Dixie Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice

Music video by Dixie Chicks performing Not Ready To Make Nice. (c) 2011 MTV Networks, a division of Viacom International Inc.

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• Dixie
• Chicks
• Not
• Ready
• To
• Make
• Nice
• Columbia
• Country

[pluntze2001]

If you've never seen that truly superb (and infuriating) documentary, "SHUT UP & SING", please do so asap, because the title and lyrics to this extremely moving, heartfelt, and haunting song will become very apparent to you very quickly after you see it. The behavior of countless country & western radio stations -- to mention C&W singers such as Toby Keith -- was absolutely disgraceful and pathetic.. one of the most radiant examples of nationwide censorship/mass/mass hysteria EVER!! --John

[brookedavisophia]

THE FIRST TIME I EVER HEARD THIS SONG WAS IN STORYTELLERS AND IMEDIATELY FELL IN LOVE WITH THIS GROUP!

[Michews]

43 pessoas não sentem vergonha do Bush.

[TheManfromcardiffyes]

The best version I've seen so far on You Tube. I grew up on Country and this is the best country song I've every heard. Simply brilliant. +++++++++++++++++++.

[misred1]

@pluntze2001 And as it turned out she was right. They came to Canada and we showed them all the love we had. Radio stations played their songs full time,it was great .

[Leonid3s]

@DomBird23

Speaking as one of those people, my first reaction to Nat's comment was, "Why would she say this for the first time in public on foreign soil?"

There was nothing "unjustified" about the price Nat paid for her comment.

She forgot who paid her bills. And while a small percentage demonstrated publicly against Nat and the DC, the vast majority remained silent and voted with their wallets.

Nothing "unjustified" about that. In fact, absolutely predictable

[Leonid3s]

@DomBird23

And for the people that hated Bush, Nat's comments were solid gold.

The problem for the DC was... their fans did not share their opinion.

Your fans buy your CDs, concert tickets, merchandise and effectively pay your bills.

Nat forgot that and it cost her and the DC.

If the DC fan base had been mostly "I hate Bush" people, this wouldnt have mattered.

Instead, the DC fan base is heavily pro-military, with many either in the military or directly related to someone who served.

[DomBird23]

@Leonid3s ... wannabe, so called, "Rockers"... Just think about what was going on back then..... You don't need a documentary to see how fu**ed up it was.

[DomBird23]

@Leonid3s

Well - Back then it was a pretty brave move to say something against G.W.Bush. There are not many musicians that obstruct themselfs in the common opinion about the worst president the USA has ever seen (Green Day did, Rage Against the Machine did, System of a down did, just to name a few). I don't know about you but they had the balls to say something against this moron - and they had to pay an UNJUSTIFIED price. Dixie Chicks are more Rock 'n' Roll than most of the other...

[Leonid3s]

@pluntze2001

A "documentary" completely under the DC control and you hold it up as the ultimate source of Truth in this?

Really?

Here is ALL you need to know about the situation. Natalie Manes used her Freedom of Speech and star status to make political comments that were not well received by the majority of her fans. Those fans responded by no longer buying concert tickets or CDs and calling up radio stations to protest.  Radio stations responded to the pressure.

Freedom all around.

[FPVUAV]

You guys kick ass, always have, always will!

[qfd57wife]

Group sucks!



[tcbetka]

Wow, they sound GREAT in this tune. Natalie sings her ass off here! Obviously this song has tremendous meaning for these ladies, and agree with their opinions or not, you can't help but appreciate their talent.

[Leonid3s]

@smithdog1965

"So what are you trying to say?"

Which part of what I said is even a little vague?

If English is not your native tongue, then 1) I applaud you for learning another language and 2) you get some slack for possible translation errors.

If English is your native tongue, then you have a lot fewer excuses for being obtuse.

So, which is it?

[smithdog1965]

@Leonid3s ...So what are you trying to say,if any country has oil reserves the USA will make up any excuse to invade it for the USA own gain?? Thats shameful!!

Do like the rest of the world and buy your oil,not invade and bomb the shit out of countries with oil!!

The USA is slowly but surely alienating itself from the rest of the world with it`s bully boy tactics regarding countries with oil.

[Leonid3s]

@chandracmarie

They are also free to not buy their music or listen to stations that play them.

Stations sell air time to advertisers who want to reach the most listeners.

So, listeners stop listening to DC (as is their Right), advertisers chose to advertise on stations that did not play DC, to maximize their investment in advertising their products.

So, more stations stopped playing DC.

It is all about Freedom.

Nat was free to say what she did. Just not free of the consequences.

[Leonid3s]

@smithdog1965

What you pay has nothing to do with what we pay.

The point was the excuse the liberals gave that the US was going to war for oil.

So, here it is, MANY years later, several years after Obama took office... and I dont see any of that oil we went to war for.

In other words, the Liberals LIED.

But, hey, they had good intentions and it made a great sound bite, so it is alright to lie under those circumstances, right?

PS, all that carbon used to be part of the biosphere. LOL!

[smithdog1965]

@Leonid3s ...Why don`t you stop crying about the price of a gallon of gas in the USA.

$4 for a gallon is the equivalent to a give away compared to what we have to pay,here in the UK.

We`re paying $9.40 when converting English pounds to USA dollars!!

Think yourself lucky that you get it so cheap!!

Not surprised that the USA is the worlds biggest carbon polluter when they have fuel so cheap!! Bunch of Wasters,plain and simple!!

[micel11]

god they're good!!!

[spiritlady0087]

Hey Dixie Chicks please come to Holland!! We all agree with your views here and even people that dont wont let that influence their choice to listen to your music!

[fercostardi]

makes me fucking cry

[xDarthur]

@Leonid3s You were right.. it is really sad! I like the discount part though hahahaha! Thank you.. again!

[Leonid3s]

@xDarthur

They have tried a couple of tours since ... the last one was summer 2010 I believe. They opened for The Eagles. They were scheduled for 8 shows and had to cancel 2 because of poor ticket sales. The others failed to sell out, so I am told.

Couple of years back they put out a "best of" album. It stalled at #37 on the Country charts.

You can still buy their albums though. Good news for you, they are probably selling for a significant discount.

[xDarthur]

@Leonid3s Ohh.. they don't even tour anymore?!

[xDarthur]

@Leonid3s *first