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Dixie Chucklehead Natalie Maines takes time out from her busy schedule to trash the folks back home:
Dixie Chicks lead singer and Lubbock resident Natalie Maines has spoken out once again, this time attacking her hometown instead of the president ...
The lead singer spoke to the Vancouver Sun recently, saying, “but if you live in Lubbock, Texas, where I’m from—you just have one paper and one radio station and unless you’re savvy on the Internet, that’s it for you. If Bush said get a gun and kill an Arab, they would do that."
It’s a comment that isn’t sitting well with some Lubbockites.
No kidding.
UPDATE. Miss Maines seems to be mistaken about the number of newspapers and radio stations available in Lubbock.
Talk about crapping in your own nest!
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 09 21 at 10:26 PM • permalink#5 And they both like [censored] frogs! BTW, are the DChicks going to play for the UN General Assembly?
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 09 21 at 10:43 PM • permalinkWide Open Spaces - The space between her ears.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 09 21 at 10:49 PM • permalinkNatalie baby...just looked at the survey results and those area folks think your betraying yourself AND them.
Gotta remember Natalie, every time you kick George wearing those short skirts, your ass shows.
Maybe it’s time you get out of Dodge. Understand Cindy, your friend, has 5 acres around Crawford, maybe you can lay low there, huh?
Slightly off topic, but the dixie chick enunciates why the media ownership laws in Australia are outdated. Even if there was only one owner of radio, and one owner of the paper, people can access the internet, rendering local ownership useless. These laws are last century’s attempt (clumsy at best) at solving last century’s problems.
For the record, there are many radio stations and multiple radio station owners in Lubbock. It’s not a small town—there are 250,000 people there. You’d have to piss off rather a lot of people to get completely written off there.
They do have incredible sandstorms come blowing off the plains, however—think Cat-1 hurricane with sand instead of water vapor—and I expect a lot of sand has built up in the vast hollow regions of Bimbo’s cranium.
Gee it must suck to become a celebrity only to find that the people in your hometown, who deep down you really really want to impress most of all, think you are scum.
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 09 21 at 11:31 PM • permalinkIn fact here’s your list of radio stations in the Lubbock metro area. Not even counting 300 stations of XM and Sirius satellite radio of course.
http://www.ontheradio.net/metro/Lubbock_TX.aspx
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 09 21 at 11:39 PM • permalink”...one radio station..."
There is no place in the US, with the exception of some of the remoter places in Alaska, where there is only one radio station.
However, in her defense, she may be too stupid to figure out how to work a radio dial.
As to one newspaper, well guess what, a lot of places in the US have only one newspaper. Small towns like Miami, Dallas, Cleveland, Portland, and Atlanta.
Posted by David Crawford on 2006 09 21 at 11:44 PM • permalinkI’m an airhead, but what is Lubbock famous for besides the Chicks? I feel like I’ve heard of it before, but I’m not sure why.
I like the Chicks’s music and I don’t listen to everything with a political ear (bit like being a homophobe who won’t listen to Elton John). Mind you, her comment is patronising and arrogant.
I’ve been listening to Gretchen’s All Jacked Up a lot lately. Nothing like living in inner-city Melbourne and turning up the volume and singing along to lyrics like these:
I’m for the low man on the totem pole
And I’m for the underdog God bless his soul
And I’m for the guys still pulling third shift
And the single mom raisin’ her kids
I’m for the preachers who stay on their knees
And I’m for the sinner who finally believes
And I’m for the farmer with dirt on his hands
And the soldiers who fight for this landChorus:
And I’m for the Bible and I’m for the flag
And I’m for the working man, me and ol’ hag
I’m just one of many
Who can’t get no respect
Politically uncorrectOn politics and music I like the approach of Bob Dylan: Show up, say hello, sing your tunes, say thank you and go home.
When I saw him in Brisbane some people thought he was arrogant for saying nothing. Whereas I thought the lesbian nobody supporting his act had already done enough mouthing off for the night.
He was already a hero of the left in his early twenties. Then he wrote “I was so much older then, I’m younger than that now”, and in my opinion took the neo-con fork in the road. What does he need to say?
Buddy Holly was from Lubbock, it seems.
Posted by Patrick Chester on 2006 09 22 at 01:58 AM • permalinkYeah, Buddy Holly was from Lubbock. Roy Orbison was from a town called Vernon, TX.
Well at least the New York Times condemned her, just like it did the Pope. Oh wait, that was in a different universe, the one where the NYT doesn’t practice selective outrage.
Posted by Bill Ramey on 2006 09 22 at 02:36 AM • permalinkMy, my. Haven’t we gotten all self-important. A legend in her own mind, as the saying goes. It wasn’t enough to spit on the president while in a foreign country, now we’ve got to spit on our hometown while in a foreign country. She must not think that anyone in Lubbuck can read that one paper, hear that one radio-station, or savvy up on a puter (is them anything like a typerwriter?).
The saying, an old Texas Proverb, is properly rendered: When you’re losing ground, don’t throw dirt. Oh, and remember to remove your spurs before you squat.
Stupid girl. Brains of an aglet.
Hey, Miz Maines, you ever heer of that tee vee?
Hate t’mix up yer pretty little head even more’n it is, now, but down Lubbock way, they’s even got cable. 200 some channels!Posted by arrowhead ripper on 2006 09 22 at 05:12 AM • permalinkWhatever happened to the good old days when rockers were only worried about playing in tune, getting laid, throwing TV’s out of windows and biting the odd chook or bat’s head off on stage, just for a laugh? Is it that hard these days just to entertain and stay the fuck out of politics? Then again, when bands like the Dixie Chicks can’t stop spewing out political bullshit it may be a good sign that they are covering up for an inherent lack of talent.
Isn’t ‘Germs’ Greer one of the Dixie Chicks?
Posted by Stop Continental Drift! on 2006 09 22 at 06:14 AM • permalinkShe’s just mad because a bunch of Christianists whipped the Red Raiders.
Posted by Some0Seppo on 2006 09 22 at 07:18 AM • permalinkI’ve said it beforenad I’ll say it again, I’m embarrassed as hell that the Dixie Chicks are from Texas. We used to think it was neat that one of them (Emily) lived in my neighborhood. Now we’re glad the bitch moved out of town.
Waylon Jennings was from Lubbock, and Bob Wills was from a smaller town nearby. My favorite Lubbock artists are Joe Ely and Butch Hancock.
They are touring Canada because a lot of US venues cancelled. I shall not watch them.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 09 22 at 08:36 AM • permalinkI’ve spent a great deal of time in Lubbock. It’s a very nice town. Nice people, clean, a bit conservative. You can’t go wrong there.
They have a very good university, Texas Tech, which has seen a resurgence in the men’s basketball program with the hiring of Bobby Knight, the former coach of Indiana Unversity basketball team. It also has one of the better women’s basketball programs.
It might interest Natalie to know that Lubbock was also chosen, maybe 10 years ago, as the Best Place to Live in the US, or something like that. If Natalie has changed addresses, I imagine it’s an even better place to live now.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 22 at 09:31 AM • permalinkWhat, don’t tell me Natalie is also putting down Upper Rubber Boot, Saskatchewan?
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 22 at 10:48 AM • permalinkYeah, Natalie’s a real charmer alright. She and her band have been going out of their way to trash country music fans, country radio, and even other country music performers. Now they’re whining that it’s all country music radio’s fault that they aren’t selling tickets on their tour.
Meanwhile I went to a country music concert this summer here in Seattle with Kenny Chesney, Gretchen Wilson, Big & Rich, and Dierks Bentley - performers who, unlike the Dixie Chicks, haven’t been telling their own fans that they’re too good for them. There were 50,000 people at the show, largest concert in Seattle history.
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2006 09 22 at 10:58 AM • permalinkNewspapers in Lubbock, TX:
Avalanche Journal
The Hispano Weekly
Southwest Digest
The Daily Toreador
El Editor
South Plains Catholic
West Texas Hispanic News
Golden GazetteRadio Stations in Lubbock, TX:
KTXT 88.1 FM
KPBB 88.5 FM
KPMB 88.5 FM
KOHM 89.1 FM
KAMY 90.1 FM
KPHS 90.3 FM
KBAH 90.5 FM
KKLU 90.9 FM
KBKN 91.3 FM
KWLD 91.5 FM
KJAK 92.7 FM
KXTQ 93.7 FM
KFMX 94.5 FM
KLLL 96.3 FM
KSTQ 97.3 FM
KKCL 98.1 FM
KICA 98.3 FM
KYMI 98.5 FM
KQBR 99.5 FM
KMMX 100.3 FM
KOLF 100.7 FM
KONE 101.1 FM
KSNY 101.5 FM
KZII 102.5 FM
KMUL 103.1 FM
KAMZ 103.5 FM
KRIA 103.9 FM
KLZK 104.3 FM
KBTE 104.9 FM
KLVT 105.3 FM
KRBL 105.7 FM
KFLP 106.1 FM
KEJS 106.5 FM
KKYN 106.9 FM
KPOS 107.3 FM
KRFE 580 AM
KPET 690 AM
KFYO 790 AM
KFLP 900 AM
KJTV 950 AM
KIJN 1060 AM
KVOP 1090 AM
KLVT 1230 AM
KKUB 1300 AM
KKAM 1340 AM
KMUL 1380 AM
KREW 1400 AM
KJDL 1420 AM
KLFB 1420 AM
KBZO 1460 AM
KZZN 1490 AM
KCLR 1530 AM
KDAV 1590 AM(List composed by pgyanke at Free Republic)
I never understood why she had a song saying that Lubbock hated Buddy Holly, too. I guess she was trying to lump herself with him. But I remember reading a statement by Buddy Holly’s brother that there was no ill will between Lubbock and his brother. I agree with #41 that it is apparent that Natalie is ashamed to be from Texas.
My guess is she’s talking to a lefty audience, establishing her redneck roots, a bit like Michael Moore talking up his gun-totin’ past on Bowling for Columbine.
It reminds me of the Monty Python sketch “when I was a lad, we were so poor...”Posted by daddy dave on 2006 09 22 at 11:57 AM • permalinkIn the non-porcine music world, Sydneysider Anne McCue’s “Koala Motel” is very good. Campbelltown and Bakersfield are mentioned in the same song. Not exactly ebony and ivory, but very worthwhile.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 09 22 at 12:24 PM • permalinkIn a previous report at that site:
Martie Maguire said they’ve been playing to crowds about half the size of those on their last tour, but they’re a more loyal audience, while Natalie Maines said ticket-buyers are still entertained, but the feeling is different.
Maines said they feel like fans “have a purpose, supporting free speech and supporting” the group.
Sounds like fun, doesn’t it. And I’m sure the tour promoters, managers, agents and other assorted toadies who make their livings off the Chix are just thrilled with the smaller-by-half but purposeful crowds the gals now attract. No doubt they’re crying all the way to the bank. Way to go, girls.
Posted by Kyda Sylvester on 2006 09 22 at 12:57 PM • permalinkWeekByWeek: Yeah, but that’s unobjectionable because it’s French Literature.
(I am both making fun of Maines and absolutely serious. It’s a great song, and it really is French Literature and not an incitement to kill Arabs.
Of course, she’ll never be half the songwriter Robert Smith is. And I say this as someone who doesn’t really even like The Cure very much.)
#48, chinesearithmatic:
Campbelltown and Bakersfield are mentioned in the same song
Which Bakersfield would that be? If it’s my Bakersfield, the writers better have gotten permission from the Merl Haggard and Buck Owens estates. Wars have been fought over less.
Ok, probably not wars, but there’s been some real nasty bar brawls break out of such things… ears get chewed off and eyes gouged out and all the good stuff!
I believe an old Texas saying adequately describes Miss Maines:
“You could stick her brain up a gnat’s ass and hear it rattle around like a BB in a boxcar”.
Posted by Tex Lovera on 2006 09 22 at 01:49 PM • permalink23. Sullivan wasn’t complimenting Red State America. He was crowing over the Oscar triumph to come that didn’t.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal? Rock on!
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 09 22 at 02:39 PM • permalink51. Buck’s “Streets of Bakersfield” is still on the jukebox on 43rd St. and 11th Avenue, hard by the Hudson.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 09 22 at 02:43 PM • permalinkYou know, one of these days, the other Chicks are going to look at the old bank statements and figure out just how much money Natalie’s mouth has cost them and their families.
Will they do an intervention, or just try some “solo projects?” Or (and this is what I’d do) will one of the other gals start shooting for some headlines of her own? Why should Natalie get all the press?
I’m sure Natalie would be very supportive of someone else getting to be front-and-center of the publicity for a change, right?
You know, one of these days, the other Chicks are going to look at the old bank statements and figure out just how much money Natalie’s mouth has cost them and their families.
I’ve surmised that the other two Dix Chix support what’s Nutty Natalie says. All three can fall into a has been hole of obscurity for all I care.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 09 22 at 05:18 PM • permalinkOne of the sisters made that crack in Time magazine about not wanting to be in the same CD changer as Reba or Toby, so it’s groupthink if you can call it that.
Posted by chinesearithmetic on 2006 09 22 at 05:22 PM • permalinkIsn’t it amazing? She wants us to be impressed by her insight, and yet she demonstrates again and again and again that she’s incapable of learning from even the most vigorously applied experience…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 09 22 at 08:03 PM • permalink#4 I’d love to, but sadly I doubt I’ll ever have the chance.
I find her choice of words curious. Bush is the man who, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, exerted himslef to prevent any violence against Arabs in retaliation. I don’t think this was necessary, but he blathered all that ROP stuff as a way of preventing Muslims from being visited with the kind of violence by mobs and individual murderers that we see so often from Muslims when they are angered by some event, trivial ones by comparison to the mass murder of 9/11. Bush is a man with Arab friends, after all. That Nuttalie thinks he might say something like “Kill tha Arabs” shows that she knows nothing of the realities of the situation, and has a completely fantasist’s view of what Bush (and conservatives) are really like.
Posted by Michael Lonie on 2006 09 22 at 10:53 PM • permalinkbut what is Lubbock famous for besides the Chicks? I feel like I’ve heard of it before,
You might be thinking of the song with the line,
“I thought happiness was Lubbock, Texas in my rear view mirror” hee-heeWhat’s also funny about Ms. Piggy is her feud with Toby Keith, when she went Benedict Arnold while he’d go visiting troops. The Dicks wore FYTK shirts at some awards show as I recall. Well ... Fatty and her harpies have fallen into the abyss, while TK is still the biggest thing since Jesus.
Posted by Shaky Barnes on 2006 09 22 at 10:53 PM • permalinkObviously, Grimmy, you haven’t met the people I know. But, then, I work at a University.
And, Shaky, I think “Fatty and Her Harpies” is the best name change for the Dipsy Shits I’ve seen.
May also assume that Fatty is not an original blonde and bleached her hair to match her intellectual level? (Sorry about the blonde joke, all you natural blondes about there, but I just couldn’t resist.)
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 09 23 at 12:24 PM • permalinkHere is Virtual Lubbock, a site devoted to Lubbock’s musicians. There’s an interview with Maines’ father on that site.
Posted by Eric Jablow on 2006 09 23 at 02:22 PM • permalinkAccording to the single person I know who grew up in Lubbock, it’s a great place to be from… because that means you aren’t there anymore.
But that’s the sort of joke you make to your friends and talk about growing up there and all the characters you knew and your 6th grade teacher and your first boyfriend and the local hang out and cow tipping (or rummors of cow tipping) and even if nothing was quite as fabulous as the first morning you woke up in your very own apartment somewhere *else*, there’s still pride involved and you know your home town is in your blood and bones and if you didn’t have to endure growing up there you’d have grown up a pale shadow of what you are.
#68, JorgXMcKie:
Obviously, Grimmy, you haven’t met the people I know. But, then, I work at a University.
Maybe they’re pod people too! After all, where’d be the first best place to set up your infiltrators in a take over plot?
Why, everyone knows you put your best agents where they have access to large pools of people who believe they need to be told what to think by someone else.
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