The Chicks Are Hot!

POINTER94

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None of that bums me out. It is a roadmap to understanding that which is wrong with this country. It shows how some will embrace celebrity and ignore facts, style or class.

Making money trashing your country! Some types might find that encouraging, but it says more about them than they might want us to know. :love:
 

WillyBWright

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I see. And politicians don't rely on celebrity for political gain? Celebrity is another word for fame. Have we ever elected a president that wasn't famous? ( Oh yeah. Gee Dubya. He's on the expressway to being infamous. ;) )

Is that what's wrong with our country? The Dixie Chicks? Then it would seem to me that three well-placed bullets would make everything sunshine and roses again. NOT!!! They wouldn't be selling through the roof if the people buying the albums didn't agree with them.

BTW, how much did Arlo make off of Alice's Reastaraunt? Do you listen to it when it comes on the radio, or change the station?
 

JB

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C'mon, WillyB.

Do you really think people buy their music because they like their politics?
 

WillyBWright

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Actually I think they buy because they like Both kinds of music. Country AND Western. ;)
 

POINTER94

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I couldn't agree more Willy. How many Bush's or Clintons or Kennedy's do we need before its all just a popularity contest. We are all hot and bothered that we could have a female president or a black president or a gay senator, or a moviestar governor. I just want good representatives. But some seem to think that it is more important to have a trendy, or unique one. Some pathetic types will take cameras with them from an early stage of life in preparation of political "celebrity".

The Chicks Are Hot!
-with who, left wing, liberal, defeat America crowd? This ain't new...

I don't need politics in my music, in as much as I don't have any Dixie Twits in my music library, I don't have any Toby Keith either. Funny how most "creative" types end up hurting those in which they intend to help. This is what happens when you start writing checks with your mouth that your arse can't cover.

Let's get back to musicians making music and let those ideas contained within resonate, not riding the wave of hate from musician to political celebrity. Help me again with the twits qualifications regarding foreign policy? Oh, and how exactly are they "supporting our troops"?
 

Tyme2fish

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There is still freedom of expression in this country.

My form of expression is to not buy anything performed by the Chicks. However, I didn't buy anything from them before they went political.
 

Laddies

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There is not a lot of mentality differance between politions and celebrities they both -hore themselves for money and popularity, they also live in never neverland and in most cases behind security gates and fences, they really don't care about output from the outside inless it's money
 

JB

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WillyB, we agree.

They are good musicians. People who like their music buy their recordings because of that.

Some don't buy because they don't like their music enough, some in protest of their public statements.
 

12Footer

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I thought they were exceptional musicians also.
To follow their short history, is to get a small education on the memory-span and vanity of mankind in general.
They decided to use their willing, yet captive audiances to spread anarchy, and for a while, they suffered the results. NOW, they are more famous them ever.
So purchase a box of their latest CDs today, and distribute them to friends and strangers. They cannot loose this war without your help.
 

Fly Rod

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WillyBWright said:
Actually I think they buy because they like Both kinds of music. Country AND Western. ;)

That's an old one WILLY!! 8)
 

OldMercsRule

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Ya know folks, fluctuations in most things do in fact ocurr, (and not only in stock/bond/commodity markets). Sometimes the fluctuations are counter to the trend, sometimes in sync to a new high or new low to extend the trend. I do cornsider myself a Cornservative n' I do listen to and enjoy Country and Western music as well as many other types o' music. I find C&W music to usually be positive, patriotic and uplifting, (Bro Haut correctly pointed out that there is an empty part o' the C&W glass: where the tear in your bear stuff also exists [like ol' Hank et al] which I do acknowledge: me Bro). That said, most Cornservatives, (like 12Footer, Pointer, myself n' many others), will likely not purchase or support the Chicks due to their poor choices and as a specific cornsequence o' their freedom of speech; which most all of us agree: they have. Are the Chicks talented entertainers? I for one think so. Has the win with the Libs n' their Lib Grammy awards helped the Chicks sell cds? Why yes. Does that change the trend in their cd sales, n' concerts? Not likely. So the trend will likely continue: IMHO, might be wrong: as it is hard to know the future. If the Chicks exercised discretion and kept their mouths shut would they be in better shape with their cd sales? Absolutely. How about the Lib's Grammys? The trend there is also down, (viewership et al). Ol' Al? He may win but his movie, (which I paid ta see), did not sell very well, (n' was a fairly cornvincin' piece o' propaganda for Kool Aid drinkers). N' fact the Oscars have their own negative trend ta deal with. The trend I'm talkin' 'bout is bigger then the Chicks. Check out ol' ABC,CBS,NBC,CNN,MSNBC,NYT,WP et al. There is a PROFOUND trend that is playin' out for all ta see. Hard tellin' where it will end up, but I: for one, have a cautiously optomistic outlook, (probably the Cornservative in me). My $.02, not that you needed it, as the other Cornservatives do a real good job here on iboats. JR8)8)
 

waterinthefuel

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Obviously a grammy winning song doesn't have to a song anybody has actually ever heard.
 
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