Hello Phantasmal,
I have always loved them. When Natalie Maines spoke out against the Iraq war and President Bush, she rocked it to the top of my chart.
What a wake-up call to rural war-mongers!
They loved the Dixie Chicks until Maines spoke the raw truth that faithless fans were denying to themselves.
Well, nothing angers somebody more than telling them the very thing they are trying desperately to deny.
Predictably, many country music fans suddenly didn't like what, just days prior, they thought was awesome.
And again, they were denying themselves, just as before.
The Dixie Chicks already had it made. They are all rich. They didn't need to sell any more CDs, didn't need any more fame. I loved it when they came back with their 'Not Ready To Make Nice' song.
That was featured on their 'Taking The Long Way' album and tour of defiance, summed up by MaGuire:
"The album contained several tracks that seemed to indirectly reference what the group called "The Incident", and the group remained defiant. Maguire commented that, "I'd rather have a smaller following of really cool people who get it, 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."[79] "
The Defiant Dixie Chicks wiki
