has been busy making a baby and getting it launched this year.

I think people saw the event for what it was.

If you like their music, you can ignore their politics. Pretty much the same with all entertainers... 'cept HJ.
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« Reply #2 on: October 04, 2005, 12:18:06 AM »
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If you like their music, you can ignore their politics. Pretty much the same with all entertainers... 'cept HJ.


I dont agree, if something happens, or is said, that you find so contemptable, something that even approaches treasonable, you could, and probably should, not patronize their work or pay to enrichen them out of principle.

I would never pay for any Jane Fonda work, and I won't spend money on the Dixie Chicks short of them accepting and admitting what Natalie said was wrong, or at least should not have been said.

They have the right, guaranteed and protected by our soldiers to say what they want.  It's their choice to then excerise that right in a questionable way for an entertainer.

Boycotting is my choice to make, and I choose to make it.

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« Reply #3 on: October 04, 2005, 12:48:56 AM »
While 3 years of working part time running a Karoke Show in a bar listening to bull dike lesbian prison guards sing various renditions of their music, I can't say that I'm a huge fan.

I have to agree with Dago.  If some over paid actor lets his politics get the better of him and get's diareah of the mouth in front of the nation I do not tend to enjoy their entertainment their after.  Example:  Jane Fonda, I refused to watch her new movie with my wife and she still can't figure out why.

Sean Penn, yet another example of somone with too much time on their hands EXCEPT: instead of bad mouthing Bush about the kyoto treaty Pen actually went to New Orleans and physically helped people......bonus points for action.

Tim Robbins, Yet another Duschebag that I will not waist my time watching.

Exception:  Bono of U2.  This guy is an activist but unlike his other musician friends he backs it up with action by physically going to impoverished nations and using his fame to the good of others.
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« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2005, 02:03:19 AM »
The Dixie Dikes started of with a Miss Piggy and numerous patrons from  Homer Simpon`s local bar.
  A media promotion and nothing more.
Bad mouth the big T and it`s back in the garbage can from which they came. No biggy, no loss.
  No talent to begin with, but a straight razor to cut their own throat. I found it quite humuorous and enjoyable, but then again I always do when some morons step on their own tongue. :)
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Offline Pooh21

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« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2005, 02:15:35 AM »
the fat one screwed it up for all of them. They have a freedom of speech to say what they want just as I have a freedom to stop buying their stuff.
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« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2005, 07:37:16 AM »
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I dont agree, if something happens, or is said, that you find so contemptable, something that even approaches treasonable, you could, and probably should, not patronize their work or pay to enrichen them out of principle.


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Dude... they are three young girls in a musical group. They just aren't that important and neither is what they say.
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« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2005, 07:55:57 AM »
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Dude... they are three young girls in a musical group. They just aren't that important and neither is what they say.


On the other hand, when the rest of the world tends to view the U.S. popular culture as the "mainstream", for them to go into a foreign country in time of crisis and say what they said is a little different.
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« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2005, 08:03:26 AM »
"Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."

With all of the Bush bashing that goes on in this BBS, people still get bent out of shape because of the above quote?  It's not like they went to Iraq and acted as human shields.

Yes, if I were a Texan I might be pissed off.  Yes, I think it is dumb to say such a thing on stage in a foreign country.  Yes, if I paid $75 for a concert ticket I would be pissed if the act spent even one second talking politics.  But come on.  CD burning?

I am ashamed that Taft is the Governor of Ohio, and his 15% approval rating shows that I am not alone.  How is this different than what the Chicks said about Bush in 2003?

Personally, I stopped listening to the Chicks when they got all weird.

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« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2005, 08:03:52 AM »
They were nothing more than a country version of the Spice Girls that some Nashville marketing guy thought up.
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« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2005, 08:10:19 AM »
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They were nothing more than a country version of the Spice Girls that some Nashville marketing guy thought up.


That's BS.  I saw them play at a fair in the late 80's.  They didn't sign with Sony Records until around '96
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« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2005, 08:53:27 AM »
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Boycotting is my choice to make, and I choose to make it.

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I'm pretty much like you and like most of the rest in this thread. They screwed the pooch with me when they mouthed off in England.

But: 1) I'm not much for Country anyway and 2) I think folks like us are a minority in the US population.
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« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2005, 09:00:25 AM »
The who chicks? Im sorry I never heard of them.
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« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2005, 09:03:21 AM »
Approaching treason? What in the **** is wrong with your head?
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« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2005, 09:53:46 AM »
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Sean Penn, yet another example of somone with too much time on their hands EXCEPT: instead of bad mouthing Bush about the kyoto treaty Pen actually went to New Orleans and physically helped people......bonus points for action.


But he didn't go down there just to help. He had his camera crew with him so he could get some good photo ops.

To me he is far worse than Robbins(who I agree is a total donuthead) and I won't pay a dime to see either of them.

As I've said before Penn doesn't act in his movies. He just reads the lines like he normally speaks. Either a retard or an angry retard.
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