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Monday, February 12, 2007

Politics at the Grammys

 
Does anyone think that the Dixie Chicks won all their awards last night because of their music or because of their politics? This is the music industry's statement to all those red state country music fans who gave up on the Dixie Chicks because they didn't want political statements along with their country songs. Politics is now permeating every aspect of life. And with those who infuse anti-Bush statements into their artistic content getting rewards like Grammys and Oscars, we won't be seeing the end of this trend any time soon.

Lorie Byrd and Sean Hackbarth have more. Lorie highlights this stupid remark by that great political thinker, Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.
"I think people are paranoid," former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart told Reuters. "I think that if they speak out, they think they're gonna get whacked by the government. It's pretty oppressive now. Look at the Dixie Chicks. They got whacked."
The government didn't "whack" the Dixie Chicks. Their fans did. Is the position of the cognoscenti now that fans can't express their opinions of musical artists by deciding not to buy their music? And, as Lorie points out, it wasn't the fans who voted for these Grammys. It wasn't even country music artists who voted for their Best Country Music award.

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Does anyone think that the Dixie Chicks won all their awards last night because of their music or because of their politics? This is the music industry's statement to all those red state country music fans who gave up on the Dixie Chicks because they didn't want political statements along with their country songs. Politics is now permeating every aspect of life. And with those who infuse anti-Bush statements into their artistic content getting rewards like Grammys and Oscars, we won't be seeing the end of this trend any time soon.

Lorie Byrd and Sean Hackbarth have more. Lorie highlights this stupid remark by that great political thinker, Mickey Hart of the Grateful Dead.
"I think people are paranoid," former Grateful Dead member Mickey Hart told Reuters. "I think that if they speak out, they think they're gonna get whacked by the government. It's pretty oppressive now. Look at the Dixie Chicks. They got whacked."
The government didn't "whack" the Dixie Chicks. Their fans did. Is the position of the cognoscenti now that fans can't express their opinions of musical artists by deciding not to buy their music? And, as Lorie points out, it wasn't the fans who voted for these Grammys. It wasn't even country music artists who voted for their Best Country Music award.

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