Clever Girls
I think the world has it wrong when they think the Dixie Chicks are trying to get some of their old fans back. I think they're trying to court their new fans.
Their new documentary, "Shut up and Sing," is hitting movie houses this Friday, and in a campaign blitz, the girls have been all over the internet and yesterday were on Oprah. The whole message? The girls are happy with their lives and their choices. Good. Congrats.
Can we all move on now?
I know what you said Natalie, and it's cool. You have your thoughts, I have mine. You have yoru records, I won't buy them. Simple as that. And it's really not so much about what you said. You're music just kind of sucks lately. I wouldn't have listened to that last album if it'd been given to me. It's just not my style, nor was it yours. But I guess now it is. And I guess some of your fans just aren't digging it.
Low selling concert sales (a recording artists bread and butter these days behind merchandising and promotions) forced the tour over seas before coming to America and then to cancel venues here and move many of those to Canada.
What does this tell us? Well not that the Dixie Chicks are being censored, which is their battle cry of late. It tells us they are unpopular, something that is foreign to them. They were always the raging new comer, they had great talent, great songs, and great fans.
Two of those things are gone now, and so is some of their revenue. They don't have great songs, and they pissed off their old great fans.
And with this movie and with the promotions they are doing, I don't think they are so much trying to win back old fans, I think they are courting new ones. But they are too main stream for a lot of crunchies to pick up the albums and they sound too much like everyone else. Just one girls opinion.
I read an article soon after the release of their latest album that said fans of the Chicks weren't buying them, but people that supported their stance on the war. Unfortunately, those people don't go to concerts.
Either way, it was so long ago, and the world has changed since then. If the ladies are pleased with their choices and their lives than I'm happy for them. But if they wanted it to go away and to start making the kind of dollars they were use to, well ... all they had to do was shut up about it. Clearly, that wasn't what they wanted. Dollars didn't drive their decision.
I wonder what the royalties off the movie are?
Their new documentary, "Shut up and Sing," is hitting movie houses this Friday, and in a campaign blitz, the girls have been all over the internet and yesterday were on Oprah. The whole message? The girls are happy with their lives and their choices. Good. Congrats.
Can we all move on now?
I know what you said Natalie, and it's cool. You have your thoughts, I have mine. You have yoru records, I won't buy them. Simple as that. And it's really not so much about what you said. You're music just kind of sucks lately. I wouldn't have listened to that last album if it'd been given to me. It's just not my style, nor was it yours. But I guess now it is. And I guess some of your fans just aren't digging it.
Low selling concert sales (a recording artists bread and butter these days behind merchandising and promotions) forced the tour over seas before coming to America and then to cancel venues here and move many of those to Canada.
What does this tell us? Well not that the Dixie Chicks are being censored, which is their battle cry of late. It tells us they are unpopular, something that is foreign to them. They were always the raging new comer, they had great talent, great songs, and great fans.
Two of those things are gone now, and so is some of their revenue. They don't have great songs, and they pissed off their old great fans.
And with this movie and with the promotions they are doing, I don't think they are so much trying to win back old fans, I think they are courting new ones. But they are too main stream for a lot of crunchies to pick up the albums and they sound too much like everyone else. Just one girls opinion.
I read an article soon after the release of their latest album that said fans of the Chicks weren't buying them, but people that supported their stance on the war. Unfortunately, those people don't go to concerts.
Either way, it was so long ago, and the world has changed since then. If the ladies are pleased with their choices and their lives than I'm happy for them. But if they wanted it to go away and to start making the kind of dollars they were use to, well ... all they had to do was shut up about it. Clearly, that wasn't what they wanted. Dollars didn't drive their decision.
I wonder what the royalties off the movie are?
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