Don't Mess With Texas
...nd his foreign policy. Unfortunately for the Dixie Chicks their craft is not created for Hollywood but for Texas. :”Lead singer Natalie Maines said in a concert in London earlier this week that she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." Pretty bold statement from the country sweetheart. The trio felt a severe backlash after their statements were made public. Radio stations banned their music, there were demonstrations where groups of people smashed their CDs, and their total popularity went down(http://jacksonville.bizjournals.com/jacksonville/stories/2003/03/17/daily14.html) According to Billboard Music Charts their CD sales went down 15% immediately after the remarks. The group knew they were not being recieved warmly and wanted to try and articulate their viewpoint and avoid more conflation. They posed nude on the cover of Entertainment Weekly being covered only in the slanderous remarks made about them(to view this cover go to http://www.worldmessenger.20m.com/hollywood1.html) I for one am not too fond of most celebrities voicing their political opinions through the media. So it is hard for me to sympathize for the Dixie Chicks. Yes we live in a country constructed on free speech and yes they can influence many people positively, but stick to music. Country music fans are Conservative. The ...