Dixie Chicks new album skyrockets to #1 on Billboard charts

[Zambero]

Looks like the longstanding boycott on the part of certain country music radio stations has proven to be a dismal flop. I'd venture that the DC's have picked up a larger fan base since putting * in his place a few years back.

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060531/nyw075.html?.v=52

[NightHawk63]

1. Very true

Before the Bush flap, I probably wouldn't have bought their album. I am going to download it today from I-Tunes.

[TornadoTN]

7. Just did the same thing

Went to I-Tunes and bought the album. They weren't my cup of tea so to speak before the whole Bush fracas in London, but I certainly don't mind popping down a ten spot to support a group that has overcome a dirty, slanderous attack from the right-wing.

[BOSSHOG]

2. You mean "conservatives" can even fuck up a boycott?

Their failures are not limited to war and the economy?

[gatorboy]

3. With Bush's approval at 30%

It's amazing how the media still wants to paint the Dixie Chicks as "radicals" :eyes:

They were simply ahead of the game....

[liberalmike27]

4. I got a copy

And I hate country music. I've always kind of found listening to some of the women crossover country women not too bad, and in particular I've like a few like Twain, the Chicks, and perhaps Faith Hill, but I've never bought one. But Natalie Maines has balls as big as church bells, to quote a movie I once watched, and she deserves my support to compensate for the idiots who don't seem to believe in free speech, or the American way.

I think they are supposed to be on Larry King tonight, if I'm not mistaken.

[XOKCowboy]

5. That's excellent...

I can't wait to hear the spin on this! It's pretty obvious that they gained thousands of new fans thanks to their political views and that the boycotts were useless.

[ccjlld]

6. I bought it

without hearing any of the songs just to support them.

The 3rd song "Not Ready to Make Nice" rocks. It's a "F U" song if I ever heard one. Especially like this part:

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

[DemoTex]

8. Sign of the times.

I think that people want to protest vicariously through the artists with guts enough to speak (or sing) truth to corrupt power. In fact, I believe that very soon these same people will be ready to pour into the streets and wave the bullshit flag in the face of the despicable Bu$h regime. I just hope someone is astute enough to recognize when the time for the streets has come and organizes the protesters for maximum effect.

[tularetom]

9. It's quite possible the whole thing is

a calculated move on the part of the Chicks to take advantage of the general dislike of * in every sector of the country except the MSM. If this is the case I applaud 'em. They demonstrated that the majority of country music fans were not inbred rednecks. Yeah, I downloaded it from i-Tunes.

[oasis]

10. I salute the Chicks.

:patriot: :loveya:

[AspenRose]

11. Excellent

So the Cons can put THAT in their pipe and smoke it...bwahahahaha

Way to go, ladies! Keep it real!