Posted by Allison as Career Moves, Music Happenings at 9:30 AM PST
15/12/2006
The loved & hated by some Dixie Chicks are planning to split up & go their separate ways after the Grammy Awards in February. Chin up, guys, we’ll make it through this one together, eh?
Emily Robison, Martie Maguire & Natalie Maines are finally going to break up the band after all the turmoil they have been through with their political stances & views. According to Star magazine, the split has more to do with family than just your ordinary accumulation of death threats & such. Here’s the scoop:
The controversial country superstars have secretly decided to split up after the Grammy Awards – because Emily Robison and Martie Maguire no longer want to share the nest with outspoken Natalie Maines, say sources.
“The Chicks are tired and wrung out,” said a group insider. “They feel they’ve come to the end, and they want a break from each other to spend more time with their families.”
The three women, who have seven children among them, are at odds over Natalie’s blunt political ramblings. And while sources say sisters Emily and Martie share many of Natalie’s anti-George W. Bush views, they feel her public rants have taken the focus off their music.
“They’ve supported many of her political beliefs, even though it’s put their lives and the lives of their families in jeopardy,” said the insider.
“They’ve received death threats, and it’s made them all nervous wrecks.”
You know, it’s just too damn bad. The Dixie Chicks have been making sweet music together since 1989. Maybe this is just a threat of some kind, we’ll just have to wait for those mid-February Grammys I guess.
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10 Responses to: The Dixie Chicks to Split Up After Grammys
Wes
December 15th, 2006 at 12:43 pm
The story is completely bogus!!!!
Proof of its absurdity can be found in the following two words; National Enquirer!!!
A Dixie Chicks Fan
December 15th, 2006 at 3:27 pm
COMPLETELY FALSE!!
The Chicks ARE NOT BREAKING UP in any way, shape or form after the Grammys.
Misinformation and questionable sources led to a totally untrue article in the NATIONAL ENQUIRER. Not exactly a source of truthful information to begin with.
Kaitlyn who loves the chicks
January 13th, 2007 at 1:06 am
omg they can’t break up! they’re my fav group
i love the not ready to make nice song it rocks
plz d chicks I LOVE YOU
Ashlee
January 28th, 2007 at 12:08 am
i hope this isnt true..
we love you…
Jim Ward
January 29th, 2007 at 9:39 pm
Good riddance!
They let their political mouth over-ride their musical abilities.
They could have been great.
Lawrence
February 11th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
I am sick and tired of descent people getting maligned by
the Bush administration for speaking their mind
the last time I looked this was a free country
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Michelle
February 12th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
I hope they break up and move to Iraq! They did not deserve to win five Grammy awards just because the academy voting members side with them politically. The Grammys should be about music not politics.
Rob W
February 12th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
No one I knows cares one lick.
The awards given to the Dixie Chicks were one thing, sending a message. As you know, these awards were not given by the people. This was not the People’s Music Awards, rather less than 11,000 members of professionals in the music industry. One writer brought up the idea that the vote for the various catagories was so split, that the largest chunk of votes left were the politically active members who had the opportunity to “make a statement” with what amounts to a lackluster album and a really boring song. First of all, there’s no way a song like that would take song of the year at the Grammys unless it had help, through collusion or other means, or jury nullification, just like the O.J. trial. And for them to win 5 awards if just not only improbable, but impossible! It looks like the Grammys jumped the shark last night, allowing politics to influence the outcome of not one but 5 awards and I personally could never look at them in any kind of positive light again, though that’s been coming for a long time now.
I’ve been a professional musician for over 35 years, a session player on albums and a touring sideman. I’m hearing nothing, and I repeat nothing, but disbelief at what happened last night. Some are asking for an investigation to see if there was indeed any wrong doing in the “winning” of these awards. And all along, Natalie and the world still actually think that they really won those awards. Sad. Hope they never realize what really happened.
CB
May 3rd, 2007 at 1:46 pm
Get over yourself robby boy no one really cares about your political bias. Probably not your music either since 35 years later your scared to print your full name least no-one should musically acknowlege it. And in the end the chicks were right. This president is the most embarrassing, inept leader of all time. He’s a bigger ass than Texas as a state.
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