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2006-11-18 Home Front: Culture Wars

Even the Arizona Cardinals Are More Popular Than The Dixie Chicks

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Posted by Swamp Blondie 2006-11-18 04:55|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Too bad they're so stupid; I actually like their music. I don't buy it anymore though - don't like it enough to subsidize their behavior.

Posted by Glenmore">Glenmore 2006-11-18 10:31|| 2006-11-18 10:31|| Front Page Top

#2 In terms of sheer PR, this is what happened to the Dixie Chicks.

They go to Eurostan and the fat one says she hates Bush, so their publicist sees a chance during the backlash to gain credibility with another, equally large fan base.

Forgetting country music fans when they show up in a risque magazine cover unrepentant they have done anything wrong, hoping against hope their country music fan base would still be with them afterwards.

This has got to be one of the biggest marketing screwups in the modern age, to alienate your customer base to go after an equally large customer base only to find the new base cares even less for your product than your original base.

And now your original base is gone.

A tip to the Dixie Chicks. Country music fans, being for the most part Christian, will forgive but may take many years to return.

The tip?

Love your country.

Posted by badanov 2006-11-18 11:07|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2006-11-18 11:07|| Front Page Top

#3 Weren't they booked for any Democratic victory celebrations?

Posted by Penguin 2006-11-18 11:15|| 2006-11-18 11:15|| Front Page Top

#4 As the Dixie Chicks lose almost all a large chunk of their country audience, they have a chance to become more of a mainstream pop act, according to Dan Wool, a senior manager at Valley advertising firm Moses Anshell

well, there's an expert

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-11-18 11:31|| 2006-11-18 11:31|| Front Page Top

#5 I live in the LIBERAL Sacramento Valley and they can't fill 14,000 seat ARCO arena.

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2006-11-18 11:46|| 2006-11-18 11:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Was only lukewarm to their whiney sound when they first hit the radio, then comes their anti-Bush comment, and I won't listen to their drivel, even if it were on our local station (KMPS, Seattle). And now, just to prove that there is no limit to stupidity, good old Dan Wood has the balls to compare them to "..Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Lyle Lovett and Dwight Yoakam," as gaining that 'country outlaw' status.
I suppose with a bit more spin, we can look for wire frame illuminated stand ups of them for placement with our Christmas Nativity yard decorations as a foil to the Three Wise Men: "The 3 Stupid T@ats."

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-11-18 12:19|| 2006-11-18 12:19|| Front Page Top

#7 The Washington Post has not exactly been overly kind to the ~~Chicks with Dicks~~ Dixie Chicks: See review of lefty Barbara Kopple's movie "Shut Up & Sing":

"One of the excellent attributes of "Shut Up and Sing" is that it lets the cards fall where they may and really doesn't try to spin the Chicks themselves. It's quite possible, then, to watch the film and come to the conclusion that Natalie Maines has a big mouth. Spectacularly talented, the young singer is also a spectacular blowhard, and documentarian Barbara Kopple almost subversively focuses on Maines blabbering away at meetings without a serious thought in her head, no impulse control anywhere in sight, and, for some reason, always supine, as if her great status grants her the right to encounter the world from bed.

As for the other two Chicks, Emily Robison and Martie Maguire, they are far more guarded in their accessibility to the camera; at times their support of the loudmouthed Maines seems somewhat hedged. Possibly they have a reason for their ambiguity: Really, truly having made it in the biggest of big times, they watched as sales of albums and concert tickets shrank visibly (and disturbingly), as did radio airplay, in the wake of Maines's off-the-cuff comment.

Kopple (credited as "co-director" with Cecilia Peck) is a superb documentarian; she won Oscars for her features "Harlan County, U.S.A." and "American Dream." You feel in this film the strain -- it's a healthy strain, I think -- between her liberal politics and her nose for the truth. She could have represented the Chicks as martyrs to right-wing blowhard anger; but that's too simple. Instead she takes us inside big-dollar professional entertainment and lets us see ego and stupidity and self-indulgence at play just as fiercely as artistry".

Posted by Lancasters Over Dresden 2006-11-18 17:47|| http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com]">[http://www.michaelcalderonscall.com] 2006-11-18 17:47|| Front Page Top

#8 One local politician has named properly named the University of Phoenix in Glendale stadium as "the U-PIG stadium".

The Cardinals, BTW, suck eggs. But that is no surprise, because their owner wants them to be third from last every season, so he can make money by selling their good draft picks.

Since this is a new stadium, however, he is celebrating by ordering them to come in dead last, as low attendance will permit him to contracturally demand even more money from those Glendale suckers.

Posted by Anonymoose 2006-11-18 17:56|| 2006-11-18 17:56|| Front Page Top

#9 And Natalie can always go back to her old job at the truck stop off I-35 ...

Looks like truckers are prepared for her:

Posted by gorb 2006-11-18 18:00|| 2006-11-18 18:00|| Front Page Top

#10 Me personally? I liked them before. Won't buy any new albums though. As one of those right-wing, fundamentalist country fans, I almost want to forgive them. But, the biggest part of forgiveness is them asking for it. Don't see that happenin' any time soon.

Meanwhile, Toby Keith kicks their tail. And, Kenny Chesney came here to Atlanta, sang his "Freedom" song (with a stirring spoken phrase at the end) and he sold out the Phillips Arena 2 nights in a row. They added a 3rd night, and it sold out in record time. Three nights straight is some sort of record for Atlanta for ANY type music.

And, bad (re: #2), I don't think it's a marketing screw-up. It's an ego/worldview screwup. Country music fans wouldn't forgive them for saying that here at home. Saying it overseas during a time of war is unconscienable.

Posted by BA 2006-11-18 21:08|| 2006-11-18 21:08|| Front Page Top

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