So this isn’t exactly going to be a review, but I’ll call it one anyway.
As I mentioned in my crazy-ass rant (still in progress), I went to the “Four Independents Who Turned The Tide” series during the final day of Sundance Institute at BAM. I got to see Barbara Kopple‘s kick-ass documentary about my new faves: The Dixie Chicks. I knooow the movie came out a while ago, and I knooow this is kind of all old news, but who gives? I saw this movie and it was totally brilliant.
I don’t think most people know that the Chicks’ response to the illegal country radio boycott of their music was so profound, and so determined, that their convictions actually changed the kind of music they wrote, and they were strong willed and took the risk of losing the audience they thought was right for them (country music lovin’ war zealots) and found that they appealed to a whole nother audience: sane people.
In all seriousness, though, it’s like they kind of just let the universe show them who they were as people as they stayed strong and stood up to the country crazies.
I’m not ready to make nice either, ladies. But I am ready to give you all my money. Right after the Q&A, I checked for your CD at Target but couldn’t find it. What gives? Did they boycott you too? However, they did have the Paris Hilton CD.
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