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Post by Wild Turkey on Aug 14, 2020 8:13:20 GMT -8
The Chicks are scheduled to appear virtually for a performance at the Democratic Convention on Thursday August 20th sometime between the hours of 9-11 PM ET. www.demconvention.com/event/the-chicks/
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Post by sthdvs2012 on Aug 14, 2020 9:31:07 GMT -8
It’s Kind of cool that they got the top time slot.
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Post by chicksfan on Aug 16, 2020 4:45:35 GMT -8
Yay!
Will have to tune into that one!
A safe bet would be a performance of March March?
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Post by Kent67b on Aug 16, 2020 10:20:50 GMT -8
I'm looking forward to this! I wonder how it will go?
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Post by nedcfan on Aug 16, 2020 21:11:15 GMT -8
Looking forward to it! Needed more than ever now!
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Post by dcxfanapm on Aug 20, 2020 4:54:18 GMT -8
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Post by DCXMMXVI on Aug 20, 2020 6:38:18 GMT -8
March March is an anthem. It's about change, moving forward, progress, being who you are and refusing to conform. It wouldn't make sense if they performed it at the DNC. It's Biden/Harris. No change. No moving forward. Gaslighter would be more appropriate.
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Post by chicksfan on Aug 20, 2020 17:11:54 GMT -8
Beautiful national anthem performance.
👏
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Post by DCXMMXVI on Aug 20, 2020 18:27:55 GMT -8
Beautiful indeed!
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Post by dcxfanapm on Aug 20, 2020 19:02:09 GMT -8
Video in case anyone missed it:
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Post by chicksfan on Aug 20, 2020 19:35:06 GMT -8
I was expecting a performance, for them to open the convention with the national anthem was a very nice surprise.
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Post by Kent67b on Aug 20, 2020 20:09:39 GMT -8
Having Martie, Emily and Natalie singing the National Anthem at the opening of the final night of the Convention was a huge honor. I remember their Super Bowl halftime performance.
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Post by erik on Aug 22, 2020 17:11:05 GMT -8
Quote by DCXMMXVI:
In one sense, you may have a point. But does anybody really think that Biden would send troops into our cities to violently subdue protestors and marchers, as the mango-headed schmuck from Manhattan has clearly done?
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Post by DCXMMXVI on Aug 23, 2020 10:27:55 GMT -8
Quote by DCXMMXVI: In one sense, you may have a point. But does anybody really think that Biden would send troops into our cities to violently subdue protestors and marchers, as the mango-headed schmuck from Manhattan has clearly done? Probably not. He would rather watch those cities burn to the ground.
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Post by nedcfan on Sept 1, 2020 19:23:17 GMT -8
Quote by DCXMMXVI: In one sense, you may have a point. But does anybody really think that Biden would send troops into our cities to violently subdue protestors and marchers, as the mango-headed schmuck from Manhattan has clearly done? Probably not. He would rather watch those cities burn to the ground. The **** are you talking about?
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Post by sthdvs2012 on Sept 1, 2020 20:22:21 GMT -8
Sounds like someone is mad that Bernie lost. Twice. lol
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Post by erik on Sept 2, 2020 17:48:06 GMT -8
Quote by sthdvs2012:
Well, I voted for Bernie twice in the primaries (2016; 2020); and I'm not bitter that he lost in both cases.
But in any case, it is solely DONALD TRUMP who is making things as bad as they are, because he is the president, and he's showing himself to be without a soul, a heart, or a conscience. In any one of us, that would be a tragedy. When it comes to the presidency, it is a f***ing disaster.
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Post by Bingo on Sept 6, 2020 16:17:06 GMT -8
It doesn't surprise me that they opted to sing the national anthem, rather than a controversial song like "March March". The anthem can be thought of as conveying a unity message, while the latter would be perceived as more confrontational. To me, this would seem consistent with their history - I have never seen them as an openly political band, which makes the reaction against them seem all the more ridiculous - though it was, of course, manipulated by a political wing looking for a high profile symbolic scapegoat. (To my mind the actual leading Texan "Bushwhacker" was Eliza Gilkyson, with songs like "Man of God", "Favorite Son" and "Highway 9", which consistently pilloried her target with lines like "so the little man called all his chicken hawks in, the neo-cons and his daddy's kin". By contrast the Chicks, although they attended events supporting progressive causes, rarely gave their music audiences anything that tested their expectations in the political sphere)
With regard to the political aspect today, I was thinking of something Jason Isbell said, explaining why he wrote "White Man's World" the morning after Trump's election. "I was motivated by the image I have of my audience. There are very few artists, musicians, and entertainers, that have the type or demographic of an audience that I have. Somebody like Sturgill Simpson or Chris Stapleton has it. Margo Price has it and my wife has it. It’s an interesting group of people, because it’s people who listen to a lot of different types of music. I think, for the most part, they’re people who are pretty open-minded. There is an opportunity there, however small it might be, to get people to think things in a little bit of a different way."
I would say that the Chicks too might have had a similar opportunity - their remaining traditional audience and parts of their new audience are likely to include people who are open minded and prepared to at least listen to artists who are not going to shirk being provocative and challenging on occasion. What worries me somewhat, though, is that they might by-pass that opportunity for changing hearts and minds. The general tone of the new album rather suggests to me that they are going all out for an audience focused on current trends and fashions at the vaguely progressive, or "adult" end of Mainstream Pop/Rock (which is largely how Antonoff's production strikes me) and perhaps not doing enough to carry many of their long term audience with them. The result may be commercial (and perhaps critical) success, but at the price of jumping into an audience niche where minds are already made up.
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