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[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 66 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I remember back in the mid 2000s when they latched on to the Dixie Chicks' pop country music as being 'wholesome conservative music'. And then their very vocal rage when the Dixie Chicks publicly dissed W.

That was pretty funny. Not quite on a level of 'freedom fries' funny, or 'buying expensive French wine only to pour it down the drain in protest' funny. But it wasn't too far off.

[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

The Dixie Chicks are one of the few acts that were actually kind of "canceled".

[-] DrCatface@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

first ive heard of the expensive french wine down the drain, is there a name for that protest? im a winemaker in australia this shit is hilarious to me

[-] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Not sure about a name for the protest, but the are a number of articles out there. There's a entertaining NYT article about a restauranteur pouring $1,000 bottles of don Peringnon(sp?) down his toilet in protest. But it's behind a postal so I won't link that one. But here's another related link:

https://dailybruin.com/2018/03/15/throwback-thursday-locals-pour-wine-in-westwood-streets-protest-french-aversion-to-iraq-war

That whole anti-French movement was insane. I remember my wife and I were going to visit England (where I am from, but I live in America) that summer. And the shuttle driver (who was taking us to the airport) and I got friendly chit-chatting. Very cordial and easy-breazy. But he stopped mid-sentence and asked if I was French (because French and English accents are so similar?!). When I told him I wasn't, he said "that's good, because if you were I'd pull over right now and leave you on the side of the freeway!" Kind of ironic too, that driver was a black dude, so I've would think he'd be a bit more mindful of how stupid discrimination is.

[-] afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

I am going to say it. I don't think it was real. I think they filled those bottles with red dyed water. It felt so manufactured at the time.

[-] xX_fnord_Xx@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

You know they drank it off camera and refilled it with cool aid.

People that actually invest in Dom sold that to some rich middle fucks and refilled the bottle.

[-] banneryear1868@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

I respect The Chicks a lot more looking back and realizing just how strong their position was when you basically had an entire media industry and censorship falling behind Bush, 9/11, the Iraq War.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 months ago

WTYPpod brought up the Dixie Chicks in their bonus episode about country music.

Interesting to hear about.

[-] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

They even go by "The Chicks" now to ditch the Confederate association.

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