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Post by redbarron on Nov 18, 2011 16:23:17 GMT -8
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Post by Bingo on Nov 18, 2011 17:20:22 GMT -8
It's a good gesture - but, I agree, it's unlikely to get results.
It calls on Sony Music and "Country Music Radio" to get the Chicks back on the radio. But Sony Music have nothing new from the Chicks to promote to radio (and the Chicks vetoed promotion of their last album to most Country stations in the US, and, I think, may well do the same again if they make a new one) Also, there's no overall organization called "Country Music Radio" that could decide a policy for the stations. The stations operate in separate markets, and would have to be worked on one by one.
The petitioner presumably hopes to get more stations playing tracks from the Chicks' past albums - it's well-meant, but I doubt if the way to do that is to include a preamble that rehashes the "incident", but says nothing else. I don't mean to sound critical, but it might do better if it stressed positive reasons for playing them, such as their musical contribution, and the fact that many listeners want to hear them.
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Post by james on Nov 19, 2011 1:46:38 GMT -8
At least people are fighting back. I wonder if the Chicks had went after Bush the way the right have with Obama.
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Post by Bingo on Nov 20, 2011 6:13:12 GMT -8
At least people are fighting back. I wonder if the Chicks had went after Bush the way the right have with Obama. For a little while, I wondered if they might do that. More than a few session players and songwriters agreed with them, and they were perhaps uniquely placed to give a lead, and blow a hole in the preferred image of the Mainstream as background music for a Conservative waiting room. They've said themselves, they'd already blown the gaff, and couldn't really do their career much more damage. But no one has to be political, and I respect their right to make that choice. As it was, they took the path many others have before them, and left the Mainstream to its narrow conformity. "Sun beats down like a stinging red tan. Like the back of my Daddy's hand - only thing I've ever known... ...Never understood why she ran away, and maybe I'll never know"Falling sales generally, and a changing demographic in the still buoyant sector, may yet force the Mainstream to broaden its outlook - but, I think, too late to re-write the past.
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Post by erik on Nov 20, 2011 11:21:50 GMT -8
Quote by Bingo:
Probably, but you've still got to try.
And to be honest, I am really not very much up on the groups that have come along in the Mainstream since the Chicks were thrown under the bus. I haven't worked up anything for Lady Antebellum, or Gloriana, or even The Band Perry. And I'm not counting on Dolly, Linda, and Emmy to do a Trio III--that definitely ain't-a gonna happen (sic).
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