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| Dixie Chicks Whine Some More on National TV |
| 2003-04-24 |
| Lead singer Natalie Maines, who got the group in trouble by telling a London audience she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas," just days before the war in Iraq began, now says she regrets her choice of words, but makes no apologies for "I'm not truly embarrassed that, you know, President Bush is from my state, that's not really what I care about," Maines said in an interview with ABC's Diane Sawyer for Primetime Thursday, airing 10 p.m. EDT. "It was the wrong wording with genuine emotion and questions and concern behind it. ... Am I sorry that I asked questions and that I just don't follow? No.""Am I sorry it hurt my record sales? You betcha! Maines and the Texas-based trio's other members ? Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, who are sisters ? also tell Sawyer they believe the backlash against them was too harsh tell that to the dissidents Castro imprisoned this month and that they've always supported America's troops. "We know some of our fans were shocked and ... and upset, and we are compassionate to that," Maguire said. "My problem is, when does it cross the line? ... When is writing a threatening letter OK?" As another gimmick to "We wanted to show After Maines' remarks, radio stations began boycotting the Dixie Chicks, and some people publicly destroyed copies of the group?s Grammy-winning CD Home. The song "Travelin' Soldier," which was No. 1 on Billboard's country charts around the time Maines made the remark, and tumbled off the charts afterward. And sales of Home plummeted, although sales have rebounded slightly, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Even with the slide, however, Home remains the top-selling album on the Billboard country chart ? 19 weeks at No. 1 ? and No. 30 on the pop chart. |
| Posted by:Baba Yaga |
| #4 Thank you Dixie Chicks...Freedom of speech is being eroded in our country..my country...where I was born...Where are our rights ...what is happening to the Fourth Amendment of our Constitituion...How can be allow Ashcroft to corrupt our freedom..who is out there to stop him? |
| Posted by: my name is Jane Baner 2003-06-09 15:46:30 |
| #3 I too flicked it off. Some Rolling Stone flack was trying to say that their sales are headed back up, but I suspect that's only cause they have a new release, and they have been touring in Europe where their comments generated good publicity for them. Plus there is probably a temporary spike in sales as a show of support from the anti-war crowd, a group unlikely to prove a reliable fan base in the future. With the mega publicity they have been getting, the question isn't IF they can manage to sell a few CD's but rather how many CD's could they have sold if they hadn't lost most of their real fans. Time to put your clothes on and go home, girls. Getting naked just makes you look like a bunch of desperate whores. |
| Posted by: becky 2003-04-25 04:02:35 |
| #2 AFter watching ten minutes of utter mindless I got up and left the room. They don't understand that it is wrong to attack America verbally when standing on foreign soil on the eve of war. They just don't get it. |
| Posted by: Douglas De Bono 2003-04-24 22:25:21 |
| #1 Talk about airbrushing! The photo took about 40 pounds off Maines. I'm not saying she's fat, but to get her pregnant her husband had to roll her in flour and ... rim shot. Got a million of 'em |
| Posted by: Denny 2003-04-24 22:03:01 |