spain Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 What kind of crazy <Ban me! Ban me now!>ed up world do we live in where "Not Ready To Make Nice" wins Record Of The Year? What next, Harry Reid elected PRESIDENT? Speaking of politics, NARAS has insured at least a decade of bashing by the Republicans as a result of the Chick trifecta. You'd think they'd vote for something a little more right wing, or the black woman, you can't criticize a black victory, at least not in PUBLIC! But you take the most left-leaning act in recent memory, with an album that half the country REFUSES to listen to, and you give them ALL the awards. Smart. But it's worse. "Not Ready To Make Nice" is not a hit record. Oh, it's pleasant, you can tap your toe to it, but a HIT is something indelible, something you get on the first listen, something you can sing EVERY WORD of thirty years later, FORTY! Hell, I heard "Ode To Billie Joe" on the way home from KLSX, I know more about Choctaw Ridge than anything that happened on "Take The Long Way", even though I don't own the oldie and I'm not even sure Bobby Gentry is ALIVE! I heard "Crazy" for the first time a block from my house. I RAN from the garage into the house to download it. I streamed "Not Ready To Make Nice" once on my computer, and I haven't played it again SINCE! Come on, even YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL was both a bigger hit and a better SONG! At least people are playing it at weddings, most people have never HEARD "Not Ready To Make Nice". At least "Put Your Records On" is CATCHY! But no, we've got to give the award to the act with the brand name. This would be like giving the Oscar to..."Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men's Chest". It's RECOGNIZABLE, it's just not CLASSIC! Oh, a bunch of people say "Taking The Long Way" is good. And it did sell a ton better than many albums this year. But the SINGLE? Wouldn't that be like saying the biggest and best record of 1965 was Edwin Starr's "Agent Double-O-Soul"? No, that "hit" was bigger than the Dixie Chicks' song, it went to number 21! We've got to find something MORE obscure. How about Dionne Warwick's "Are You There (With Another Girl)", which reached number 39. You remember that one, DON'T YOU? OF COURSE NOT! But "Five O'Clock World", which made it to number 4, that one's on your hit parade. You remember, they used it on Drew Carey's TV show. Love that track, but was it the BEST OF THE YEAR?? Oh, maybe "The Game Of Love" by Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, it went to NUMBER ONE! But no, that was a good record, but not a classic. We need to look at other number ones, like "Hang On Sloopy". THAT could be Record of the Year, if it weren't so STUPID! "Downtown"'s a good number. As is the song that preceded it at the top of the chart, "Eve Of Destruction". But they're not in the LEAGUE of "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'". Or "My Girl". But EVERYBODY knows the biggest record of 1965 was "Satisfaction". You couldn't be on the planet and not hear it. It was UBIQUITOUS! "Not Ready To Make Nice" is ubiquitous on the coffee tables of baby boomers who want to impress their liberal friends, <Ban me! Ban me now!>, it probably doesn't even make it into the CD player. Nor did it make it on to people's iPods. It wasn't even in the iTunes TOP FIFTY! It was number 61, yup, that's my definition of a hit. Oh, I know. The public is STUPID! No, that's completely wrong. People are so smart that they didn't even bother TUNING IN this train-wreck of a television program/awards show. They believe it's out of touch and IRRELEVANT! I'll tell you how out of touch NARAS is, they gave away TWO CD CASES in the MusiCares goody bag. Yup, you pay $1500 a ticket, and you can't afford an iPod, you need a case to schlep your discs with you on the back of the plane. DIDN'T ANYBODY GET THE <Ban me! Ban me now!>ING MEMO? Oh, the stage had holes for the hoi polloi. Whoa, THAT'S innovative. I haven't seen that since the VMAs, the better part of a DECADE AGO! How could an organization be so OUT OF TOUCH? You can't let "Not Ready To Make Nice" win the Record of the Year, never mind the SONG of the year, it eviscerates your CREDIBILITY! And all you've got is your credibility. Without it, you're Vanilla Ice. Yup, the Grammys are now Vanilla Ice, laughable has-beens. Oh, we know why the Dixie Chicks won. Because nobody RECOGNIZED the rest of the nominees, they went for the name around longest, which they were FAMILIAR WITH! I bet not even ten percent of Grammy voters know who Danger Mouse is, never mind Cee-Lo. So, they shouldn't have been allowed to VOTE in this category. You don't search for and reward excellence by turning over the decision-making reins to CHIMPANZEES! I will say one thing though, even if "Not Ready To Make Nice" WERE a hit track, there would be nowhere to HEAR IT! Hell, there's no country station in Los Angeles. The one outlet we had went Top Forty. If only it WERE Top Forty. But it's not the best of the best, rather the most conservative choices derived from research, selected not to alienate the core audience, which is people who can't afford an iPod or satellite radio. People who listen to Top Forty are equivalent to those without CABLE! The indigent, the ignorant. But they rule our country. Hell, just look at our PRESIDENT! Well, he's not indigent. If only the Dixie Chicks had written an antiwar song, as good as the aforementioned "Eve Of Destruction". But NO, it's not about the country, but THEM! They were put upon, it's personal now. BULLSega!! Music, when done right, is universal. "Not Ready To Make Nice" is like a hit show on the Food Network. Yup, let's give the Emmy for best variety show to RACHAEL RAY! There's a revolution going on. The major labels are driving headlong in the other direction, with the ass-wipes at NARAS following in their footsteps. I mean can you take CHARGE? Are caretakers what we really need now? Should Kodak have just made film until it went out of business? God, the record business, the RADIO business, is like Polaroid. An old king heading straight for the dumper. I don't know if we need an awards show. CBS certainly doesn't need it, hell, they'd do better with a "Survivor" special. But we do need great music, great MAINSTREAM music. And we need somewhere to hear it, a clearinghouse where one can stop and shop and find out what's good and hip. Instead we've got a balkanized music scene. So bogus and so impenetrable that the public has tuned out. "I remember when I remember, I remember when I lost my mind" We want to go CRAZY! We want to be driven CRAZY! We want to be elated, transported, CHANGED by the sound. Gnarls Barkley's song did that this year. Just hearing it changed your mood, took you away, outside of yourself. You felt the possibilities, you were emboldened, you were ELATED! But does NARAS recognize this? No. Isn't this like standing on the mound and having no idea where home plate is? Back in '65, we had MANY "Crazy"s. At least this year we had ONE! But this particular fish could not be shot in the barrel. God, the guys running NARAS are the same guys running the war in Iraq. They're CLUELESS It's time to clean house. The Net is doing this to the inept labels. But someone has to take charge at NARAS. Hopefully, not the same people in control of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. And they must turn the ship around. They must realize the joke of the Grammy Awards doesn't only hurt the television show, but the ENTIRE INDUSTRY! Music's greatest night? Let's hope not. -- Visit the archive: http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azazello1313 Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 just when you think the grammys couldn't possibly become more of an irrelevant circle-jerk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cre8tiff Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 (edited) The Chicks didn't need to win a Grammy to prove thier stance on Iraq was correct, history has already done it for them. Edited February 12, 2007 by cre8tiff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spain Posted February 12, 2007 Author Share Posted February 12, 2007 I am not in the music biz at all but as many of you know, I have alot of friends that work on Music Row here in Nashville. There obviously is a HUGH disconnect between Nashville and Hollywood. Everybody here thinks the Ditsy Clits getting 5 Grammys was a complete joke. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Savage Beatings Posted February 12, 2007 Share Posted February 12, 2007 I am not in the music biz at all but as many of you know, I have alot of friends that work on Music Row here in Nashville. There obviously is a HUGH disconnect between Nashville and Hollywood. Everybody here thinks the Ditsy Clits getting 5 Grammys was a complete joke. I actually kind of like their music, but I couldn't help but thinking to myself while watching the Grammys last night, "they are intentionally pushing the Dixie Chicks on us." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REZ Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 The music industry is out of touch. Almost as much as the movie industry is. I think they were awarding the Dixie Chicks all those grammys just because they said they were ashamed of the President. Didn't have a durn thing to do with their music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 The music industry is out of touch. Almost as much as the movie industry is. I think they were awarding the Dixie Chicks all those grammys just because they said they were ashamed of the President. Didn't have a durn thing to do with their music. I think the movie and music industries are out of touch, but it doesn't have all that much to do with their politics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 just when you think the grammys couldn't possibly become more of an irrelevant circle-jerk... The Grammys make the Golden Globe Awards look like Salk's vaccine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chavez Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 But you take the most left-leaning act in recent memory This guy apparently hasn't been listening to Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Green Day, or U2 lately. And those are just the highest-profile acts that popped into my head first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
loaf Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I actually kind of like their music, but I couldn't help but thinking to myself while watching the Grammys last night, "they are intentionally pushing the Dixie Chicks on us." I got the "forcing the music down our throats" thing from Blige Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Everybody here thinks the Ditsy Clits getting 5 Grammys was a complete joke. Norah Jones winning 10 (or however many she won) for an album largely full of other people's music pretty much already confirmed the Grammy's were a joke....along w/ Jethro Tull winning a heavy metal award. There is a multitude of examples to cite. Milli Vinalli...etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 The Chicks are definately being pushed on mainstream USA. MSN.com pimps them bigtime with regular links to news items and their web page. This was not done until Maines drubbed shrub on London. It's not hard to figure out. They are talented musicians - more instrumentally than vocally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 But you take the most left-leaning act in recent memory, with an album that half the country REFUSES to listen to, and you give them ALL the awards. Smart. I refuse to listen to 100% of new country. I also refuse to listen to anything Stevie Wonder has recorded since 1982. And I will never listen to Oasis. It's a political statement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brewer Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 I love the dixie chicks. Probably about the only thing southern that I love, other then good fried chicken. I don't own a chicks CD, and probably never will. Hell, I couldn't even recognize one of their songs if it was playing on the radio. But I love them because they make people froth at the mouth. It's awesome to see people get so worked up about 3 dumb blondes playing country music. (they are blonde aren't they? ) About every 3 or 4 months, we get treated to a thread bashing the dixie chicks. I can almost see the spittle hitting the monitor now. How a full grown American male can get worked up over a few loud mouthed Texas broads is besides me. Ain't America great? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 This guy apparently hasn't been listening to Pearl Jam, Radiohead, Green Day, or U2 lately. And those are just the highest-profile acts that popped into my head first. I scrolled down this far to see if anyone else had spotted that stupid quote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 just when you think the grammys couldn't possibly become more of an irrelevant circle-jerk... And this is true too - same as it's true of all awards like this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HowboutthemCowboys Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 About every 3 or 4 months, we get treated to a thread bashing the dixie chicks. I can almost see the spittle hitting the monitor now. How a full grown American male can get worked up over a few loud mouthed Texas broads is besides me. Ain't America great? I own 3 of their cd's. I enjoy their music and I enjoy listening to people rant about them too. How ironic that their music was blackballed by alot of radio stations and their cd's were burned by the ton (at around $15 apiece ) a few years ago and now that W has proven Maines right, they're back on top....I love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaP'N GRuNGe Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Freedom of speech is for commies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 This was not done until Maines drubbed shrub on London. It's not hard to figure out. You mean, the media reports on stuff the masses pay the most attention to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 You mean, the media reports on stuff the masses pay the most attention to? Hardly. I'm saying there's a reason they pimp the Dixie Chicks vs. a guy like Darryl Worley that sings pro-war tunes. I'm saying that the media is not neutral and it's ludicrous to suggest that it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retrograde assault Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 The media is a bunch of leftist wienies, just like the dribble dicks and about 70% of the puddle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 The Chicks are definately being pushed on mainstream USA. Is there something different about that than any other band being pushed by record companies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushwacked Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Hardly. I'm saying there's a reason they pimp the Dixie Chicks vs. a guy like Darryl Worley that sings pro-war tunes. I'm saying that the media is not neutral and it's ludicrous to suggest that it is. The Dixie chicks were well known long before the anti-Bush remarks. Who in the world is Darryl Worley? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ursa Majoris Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Who in the world is Darryl Worley? And what does pro-war mean? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimmy Neutron Posted February 13, 2007 Share Posted February 13, 2007 Is there something different about that than any other band being pushed by record companies? I expect record companies to push their artists. I have not seen MSN promote another band or artist anything like they do the Dixie Chicks. The Dixie chicks were well known long before the anti-Bush remarks. Who in the world is Darryl Worley? Sure, but MSN never promoted every move they made until after the then controversial remarks by Maines. And Darryl Worley is a country artist who sings lots of rah rah patriotic stuff like "Have you forgotten? and I just got back from the war. And what does pro-war mean? I should have specified - pro- Iraq war. I'm not trying to point out anything than the media's obvious leaning. I own several Dixie Chicks albums and none of Worley's. No national media gives Worley air time to voice his opinions or music - except Fox. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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