Well, and the Dixie Chicks are doing fine, too--it just shifted their audience from mainstream country stations to NPR sorts.
The statement was silly and basically toothless, but it made them an excellent scapegoat I think. Mainstream country music has a creepy, defensive, angry nationalist side (see also "Have You Forgotten?" by whatever that disphit's name is. I think maybe it sells records to tap into the rage of the oppressed straight white male. Not to be defensively reductioninst...that rage exists because it's politically useful, but chicken/egg.
Sorry, I completely lost the train of what I was saying. Anyway was the focus of the documentary really their loss of revenue and not the crazy political climate that made it happen?
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Date: 2007-02-22 03:57 pm (UTC)The statement was silly and basically toothless, but it made them an excellent scapegoat I think. Mainstream country music has a creepy, defensive, angry nationalist side (see also "Have You Forgotten?" by whatever that disphit's name is. I think maybe it sells records to tap into the rage of the oppressed straight white male. Not to be defensively reductioninst...that rage exists because it's politically useful, but chicken/egg.
Sorry, I completely lost the train of what I was saying. Anyway was the focus of the documentary really their loss of revenue and not the crazy political climate that made it happen?