2007-03-04 06:24:43 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
2005-2006 The song was from when they made a comment on the prez. How the're ashamed of him bing from Texas. And they all got slammed by the media for the comment. Not too many ppl heard from them for a while after that. Taking The Long Road is their first album since.
2007-03-04 06:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by Alexa T 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The song was released March 2006, Taking the Long Way was the first studio album released by the Dixie Chicks after controversy erupted over them in 2003 following a critical comment vocalist Natalie Maines made of the American President George W. Bush while singing in a concert in London, United Kingdom. The controversy and the band reaction to it is the major theme of some of the songs in the album, including "Not Ready to Make Nice."
The song, which was written by all of the three band members along with Dan Wilson, is a statement of how they feel over the controversy, the banning of their songs from country radio stations, and freedom of speech.
The band went on to the October 25 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show to promote their album and the music video of the song was quickly shown. Host Winfrey shared sympathy with the band by commenting that before the invasion of Iraq she did an episode titled Is war the answer? and received hate mail as the result of that. While interviewing the band, Winfrey said the song is so well-written that you can not even tell it is about the controversy [2]. Natalie said that she and the other writers wanted the song to have a universal interpretation. However, the final lines of the fourth verse, are about the death threats the band received during the 2003 Top of the World Tour:
"And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Saying that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over."
Some other lines in the beginning of this same verse are about a scene featured in the documentary Shut Up and Sing (2006), in which a mother, who was protesting the Dixie Chicks at one of their concerts, is goading her young son to say "screw 'em!":
"It's a sad sad story
When a mother will teach her daughter
That she ought'a hate a perfect stranger."
In the song, "daughter" was used instead of "son" as a matter of poetic license.
2007-03-04 06:30:50 · answer #2 · answered by uuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh t 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was recorded in 2006.
It is about the attacks made on the Dixie Chicks when Natalie Mains expressed her opinion. Among other things -- including threats on their lives -- the DCs were told they should "shut up and sing", indicating the intelligence of the people who threatened them.
However, the negative reaction in the USA, orchestrated by a couple of radio broadcast chains, was such that it has forced them to recast themselves as more of a pop act instead of a country one.
2007-03-04 06:29:11 · answer #3 · answered by P. M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It came out in 2006(actually made in 05) - It's the Dixie Chicks reponse to they way they were treated after Natalie made a comment about Prsident Bush
2007-03-04 06:29:42 · answer #4 · answered by jackie27s 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think the song was on the album of the year, for this year. i think it had a lot to do with the way the people reacted when they made the statement about the president of the united states. they got a very bad reaction from certain groups of people and some radio stations.
2007-03-04 06:41:42 · answer #5 · answered by BLUE 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was made in 2006. It was over the whole speaking out against the president.
2007-03-04 06:46:36 · answer #6 · answered by book_crazy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not even worth discussing.
2007-03-04 06:27:25 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋