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A 'Nice' night for the Dixie Chicks

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Congratulations Dixie Chicks, not just for the Grammy awards but also for standing your ground, being popular was not your major concern and the risks you all took was proof of that. President Bush indeed would be proud of you for not wavering! :cool:









A 'Nice' night for the Dixie Chicks - CNN.com

(CNN) -- The Dixie Chicks sang "Not Ready to Make Nice," but the Grammy Awards were certainly ready to make them winners, honoring the trio with five awards Sunday night.

The Chicks, who ignited controversy four years ago when lead singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush on the eve of the Iraq war, won all five of the awards for which they were nominated, including the big three: album of the year (for "Taking the Long Way"), song of the year and record of the year (both for "Not Ready to Make Nice").

"I think people are using their freedom of speech with all these awards. We get the message," said Maines, paying tribute to other nominees with an oblique acknowledgement that the group was being honored as much for its stand as its music. "I'm very humbled." (Gallery: Grammy winners and the stars on the red carpet)...
 
KidRocks said:
Congratulations Dixie Chicks, not just for the Grammy awards but also for standing your ground, being popular was not your major concern and the risks you all took was proof of that. President Bush indeed would be proud of you for not wavering! :cool:









A 'Nice' night for the Dixie Chicks - CNN.com

(CNN) -- The Dixie Chicks sang "Not Ready to Make Nice," but the Grammy Awards were certainly ready to make them winners, honoring the trio with five awards Sunday night.

The Chicks, who ignited controversy four years ago when lead singer Natalie Maines criticized President Bush on the eve of the Iraq war, won all five of the awards for which they were nominated, including the big three: album of the year (for "Taking the Long Way"), song of the year and record of the year (both for "Not Ready to Make Nice").

"I think people are using their freedom of speech with all these awards. We get the message," said Maines, paying tribute to other nominees with an oblique acknowledgement that the group was being honored as much for its stand as its music. "I'm very humbled." (Gallery: Grammy winners and the stars on the red carpet)...
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Forget the Chicks, The Police is back!!!!!!
 
How typical is that? My grandfather and I predicted they would win every time we saw them nominated. It's all politics. Not to mention the drugged out John Mayer won as well.
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
How typical is that? My grandfather and I predicted they would win every time we saw them nominated. It's all politics. Not to mention the drugged out John Mayer won as well.
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Drugged out?...

You obviously have some prejudice issues, the man is talented, and by no standards a degenerate.
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
How typical is that? My grandfather and I predicted they would win every time we saw them nominated. It's all politics. Not to mention the drugged out John Mayer won as well.
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Completely politicial.
How many Grammys did they win before their mouths lost them their fan base?
 
I just hope the country stations start playing their damn songs again.
 
Goobieman said:
Completely politicial.
How many Grammys did they win before their mouths lost them their fan base?
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Why do people have such a problem with celebrities who express their political views? They are people too and have every right to do so. I think it's rather silly to judge their music, movies, etc. by their political views. I personally can't stand their music, but that isn't to say that they aren't talented and well deserving of a Grammy.
 
Goobieman said:
Completely politicial.
How many Grammys did they win before their mouths lost them their fan base?
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Apparently enough stuck around for them to still turn a profit.
 
Kelzie said:
I just hope the country stations start playing their damn songs again.
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Don't hold your breath on that one Kelzie. To do so would virtually eliminate the listening audience for that station and no programming or music director is going to take that chance.
 
dclxvinoise said:
Why do people have such a problem with celebrities who express their political views? They are people too and have every right to do so.
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I agree.
People also have a right to not buy whatever a celeberity puts out because they dont like what was said, how it was said, or both.

And, genearlly speaking, country music fans did not take well to what they said -- and so their fan base evaporated and their sales suffered.

While you have a right to say pretty much whatever you want, you dont have the right to expect people to continue to like you after you do.
 
Rhapsody1447 said:
How typical is that? My grandfather and I predicted they would win every time we saw them nominated. It's all politics. Not to mention the drugged out John Mayer won as well.
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How typical? Well before they shot their mouths off they were approaching to be the number one group in country music, if they weren't No 1 already.

So yes, they would of swept the Country Music awards too with no problem!
 
Goobieman said:
I agree.
People also have a right to not buy whatever a celeberity puts out because they dont like what was said, how it was said, or both.

And, genearlly speaking, country music fans did not take well to what they said -- and so their fan base evaporated and their sales suffered.

While you have a right to say pretty much whatever you want, you dont have the right to expect people to continue to like you after you do.
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You are correct that a large amount of their fanbase abandoned them. Since then they have kind of moved away from the country genre a little. Regardless of their fanbase abandoning them their album still sold well and they won some grammys.
 
dclxvinoise said:
Why do people have such a problem with celebrities who express their political views? They are people too and have every right to do so. I think it's rather silly to judge their music, movies, etc. by their political views. I personally can't stand their music, but that isn't to say that they aren't talented and well deserving of a Grammy.
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Time, place, and manner. The Dixie Chicks did this on foreign soil which under retired U.S. law would have been an act of treason, they are lucky that they only lost an audience, many other countries would have executed them. Also, people paid to hear these women play their music, not go on and on about politics, public speakers get paid for that. The fact is that customers have as much right to expression as the DiCks(Dixie Chicks, get it?) have, if people want to express their disgust at these "entertainers" by not buying their product, they simply have sent a message to these people that their expression was unacceptable, it's called a boycott and was appropriate. I do not feel sorry for the DiCks and actually said they sucked before the controversy, this coming from a musician and fan of multiple genres of music.

Ikari said:
Apparently enough stuck around for them to still turn a profit.
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Most of them aren't the country fans that gave them their start. These album sales came from the people who liked their message, but most country fans are still shunning them.
 
It's clear that the Dixie Chicks are doing just fine without the support of those country bumpkins who boycotted them, the hell with those rednecks is the attitude the Chicks took and they were proven correct to take that attitude.

The Chicks chose to speak out against the chimp and his war, that was their right, the rednecks boycotted that was their right, but the beauty of all this is that the Dixie Chicks stood their ground against the uneducated bigots who were mainly from the South and won, and that was their right!

Checkmate!
 
LaMidRighter said:
The Dixie Chicks did this on foreign soil which under retired U.S. law would have been an act of treason, they are lucky that they only lost an audience, many other countries would have executed them.
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I for one, am certainly glad that we are not one of those countries. Furthermore, too many people expressed sentiments akin to those other countries, which I believe is worse than being critical of the President and our Policies.

For these reasons I am pleased that "The Chicks" won these Grammys.
 
KidRocks said:
It's clear that the Dixie Chicks are doing just fine without the support of those country bumpkins who boycotted them, the hell with those rednecks is the attitude the Chicks took and they were proven correct to take that attitude.

The Chicks chose to speak out against the chimp and his war, that was their right, the rednecks boycotted that was their right, but the beauty of all this is that the Dixie Chicks stood their ground against the uneducated bigots who were mainly from the South and won, and that was their right!

Checkmate!
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He blasts the 'uneducated bigots' all the while showing himself to be one against those same people who have different opinions than he.... ahhh... the irony...

Bigot - a prejudiced person who is intolerant of any opinions differing from his own <from Dictionary.com>
 
Dezaad said:
I for one, am certainly glad that we are not one of those countries. Furthermore, too many people expressed sentiments akin to those other countries, which I believe is worse than being critical of the President and our Policies.

For these reasons I am pleased that "The Chicks" won these Grammys.
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If the fact that The Dixie Chicks won their awards based mainly on their political views AND the fact that this was payback on those who blasted them, then The Grammys just became irrelevant... not that they weren't the minute they gave an award to Jethro Tull over Metallica...
 
dclxvinoise said:
Why do people have such a problem with celebrities who express their political views?
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They have every right to say whatever they please. And I have every right to stop listening.
 
This is really no big surprise by Hollywierd.................They got zero awards from the Country Music Awards.............

They had to cancel a show in Tacoma Wash becasue no one bought tickets........
 
Kelzie said:
I just hope the country stations start playing their damn songs again.
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They claim they aren't country and their last album wasn't country. But they won in the country category. Betcha most of the people who voted for them have not heard them nor most of the other nominees. This was political. And a shame that music is now a voice for political position rather than the art it is.
 
Stinger said:
They claim they aren't country and their last album wasn't country. But they won in the country category. Betcha most of the people who voted for them have not heard them nor most of the other nominees. This was political. And a shame that music is now a voice for political position rather than the art it is.
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I don't know. I don't follow any of the awards.
 
Navy Pride said:
This is really no big surprise by Hollywierd.................They got zero awards from the Country Music Awards.............

They had to cancel a show in Tacoma Wash becasue no one bought tickets........
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They don't need Country Music Awards, they don't need Tacoma, they really have no need for rednecks anymore, as you can see, the Grammys are what count!
 
KidRocks said:
They don't need Country Music Awards, they don't need Tacoma, they really have no need for rednecks anymore, as you can see, the Grammys are what count!
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A Grammy counts and a CMA doesn't? Can't wait to hear your rationale.
 
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