http://blogcritics.org/ A sinister cabal of superior bloggers on music, books, film, popular culture, politics, and technology - updated continuously. en Copyright 2005-2007 by the authors Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:39:41 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blogcritics.org custom software http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/21/175157.php#comment-738904 vilibocdomc 738904@blogcritics.org Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:39:41 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/21/175157.php#comment-717380 Um, Hero? what's your point? (I mean, I guess they might be good viewing if you're into crap photography and bad sound with your porn and near-porn...) The article is gushing about something that's fairly serious...or at least, seems so on the surface. Natalie Maines made a crack about a politician that just about every liberal-self-proclaimed-moderate would. She simply chose a remarkably stupid time and place to make it, and seriously misunderstood her audience. If a Rock-Star had said the same thing, it wouldn't have even hit the news, ditto for a movie star, television actor, Film director, "Documentary" director, or guy on the Internet. In this case, it resulted in a temporary (but soon to be recouped) loss of revenue as people who WERE in her fan-base rejected her band over it. As i said, it was a temporary loss-the Dixie Chicks probably made more on the "Free-Speech Sympathy" activists who don't actually LIKE country music, but wanted to feel 'solidarity' with 'crusaders' who said something 'bold' (all in quotes. it's not bold, or even seriously bad for your career to say bad things about Republicans. It's fashionable and will make you lots of high-society friends, and get your albums bought by lots of Liberals who otherwise wouldn't bother listening to your stuff.) The whole scandal was trivial, is trivial, and I suspect Leno's right. The Grammys aren't about music, they're about "The Music Community". It's like Arafat getting the Nobel Peace Prize, or Sudan getting a seat on the U.N Human Rights Commission. 717380@blogcritics.org Mon, 12 May 2008 05:36:58 EDT http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/02/21/175157.php#comment-543091 You say you haven't ever listen to a Dixie Chicks album. That's an oversight you should rectify immediately. The music on the Dixie Chicks album "Taking the Long Way" is just as ballsy as the Chicks themselves. 543091@blogcritics.org Wed, 21 Feb 2007 20:58:14 EST