"Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing" Movie Trailer

**amadeus** · 10-27-2006, 04:44 PM

I don't agree with what they said but I will defend their right to say it. By the same token, people are also allowed to put them down, refuse to buy their records, stop going to the concerts, etc. The problem is they think it is some vast right-wing conspiracy aqnd if it is, so what, just like when they made their statement about Bush, the people who heard it or are behind them can follow what Chicks say. You have the freedom to say whatever you want (short of wanting to cause harm to the President) but be big enough to accept any and all backlash. The conservatives are told over and over again by the liberals to deal with things they don't like but when the shoe is on the other foot, the liberals don't like it.

**DEMON CUNT** · 10-27-2006, 04:54 PM

The most disturbing elements of this situation are the death threats and accusations of treason for speaking their minds.

People can disagree, call names and even throw their cds away.

However, threatening to kill someone is TERRORISM.

**Nickdfresh** · 10-27-2006, 04:59 PM

And corporate media refusing to play their music smacks of collusion.

**DEMON CUNT** · 10-27-2006, 05:04 PM

The delicious irony here is the fact that these hayseeds who supposedly support The War Against Terrorism (TWAT) are in fact engaging in terrorism against their fellow Americans.

**4moreyears** · 10-27-2006, 05:09 PM

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
And corporate media refusing to play their music smacks of collusion.

Does the corporation have the right to decide how to present their product to their customer base? If there was such a demand for Dixie Chicks music it would be there. I disagree with what they said but agree they have a right to say it. I also agree corporations have a right to not play their music if they feel that their listener base would would not like it. The Dixie Chicks should start their own radio station to play their own music and those of other's they feel are sensored if they feel there is a market for it. After all the market place dictates what is acceptable.

**Nickdfresh** · 10-27-2006, 05:17 PM

Originally posted by 4moreyears
Does the corporation have the right to decide how to present their product to their customer base? If there was such a demand for Dixie Chicks music it would be there. I disagree with what they said but agree they have a right to say it. I also agree corporations have a right to not play their music if they feel that their listener base would would not like it. The Dixie Chicks should start their own radio station to play their own music and those of other's they feel are sensored if they feel there is a market for it. After all the market place dictates what is acceptable.

If I'm not mistaken, their last CD topped the charts for a while (not a country fan, so I'm not sure).

And major corporations have no business attempting to manipulate the marketplace for political ends, and often blatantly self-serving ones at that.

**blueturk** · 10-27-2006, 05:42 PM

Here's the kind of "thinking" we're dealing with, at least in regard to Clear Channel (from Wikipedia).....

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., a list of songs apparently recommended to be removed from airplay as inappropriate during a time of national mourning was generated and circulated (See List of songs deemed inappropriate by Clear Channel following the September 11, 2001 attacks). A small list was initially generated by the Clear Channel office, though individual program directors added many of their own songs. A list containing about 150 songs was soon circulating on the Internet. The criteria for choosing the songs seemed to be unreasonable to many. A number of songs were apparently placed on the list because they had specific words such as "plane", "fly", and "falling" in their titles. Many people found it particularly ludicrous that John Lennon's "Imagine" was one of the songs listed. Clear Channel denies that this was a list of "banned" songs, claiming it was a list of titles that should be played only after great thought. Many individual stations did play songs from the list. Not only did many individual stations play songs from the alleged lists, Clear Channel's Classic Rock station WOFX "The Fox", near its Radio headquarters in Cincinnati, played many of those "banned" songs shortly after 9/11 and after the salon.com story about the list.[citation needed] Songs that were played included Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" and Louis Armstrong's "What a Wonderful World".

In the build up to the second Iraq War Clear Channel organized and paid for a counterpoint to anti-war demonstrations, supporters of war in Iraq descended on cities from Fort Wayne to Cleveland, and Atlanta to Philadelphia. Waving flags, messages of support for the troops — and also banners attacking liberals, excoriating the UN and in one case, advising: "Bomb France Now."

Clear Channel paid for the advertising costs and for the hire of musicians for the rallies.

Clear Channel said the rallies were "patriotic", not "pro-war".

In March of 2003, Natalie Maines, the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks said to an English concert audience, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," upsetting many music fans and politicians in the United States. Thinking the Dixie Chicks were now a pariah and thus unmarketable, all of the country music stations owned by 2 Atlanta-based companies, Cumulus Media and Cox Radio were told to stop playing their music. There is speculation that Clear Channel also may have directed their stations to do so, but the company states this was solely the work of local station managers, DJ’s, and angry fans. Some critics of Clear Channel, including the editors of Rock and Rap Confidential, claim otherwise. They claim that Clear Channel executives, in a bid to gain support for various policies they were pushing in Washington, instigated the boycott among its country music stations themselves to send a message to other musicians that criticizing President George Bush's administration could hurt your career (through reduced airplay, etc.) Madonna had also faced similar problems when she released her anti-Iraq war album, American Life, and faced reduced radio airplay throughout the release of her album in 2003. There is no proof of these accusations and Clear Channel denies them.

**FORD** · 10-27-2006, 05:56 PM

**FORD** · 10-27-2006, 06:06 PM

**Nickdfresh** · 10-27-2006, 06:37 PM

I want them all!!

**Nickdfresh** · 10-27-2006, 06:40 PM

Oldie but a goodie...

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**4moreyears** · 10-27-2006, 08:09 PM

Originally posted by Nickdfresh
If I'm not mistaken, their last CD topped the charts for a while (not a country fan, so I'm not sure).

And major corporations have no business attempting to manipulate the marketplace for political ends, and often blatantly self-serving ones at that.

Again if it is not illegal and it is acceptable in the market place they can do what they want. It is their business. If I owned or ran a business I would not do what someone else told me especially if I thought it would alienate my target audience. That is just not smart business.

**FORD** · 10-27-2006, 08:32 PM

Clear Channel did not stop playing the Dixie Chicks because of the "market place". They did so because they were founded with literal BCE money.

**Nickdfresh** · 10-27-2006, 08:33 PM

Originally posted by 4moreyears
Again if it is not illegal and it is acceptable in the market place they can do what they want. It is their business. If I owned or ran a business I would not do what someone else told me especially if I thought it would alienate my target audience. That is just not smart business.

Since when is collusion in any way legal. And again, the Chicks last album was high high high on the charts. So, in essence, they're creating and altering the market, not reacting to it.

"Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing" Movie Trailer

"Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing" Movie Trailer

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