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“We’re ashamed the President is from Texas”
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Before the incident the Dixie Chicks were one of the most popular groups in America though they had long courted controversy in the Country Music world with their, I’ve read, feisty and progressive lyrics. But then during a concert in Shepherd's Bush, London they stopped courting controversy and went straight to fourth base when Natalie Maines casually attacked the President of the US. Now this might seem unremarkable today but it happened during what amounted to Wartime and when one of the most popular country songs that year was and I s**t you not a song that Rhymed “Bin Laden” with “Have you Forgotten” and basically called out the peace movement and linked Saddam Hussein to 9/11. (BTW that song was Darryl Worley’s “Have You Forgotten?” which was, coincidentally, first released the very same day of the Dixie Chick’s incident. See my video about it: https://youtube.com/shorts/D-2aXDjVpJM?feature=share ) So with that in mind it is unsurprising that The Chicks, as they are now called, were the target of career killing outrage They were almost immediately blacklisted by thousands of country radio stations, their single which was at number 10 at the time fell off the chart completely in just 2 weeks and 3 years later there were still major boycotts of their next tour and album. Oh and they also received many, many, many death threats.
R.E.M. was an American rock band formed in Athens, Georgia, in 1980 by drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills, and lead vocalist Michael Stipe, who were students at the University of Georgia. R.E.M. was noted for Buck's arpeggiated "jangle" guitar playing; Stipe's distinctive vocal style, unique stage presence, and cryptic lyrics; Mills's countermelodic bass lines and backing vocals; and Berry's tight, economical drumming. In the early 1990s, other alternative rock acts suc...
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