Analysis Of Dixie Chicks Not Read To Make Nice

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If the Dixie Chicks were around during the time of the Woman’s Rights Movement, their Grammy Award winning record “Not Read to Make Nice” would have been one of the theme songs played at rally’s during the duration of the fight. The backlash that transpired from comments made by the lead singer of the Dixie Chicks was noted as the inspiration behind why the song came to fruition during an interview on the Oprah Winfrey Show. Country stations across the United States pulled the Dixie Chicks from playlists following reports that lead singer Natalie Maines said in a concert in London that she was "ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." At the time that Natalie’s comments were made, The Dixie Chicks had the number one country …show more content…

Whether it’s the fictitious duct tape or the fictitious orange alerts, we are against this war, Mr. Bush. Shame on you, Mr. Bush, shame on you. And, whenever you've got the Pope and the Dixie Chicks against you, your time is up.” Although, Moore was booed off stage at the Oscars once his comment was made. According to Moore on the day after he criticized Bush and the war at the Oscars, attendance for his film "Bowling for Columbine" went up 110% in theaters around the country. A documentary written and filmed by Moore titled “Fahrenheit 9/11”, was released just a year later his Academy Awards comments were made and the documentary went on to become the highest grossing documentary in U.S. history. Ironically, the documentary consisted of Moore taking more ill-advised shots at Bush and “The War on Iraq”. A female activist group named the Guerilla Girls made a claim that, “the advantages woman artist are destined to look forward to is seeing their ideas live on in the works of others”. The prolonged negative backlash that Dixie Chicks received compared to Moores’ short lived boos on the stage at the Oscars prove the Guerrilla Girls claim to be true. Maines made her statement first and her group suffered being silenced by country radio stations across the country. Moore’s Oscar speech wasn’t reported to cause none of his current, present, or future films to be pulled of any network. The cisgender identified male Moore also did not report the sending of, any death threats after he denounced the president and the war. The shocking differences that both entertainers faced from a country that they both call home shows that the Dixie Chicks faced far worse repercussions than their male counterpart

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