God Bless the Dixie Chicks

[illuminati]

You can hate 'em or love 'em, the Dixie Chicks are sticking to every American's right to freedom of speech and this video entails all those glorious moments in which they exercise that very right. Check it out, it's well worth the click:

vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=741952624&n=2

[akusgal41790]

Well, I guess we're all entitled to our opinions aren't we?

"The anger isn't directed at the war or the president or their many fans who deserted them. It's about the hatred and narrow-minded intolerence that they encountered through expressing an opinoin." Oh yeah, that first part is real believable..

"We're not politicians, we're musicians." EXACTLY what I've been saying!! Listen to your own words girl!

[akusfan14]

Wow, I agree with ya said there akusgal! I personally like the song, and we do have freedom of speech, but there are some things that are best unsaid!!! I dunno, but that link doesn't work, well not for me at least.

[akus84]

Hey Grilies!

I was gonna try and stay away from this one, but you know me! I was doing fine and then I read this article and was like, ummm, no!

"It also explains why the Dixie Chicks have made such a point of saying good riddance. "I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it," says Maguire, "who will grow with us as we grow and are fans for life, than people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith. We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."

Now being a Reba fan, I just have to say whats up with that? And better yet, why would I put them in with my disc changer with Akus? Aint happenin'! I cant say that I have seen the video or heard the song and for that matter, not gonna waste my time either. The funny thing is, before all this "Started" up again, I was going through my cds. I was trying to make more room for the Best, AKUS and I found this "DC" cd. I was like, hmmm, does it stay or does it go. Well for the purposes of not making anymore folks mad, lets just say the tool bench in the garage dont wobble anymore!

Now I agree with everyone, we all have the freedom of speech. But there are just some people we want to hear sing and not share any type of political beliefs. Its also been a touchy subject and they are folks just like the rest of us. But there is a time and a place for everything. Dont get me wrong, I do think it was wrong for people to send them threats. I hope I didnt offend anyone sharing my "Opinion", cause it wasnt my intention. Feel free to share as well!

Amy~

[Mandy]

I do think everyone is entitled to their opinion...it seems like..from what I'm reading about the Chicks is....they are showing total intolerance to the views of people who don't agree with them...I've felt that way all along..to me..what they are promoting is Intolerance...when have you ever heard them say that anyone else was entitled to have a different opinion...maybe I missed that somewhere....but to me there is some responsibility that goes along with wanting your own views to be respected....to me it means they need to show some respect for the people who may have a different opinion than they do...but I don't see that...I've never seen that in the way they've talked or behaved...all I see is that they want to polarize people and insult people who might have a different opinion.....I don't always fit into a box myself..so I don't really like people trying to categorize others..and insult them if they would have a differnt opinion.........that's what I think........ Mandy

[Jason]

I don't think that the Dixie Chicks are showing intolerance for other people's views. They are just expressing their own without shame. If anything, they experienced more intolerance then what they could ever dish out. They were banned by radio stations, had their CDs burned, and were sent death threats. I can understand not wanting to be a part of a community that would treat someone like that. These are the same people that 6 months ealier were attending their concerts and helping them sell over 20 million albums total.

In my opinion, the function of art is to comment on society. Natalie made a comment, that may have been ill-timed, but it was her belief. With the President's approval rating hovering in the low twenties, it should be some indication that maybe she wasn't wrong.

Having purchased the new Chicks CD, I can only say that it is some of the best music that has been made recently. It is a shame if people don't give it a chance.

[akusgal41790]

Going back to what Amy said; I didn't know that some artists would actually rather have some people as fans than others. I agree with what you said, Amy, and totally know where you're coming from.

"With the President's approval rating hovering in the low twenties, it should be some indication that maybe she wasn't wrong." In my own personal opinion, if the approval rating was .01%, then it still isn't fair, for not everyone would be thinking the same thing. But it's absolutely not my place to decide what is right or wrong. I do feel, however, that like Amy said (sorry I keep refering back to you!), there is a time and place for everything. Yeah, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But being in the public eye like the Chicks are, I feel it was extremely uncalled for to say what was said.

I'm pretty sure I've read Mandy's post right, and I completely agree. And going off from that; the artists have stated that fans who think differently than them are abandoning them and have an narrow-minded approach in looking at the situation. But they're completely contradicting their own selves. We're supposed to respect them for having their own thoughts, but in return, I think it's only fair that we should be respected for disagreeing with those thoughts. Do I feel it's ok for some to burn DC cds and threaten them? Absolutely not. But I do feel the Chicks could have been more responsible for their actions.

If I have offended anyone by what I've said, it certainly wasn't my purpose. And I also don't like to talk about this on the AKUS board, but I'm a bit of an opinionated individual.. so it's hard to stay away!

[fiddle2ireland]

I think that Nat made a mistake from what she said. Some people dissagree. She dosen't like the wars and thinks all this mess. Well, how about this Nat? We can't have peace overseas untill we have PEACE IN THE USA!!!!

-Angry American

[fiddlechick21]

I love the Dixie Chicks.

[lovakus]

well here goes since all of bushes mess ups i have lost a bit of faith in him to put it nicely. I am hearing all knds of stuff on the news about how he is trying to change a bunch of stuff he should just leave be. As for the Chicks some like them some dont some dont like them for what they said. Basically i say a lot of stuff i dont want the world hearing so i dont say it in front of however many people they said it in front of. If they were worried at all about losing fans they would have considered this. (The chicks werent born yesterday) LOL besides theres too much other stuff to worry about to nit pick on what one woman said and i like that they said that they r musicians not politicians THATS THE DANG TRUTH we cant have politics in everything YUCK
FIDDLE ON!
KRAZY KATE

[Mandy]

For anyone who is interested...the Chicks will be on Larry King tonight....
that's what I saw yesterday on CNN....also...I know that they do replay
a lot of those shows later in case you miss it.....

[fogcitygal]

Thanks Mandy for the heads up. It's repeating here in an hour!