{"id":15296,"date":"2020-06-25T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-dixie-chicks-are-changing-their-name-dropping-the-dixie\/"},"modified":"2020-06-25T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-25T17:30:00","slug":"the-dixie-chicks-are-changing-their-name-dropping-the-dixie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-dixie-chicks-are-changing-their-name-dropping-the-dixie\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Dixie Chicks are changing their name, dropping the \u2018dixie\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Dixie Chicks are changing their name, dropping the \u2018dixie\u2019<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div id=\"article-wrapper\" role=\"main\">\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>        June 25, 2020 <span>|<\/span> 1:30pm         <\/p>\n<p>                <span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xwBjF_VVFvE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" title=\"Video\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n                        Goodbye, Dixie.<\/p>\n<p>Amid calls for the removal of Confederate symbols and nostalgia prompted by the Black Lives Matter movement, the notoriously liberal country-music trio formerly known as Dixie Chicks have finally decided that \u201cDixie\u201d had to die.<\/p>\n<p>Now simply the Chicks, bandmates Natalie Maines, Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire, who have sold some 33 million albums worldwide, were widely ostracized by the country-music community after they spoke out against President George W. Bush upon his decision to lead the US into war with Iraq in 2003.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the 13-time Grammy-winning band announced the change with a new music video, titled \u201cMarch March,\u201d released\u00a0under the new Chicks moniker. Representatives for the group confirmed the name to the New York Times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want to meet this moment,\u201d reads a brief statement on their website.<\/p>\n<p>Calls for the removal of monuments to slaveholders and other tributes to the Confederacy have forced artists, especially those who identify with Southern culture, to reckon with the ways they romanticize the pre-Civil War South.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, Lady Antebellum made that call when they told fans that they shall henceforth be called Lady A \u2014 with no indication as to what the \u201cA\u201d stands for if not \u201cAntebellum.\u201d But the band was accused of opportunism and ignorance because\u00a0a Seattle-based blues artist, Lady A, has performed under the name for over 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time,\u00a0Variety writer Jeremy Helligar may have helped pressure the Chicks to make a move in a piece that asked, \u201cIs it time for the Dixie Chicks to rethink their name?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cWide Open Spaces\u201d women, in fact, avoided a blunder similar to that of the band formerly known as Lady Antebellum: They reached out to the 1960s New Zealand outfit the Chicks for permission to use the name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA sincere and heartfelt thank you goes out to \u2018The Chicks\u2019 of NZ for their gracious gesture in allowing us to share their name,\u201d Maines, Strayer and Maguire said in a statement via their spokesperson. \u201cWe are honored to co-exist together in the world with these exceptionally talented sisters. Chicks Rock!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before the name change, in March, the \u201cGoodbye Earl\u201d singers released the eponymous single off their upcoming album, \u201cGaslighter,\u201d and a month later debuted \u201cJulianna Calm Down.\u201d The record, produced by Fun guitarist Jack Antonoff and due July 17, will be released under the band\u2019s new name.\n            <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/06\/25\/the-dixie-chicks-are-changing-their-name-dropping-the-dixie\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Entertainment <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">News<\/a> articles, you can visit our <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/general\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">General category.<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>if you want to <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">watch Movies<\/a> or Tv Shows go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/dizi.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dizi.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a> <\/span> for forums sites go to <span style=\"color: #ff9900;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/forum.buradabiliyorum.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Forum.BuradaBiliyorum.Com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#The Dixie Chicks are changing their name, dropping the \u2018dixie\u2019&#8221; June 25, 2020 | 1:30pm Goodbye, Dixie. 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