You know you can look this stuff up really easy, don't you? The Chicks had a hit album and single and won five Grammy Awards in 2007. Natalie had a solo album that reached Number 4 on the Billboard Charts in 2013.
Oh, there is much more to the story than that. There is this wonderful story about putting friendship and loyalty before monetary gain, the courage of standing up for one's beliefs, the David and Goliath comparisons, the turtle and hare comparisons and the simple story of resilience in the face of disaster and crisis. All topped with a happy ending, which is the inspiration for the topic of them going on a tour this summer.
If I'm so brilliant, how come you can't refute my points?
Guilty as charged.
Just don't make me wear wunna dem British wigs. You know, the "crime" being in London and all...
What points ? You have none.
Natalie spouted off, which in turn angered millions of Americans, the Chicks then lost a good deal of their fan base.
That's the story.
If the Chicks story is just one about making hundreds of millions of dollars for stuffing into banks, they lost big time, but if it is about more to life than those hundreds of millions, the Chicks are visions of success. They had to settle for tens of millions and integrity.
The integrity came in then the other the other members of the groups stood behind her and refused to pressure her into an apology or let her go and replace her.Oh, there is much more to the story than that. There is this wonderful story about putting friendship and loyalty before monetary gain, the courage of standing up for one's beliefs, the David and Goliath comparisons, the turtle and hare comparisons and the simple story of resilience in the face of disaster and crisis. All topped with a happy ending, which is the inspiration for the topic of them going on a tour this summer.
If I'm so brilliant, how come you can't refute my points?
Guilty as charged.
Just don't make me wear wunna dem British wigs. You know, the "crime" being in London and all...
What points ? You have none.
Natalie spouted off, which in turn angered millions of Americans, the Chicks then lost a good deal of their fan base.
That's the story.
If the Chicks story is just one about making hundreds of millions of dollars for stuffing into banks, they lost big time, but if it is about more to life than those hundreds of millions, the Chicks are visions of success. They had to settle for tens of millions and integrity.
Again this is not a story of integrity. If so, then anyone who DOESN'T speak out uninvited has none.
It's not like someone was requiring Natalie and the Chicks to give an oath of allegiance.
People came to hear the Chicks perform, all's they needed to do was take the stage and perform their music.
Instead Natalie chose to take a side, and once you've done that the other side is going to push back.
In the Chicks case, they were viewed as these good old hometown girls who had lots of talent.
Once Natalie spoke out is was like this loss of innocense and people became hardened towards them.
Which is pretty much what can happen when a person says anything about anything because everyone is going to have their own opinion about whatever the matter is should the matter mean enough to them.
Oh, there is much more to the story than that. There is this wonderful story about putting friendship and loyalty before monetary gain, the courage of standing up for one's beliefs, the David and Goliath comparisons, the turtle and hare comparisons and the simple story of resilience in the face of disaster and crisis. All topped with a happy ending, which is the inspiration for the topic of them going on a tour this summer.
If I'm so brilliant, how come you can't refute my points?
Guilty as charged.
Just don't make me wear wunna dem British wigs. You know, the "crime" being in London and all...
What points ? You have none.
Natalie spouted off, which in turn angered millions of Americans, the Chicks then lost a good deal of their fan base.
That's the story.
If the Chicks story is just one about making hundreds of millions of dollars for stuffing into banks, they lost big time, but if it is about more to life than those hundreds of millions, the Chicks are visions of success. They had to settle for tens of millions and integrity.
Again this is not a story of integrity. If so, then anyone who DOESN'T speak out uninvited has none.
It's not like someone was requiring Natalie and the Chicks to give an oath of allegiance.
People came to hear the Chicks perform, all's they needed to do was take the stage and perform their music.
Instead Natalie chose to take a side, and once you've done that the other side is going to push back.
In the Chicks case, they were viewed as these good old hometown girls who had lots of talent.
Once Natalie spoke out is was like this loss of innocense and people became hardened towards them.
Oh, there is much more to the story than that. There is this wonderful story about putting friendship and loyalty before monetary gain, the courage of standing up for one's beliefs, the David and Goliath comparisons, the turtle and hare comparisons and the simple story of resilience in the face of disaster and crisis. All topped with a happy ending, which is the inspiration for the topic of them going on a tour this summer.
If I'm so brilliant, how come you can't refute my points?
Guilty as charged.
Just don't make me wear wunna dem British wigs. You know, the "crime" being in London and all...
What points ? You have none.
Natalie spouted off, which in turn angered millions of Americans, the Chicks then lost a good deal of their fan base.
That's the story.
If the Chicks story is just one about making hundreds of millions of dollars for stuffing into banks, they lost big time, but if it is about more to life than those hundreds of millions, the Chicks are visions of success. They had to settle for tens of millions and integrity.
Again this is not a story of integrity. If so, then anyone who DOESN'T speak out uninvited has none.
It's not like someone was requiring Natalie and the Chicks to give an oath of allegiance.
People came to hear the Chicks perform, all's they needed to do was take the stage and perform their music.
Instead Natalie chose to take a side, and once you've done that the other side is going to push back.
In the Chicks case, they were viewed as these good old hometown girls who had lots of talent.
Once Natalie spoke out is was like this loss of innocense and people became hardened towards them.
On the ******* contrary. For the 19th time, the elephant in the room was the coming war. It was in the atmosphere before, during and after the concert. It was in the air when three million Londonders joined the rest of the world protesting the prospect a few weeks prior --- during which the Chicks were there, in London, in that atmosphere. So in a sense someone very much DID require Natalie Maines -- or somebody -- to take a stand, and that person was..... George W. Bush.
He required me to do the same thing when I was in Canada around the same time. He put all of us in that position-- anyone who traveled outside this country's closed corporate news Bubble into the real world. You know, the Bubble you bought and swallowed whole without questioning? Well the rest of the world, free of that Bubble, knew better.
Again for the 19th time, George W. Bush is ostentatiously identified with Texas --- and so are the Dixie Chicks. Therefore, sitting in London seven thousand miles away from Texas, clarifying that association was imperative.
And you'd sit here on the internets and have us believe that the audience was horrified to hear a message of affirmation and solidarity, which is why they responded with cheers and applause.
Life in Duh Bubble.
Now of course, in retrospect, even you Bubblers know and are forced to admit that Natalie Maines, and the Chicks, and the Londoners, and the rest of the world engaging in the largest antiwar protest in human history, and your fellow Americans who could see through the Bush Bullshit ----- were right.
In so doing she exposed the Bubble for what it is. And you can't stand that.
Tough.
