Are the Dixy Chicks cool?

Question

In the UK and Ireland, most people who care at all about the issue, think that the Dixie Chicks were treated abysmally by their own poeple and were subjected to vile prejudice and bigotry in a campaign of intolerance which was supported by the American President following their criticism of him.

Answer 1

You're entitled to your beliefs, but no, they're not in my opinion. I agree with Sneezy, Crystal, Rev Trask, and especially Pencil Pusher (whom you should probably pick as best answerer). They are singers, and that's their job, to sing and entertain (not to make political comments and possibly annoy their fans..as Laura Ingram says in her book, "Just Shut Up and Sing").

The Dixie Chicks made the comment during their concert, not afterwards (mainly because one of them acted like a lemming, following the crowd, thinking it was cool to do so).

Just as they had freedom of speech to make that statement, so, too did their fans have the right not to buy their cds. Their fans were, as Pencil Pusher pointed out, conservative, Bush supporting, proud of their country all-Americans. To hear their president degraded was enough to turn the fans away from bothering with the Dixie Chicks (the music biz is a competitive one and there are plenty of others to which one can listen).

If those on the other side cared so much about their loss of sales, they should have run out and bought a bunch of their cds. If they had done so, the Dixie Chicks wouldn't have had to wait a couple of years to swtich gears and become a mediocre rock band.

This had nothing to do with GW Bush or the government, as much as a certain political group would like you to believe (those are of the 9/11 conspiracy theory ilk). It also had nothing to do with the media (who are liberal with the exception of a very few) hounding them. Plenty of others have paid the same price or worse for their comments who also are not politicians (like Don Imus, Britney Spears, Michael Richards, etc.).

I remember a 60-something year old man debating this very issue with a twenty year old back then. It seems to me the twenty year old tried to explain that we have many freedoms in the U.S. No one forces us to listen to music or buy cds or to not listen or not buy their cds. An artist I loved changed his type of music; I, therefore, did not buy his new cd or go to a concert on that cd tour. I was not forced not to go; he did something I didn't like, so I made my own decision (he has since seen the error of his ways and is back into rock music). It boils down to this: If someone says or does something I don't like, I don't have to spend my money supporting them.

I would not have bothered with this question but a good friend managed to run across this and gave me a heads up on this old issue upon which he stumbled...probably to show me that a leopard never changes its spot...whatever. Thanks for the clever question.

Answer 2

Is this a question for the History category?

There is always the Current Events or the Polls & Surveys categories for questions like this.

Answer 3

I love the Dixie Chicks! Everybody has the right to voice their opinion but I do feel how they decided to voice their opinion made it look like a blow against our country instead of the president, which is how I feel they meant to direct their frustration. They don't agree with how the president is handling the country's affairs, but there is a fine line of what you should say and when you say it. Most country's would not even tolerate a outburst of sorts. I understand people being upset but I think it was blown way out of proportion.

Answer 4

Please do no longer drag Shah Rukh Khan in this stupid question of yours. He has probable seen extra chicks in his existence than you have hair on your head. SRK might never waste his time thinking on such stupid frivolity.

Answer 5

So not cool. After the Bush comment I never bought another CD and never will! You would not go on air and say rude things about the Queen, would you? I consider them UN-American. They could criticize in their own home, but not on air in other countries. We have freedom of speech, but that went beyond rude.

If they had shut up and just sang, their CDs would be welcome in my home. They had no right to disrespect our country like that.

Answer 6

I guess Dixie Chicks could get new gig in the Moron Tabernacle Choir...ROFLOL.

**Shakes Bible at heretical Liberals**

Answer 7

i like them. i don't like Bush either, so it didn't bother me.

Answer 8

NOT REALLY, THEY'RE A BIT LAME

Answer 9

If whiny, misinformed, liberal self-promoters are cool...they sure are !