When the career of theChicks was disrupted at extraordinary heights, Maines was winking. After changing their name, dropping the "Dixie" and being associated with the South during the Civil War, the group was also on foreign soil. At the beginning of the Iraq War, Maines made a statement that would forever alter the band's trajectory. The Chicks were ashamed to be from the same state as Bush, she said.
The maelstrom was quickly moving. TheChicks were removed from country radio. People burned albums. Toby was performing in front of the altered photo of Maine hugging Saddam Hussein. The Chicks went from one of the most successful acts in America to one of the most hated.
The industry that abandoned the Chicks was the subject of heated debate in Maine. She raged against the threats that came with a detailed plan, saying in a letter that you will be shot dead at your show in Dallas. Gaslighter, the first album in 14 years that was built around Maines' divorce, had moments of rage directed at an ex- husband who tried to prevent the band from releasing music about the break up. There is a nerve.
Nineteen years later, the house that Maines' rage built is here, and Bridgers wasn't the only one to speak out. The Supreme Court justices who voted to bring down the abortion law were dedicated to by the singer. Lorde said something. Maren Morris said she would fight. Taylor Swift, who for a while was criticized for avoiding politics and who once revealed in a documentary that she was told not to be like the hicks, shared her thoughts on social media.
They were ridiculed and told to stop singing, but now they are vindicated. A whole new generation of artists walked through it after they opened a door for women to be as angry as they needed to be. They built the path for Bridgers and Eilish to say what they need to say. Maines repeated the words "Fuck the Supreme Court" with a serious face after she had a laugh.
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