Obi-Wanma

Yeah, I took my wife to see them on the tour when they got into trouble with conservative America. I bought 16th row floor tickets secondhand for like half of face value. It was awesome. A lot of scalpers lost a lot of money on that tour, lol. Don't think we'll be seeing them again this tour. That was good enough for me.

Mabuse

She never said any of those things. You must be projecting what you wish she said.

stvn1974

OK, Count Dooku was right.

Abob Teff

I'm failing to see the issue with that ...

Decker

While not much of a country music fan, I always have liked the Dixie Chicks. Well, I have been missing the Dixie Chicks for a while now, I just happened to stumble across a story that they were well into production of their next album Gaslighter, their first album of original music since the multi-Grammy winning Taking The Long Way all the way back in 2006.
(They released a live album from their last tour in 2018).

They have now released two singles from the new album, which is delayed from its original 5/1/20 date due to the COVID quarantine.

The first single, the title track "Gaslighter" isn't political as you might think. It's a very direct personal song about Natalie Maine's ugly divorce from her ex Adrian Pasdar who tried to get $60,000/mo in support and attempted to block the release of Dixie Chicks music. It understandably pissed off Natalie, and you don't want to piss off Natalie.

The second single, released on Friday, is a more uplifting track called "Julianna Calm Down", which uses the names of all the gal's daughters and gives them encouragement in difficult times. It's not super-catchy, but it's sweet.

Decker

They’re officially just The Chicks now. Didn’t realize the word “Dixie” was offensive to anyone, but it was prominently featured in Battle Hymn of the Republic.

Anyway, New song for BLM

~~ PAL ~~

Dixie is an offensive word but not chicks?

atrium

You're right. They should change their name to "The"

Coral

"The Chicks" is a horrible name (whether you find "chicks" offensive or not).

Couldn't they have just found another word to replace "Dixie"? They're from Dallas... so The Dallas Chicks? Texas Chicks? Southern Chicks?
I'm sure someone can come up with a really good replacement name.

Josh-da-man

How about The Chixie Dicks?

Coral

That could appeal to the trans community.

It's not a bad song... and the video is pretty damn powerful.

Tom Banjo

In extremely similar news, a couple of weeks ago Lady Antebellum changed their name to Lady A.

Jason

Da fuq?

Mayhaps you are thinking of An American Trilogy?

Nick Danger

I Wish I Was in the Land of Dixie?
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down?

Decker

Shit, I mean I Wish I Was in the Land of Dixie. Got my old racist southern songs mixed up. Sorry, not my area of expertise.
The Confederate flag is called Old Dixie, though right?

Fist of Doom Jr

The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is racist?
The "Battle Hymn of the Republic" is Southern?

Mabuse

The Battle Hymn of the Republican is not an old racist southern song. Would you like a third try?

As far as the three country musicians, clearly they weren’t the least bit serious about themselves when they named themselves chicks from Dixie. They’ve clearly become far too serious about themselves over the years. But in a way they definitely validate people like me who thought their early stuff was wretched and immature. Party music for dumb, drunk city girls.

Sonny Corinthos

Elvis Presley - An American Trilogy has the line I wish I was in Dixie and several references about "Dixie Land."

slybone

I actually know a woman with the first name Dixie. Haven’t talked to her in a number of years so I don’t know how she feels about the recent attention to that word, but I have to imagine it’s rather strange.

One of my best friends has the last name Hittler, so a slightly different spelling than the notorious one, but that has still got to be a strange name to have.

PerryD

When I joined a new group, one of the guys was named Tim McVey. I was like "oh my what a name to have", but no one really seemed to know what I was talking about. I guess I'm officially old.

d2cheer

Nobody cares about them no one is going to care about The Chicks either...can't let a good issue go to waste to try to drum up interest in a band no one give a fuck about.

Decker

I give a fuck about them. I think they're very talented musicians and gifted songwriters. And I doubt I am the only one who does.

Rex Fenestrarum

No. The first Confederate flag (which doesn't contain the infamous battle flag) was the Stars and Bars. The second flag - which had the battle flag on a white field - was called the Stainless Banner. Because the Stainless Flag was mostly white, and could be mistaken for a surrender flag in cases of low\no wind, a red bar was added, making it the Blood-Stained Banner. The infamous "battle flag" was never, at any point, the national flag. It started as the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia (square) and was used as the second Confederate naval ensign (as a rectangle).

The term "Dixie" predates the Civil War by several decades (although the song was from 1859). No one is entirely sure where the name comes from. The most likely source is "Dixie" being derived from Jeremiah Dixon, one of the surveyors of the Mason–Dixon line. Another, less likely, possibility is that it refers to notes issued by the Citizens State Bank of New Orleans. Being French, the $10 notes said "Dix" on them, and the area immediately around New Orleans became known as "Dixieland", which later expanded to the entire South.

Bluelitespecial

They think changing their names make them look important when no one has cared about them since the Bush Years.

Kdogg

No. It was pro Union. Union troops use to sing it during the Civil War. The tune is based on John Brown’s Body.