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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.Once Natalie spoke out is was like this loss of innocense and people became hardened towards them.
God bless you always!!!
Holly
P.S. What I would like to know is if that girl still would have said what she said that night if she had been aware before saying it that she can't stop anyone from not liking what she had to say to the extent that they would wash their hands of her and the other two girls. Yeah they got several Grammy awards because of this whole situation, but at the end of the day, awards will never be what get the bills paid.
I doubt she would have spoken up had she known the size and significance of the fallout.
I believe she was already asked that, and contradicted you.
Actually we already know that, and the evidence is right here in this thread, on video ---- she came back to the same stage three years later ..... and repeated the line, word for word.
And I might add, that time the applause and cheers were far more raucous.
Know why?
Because she stood up for her principles and wasn't about to be browbeaten by political-PC fascist busybodies, that's why.
People like that. As well they should. Any time the voice of the people can put a finger in the eye of the authoritarians who try to suppress us ---- that's what we call a good thing.
Did the statement -- and more correctly the corporate massaging of the statement --- cost the band record sales and ticket sales? The numbers say yes. Did that same element win them new fans, new followers and an absolute ton of publicity? Again, the numbers report in the affirmative (see the video above). But that's all stuff that can be quantified in numbers; what can't be qualified -- or bought or sold like a commodity fetish -- is the boundless respect earned in so doing. There's no price tag for that and there are no unit numbers for it. Because not everything is about money; it's called integrity. And that's far deeper than dollars or unit sales.
First she stood up for Texas; when the System didn't like that she stood up for her Principles.
And that, the System cannot touch.
She stood up for Texas ? Lol ! The majority of Texans were in support of going into Iraq at the time she made her comments !