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Dixie Chicks Bypass Most of Dixie on Tour

Oh, those rascally Dixie Chicks. After dissing Bush, got dumped by their country base, and now making a fierce return by intentionally (and opportunistically) resurrecting the controversy beyind their anti-Bush remarks in the name of album sales, the Chicks have realized that they no longer have a country base, or what little of it remains is not worth even holding a concert for. Which is why have dumped all of the Southern cities on their planned tour except for 4 (Nashville, Atlanta, Dallas and Austin), and will be adding dates in Australia and Canada to make up for the lost. Heck, since they’re no longer country or even seem to want to be associated with country music, why not just change their name to the Hip Hop Chicks? Or maybe Pop Chicks? Too bad Spice Girls was already taken…

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The Dixie Chicks Ride Again

And apparently they’re still pissed off at Dubya. Whatever. Musicians getting involved in politics is like actors getting involved in politics — it ain’t ever pretty. Here are the chicksies doing a new photoshoot in service of their new, upcoming album which is apparently not country, but rather pop. I think. Time will tell if the pop crowd will embrace them like their country crowd did. But damn, didn’t the Dixie Chicks used to be pretty? Why do they look so hard and unfriendly? I guess it’s part of their new “pop” personality.

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