Not Ready to Make Nice

So I realize this song has been out for a little while, and though the controversy surrounding the Dixie Chicks is nowhere near where it was back in London in 2003 when Natalie Maines made her infamous remark, "Just so you know, we're ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas," it has recently started to affect me. And I just can’t stop listening to this song. I’ve liked the Dixie Chicks for a while, and back during my country music phase I really liked their albums Wide Open Spaces and Fly. And after that I didn’t really listen to them too much. But when that issue over that remark started blowing up, I paid a little more attention. But I kind of forgot about them again as the controversy died down, until I heard this song. I freaking love it. it has so much emotion in it, and I love the video.

The whole anti-Dixie Chicks campaign really made me sick. The fact that they were boycotted by so many people just really bothered me. Isn’t the whole 1st Amendment thing in place to allow people to say how they feel? Yeah, I hear a lot of stuff that bothers me and I can’t believe people say it. But I also understand that they have the right to say it, and I have yet to send a letter to someone threatening to hurt and/or maim them over some rude or crude or just downright stupid remark they made.

I think it’s really cool that they “bounced back” as much as they have from this, considering half the country turned on them, and probably more than half their fan base. I’ve been watching a few interviews recently on youtube (I love youtube) with Larry King, Good Morning America, the Grammy’s and a few others. And the more I watch about the Dixie Chicks and the affects that that statement had on them and the country, and how they have stood their ground, the more respect I have for them. I plan on renting the Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing dvd very soon, because I think that looks so interesting. And I’d like to learn more about the overall affect on the Dixie Chicks. But for now I settle for interview on youtube, and watching the video over and over. I just really love this song, and can’t stop listening to it. I really like the live performance as well from the Grammy awards. So I’ve embedded both videos in this post. Partly for your sake, in case you haven’t watched them yet, and partly for mine, so I can watch them all the time from my blog.

I also added the lyrics for those not versed in Dixie Chick.


Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting

I'm through, with doubt,
There's nothing left for me to figure out,
I've paid a price, and i'll keep paying

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

I know you said
Why can't you just get over it,
It turned my whole world around
and i kind of like it

I'm in bed, and I sleep like a baby,
With no regrets and I don't mind saying,
It's a sad sad story
When a mother will teach her daughter
that she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Saying that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

What it is you think I should...

Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting





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And live at the 2007 Grammy Awards.