Dixie Chicks take clothes off, chastise Dubya some more

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― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:48 (twenty-three years ago)

How very riot-grrl.

― teeny (teeny), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

If only Jacques Chirac had thought of this...

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 15:59 (twenty-three years ago)

God I love the Dixie Chicks. There, I've said it.

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:17 (twenty-three years ago)

they are my new favorite band.

― hstencil, Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:21 (twenty-three years ago)

rock n effin' roll.

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Dixie Chicks R as Punk as Fuck.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:30 (twenty-three years ago)

uh, no. But for the first time ever, I think they look cute in that photo.

― hstencil, Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I loved them before and love them even more now, although the new album isn't as good as the two before it

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:45 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's awesome that a trio of hayseeds have unwittingly become what Madonna is so conspicuously trying to imagineer herself into.

also, I use the term hayseeds with all due affection

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:47 (twenty-three years ago)

i think i'm just bothered that the most defiant public political musical act is the dixie chicks.....

― j fail (cenotaph), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it should be most public defiant etc

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

also, thank PETA for teaching lady celebs that the only way they can get people to listen their opinions is by taking off their clothes.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Heh. Right. Not a lot of Rage Against My Own Paycheck happening. Even the Dixie Chicks seemed to stumble into the role unwittingly.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 24 April 2003 16:57 (twenty-three years ago)

That's how I get people to listen to me at work.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In a darkened Seattle mansion, Eddie Vedder crumples the latest issue of EW in a jealous rage.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:03 (twenty-three years ago)

Hating the Dixie Chicks isn't easy. You can't say "They're just pre-produced pop!" because no, no they aren't They worked a long time coming up in the business. And you can't say, "They have no talent!" Because, holy crap can those girls play their instruments. And my last reason for hating them, the fact that they totally didn't stand by what they said, has been refuted.

I need to find a new reason to hate them.

― David Allen, Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:05 (twenty-three years ago)

How about their music is rub?

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:06 (twenty-three years ago)

you'r thinking of the Manics

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I can see Ally stripping beside the fax machine: "I said, this thing needs TONER!"

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Now I'll never marry you, Blount.

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:18 (twenty-three years ago)

why buy cow when milk for free

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:20 (twenty-three years ago)

ILX: Continually Full Of Dickheads!

― Ally (mlescaut), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:24 (twenty-three years ago)

James is drinking a little early today. Just ignore him.

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:26 (twenty-three years ago)

they were on the last snl (rerun) (Matt McConaghey has 0.0 funny in him) and Natalie Maines gave out the strongest echo of Debbie Harry. Wierd hair, widened eyes, strange sideways glances, baring her teeth. Extraordinary.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:28 (twenty-three years ago)

fuck. yes.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Good move -- lest they have to get real jobs. Me, i'm inspired -- in fact, i think i'm going to start a paper route!

― christoff (christoff), Thursday, 24 April 2003 17:47 (twenty-three years ago)

ILX: Continually Full Of Dickheads!

...because we missed the new ILX slogan the first time it was mentioned...

― jm (jtm), Thursday, 24 April 2003 18:11 (twenty-three years ago)

Umm..... daddy's girls getting back at daddy?

― maria b (maria b), Thursday, 24 April 2003 22:21 (twenty-three years ago)

Natalie's body has GOT to be airbrushed. She was looking
pretty frumpy in that video that came out not long ago.

― squirl plise (Squirrel_Police), Friday, 25 April 2003 05:58 (twenty-three years ago)

god this only makes me luv them more!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:22 (twenty-three years ago)

at first i thought they were showing nipple (which would be daring for entertainment), till i realized that it's one of the dixie chicks' fingers. it's still a great "fuck you!" to shrubya and his freeper-trash/jesus-freak supporters.

― Tad (llamasfur), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The fact that the lead singer apologized the day after the initial comments were made totally ruins it for me.

― Evan (Evan), Friday, 25 April 2003 06:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought it was more like a week and a half.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:18 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder if they shave.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 25 April 2003 12:19 (twenty-three years ago)

No, they wax because if they shave they get Dixie Nicks.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:44 (twenty-three years ago)

teeny you have made my week!

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Friday, 25 April 2003 15:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Stevie Nicks shaves?

― hstencil, Friday, 25 April 2003 16:03 (twenty-three years ago)

In a darkened Seattle mansion, Eddie Vedder crumples the latest issue of EW in a jealous rage.

Yeah.. imagine the magazine covers if he had gotten this idea first.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 25 April 2003 20:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Honestly speaking, does anyone GENUINELY CARE about this whole kerfuffle? I mean, seriously!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:06 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes.

― Everyone not in NYC, Friday, 25 April 2003 21:14 (twenty-three years ago)

"Honestly speaking, does anyone GENUINELY CARE about this whole kerfuffle? I mean, seriously!"

Its more of a free-speech/anti-Bush/liberal guilt/the Whig Party/Your name here kinda thing. In other terms, something to get angry about. The band was scapegoated though. The best words I've read on this topic came from Greil Marcus of all people, from the new(ish) Real Life Rock Top 10:

"10) Associated Press, March 14: "Dixie Chicks singer criticized for anti-Bush comments" For the record, Natalie Maines, on stage, London, March 10: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." Maines was born in Texas--in Lubbock, Buddy Holly's hometown. George W. Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and to run for office adopted a tough-guy version of what he took to be a Texas accent. On September 21, 2001, in New York City, for the "America: A Tribute to Heroes" broadcast, Maines introduced the Dixie Chicks' "I Believe in Love" in a deep performance; Bush posed at Ground Zero with his arm around a New York City worker, promising aid he later withheld."

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:15 (twenty-three years ago)

http://216.136.200.194/auction/Apr/20034251975384866081477.jpg

― chaki (chaki), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess....but, I mean, they're a fuckin' country pop band! Who gives a rolling rat-fuck what their political convictions are? They're certainly entitled to'em! I mean, fuck....I'm a Kiss fan, but if Gene Simmons suddenly stopped selling lunch boxes for a second to proclaim "George Dubya Bush is like a brother to me, and I hearby proclaim him the fifth member of Kiss," it wouldn't affect my appreciation of the band in the slightest (I may go onto think Gene had lost his mind, but whatever...).

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:22 (twenty-three years ago)

What if it was Shania Twain, and she shot George Bush with her futuristic robot lazer eye beams? Then would you care?

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:25 (twenty-three years ago)

gene simmons is one of the most conservative fuckwads in rock and expounds on this idea(l) at length in interviews

― jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd care in the sense that she would finally be the cyborg Shirley Manson was always trying to be.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Shania Twain eats Shirley Manson for fucking breakfast. The is the überkomputermensch. Which is a word I just made up!

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:32 (twenty-three years ago)

sqirl, EVERY person on EVERY entertainment/fashion/whatever cover is airbrushed from here to Havana! I worked on the Cosmopolitan website for a short spell and I saw someone's whole armpit get "cloned" out of existence. Snip! No armpit for you!! Maybe Shania can use her lazer-eyes to dodge and burn herself in Real Time. That would be cool. Of course once she closed her eyes her whole look would go to shit.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Tracer, was that someone Paula Cole? There was a huge controversy about that once.

― Ally (mlescaut), Friday, 25 April 2003 21:52 (twenty-three years ago)

oh my God chaki that is like the most classic post EVER

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 25 April 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

and she shot George Bush with her futuristic robot lazer eye beams

See, but that would be cool, though.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 25 April 2003 23:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, but when she's just some kind of Transformer fem-bot, that's not cool?

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

'Course not. What's the point of being a Transformer fem-bot if you're not gonna do anything with your awesome powers? What has Shania ever done for us, eh?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:26 (twenty-three years ago)

No, the George Bush getting shot by lazers is the cool part.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Yes, but still, I wish I was a robot.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 26 April 2003 00:56 (twenty-three years ago)

You're far to ASSY to be a robot, Ally.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Well, I never.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 26 April 2003 01:50 (twenty-three years ago)

this isn't the first time the chix have done this.

oh, and chaki roolz (at least in re natalie)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 26 April 2003 03:38 (twenty-three years ago)

this isn't the first time the chix have done this.

Done what? Excercise their freedom of speech or gotten naked and painted slogans on themselves?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 26 April 2003 06:16 (twenty-three years ago)

You know, I don't give a rat's ass about the Dixie Chicks. Their music does not interest/pertain to me. But I also think that the boycott is dumb, because really, who gets their worldview from a band that my wife used to annoy me with by playing some song about some guy name Ernest or something beating his wife and getting shot for it? But if they wanna get naked, that's a step forward for them, it seems as if they are finally starting to support some angle of the White Panther Party's smoking dope and fucking in the street platform, which I can give my blessing to any day.

― Helltime Producto (Pavlik), Saturday, 26 April 2003 23:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Alex, those two things are one in the same.

― Ally (mlescaut), Saturday, 26 April 2003 23:28 (twenty-three years ago)

I am trying to think of a different way to say "I love the motherflipping Dixie Chicks" and "Yes, it means something when hugely hugely popular public figures make unpopular political statements and then don't back down, and are women, dayenu." But I can't.

― Sasha Frere-Jones (Sasha Frere-Jones), Saturday, 26 April 2003 23:33 (twenty-three years ago)

howzabout "Rebel Girl you are the queen of my world"?

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 27 April 2003 04:48 (twenty-three years ago)

how about "Cowboy Take Me Away"?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Sunday, 27 April 2003 05:07 (twenty-three years ago)

How about a simple "RAWK!"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Sunday, 27 April 2003 05:20 (twenty-three years ago)

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