Chick-ening Out
Sounds like the Bush-bashing Dixie Chicks aren't having such good luck with their concert tour.
posted by LadybugUSA at 8:17 AM
Thursday, June 08, 2006
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2 Comments:
The Dixie Chicks are an extremely talented group. I love their music!
I wish they hadn't made the comments they made when and where they made them. But everyone (in free countries, anyway) has the right to say almost anything they want.
And everyone else has the right to react however they wish. It just so happens that a huge chunk of the fan base for the Dixie Chicks chose to boycott them.
That's their right. Unlike a lot of political conservatives though, I never felt declining sales proved the Dixie Chicks wrong in their political statements. I also never stopped liking their music. It's simply too good!
I've also always thought the Dixie Chicks were simply too talented to be kept down should they decide to continue performing. Besides, there's a huge market on the left for anyone who says anything negative about the Bush Administration.
Sadly (and wrongly), many on the left will try to equate renewed success for the Dixie Chicks as vindication for their political views.
But just like the initial decline in sales did not prove the Dixie Chicks wrong, increasing sales now will not prove them right.
They're simply a great group.
I think those on both sides of the political spectrum make too much of such things.
The Redwalls have a war protest song called "Colorful Revolution". I disagree with almost every single sentiment expressed in that song. But I still love the song!
I refuse to surrender my listening pleasure to my sense of political fellowship.
rovingwiretap is right; venues don't get much more sterile and one-sided than a Bush campaign appearance. How lovely they were for keeping alive his delusions of competence.
And wrabkin, I agree, it does get wearying.
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