Holy spine-tingling publicity stunts, Batman!
From THIS PHOTO you might think that the Dixie Chicks are the hottest lesbo act going in the music business.…
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Holy spine-tingling publicity stunts, Batman!
From THIS PHOTO you might think that the Dixie Chicks are the hottest lesbo act going in the music business.…
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26 - Al Barger
They're getting awfully tardy with putting out a follow-up. They've probably been too busy making out to make a record. Ah, young love.
27 - RIchard Porter
Al, that image just brought a tear to my eye. Thanks big guy!
28 - Al Barger
Yes we suffer from the delay, but imagine the "making of" bonus video DVD when the album finally does cum out.
29 - Victor Plenty
Superb choice of strategic homonym, Mr. Barger.
Still, call me odd, but this photo of Tatu doesn't do all that much for me.
Perhaps it's because this is the first image I've ever seen of them. It's true, believe it or not. I've read about them before, but never saw what they looked like until today. So maybe I just wasn't primed with any preconceived ideas about their "hotness."
There's something unappealing about the expression on their faces, especially on the one to the right. She doesn't really seem to enjoy what she's doing, not for its own sake anyway. Instead it seems she only enjoys the idea of making the viewer jealous. I get the impression she wouldn't even consider doing that without a photographer or some other audience present.
Strangely enough, being the target of such crass manipulation doesn't give me any sexy feelings at all.
Guess I'm not as susceptible to faux-lesbian imagery as the marketers hoped.
30 - Al Barger
Thank you, Monsieur Plenty. To get the propoer Tatu lesbo effect though, you need to see the career making video for their main hit, "All the Things She Said." It's on the CD and readily available for P2P download.
31 - RIchard Porter
I will second that Al! Even if it is the only good video they ever do.
32 - Bill Bacon
I still claim the Chicks were seriously airbrushed in that cover, if not wearing body stockings with major support. I mean, Natalie Maines just wasn't (at that time) as thin as she appears on the cover. Yet, the whole gimmick was to show them "as they were" to try to argue that the politics weren't the important part of their act.
The truly amusing part of the whole thing to me was after the whole "boycott" thing, they were shut out of the various country music awards and "left" country music in a huff, claiming they could make it big in pop music now. Don't remember any current hits from them, does anyone else? Last I'd heard from them, they were a part of the Springsteen & Co. anti-Bush concert series.
I can't discuss Tatu, never been interested in their music, sorry.
33 - Shark
Wait until Hillary makes a CD.
Man, apparently nothing bothers you conservative, silver-backed houseapes more than some ballsy liberal female.
Good.
BTW: re. "political savvy", popularity, success, etc.
The Dixie Chicks have sold more than 24 MILLION albums (and counting), hold dozens of 'records' in the country music business (ticket sales, cd debut sales, etc.) and after the BUSH comments, sold out every show on their tour in America.
BTW: That fuckin' troglodyte moron Toby Keith, remember "Shock and Yall"?? -- is currently on the WHERE ARE THEY NOW show on CMT.
He disappeared off the radar faster than Osama Bin Laden and Ken Lay combined.
xxoo
S
PS: I hope all your wives stab you in your sleep.
34 - Richard Porter
You know Shark, the Dixie Chicks and the HATEFEST tour with Springsteen and other assorted has-beens sure must be kicking themselves that they weren't able to pull off hijacking the elections from Bush.
Again, the media tried to pull the wool over middle America's eyes by insisting that Bush was losing and Kerry would win, right up to election day we all heard this whine. Want some cheese?
35 - Mark Saleski
it's amazing how some people just can't get themselves to exit the talk-radio echo chamber.
Springsteen involved in a hatefest? right.
36 - Bill Bacon
Really Shark?
Perhaps you can explain why Keith is about to release a new album next month, and the latest thing on the Dixie Chicks official website are announcements that they are "retooling" their website, and their online store is having a clearance sale (back in January '05). Oh, yes, the Chicks joke about working on a German polka album.
And, hey, if Hillary can sing, she's welcome to record too. I just hope and pray she doesn't do a cover like the Chicks' EW one.
37 - Bill Bacon
Oh yeah, Toby Keith has sold roughly 25 million albums. He ain't doing too badly either.
38 - Mark Saleski
i can explain it...the Chicks have been off starting families.
while Keith has been making it big with a song about cheating on yer girlfriend/spouse.
gees, i just luv this family valus stuff.
39 - Victor Plenty
Thanks for the advice on how to get with the program, Al. It's tough, being left out while the greatest cultural phenomena of our era pass me by.
Downloading videos via P2P is not a viable option for me, due to the limited bandwidth on my dialup connection. (And of course because every downloaded video is a terrible crime against humanity, taking bread right out of the mouths of starving and impoverished entertainment executives.)
I can't buy the CD to get the video, because I won't buy CDs from major record companies until the RIAA figures out a more sane response to file sharing software than filing lawsuits against hundreds of college students.
So, for now I'll just have to judge by the photo above. That stiff-fingered breast grab bears scant resemblance to any loving caress. It looks more like a quarterback's hand taking possession of the ball.
Which, oddly enough, is not what I'd call sexy.
40 - Al Barger
Victor, you might want to see if the local library has a copy of the CD.
41 - Shark
Bacon Boy, the Dixie Chicks' current producer happens to be a womb.
re: Toby Keith - his fifteen minutes of flag-waving exploitation are up.
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Dear Richard Porter,
Pat Boone has a rap album. Goes great with milk, cookies, and Rush Limbaugh.
42 - Bill Bacon
Sharky,
Fine. You might want to mention that to the country music fans. He's still winning awards for his videos, albums, etc. The Chicks, for all that I have liked their music, stopped making any new music once they decided to get political and turn their artistic backs on the folks that put them on top. Heck, they were making babies and music at the same time before that. Remember the Chicks' "Landslide" video? One was seriously pregnant in that one. IIRC, another was pregnant while making that album, just not showing yet. Music isn't necessarily something that stops a female vocalist's career in its tracks - I was at the Chicks' DC concert and they made a point to mention their various kids were with them on the road.
43 - Chernaya Noch'
t.A.T.u is one of the best duos on the planet! I am 14 and even though I am not into lesbians I would say that they are quite good. Their new album, Dangerous And Moving, is very good, their voises get a great workout and it is 16.7 times better than All The Things She Said. Zhulia is my favourite. They both have great voices that are very different to one another but together it sounds sweet. I am suprised that I like them, I am goth so I guess stereotypically I shouldn't be but, there it is! Dixie Chicks can go ship 'emselves to a distant planet for all I care!
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Congrats to Zhulia Volkova for her newborn baby girl, Natasha!
44 - Mike Gaines
t.a.T.u is flippin sweet!!!!! I am going on 16 years old coming Valentines day but anyway they are successful i think, all my friends that never like listening to music and are religious i made them listen to the hit song ''All the things she said'' and i asked what they thought of it and they went like the next day and bought the album and i even told them that they were lesbian and they said they were fine with it. Besides think about it two hot girls kissing HELLO thats awesome.Also the dixie chicks lmao are just jealous that they are not getting as much attention so like chernaya Noch said they can go ship themselves to a different planet!
45 - brenda
yea mike is rigth because the dixie chicks are just trying to make tatu seem like the bad guys like they did toby keith. TATU are my hereos
46 - tATu maniacs
tATu is the BEST group duo than another group in the WORLD
t.A.T.u ROCK!
47 - hahaha
the best is t.A.T.u