{"id":29003,"date":"2020-07-17T00:53:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/the-chicks-gaslighter-review-a-bold-bracing-divorce-album\/"},"modified":"2020-07-17T00:53:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-16T21:53:00","slug":"the-chicks-gaslighter-review-a-bold-bracing-divorce-album","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-chicks-gaslighter-review-a-bold-bracing-divorce-album\/","title":{"rendered":"#The Chicks\u2019 \u2018Gaslighter\u2019 review: A bold, bracing divorce album"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_84 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2438104e8f1\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a2438104e8f1\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/the-chicks-gaslighter-review-a-bold-bracing-divorce-album\/#The_Dixie_Chicks_%E2%80%9CGaslighter%E2%80%9D\" >The Dixie Chicks \u201cGaslighter\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;<strong>#The Chicks\u2019 \u2018Gaslighter\u2019 review: A bold, bracing divorce album<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        In a long-distant era of discord suspi\u00adciously similar to our own, Natalie Maines, the singer for the group that was, until last month, known as the Dixie Chicks, lit a forest fire with an offhand insult about George W. Bush in 2003. Since then, she\u2019s owned her political words more deliberately by laying into Donald Trump on <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a>, not onstage. But listening to her now, all you can think is: Man \u2026 <em>they<\/em> got off easy. Because on the newly renamed Chicks\u2019 first album in 14 years, Maines savages her ex in ways that make it seem as if she were mincing words or pulling punches back when she was taking on mere presidents. She\u2019s got your civil war right here: \u201cGas\u00adlighter\u201d might count as the boldest and most bracing entry ever in popular music\u2019s long and storied history of divorce albums.<\/p>\n<p>When the collection\u2019s title was first announced, some fans mindful of Maines\u2019 political leanings may have been led to think it would be a musical op-ed. It fulfills that just once, in the song \u201cMarch March,\u201d which name-checks Emma Gonz\u00e1les and her anti-gun-violence youth brigade, and which only glancingly references the president (ours, and Russia\u2019s) with the pointed punchline, \u201cWhat the hell h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ened in Helsinki?\u201d Otherwise, though, it\u2019s a different fresh hell Maines has on her mind.<\/p>\n<p>The marital theme is established right off the bat with that title track, which eschews any topical connotations in favor of some\u00adthing closer to the 1940 film \u201cGaslight,\u201d in which a woman becomes aware her hus\u00adband is trying to drive her insane. The bus\u00adtling, harmonically layered music for this thematic overture \u2014 co-written and co-pro\u00adduced, like the rest of the album, by Jack Antonoff (Taylor Swift, Lorde) \u2014 is almost absurdly cheerful. Don\u2019t get too used to it: the mood will come to match the subject matter.<\/p>\n<p>In their post-\u201cincident\u201d songwriting, the Chicks have had a way of making things so personal, going into such confessional or confrontational detail, that it can amount to the musical equivalent of breaking the fourth wall. That was certainly the case with 2006\u2019s Grammy-winning \u201cNot Ready to Make Nice,\u201d which you could take either as a first-hand account of her divorce from the mainstream country music community or a universal anthem for anyone who has a good reason for not letting go of a grudge \u2026 at least up to a point. When it got to the chilling bridge, where Maines let go of any pretense of universality and just started wailing about being told to \u201cshut up and sing\u201d and getting death threats, it was a jolting reminder that this was her story, not ours, even if we related to the other 90 percent. Now that Maines is writing lyrics about an actual divorce on \u201cGaslighter,\u201d there are a lot of those same startling, wall-breaking moments, where the autobiographical particularity might take you out of the song for a few seconds before the bluntness draws you ineluctably back in.<\/p>\n<p>Listeners already got a pretty good taste of that when the title track was released in March, with its crazy-making marital <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>ities rudely interrupted by the now-famous line, \u201cBoy, you know exactly what you did on my boat.\u201d It was the post-country-pop equivalent of Beyonc\u00e9 throwing out that crumb about \u201cBecky with the good hair.\u201d Maines isn\u2019t content to let things rest at that elliptical a level, though. And so, right after the title track has opened the album, the Chicks move right on to greater levels of anecdotal unloading with \u201cSleep at Night\u201d (as in, \u201cHow do you\u2026\u201d), with the recounting of an encounter with an Other Woman that apparently occurred when the group played L.A.\u2019s most storied venue four years ago. \u201cRemember you brought her to our show at the Hollywood Bowl,\u201d Maines sings, ruefully recalling her naivet\u00e9. \u201cShe said, \u2018I love you, I\u2019m such a fan\u2019 \/ I joked that you can love me as long as you don\u2019t love my man \/ There\u2019s nothin\u2019 funny about that.\u201d Oh, and the boat? All is explained \u2014 or enough is \u2014 later on in a song with the spoiler-ific title \u201cTights on My Boat.\u201d (Looking at it again in Bey terms, it\u2019s almost like \u201cBecky\u2019s Hair: The Album.\u201d)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_15995256\"><img alt=\"The Chicks \u201cGaslighter\u201d\" data- data- height=\"662\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>The Chicks \u201cGaslighter\u201d<\/span><span>Courtesy<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If her ex, Adrian Pasdar, were a singer-songwriter, too, maybe we\u2019d get an interesting response record out of him. Since he\u2019s not, it may be useful to remember that we\u2019re only getting one side of a 20-year story in \u201cGaslighter.\u201d But it\u2019s a whale of a tale, with Maines making for such a transfixing firebrand that it might take a second listen to register how devastatingly she conveys deeper levels of hurt. In other words: Come for the comeup\u00adpance, stay for the vulnerability.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back tracks deal with the effects of a split on kids \u2014 \u201cJulianna Calm Down,\u201d a song of encouragement that gets around to naming all of the children of Maines and bandmates Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire, followed by \u201cYoung Man,\u201d which urges Maines\u2019 son to \u201ctake the best parts of\u201d her ex and \u201cleave the bad <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> behind.\u201d The record returns to first-person aches at the close with \u201cHope It\u2019s Something Good\u201d (\u201cTwenty years of hanging on \/ Now it all adds up to nothin\u2019\u2026\/ I hope she\u2019s something good\u201d) and \u201cSet Me Free,\u201d which is your everyday, average pop ballad about urging an ex, in the most anguished terms, to just sign off on the damn paperwork. On these final numbers, Maines\u2019 famous sideman father, Lloyd Maines, slides in with subtle, soothing steel guitar, much as a dad might try contributing quiet solace in real life.<\/p>\n<p>Maines brings her musical sisters into it in \u201cMy Best Friend\u2019s Weddings,\u201d in which she autobiographically recounts meeting her ex at Emily Strayer\u2019s first wedding two decades ago, then happily attending the banjo player\u2019s second vows and taking comfort in saying she\u2019s \u201cnever seen her more happy,\u201d even as she\u2019s nursing her own wounds and vowing to \u201cgo it alone.\u201d Not everything is quite so scene-specific. \u201cEverybody Loves You\u201d is a cover of a ballad by singer-songwriter Charlotte Lawrence (who performed with the Chicks at that fateful Hollywood Bowl show mentioned in \u201cSleep at Night\u201d), an angry look at how the b\u00eate noire in one\u2019s own domestic life can be a charmer to the rest of the world, and questioning whether to fill them in. (Obviously Maines resolved that for herself.) It does move out of splitsville into the importance of forming a more perfect union \u2014 the union that all women could, or should, share, or maybe the advice that an older woman would give to her younger self, as explored in the feminist\/selfhood-reclaiming anthem \u201cFor Her.\u201d One of the more delightful slow burners on the album, \u201cFor Her\u201d takes its time in letting Maines\u2019 up-close-and-personal vocals percolate over just the old-school R&#038;B feel of Antonoff\u2019s Wurlitzer electric piano before building into a tasteful version of a gospel climax.<\/p>\n<p>The one truly frisky track, \u201cTexas Man,\u201d is the closest thing the album has as a successor to \u201cCowboy Take Me Away,\u201d in spirit, if not its eccentric sound. Although that classic oldie was aspirational in its romanticism, \u201cTexas Man\u201d is about a post-split Maines having moved on to at least be ready to play rough again: \u201cIt\u2019s been way too long \/ Since somebody\u2019s body was tangled with mine\u2026\u00a0 \/ Everybody wants top market \/ But I\u2019m a little bit unraveled \/ Everybody wants the new model \/ But I\u2019m a little bit more <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/trip-and-travel\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"10\" title=\"Trip &amp; Travel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">travel<\/a>ed.\u201d It\u2019s spirited and playful in a way that fans of the group\u2019s earliest hits will probably wish there was more of here, and hits that sweet spot even though Antonoff is determined here more than anywhere else on the album to take things away from a strictly roots sound, with acoustic instruments that are plucked in an odd enough way to sound sampled and Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, adding some trademark fuzz-guitar licks. Its increasingly aggressive groove is an example of what Antonoff can pull off as a master pop craftsman who isn\u2019t afraid to blend organic and synthetic sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Aside from a few such more adventurous tracks, though, Antonoff plays it more conservatively, to the point where most of the album isn\u2019t an extreme departure from where Rick Rubin left off with them on their last album 14 years ago. Strayer\u2019s banjo and Maguire\u2019s fiddle are still played as lead instruments, even if they\u2019re playing licks that skew to pop as much as country or roots music. The most remarkable thing on the production end of the scale, ultimately, ends up being how magnificently Maines\u2019 voice is mic-ed on the more intimate numbers. It\u2019s one of the most expressive voices we have in popular music, reminding us that country radio\u2019s loss has been much of the wider worlds gain \u2014 to the extent that she\u2019s let <em>anybody<\/em> hear her very recently. And her producer knows when to leave a tender moment alone \u2014 or a ferocious one, too.<\/p>\n<p>Rather than impose an excess of ear candy (although it\u2019s welcome on the few occasions in which it comes), Antonoff knew what he had on his hands here: an album in which each new incendiary lyrical moment seems to top the last, before grievance gives way to beautiful grief. Candor, take them away.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"The_Dixie_Chicks_%E2%80%9CGaslighter%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>The Dixie Chicks \u201cGaslighter\u201d<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<p>Columbia Records<\/p>\n<p><strong>CREDITS: <\/strong>Producers: Jack Antonoff, the Chicks. Songwriters: Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire, Emily Strayer, Jack Antonoff, Julia Michaels, Jus\u00adtin Tranter, Annie Clark, Teddy Geiger, Ross Golan, Ian Kirkpatrick, Dan Wilson, Ben Abraham, Sarah Aarons, Ariel Rechtshaid, Charlotte Law\u00adrence, Hayley Gene Penner, Joseph Spargur\n            <\/div>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>If you want to read more Entertainment News 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<p><span style=\"color: black;\"><a style=\"color: #ff9900;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/07\/16\/the-chicks-gaslighter-review-a-bold-bracing-divorce-album\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Source<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;#The Chicks\u2019 \u2018Gaslighter\u2019 review: A bold, bracing divorce album&#8221; In a long-distant era of discord suspi\u00adciously similar to our own, Natalie Maines, the singer for the group that was, until last month, known as the Dixie Chicks, lit a forest fire with an offhand insult about George W. 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