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Grammy’s

By lex, on February 12th, 2007

Dixie Chicks.

Feh.

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February 12th, 2007 | Tags: | Category: Uncategorized

17 comments to Grammy’s

  • Rick
    February 12, 2007 at 8:32 am

    Feh, indeed. Seems like since the Dems have taken conrol of the Congress, the anti’s have decided it’s OK now to really come out of the woodwork. Let the show begin. We’ll see where it gets them in 20 months.

  • Steeljaw Scribe
    February 12, 2007 at 9:05 am

    …and the Left Coast once again extends the middle digit to the rest of America…
    - SJS

  • GEO6
    February 12, 2007 at 9:11 am

    Not a brass farthing of mine for any of their music, not a dime of paid advertisers time on radio or tv, not a nanosecond of my time, for the Ditzy Chicks. When their stuff starts playing click goes the radio/tv. After all, it’s my choice.

  • CPT J
    February 12, 2007 at 9:29 am

    “When their stuff starts playing click goes the radio/tv. After all, it?

  • CPT J
    February 12, 2007 at 9:29 am

    “When their stuff starts playing click goes the radio/tv. After all, it’s my choice.”

    Hear, hear.

    Now where’d I put that Beccy Cole CD? Time for some real music…

  • Eric
    February 12, 2007 at 10:58 am

    Forgive the question, but I’m pretty far removed from country music. What did they do to raise the ire of conservatives? Make an anti-war song or something?

  • unkawill
    February 12, 2007 at 11:56 am

    Eric, the dust up started when the lead singer Natalie Mains told an European audience that they were ASHAMED, that President Bush was from Texas. Just prior to the troops going into Iraq in April 2003.
    Resulting in offending country music fans and getting banned on most country music radio stations.

  • CPT J
    February 12, 2007 at 1:09 pm

    The Dixie Chicks aren’t hurting for all their claims of censorship. They’ve found a lucrative cross-over market and a willing blue-state audience for political tirades. And that’s fine, its a free country. They will be more than adequately compensated for their considerable musical talent. But on their foreign policy, not so much… As Hubert Humphrey once said: “The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously”.

  • GEO6
    February 12, 2007 at 1:30 pm

    re:“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously”.

    Affirmative. Free speech there is. But it isn’t without cost. My personal boycott isn’t even a pittance but I get satisfaction as it is my little way of saying “up yours” to their arrogance and perceived self-importance.

  • JAS
    February 12, 2007 at 1:37 pm

    Pah! I decided back when Ms Mains took her stance to keep track of the musicians that volunteer for the USO tours. I spend my music dollars buying CDs from those groups – the ones that support the troops – not from the likes of the Dixie Chicks.

  • MajMike
    February 12, 2007 at 2:23 pm

    was there some kind of musical awards show recently?

    i was so entranced by the Anna Nicole Smith tragedy that i must have missed it.

  • AME1 Fonte
    February 12, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    The awards given to the Dixie skanks are nothing more than another attempt to grind on President Bush, and nowhere was this more evident than in the comments these marginally talented scraps of human debris made. Frankly, I don’t know anyone who listens to their caterwauling.

    But know this: when you look at awards shows such as the Grammys, they are no different than the Academy Awards or anything else- they are thinly veiled opportunities to do nothing more than bash the President and my brothers and sisters in arms, while they duplicitously state their support for them.

    The hell with the Dixie sluts and awards shows in general.

    Feh.

  • JHD
    February 12, 2007 at 5:06 pm

    CPT J? The Ditzy Chicks’ revenue has been depleted by almost 80%. They had a huge tour they started last year that was cancelled due to lack of interest. Not enough folks showed up to even rent the venues. The Blue cities did show their support but it was not even to fund the whole tour.

    Country music tried to cut them some slack thinking the little fat one would make some amends. The answer from them? “Not Ready To make Nice” and refuted any association with Country and basically told us that all of us that still love country music we were nothing more than “bigoted Joe Six Pack rednecks”. Guess how well that went over?

    But that’s OK, we’ve got Carrie Underwood and all is well. First words out of her mouth last night when she won Best New Artist (or female artist or something) was “I LOVE Country Music and would like to say thanks starting at the top…. with God”! heh! And she ain’t bad on the eyes neither! ;-)

  • MissBirdlegs in AL
    February 12, 2007 at 5:52 pm

    My one word comment when I heard this wasn’t as polite as yours, Lex. My take was the same as SJS – I thought the win was as much about politics as talent. No radio station in this part of the country has played their music since Natalie ran her mouth about President Bush. I liked their music, so I was doubly ticked off at them. I refuse to listen to them, spend any money on them, or look at them now. No more award shows for me.

  • yak
    February 12, 2007 at 6:03 pm

    Who the &&^$ is buying their records? Nobody I know is and the only way to hear them on a country radio station is on XM.

    I agree that the Grammys were making a definite statement last night.

    On the other hand, here’s this to make your day:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTuwBw9q3Sw&eurl=

    Put down the drink and step away from your glass.

  • Da Yooper
    February 12, 2007 at 6:26 pm

    When I head this news I think I threw up in my mouth – just a bit.

  • Barb
    February 13, 2007 at 12:18 pm

    I won’t buy them, listen to them, or download them on my Zune Pass. And isn’t it amazing how they are suddenly golden at the Grammys as a country group after denying any relation to country music? Feh indeed.

  • Mike Kozlowski
    February 15, 2007 at 4:33 am

    …Well, it was pretty much a foregone conclusion that the DC’s were going to win it, Just as Jimmy Carter won for ‘best spoken word’ for a tendentious screed about ‘our endangered values’, I think you can count on anyone who’s bashing the Administration to win a major award. Al Gore’s been nominated for both an Oscar and a Nobel Peace Prize, and I’m ready to bet the rent that he’ll win both.

    Mike
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