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In reply to the discussion: Natalie Maines and the Dixie Chicks were correct [View all]hfojvt
(37,573 posts)35. and they still are performers
I seem to be getting some nasty treatment from you too.
For not so much as a nickel.
I get nasty treatment at work all the frigging time. Just worked another hour and a quarter of unpaid overtime last night.
And my back still hurts from two weeks ago when I had to empty out the sixteen tons stored in the attic.
Yet I am supposed to cry, cry, cry for a famous person who has forty million dollars? For the loss of their career?
And a setback for others in the business? You mean like Taylor Swift (worth $150 million) or Faith Hill (worth $80 million) or who? Mindy McCready? Lila McCann?
Those are people whose careers died.
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But that vision of America still lives today! I overheard this being played on my nephew's Pandora
corkhead
Jun 2014
#1
If you play country music backwards, it's exactly the same as forwards. nm
rhett o rick
Jun 2014
#84
Reaction of country fans made them realize they were too good for just country. nt
eppur_se_muova
Jun 2014
#15
She apologized to President Bush on March 14 a few weeks later. I was rather surprised
yeoman6987
Jun 2014
#8
Bush and Cheney are war criminals, but she had to apologize or she would have been
randys1
Jun 2014
#30
My husband loves country music and applauded the Dixie Chicks for their courage.
mountain grammy
Jun 2014
#18
I have a cousin who has lived most of her life in Jamaica, more than 40 years!
mountain grammy
Jun 2014
#70
Maybe this pic will help. If you hear that song, think of this and laugh:
Are_grits_groceries
Jun 2014
#90
I imagine many limited imaginations believe money to be the only measure for success and failure
LanternWaste
Jun 2014
#91
Natalie Maines is one of my heroes! I do recall that there was a lot of support for her too
DesertDiamond
Jun 2014
#22
Both their courage and music were great moral boosters. The Dixie Chicks and the
kairos12
Jun 2014
#23
After George Bush moved to Houston in order to establish residency to run for governor
Thinkingabout
Jun 2014
#29
The events that followed the stolen election were the reasons the election was stolen.
Enthusiast
Jun 2014
#47