O The Irony! dubya in the toilet, Dixie Chicks ascendant

[boutons_]

At the Grammys, Making Very Nice

The Dixie Chicks Take Five, Including Album of the Year

By J. Freedom du Lac (http://projects.washingtonpost.com/staff/email/j.+freedom+du+lac/)
Washington Post Staff Writer
Monday, February 12, 2007; Page C02

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 11 The Dixie Chicks got the last laugh Sunday night. Rejected by the country establishment, the polarizing group was tickled to find itself in the warm embrace of the broader Recording Academy, which honored the Chicks with five Grammy Awards -- including the three biggest:
album of the year,
record of the year and
song of the year.

The Texas trio also won for
best country group vocal and
best country album.

The latter award was especially surprising since they were excommunicated from the church of country music in 2003 after singer Natalie Maines popped off about President Bush and the war in Iraq. Upon bouncing to the podium after the result was announced, Maines said what just about everybody inside Staples Center was probably thinking: "That's interesting." She closed her gaping mouth just long enough to grin mischievously, then said, "Well, to quote the great Simpsons, 'HA HA!' "


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http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021200009.jpg (http://javascript%3Cb%3E%3C/b%3E:void%28popitup%28%27http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/postphotos/orb/style/2007-02-12/index.html?imgId=PH2007021200011&imgUrl=/photo/2007/02/12/PH2007021200011.html%27,650,850%29%29)The Dixie Chicks from left, Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, and Emily Robison, accept the award for best country album for "Taking the Long Way" at the 49th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill) (Mark J. Terrill - AP)

The Dixie Chicks won big at Sunday night's 49th Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, sweeping album of the year, record of the year and song of the year for "Not Ready to Make Nice," the group's defiant answer to the angry country fans who'd criticized the group for criticizing President Bush. Red Hot Chili Peppers and Mary J. Blige were also big winners, taking home four and three awards, respectively.

"Not Ready to Make Nice," the group's defiant answer to the angry country fans who'd criticized the group for criticizing Bush, won song of the year, the industry's top writing award. "I am, for the first time in my life, speechless," Maines said. Earlier, the protest singer Joan Baez had introduced the Dixie Chicks as "three brave women who are still not ready to make nice."

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EAT SHIT, right-wing talk radio, Limbaugh, and other scumbags.
All y'all backed a loser, which is what losers do. :lol :lol :lol :lol

[01Snake]

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d132/ebrennix/Album%202/Whoop-De-Doo-1.jpg

[gtownspur]

Cool maybe they can hold a concert for their lampshade, hoover vaccum, pet bird, and now their grammy's.


WGAF.

[gtownspur]

I didn't know self loathing jews would like country.

What's your favorite song Boutons?

You know they usually make songs about divorces, gambling, pickups, and oh yeah....dogs dieing.

I'm pretty sure they don't make songs about going to medical school, or making a shitload off your totalled vehicle.

[clambake]

It is a sad tale of the tape:

Assad 1 Bush 0
Ahmadinejhad 1 Bush 0
Chavez 1 Bush 0
Saddam 0 Bush 1 (not hard to beat on a kid still layed out from 1st beating)
Kim Jong Il 1 Bush 0

and now:

DIXIE CHICKS 1 Bush 0

Yosemite Sam would say "What a revoltin developement"

[Crookshanks]

Who votes for the Grammy's? Is it like the Academy Awards? If so, then it's no surprise that the Dixie Chicks won if left-wing Bush haters are the ones voting!

And if you win a grammy does that mean you're the best? Many of the pictures nominated for various categories at the Oscars are so bad that only a few thousand people have even seen them!

[George Gervin's Afro]

Who votes for the Grammy's? Is it like the Academy Awards? If so, then it's no surprise that the Dixie Chicks won if left-wing Bush haters are the ones voting!

And if you win a grammy does that mean you're the best? Many of the pictures nominated for various categories at the Oscars are so bad that only a few thousand people have even seen them!


Right. It's a conspiracy.. because everybody hates Bush.

[Extra Stout]

This thread makes no sense. Obviously, the widespread red-state antipathy for the Dixie Chicks has no deleterious effect upon the Grammy voters' perception of the Dixie Chicks, and probably in fact has a beneficial effect. The entertainment establishment on the West Coast is as solid a left-wing stalwart as any you will find in the U.S. The Chicks' talent has not diminished since their tiff, and their not-quite-country fusion style appeals more to the ears of Grammy voters whose cultural frame of reference stands completely separate from that of the country music establishment.

None of that changes the pariah status of the Chicks in what formerly was their core demographic.

[boutons_]

We'll see if the Country Music Awards, obviously fully of Jews, Liberals, communists, hippies, peace-niks, and dubya-haters, also give the DC's some love.

As the Repugs know so well, perception is everything, is why they are some violently committed to lying, sliming, and swift-boating.

The DC's are perceived to be on top of their sector, while dubya perceived as a turd floating around in a toilet, with 70% disapproval ratings (AmeriKa is obviously 70% liberal peace-niks).

[johngateswhiteley]

...whatever, btw, the dixie chicks suck.

[Yonivore]

They still can't sell tickets in their old stomping grounds -- The Red States.

By the way, any idea who votes on Grammy awards? Well, it ain't the general public and, if their "spoken word" award is any indication, I think we have pretty good idea of their political bent.

Jimmy Carter, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, just to name a few. And, to my digging, I can't find where they've ever awarded the "spoken word" award to anyone that would be classified as a prominent Conservative or Republican. At least not recently.

[boutons_]

dubya and dickhead woud DIE to have some good news, even fluffy show biz news, like the DC's got.

[Spurminator]

When did we start caring about the Grammy Award?

This is the same award once given to Tony Bennett for an Unplugged album. Of course the voters are Liberals. WGAF?

[Yonivore]

dubya and dickhead woud DIE to have some good news, even fluffy show biz news, like the DC's got.
I doubt he cares.

[DarkReign]

...whatever, btw, the dixie chicks suck.

Amen.

[xrayzebra]

Disney chicks? Oh, Dixie Chicks! They still exist? Have they
made any new recordings, except to put their country down?
And hollow-wood, hell, they give awards to anyone every week.

[ChumpDumper]

Have they
made any new recordings, except to put their country down?:lol All I've heard is self-pity.

[clambake]

Yeah, country music blows. But that's not what's bothering you conservatives.

Are you more upset about what they said, or the fact that they were right?

[Yonivore]

Yeah, country music blows. But that's not what's bothering you conservatives.

Are you more upset about what they said, or the fact that they were right?
Neither. In fact, I still like their music.

What's silly is that people think they're pundits and that the Grammys are a political forum.

Beyond that, who cares. I was just pointing out that getting a music award doesn't validate your political position.

[clambake]

I never considered them heavyweights, just celebs that speak in front of camera's. I don't think they're running for office. They just called it right.

[boutons_]

"self-pity."

self-pity? they sould like unrepentant tough chicks to me. They were certainly slimed, bullied, and shouted at by the Limbaugh types, the red-state rabble/sheeple types.

It's clear now, and history will hammer it home as the pre-war facts come out, and post-withdrawal shit hits the fan, that dubya is a shameful excuse for a president, no matter which state he came from.

[ChumpDumper]

Nah, it was self-pity.

They're doing fine and they were always doing fine. They're just touring in some different cities these days.

[Yonivore]

I never considered them heavyweights, just celebs that speak in front of camera's. I don't think they're running for office. They just called it right.
A stopped watch is right twice a day. Additionally, agreement between you and the Dixie Chicks isn't really news. It just means your clocks stopped on the same time.

[Yonivore]

Nah, it was self-pity.

They're doing fine and they were always doing fine. They're just touring in some different cities these days.
To much smaller crowds.

[clambake]

You wouldn't find me in that crowd, large or small. I've never even heard what they said back in the day, just witnessed the "rights" outrage. That alone crowned it with merit. Nothing hurts quite like the truth. Dixie chicks right, Bush wrong. ouch!

[ChumpDumper]

To much smaller crowds.Yeah, they're really hurting. :rolleyes

[Yonivore]

Yeah, they're really hurting. :rolleyes
As a matter of fact, yeah, they are. They're no where near their zenith.

By the way, did I mention, I like their music.

[ChumpDumper]

As a matter of fact, yeah, they are.What, they're homeless?

[Yonivore]

What, they're homeless?
Is it either or?

Seriously, you don't think their value has been seriously diminished since they became political pundits?

I didn't say they were ruined.

[ChumpDumper]

Is it either or?Seriously are they poor?

[clambake]

Were they wearing last years red carpet retreads? Is there such a thing as country Zenith?

[Yonivore]

Were they wearing last years red carpet retreads? Is there such a thing as country Zenith?
Yeah, stadium crowds in every city. That's the zenith.
.

[clambake]

Yeah, if you call country and western, pro wrestling and nascar a zenith.

[gtownspur]

Yeah, if you call country and western, pro wrestling and nascar a zenith.


or dixie chicks for that matter.

[Aggie Hoopsfan]

We'll see if the Country Music Awards, obviously fully of Jews, Liberals, communists, hippies, peace-niks, and dubya-haters, also give the DC's some love.

As the Repugs know so well, perception is everything, is why they are some violently committed to lying, sliming, and swift-boating.

The DC's are perceived to be on top of their sector, while dubya perceived as a turd floating around in a toilet, with 70% disapproval ratings (AmeriKa is obviously 70% liberal peace-niks).


I feel sorry for you boutons. You'll be crying about the wrongs of Bush right up to the moment some radical Islamist puts a gun to your head and pulls the trigger for not chanting Allah Ahkbar.

[gtownspur]

I feel sorry for you boutons. You'll be crying about the wrongs of Bush right up to the moment some radical Islamist puts a gun to your head and pulls the trigger for not chanting Allah Ahkbar.


He'll survive, becuase he will be chanting allah ahhhhhk!!bwah!!! hmmmm! good!

[boutons_]

take your "sorry" and ram it up your well-reamed ass, dickless twerp.

you're still stalking me in each forum to make your dumbfuck insults. I'm flattered you're so pre-occupied with me. Secretly, you admire how I stomp your dumbfuck ass in these forums.

[gtownspur]

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what was that again buttons? :dizzy

[boutons_]

February 13, 2007

Grammy Sweep by Dixie Chicks Is Seen as a Vindication

By JEFF LEEDS

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 12 — The Dixie Chicks’ big win at the Grammy Awards on Sunday exposed ideological tensions between the music industry’s Nashville establishment and the broader, more diverse membership of the Recording Academy, which chooses the Grammy winners, according to voters and music executives interviewed afterward.

To some, the voting served not only as a referendum on President Bush’s handling of the Iraq war, but also on what was perceived as country music’s rejection — and radio’s censorship — of the trio.

Jeff Ayeroff, a longtime music executive and an academy member, said the resounding endorsement of the group reflected the fact that the academy represents “the artist community, which was very angry at what radio did, because it was not very American.” Mr. Ayeroff said he voted for the Dixie Chicks in at least one category.

( un-American? WTF is American or unAmerican in an extremely diverse country of 300M? who TF decides who or what is American or unAmerican? Americans are so self-consciously hung up on "American", like a teen-age country totally lacking in self-confidence so it call is self "cool". )

At the awards on Sunday, the band — Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire and Emily Robison — swept all five of the Grammy categories in which it was nominated, including the top three — album, record and song of the year — the first time all three have been swept in 14 years.

The awards amounted to vindication for the Dixie Chicks, who found their career sidetracked in 2003 after the singer Ms. Maines told a London concert audience shortly before the invasion of Iraq that the band was “ashamed” that the president hailed from their home state, Texas. In the furor that followed, country radio programmers pulled the multiplatinum-selling trio’s music from the airwaves and rallied listeners to destroy their CDs.


(ah, I get it, the country folks act like like ReichsKrystalnacht and bookburning in Nazi Germany. rabble and sheeple are the same everywhere . But the US one won't go fight in dubya's bullshit war )

The storm flared anew last year when the Dixie Chicks released the album “Taking the Long Way,” which included the single “Not Ready to Make Nice,” a defiant and bitter response to the group’s treatment. And things got worse when band members said in interviews that they were not interested in being part of the commercial country music business; Ms. Maguire, who plays the fiddle, said the group would rather have fans “who get it” instead of “people that have us in their five-disc changer with Reba McEntire and Toby Keith.” Country stations once again all but ignored the Dixie Chicks’ music.

( dubya the Uniter at work again! :lol )

The sweep reflected something of a retort to the Country Music Association’s annual awards, held in November, when the Dixie Chicks were shut out. The vote by the Recording Academy, which is composed of performers, producers, engineers, executives and others across the country, evidently took a different view.

“I think it says that, by and large, the creative community sees what has happened to the Dixie Chicks as unfair and unjust,” said Mike Dungan, a longtime music executive who heads the C.M.A.’s board and is also the president and chief executive of the Capitol Nashville label. (Mr. Dungan said he was not speaking on behalf of the C.M.A.)

But even without support from country music’s traditional institutions, the album became something of a hit. “Taking the Long Way,” bolstered by brisk sales at Starbucks, Amazon and other less traditional outlets, has sold almost 1.9 million copies, and ranked as one of the year’s 10 best sellers. But it fell short compared with albums that did have support from country radio, including those by Carrie Underwood and Rascal Flatts. The trio’s concert tour also appeared weakened by the controversy.

As far as Grammy voters were concerned, the Dixie Chicks “made a great album this year, and their music and their commentary resonated with our membership, as it did with the entire nation,” said Neil Portnow, president of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Recording Academy’s formal title.

But it is not clear that the support was uniform. Mr. Ayeroff, who founded the voter-registration group Rock the Vote, said a man sitting behind him in the Grammy audience snickered each time the Dixie Chicks received another trophy. “Finally,” Mr. Ayeroff said, “I got so disgusted, I turned around and said: ‘Dude, you’re in California now. Even our Republicans are Democrats.’ ”

It has been clear for years that the preferences of the Recording Academy’s voters differ from those of the traditional Nashville powers that be, particularly country’s major radio programmers. Sunday’s results marked the fourth year in a row that the Grammy winner in the best country album category — “Taking the Long Way” this time — was one that received scant interest from country radio. Last year the winner was Alison Krauss and Union Station for “Lonely Runs Both Ways.” (The last Grammy winner for best country album with significant country radio support was “Home,” the Dixie Chicks’ previous album, which won in 2003.)

( so which is "American", the hicks in Nashville's NASCARland? or everybody else? )

Even the Dixie Chicks seemed unsurprised by the disparity. “When you go the C.M.A.’s, Alison Krauss doesn’t win female vocalist of the year or record of the year, but she wins it at the Grammys,” Ms. Maines said backstage. Ms. Maines contrasted the academy’s voters, who are spread among 12 chapters around the nation, with the traditional country music business. “As far as radio and the industry, they’re all right there on four blocks in Nashville.”

Veteran music executives say the membership of the C.M.A. tends to include more radio industry personnel than the Recording Academy. The C.M.A. has about 5,000 members, based primarily in or around Nashville; the academy has more than 11,000 voting members across the country, working in all genres.

The Grammy voting process switches into gear after Sept. 30, the end of the academy’s annual eligibility period for recordings. As a result, many academy members may have been considering their choices at a time when much of the nation’s attention was devoted to the midterm elections, when dissatisfaction with the Iraq war and other factors resulted in the Republicans’ loss of Congress. At the same time, “Shut Up & Sing,” a documentary about the Dixie Chicks’ experience, hit movie theaters.

Grammy nominations were announced in early December, with final ballots sent to voters about a week later.

But analysts said it would be a mistake to read the Dixie Chicks’ wins as simply a reflection of left-leaning ideology rather than the desire of many voters to strike a blow for freedom of expression. Consider “American Idiot,” the 2004 album by the punk-rock band Green Day. It was rife with political imagery, including lines like “Sieg Heil to the president gasman” and won the Grammy for best rock album. But though it also received nominations for album and record of the year, it won neither.

[sabar]

The Dixie Chicks are crap.
The outrage over what they did is crap. (un-american to have a dissenting opinion? is this 1952?)
Using the grammys as a political forum is crap.

[Yonivore]

February 13, 2007

Grammy Sweep by Dixie Chicks Is Seen as a Vindication

Vindication for what? Their their fan base has all but disappeared with concerts cancelled for lack of interest and, still, they gain industry recognition for purely political purposes.

In the words of American Idol’s Randy Jackson, “Welcome to Hollywood, baby!”

“I think people are using their freedom of speech tonight with all of these awards,” Maines said.

By “people”, of course, she means the record excutives who nominated them and the Recording Academy members who voted for them.

Yes, the Hollywood elite are certainly using their freedom of speech… to push their political agenda through some halfwit entertainers.

Compare and contrast:

Their cd “Wide Open Spaces” was released on January 27, 1998. It sold 12 million units and was certified RIAA Diamond.

Their cd “Fly” was released on August 31, 1999. It sold 10 million units and was certified RIAA Diamond.

Their latest cd, “Taking the Long Way” was released on May 23, 2006 and sold 1 million units in the first four weeks… but has failed to even double that number since.

In 2000, their “Fly Tour” went to 90 cities with an average attendance of 12,000 per show and grossed over $46 million in ticket sales.

On March 7, 2003, they sold a record 867,000 tickets in a day and earned $62 million on tour, making it the top grossing country tour of the year.

But after March 10, 2003 (they had already sold out virtually every show of their 2003 world tour), when Natalie Maines told the London concert audience, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas”, their cd sales plummeted and in 2006, their tour had to cancel multiple dates because of a lack of ticket sales.

Yes, they canceled over 60 dates and, even though the group claimed to replace the dates, you can bet they weren't in 14,000 seat arenas.

[gtownspur]

Bush is evil!....

...Now where's my goddamn medal! .. yuppies!