I'm Not Ready to Make Nice

I was perusing the iTunes music store today in search for the perfect entertainment for my car trip tomorrow. As always I glanced at the top song and top album of the day where expect to find Johnny Cash some other country legend. Today I almost broke my neck doing the most textbook double take I have ever performed. Because the top song on the country list was not only a Dixie Chicks song (bad enough) but it was the song "Not Ready to Make Nice."

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Okay, I have collected myself and now I'm just plain mad. First of all I am still mad at what they call "the incident." As a Texan I am ashamed that they said what they did, where they did, to who they did. It was a comment at the wrong place at the wrong time. But I can forgive that ... but now this!?! They write a song speaking out against the country genre and against country fans, and those fans promptly put it to the top of the charts! That is outrageous.

The Point: This blog is not about bashing the Dixie Chicks (well not mainly at least) but to point out a flaw in society. They consumer has amazing power that they are not using. What they don't understand is that by buying that song just to hear what all the fuss is about they are supporting it and raising it to the top of the chart. If the Dixie Chicks are not ready to make nice with me I am sure as hell not ready to make nice with them and will do nothing to support them. They have made it clear that they are abandoning country music so I think we should be the nice people we are and return the favor.