09.12.06
I can be rude too….
The international press won’t get their first look at the documentary Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing until its gala premiere at the Toronto Film Festival tonight. But EW.com got an early look at the sure-to-be-controversial doc in Los Angeles and can attest that the film will continue to bring the (ex?) country trio more plaudits from progressives and further condemnation from conservatives. And if you think singer Natalie Maines had some harsh words for President Bush in public, wait till you hear what she had to say about him behind the scenes.
In one memorable scene, Maines watches news footage of the president being interviewed about the furor that followed the singer’s on-stage comment that she was ‘’ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas,'’ which resulted in the group being dropped from most radio stations, as well as protests and plummeting sales. ‘’The Dixie Chicks are free to speak their mind,'’ Bush told Tom Brokaw at the time, adding, ‘’They shouldn’t have their feelings hurt just because some people don’t want to buy their records when they speak out. You know, freedom is a two-way street.'’
After watching this footage, Maines repeats the president’s comment about how the group shouldn’t have their ‘’feelings hurt,'’ incredulous, and then says, ‘’What a dumb f—.'’ She then looks into the camera, as if addressing Bush, and reiterates, ‘’You’re a dumb f—.'’
For Ms. Maines:
Listen you whiney little barely-talented shrew-bitch. It should say something to you that you have had to cancel concerts, move events, and the only people that really give a rats ass what you think are Canadian slackers and Sheehan-worshipers.
Nobody wants to hear your opinions on global policy. The majority of the people who bought your last album are liberal snot-noses who will never listen to it, but wanted to help you save face. It wouldn’t shock me to find out you bought a few thousand yourself.
You make your snide comments to get attention. If your music didn’t suck 10 kinds of ass you could sell records on talent, and not on your pathetic views on the way the world should work, when you clearly have staked your career on the talent of your band mates. You can’t sing, you can’t play, you are annoying as hell to watch.
Shut up and sing, indeed.
