Are the dixie chicks gay
The Dixie Chicks are touring the U.S. for the first time in a decade, and they will be jamming out in Tampa at the MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre at the Florida State Fairgrounds August 19.
Just like *NSYNC, The Backstreet Boys, Blink 182 and The Spice Girls, the Dixie Chicks were a tune group in the late ‘90s/early ‘00s that added a fun, youthful voice to their respective genres, but the Chicks did something that no other group at the time did and that very several musical acts are able to do: They appealed to everyone: men and women, young and old. They reached out to fans of country, rock, pop and everything in-between, and yes, they appealed to the LGBT crowd.
The Dixie Chicks – Natalie Maines and sisters Emily Robison and Martie Maguire – are the top selling all-female band in recording history, selling more than 30 million albums worldwide and winning 13 Grammy Awards.
The Chicks were on top of the world, until March 10, 2003, when, at a concert in London, Maines criticized then-President George W. Bush on invading Iraq.
“We’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas,” she said from the stage.
The reaction to Maines’ comments were
DixieChickslead singer Natalie Maines revealed a homosexual crush on an MSNBC heavyweight in an intimate novel interview.
"I devote Rachel Maddow. She would be my lesbian girl crush," the singer tells PrideSource's Chris Azzopardi. "She's hot! And she's smart and beautiful ... and I like her hair."
Maines, 38, also believes that the controversy that ensued after she publicly criticized President George W. Bush made her connection to her already burgeoning gay fan base even stronger. "After the controversy, I feel fond of there was even more of a connection, and that's just because we both know how it feels to be hated just for who we are -- not for doing anything, bothering anyone, murdering anyone or existence arrested," she notes. "Just for organism us. Apparently, that's not good in some people's eyes."
Of her recent punk 'do, she points out, "With two kids, there's not enough day in the diurnal to spend on what I observe like; this is a much easier look. And it fits my traits more. I had short hair growing up, and it always felt right for me."
You can read the occupied PrideSource interview here.
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Sitting somewhere with an abstract-art background obscuring her precise location, (Dixie) Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines erupts into an explosive maybe-I-shouldn't cackle during our Zoom call as she talks about how she's about to get in trouble for saying too much. This time, it's regarding a controversial decision made by country trio Lady A, formerly known as Lady Antebellum. After the band changed their name in solidarity with the current Black Lives Matter movement, they sued a Black blues singer named Lady A for the trademark to the title. And yes, Maines has something to say about that.
After all, this is Natalie Maines, who directed pointed criticism at then-President George W. Bush in 2003 at a London concert, when the Lubbock, Texas native said The Chicks were "ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas."
Country music blackballed them. Conservatives torched their CDs. The promo poster for the 2006 documentary about the fallout, "Shut Up and Sing," depicted The Chicks sitting on top of the Joined States Capitol building, their half-naked bodies graffitied with words and phrases like "Dixie Bimbos," "Traitors" and "Big Mouth." In the 2020 doc "Mis
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Welcome back to Lez Hang Out, the podcast that is having a resurgence of The Chicks in our lives.
This week, Leigh (@lshfoster) and Ellie (@elliebrigida) hang out to talk about why the music of The Chicks, formerly known as the Dixie Chicks, should’ve been male lover. For this episode, we will not be speculating about the sexuality of The Chicks themselves as human beings, but rather talking about why their songs give such a queer energy.
The Chicks compose music from a political activist lens that is so incredibly different from the typical country harmony lens. To say their music resonates with gay people is a substantial understatement. There are so many of their songs that were literally the gay music of the time. We didn’t acquire Ch