Don't any of the "typical" (conservative) country music fans listen to the lyrics?
I've heard 1 Dixie Chiks song in full, while in pool therapy, explained to me in painful detail by a fellow patient. Something like "So Long, Earl" about a wife-beater who is murdered, stuffed in a trunk, and dumped in a river--in pieces, I think.
What gave me a very bad taste in my mouth was that this song was supposed to be humorous. My fellow patient found it funny and righteous. I think wife-beaters (or any partner-beaters, gender isn't important in the syndrome) have a lot to answer for, but I also think that murder is murder. Now, murder in self-defence--and someone might feel that self-defence requires pre-meditation--is one thing. But the revenge murder described in the song is not funny; it's just disgusting.
Maybe I just don't get the joke.
Anyway, regardless of my feelings about the song, it could be perceived as a very liberal song. So when the lead singer says something liberal, I for one wasn't the least bit shocked.
And as long as I'm being a curmudgeon: Would they still have done the magazine cover if one of them had been my size? (I still remember the fuss about the "fat" singer in the Go-Gos.)
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Song Rant
Date: 2003-04-25 11:22 am (UTC)I've heard 1 Dixie Chiks song in full, while in pool therapy, explained to me in painful detail by a fellow patient. Something like "So Long, Earl" about a wife-beater who is murdered, stuffed in a trunk, and dumped in a river--in pieces, I think.
What gave me a very bad taste in my mouth was that this song was supposed to be humorous. My fellow patient found it funny and righteous. I think wife-beaters (or any partner-beaters, gender isn't important in the syndrome) have a lot to answer for, but I also think that murder is murder. Now, murder in self-defence--and someone might feel that self-defence requires pre-meditation--is one thing. But the revenge murder described in the song is not funny; it's just disgusting.
Maybe I just don't get the joke.
Anyway, regardless of my feelings about the song, it could be perceived as a very liberal song. So when the lead singer says something liberal, I for one wasn't the least bit shocked.
And as long as I'm being a curmudgeon: Would they still have done the magazine cover if one of them had been my size? (I still remember the fuss about the "fat" singer in the Go-Gos.)