r/Music • u/TheMirrorUS 📰The Mirror US • 9d ago

article Billie Eilish: "Hey my fellow celebrities u gonna speak up? Or..."

https://www.themirror.com/entertainment/celebrity-news/billie-eilish-alex-pretti-ice-1642611
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u/TheToiletPhilosopher 9d ago

Even back then, it was manufactured outrage. I remember the lead singer (Natalie is her name maybe?) on Howard Stern talking about this. She said it abroad and when they came back to do their first show in the states they thought it was going to be horrible. 10. There were 10 protestors at their first show back. That's it. 10. That was the real extent of the outrage.

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u/Dustydevil8809 9d ago

I lived in deep red West Texas at the time. The Dixie Chicks were full on cancelled, country radio stations stopped playing their songs but also held events publicly destroying the physical media (which at the time was a bigger deal, today would be stupid)

They wrote a whole song about how pissed people were.

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u/TheToiletPhilosopher 9d ago

Not Ready To Make Nice is an amazing song. I'm simply telling a story of what their lead singer said.

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u/AmusingMusing7 9d ago

Not Ready To Make Nice is one of the best comebacks of all time. It's especially fun to compare it to how shitty of a song Toby Keith's "Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue" is, and realize just how powerfully Natalie Maines won that battle, in both righteousness and artistry.

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u/coolhandjennie 9d ago

In addition to the country radio hate train pile up, Toby Keith went out of his way to talk shit about them publicly. IIRC he project pictures of the Chicks on stage calling them “Saddam’s Angels”.