May 31, 2006
The Chicks Kick Hicks in their Dicks
As Taking The Long Way debuts at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 best-selling albums chart this week, with first week's sales of 525,829, the Dixie Chicks have become the first female group in chart history to have three albums debut at #1, breaking the record the Chicks established in 2002 when the group's last studio album, Home, debuted at #1 and made them the first female group ever to have two albums debut at #1.
With the #1 debut of Taking The Long Way, the Dixie Chicks have also become the first female group in chart history to have three studio albums occupy the #1 slot on the Top 200.
Hah. Poetic justice for all the asshole redneck fans who told them to "shut up and sing" and boycotted them from already uniformly shitty country stations. All of their detractors, the ones who told them that they'd never do anything else, the colossal fucking idiots who sent them detailed death threats and hounded these poor women for having an opinion...they're still around, whether you like it or not.
And it's great.
I never understood the massive backlash that came from an off-hand statement during a show. I'm guessing that a large majority of mega-patriotic trailer park denizens thought that these gals had the exact same ideologies (or a lack thereof). I can see why they got incensed, yes. But does it make any sense to me? Absolutely not.
A majority of the opposition seemed to be coming from people who couldn't spark an original thought if they banged both of their brain cells together. They lived in pre-fabricated enclaves laden with people who all seemed to behave the same: not thinking, accepting whatever was thrown at them by whatever, and voluntarily keeping a closed mind by ignoring/deriding opposing viewpoints and railing against anything that was unfamiliar to them, like other cultures and toothbrushes.
Then came the slap in the face from their assumed fellow redneck darlings. The outcry was nothing short of misogynistic and a disturbing testament to both the vile intolerance of hicks as well as their intense hatred for dissent. The general sentiments reeked of: How dare someone express their opinion! Especially women! Who are supposed to entertain! They're here for our entertainment and our entertainment alone! They're the monkey, we're the organ grinder! Those bitches need to go back to the kitchen/drawing board/recording studio! And so on and so forth, until their shrill, twangy screeching became nothing more than background noise to those of us with an IQ not in the double digits.
And the girls made the best decision possible: They didn't apologize. They didn't back down. They stood their ground and said "Fine, you don't agree with us? We're taking a break, but this isn't the last you cousin-fucking slack-jawed retards have heard from us."
Now they're back with a vengeance, a fresh anti-Bush quote, and lots of to-be-expected outrage from the flyover state bestiality crowd. With Bush's increasing unpopularity, however, the outrage is coming from an even smaller fraction of an already small portion of the U.S. population.
At the very least, their two-fisted comeback is a testament to just how inconsequential the Bush crowd's incessant whining, intrinsic racism, disdain for their own personal rights (not involving bullets), and eagerness to foist their twisted religious self-righteousness on others has become. And no bones about it, they're a class act of really kickass and talented women with more balls than a West Hollywood nightclub.
And that makes for a more enriching listening experience than any song about getting shitfaced, driving a truck, and breaking your mom out of prison ever could be.
Posted by Jake at May 31, 2006 08:02 AM
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