Darn you Dixie Chicks! I hope....

from JoeUser Forums
Just a few thoughts of shame running through my head as I hear the new Dixie Chicks hurricane relief song "I Hope" and can't help but respect the song and the efforts to help in hurricane relief.

I've carried a bit (hell, probably more like a large amount) of a grudge against the Chicks since they ran their yaps trashing the President, demanding to be personally briefed on why we were going to war in Iraq, and started a they said (mostly a she said, by Ms. Maines) vs. he said against Toby Keith and a few other Country artists.

But hearing the song "I Hope" I'm reminded of the U-2 song "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" on their Rattle and Hum collection, with the background of the gospel choir. There's a blue's mix behind the Chicks on their song that I'm sure is either B.B. King or a very good imposter.

The song is a classic, and seems to be moving up the country charts, or at least generating serious buzz. I hope it does it's job well and raises a lot of money for relief efforts. I may not even mind if the Chicks get an award for it, though I hope they'll just accept one gracefully and then quietly leave the stage (probably never happen, but I can hope too....)
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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
I just started listening to them again yesterday. I was kinda boycotting them as well. But Dang! Those girls can pick and SANG!!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top
I, on the other hand, boycotted the Chicks until Natalie Maines ran her mouth off. Now I love them. Go figure. And aside from politics, I actually like their music now, though Ms. Maines' voice gets on my nerves from time to time.

I haven't heard the song yet but look forward to it.

-A.
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Reply #3 from JoeUser Forums Top

I just started listening to them again yesterday. I was kinda boycotting them as well. But Dang! Those girls can pick and SANG!!

Guess I am a slow poke.  They dont register on my song list.

Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top
They dont register on my song list.


I know some guys like them, but to me its kinda a girl thing. My husband doesn't really care for them, he says they are the cotton candy department of country music. Good, but lots of pink fluff. He can't get past the fluff...

So you won't see him singing "Wide Open Spaces" in the car by himself!
Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
Actually, my preferred "chicks" group was Shedaisy. Much smoother voices, easier to take (at least for me). I loved their newest disc, and most (if not all) of the tunes on it.

I enjoyed the Chicks too, until they ran their mouths off, at which point the political noise really just drowned out any talent that might be there musically. I'm finally softening back up to them.

I don't know for sure what it is about some artists that makes them easy for me to hold the political grudge against. I was pretty unhappy with Springsteen's support of John Kerry, but then again I knew long ago that he was fairly liberal, pro-union (or at least pro worker), anti-war, etc. I wish he had stayed out of the politcal arena, but again, I'm softening up some what. There's just too much talent there to ignore the music.

U2 is another group that is highly charged politically, but again, I've known their biases for a long time. I still enjoy their music, some much more than others (I loved The Joshua Tree, and earlier works, really like Rattle and Hum, and liked some of their newest stuff, but didn't care much for Zooropa, and the other more experimental stuff).

Anyway, I will say that some of those in the they said vs. chicks said had the chicks dead to rights when they slammed them for putting out a song suggesting that it's ok to murder a spouse abuser. Earl has to die is a funny tune, but on a serious subject, and the "Earl must die" type solution that it suggests is far from politcally correct. (Still fun tune to listen though).
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top
Earl has to die is a funny tune, but on a serious subject, and the "Earl must die" type solution that it suggests is far from politcally correct.


I don't appreciate that song for that very reason. I don't think it's funny to make light of spouse abuse or spouse murder (particularly when done in a Southern twang).

I'm not a huge country fan, although I like some stuff here and there. Dixie Chicks are ok. Traveling Soldier hit me hard. Beyond that, like Tova said, they're just too much fluff for me.

On the SheDaisy note, I think they're like the corniest thing ever, but I did download Come Home Soon. It was a good "I'm stressed out and I need to cry" song during my husband's deployment.

PS - U2 rocks completely.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
strickly from a political perspective: I call em the

CHICKIE DICKS!
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top
It was a good "I'm stressed out and I need to cry" song during my husband's deployment.


Yup, Shedaisy does that to you. A bit corny, but still hitting the right notes.

Between that song, Toby Keith's An American Soldier, and a few others, including the recently released Arlington by Trace Adkins, you could easily be moved to tears listening to country radio.

Funny actually, my kids and wife joke that I'm a robot, as they very rarely do see emotion (other than occasional anger over things being a mess around the house, or something on one my 'puters being broken or some such). If they caught me hearing An American Soldier a few times, they'd have thought completely differently.

My tastes run a bit more towards Courtesy Of The Red, White And Blue (The Angry American) by Toby Keith, but when I heard American Soldier the first time, I was pretty well stunned by it. It draws you in, without really knowing where he's going right away and then *pow* you're smacked by the realization of who he's singing about and you have to ask yourself just how much you really do appreciate the soldiers that we have.

And Arlington is just as powerful. Part of a fun album also (Trace Adkins seems to have a lot of fun with his music anyway). Hard to hear that song and not want to (hell, not really want, just feel like you are being forced to) break into tears.
Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

strickly from a political perspective: I call em the

CHICKIE DICKS!

Or the dixles chicks?