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| Bush Gets No Respect From Chicks' Maines | |
| 2006-05-22 | |
| NEW YORK -- The Dixie The feeling's probably mutual, though I doubt dubya has the time or inclination to care about your feelings you mypopic pig. As war in Iraq loomed, Maines told the London audience: "Just so you know, we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas." Cheaply pandering to a foreign crowd - how brave and patriotic. She didn't get that lesson about politics and the waters edge. The remarks led to death threats and a backlash from other country stars, including a high-profile spat with Toby Keith. It also stalled what until then had been the group's smashingly successful career. Bandmate Emily Robinson said she knew right away the remark wouldn't be taken lightly and got "hot from my head to my toes." "It wasn't that I didn't agree with her 100 percent; it was just, 'Oh, this is going to stir something up,'" she told Time. More like, oh sh*t, that little blonde bimbo is going to kill our career with this nonsense. For band member Martie Maguire, the controversy was a blessing in disguise. "I'd rather have a small 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," Maguire said. "We don't want those kinds of fans. They limit what you can do."
The Chicks' hits include "Landslide," "Goodbye Earl" and "Wide Open Spaces." Their new album, "Taking the Long Way," is due out May 23. The first single is "Not Ready to Make Nice." -yeah, neither are most of your *former* fans, that's why we all got them Reba, Toby Keith, Montgomery/Gentry, and Haggard cd's in our collection and your shit's in the bargain bin at sam goody. Also, most of your *former* fans are not normally the kind to have a 5 cd changer in their cars. I used to like their music but I can't get over how they've done so well to cop the victimcrat attitude. I will never buy their cd's again. | |
| Posted by:Broadhead6 |
| #15 Miss Maines would rate about a 30 pack of Stroh's worth of low standard on my scale. Now damn, that's cold. |
| Posted by: 6 2006-05-22 18:04 |
| #14 If Natalie were Livestock which would she be????? |
| Posted by: macofromoc 2006-05-22 17:54 |
| #13 I had real low standards in college. Miss Maines would rate about a 30 pack of Stroh's worth of low standard on my scale I see your low standards and lower it ever further: I require a diet coke and a breath mint. |
| Posted by: badanov 2006-05-22 17:06 |
| #12 I still like Larry the Cable guy's take: That little fat one better learn to watch her mouth. Tell-you-whut, If she hadn't hired them 2 talented purty sisters, she'd be selling clothes at a Lane Bryant in Nashville somplace. Get'er Done! As far as things go, I think its funny that they are doing this stuff right as their new CD is coming out. They're going to run right into their own torpedo. Hatred does that to you - a public case of BDS at its finest. |
| Posted by: Oldspook 2006-05-22 17:03 |
| #11 I had real low standards in college. Miss Maines would rate about a 30 pack of Stroh's worth of low standard on my scale. As Bonn Scott once said; she's a whole lotta rosie! |
| Posted by: Broadhead6 2006-05-22 15:33 |
| #10 ...and who flipped the rock over so they could crawl out? Cover of "Time"? For what? Is this one of those "Where are they now" special issues? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-22 13:57 |
| #9 And I have no respect for these clowns. When I think about them at all. Which is never. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2006-05-22 13:53 |
| #8 "I'd rather have a small 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," "Our appeal is becoming more selective." |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2006-05-22 13:40 |
| #7 I didn't know that fatso was a "blonde!" I'm glad she can afford the finest bleach money can buy. Maybe she can afford liposuction to suck out all that fat .. and anger, too. |
| Posted by: Glavilet Unoluse7651 2006-05-22 13:31 |
| #6 I don't buy ANY music, so I don't know what they sound like. My daughter won't buy them because she says they sound like a group of whiny crybabies on their CDs. I hope they have lots of success selling their latest CD - in the Arab world, the last place they get any "respect". |
| Posted by: Old Patriot 2006-05-22 13:12 |
| #5 "I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever." What did he do now, Natalie, outlaw doughnuts? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2006-05-22 12:50 |
| #4 Girls--shut up and sing, already! |
| Posted by: N guard 2006-05-22 11:56 |
| #3 I laugh whenever Natalie Maines opens her piehole. Natalie....it's your future.......I see.......more crappy record sales. |
| Posted by: mcsegeek1 2006-05-22 11:34 |
| #2 I threw their shit out in 2003. Her and Sean Penn are made for each other. Let her CD hit the stores, you can count on me not to buy one. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2006-05-22 11:28 |
| #1 Why would anyone care for ANY entertainment public figure's opinion, anyway? Just asking. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-05-22 11:25 |