The Dixie Chicks completed a defiant comeback on Sunday night, capturing five Grammy awards after being shunned by the country music establishment over the group’s anti-Bush comments leading up to the Iraq invasion.
The Dixie Chicks won all five awards they were nominated for, sweet vindication after the superstars’ lives were threatened and sales plummeted when Maines criticized President Bush on the eve of the Iraq war in 2003. Almost overnight, one of the most successful groups of any genre was boycotted by Nashville and disappeared from country radio.
The standing ovations the Chicks received Sunday illustrated how much the political climate has changed regarding the Iraq war, and even Bush.
“That’s interesting,” Maines crowed from the podium after the country award was handed out earlier in the night. “Well, to quote the great ‘Simpsons’ – ‘Heh-Heh.’
The AP got one item wrong — their sales never plummeted — the demographics cratered in the bible belt and ballooned in the whole country. It’s called voting with your buck.
There have been many periods in the cultural life of America when criticizing politicians wasn’t considered a crime. Sadly, there may have been as many when you were not supposed to notice the emperor’s new clothes.
A bunch of awards from an industry with only 11,000 members does not represent the entire or most part of the nation. (Coz if it does, then Timberlake would have probably ran off with the awards)
Winning those trophies does not equate to a comeback. The music industry is not the record buying public. It is stupid for liberal writers to wave the notion that these big mouths-activist pretenders have been forgiven by the nation based on some awards.
The celebrities have always been liberals, so it’s no surprise that they honor those loud mouthed chicks. It’s the general public that hates them and it’s plain stupid for anyone to assume that the flow of events on an awards night is a reflection of public perception or sentiment.