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[rough_rider]

A Dixie Chick Takes It Back

05/22/2006 3:54 PM, E! Online
Joal Ryan

Natalie Maines isn't kidding when she sings, "I'm not ready to make nice."

In a new interview with Time magazine, posted online Sunday, the Dixie Chicks firebrand takes back the apology she extended to President Bush three years ago.

"I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President," Maines says in Time. "But I don't feel that way anymore. I don't feel he is owed any respect whatsoever."

In a bit of intentional timing, the interview is making headlines just as the Chicks' new album, Taking the Long Way, is hitting stores. Due out Tuesday, the collection is the country-raised outfit's first collection since Maines, 31, began wearing a bull's-eye for bashing Bush when his then-70 percent approval rating made the sport unfashionable.

In March 2003, on the eve of the U.S.-led Iraq invasion, Lone Star state native Maines told an audience at a Chicks concert in London, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."

Days after the remark fired up talk radio lines, Maines issued a new one, apologizing for being "disrespectful": "I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect."

In Time, that follow-up statement is referred to as Maines' one regret from an incident, known by the group as "The Incident," that provoked death threats, a cold shoulder from some fans and boos from the Academy of Country Music Awards crowd.

"If people are going to ask me to apologize on who I am," Maines tells the magazine, "I don't know what to do about that. I can't change who I am."

To put a finer point on that point, the Chicks' first single from the new album was "Not Ready to Make Nice," basically the Time interview with country-pop accompaniment. Sample lyrics: "I'm not ready to make nice/I'm not ready to back down/I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time to go round and round and round."

The song stalled at No. 36 on Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart, the music-industry magazine reported Monday. The followup, "Everybody Knows," topped out at No. 50.

To be sure, the Chicks haven't looked to make nice with the country-music; on 60 Minutes, they talked about going for the adult contemporary crowd.

On Amazon.com, where Neil Young's anti-Bush album, Living with War, is a top album-seller, the Chicks' Taking the Long Way was the biggest-seller of all on Monday.

Since breaking out of their shell in the mid-1990s, the Dixie Chicks have sold 23.4 million albums, according to stats reported by Billboard. In Time, Maines bandmate Martie Maguire sounds as if she's looking for the sales, if not hits, to continue, controversy or no.

Says Maguire: "I'm not ready to fly coach."

[Full Quiver]

I've got no use for him or his music, but apparently you just LOVE him Quiver.

hilarious!!!

[DaJudge]

The beatles were misquoted.

No, he wasn't misquoted. That is EXACTLY what he said. He came back later after there was a backlash from angry Christians and tried to explain away what he said.

[Jamais Vu]

Im not a big beatles fan....nor do i care the technicalities of john's religous beliefs,

BUT, his quote is so obviously taken out of context, i figured it would be worth mentioning. As stated here http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Lennon, the quote gos:

"Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."


It is of my personal opinion that saying:

"We are bigger than Jesus." is different than

"We are more popular than Jesus now; I dont know which will go first....."

Is it not obvious he was talking about how quick and crazy the beatles became popular at that time, and not simply stating "The beatles are bigger and better than Jesus.".....? Maybe thats me though. Either way, i listen to music for the music, not to pay anyone's bills or to read about their personal life.

[Ginger]

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Either way, i listen to music for the music, not to pay anyone's bills or to read about their personal life.[/quote]

Doesn't buying their music help pay thier bills?

[scooter]

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Either way, i listen to music for the music, not to pay anyone's bills or to read about their personal life.

Doesn't buying their music help pay thier bills? [/quote]

Response: It sure does.

I can not believe the solidarity amongst country fans on this issue.

[scooter]

Has anyone heard the parody song. "Wide open faces"?

[DaJudge]

Has anyone heard the parody song. "Wide open faces"?

No I haven't. Do you have a link to it?

[scooter]

Has anyone heard the parody song. "Wide open faces"?

No I haven't. Do you have a link to it?

Response: Can't find one but the tag was "Can't shut our"

[KiMmY]

"That...That sounds like a Mexican Version of Rocky Horror Pictures Shows "Let's Do the Timewarp, Again!!!"

He burst out laughing in agreement.

That my friends, is something you NEVER want to hear.

The only thing I ever heard that even came close in retchedness was a slow Country and Western Version of "I'm on a Highway to Hell," with a fiddle!!!!!!!!!

I heard the Mexican version of Proud Mary at Monterey's in Clevegas. First off, the mexican version didn't even flow the same. They were trying to fit too many words into much too small a space. It was pretty funny. As for the Highway to Hell...was that Hayseed Dixie? They like to do bluegrass versions of all the ACDC songs.

[Paully_44]

Debuts at #1

Doesn't appear that all the negative talk has hurt their album sales at all.

[DeWayneTN]

Doesn't appear that all the negative talk has hurt their album sales at all.

I wouldn't say at all. The new CD is several hundred thousand behind what the last CD debuted at. I know at least a couple of those hundred thousand folks.

[Paully_44]

Doesn't appear that all the negative talk has hurt their album sales at all.

I wouldn't say at all. The new CD is several hundred thousand behind what the last CD debuted at. I know at least a couple of those hundred thousand folks.

You're right. I didnt mean to say at all.

[DeWayneTN]

In my opinion, it was pretty inevitable that they would hit #1 when it came out, because the media has been swirling about them (the media eats this stuff up), even putting them on the cover of Time. But I think the real test of this record will be if it has the longevity of their others. Even the Macarena guys hit #1.

I have heard the single isn't doing nowhere near as well as expected and radio is still very important.

[scooter]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060607/music_nm/dixie_dc_2