Dixie Chicks - Taking the Long Way
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Free Music Review: A great album
Hit: 5 Stars
I don't care what anyone says about the Dixie Chicks...this group rocks and this album proves it. Free Music Review: the Dixie Chicks are great!!
Hit: 5 Stars
The music on this latest Dixie Chicks is fantastic! It is definately an answer to all those who refused to listen, burn their music and live narrow minded and small. The CD makes even more sense if you had the opportunity to watch "Shut up and Sing" (which was really interesting to watch their process in making music and gave a really nice insight into their lives...bravo!).
Anyway, the music itself, I think is even more mature and complex than their previous CD's.. Overall, I would say it is a great addition to any Dixie Chick fan's collection...any music fan's collection for that matter.
Free Music Review: MUSIC
Hit: 5 Stars
How did these Gals express my feelings so well? They did it one song at a time!
There is not a bad song on this one..........they are all 5 Stars!
This Group just keeps getting better!!! Please keep writing music in this vein...........
Free Music Review: Very Progressive Country & Rock Music
Hit: 5 Stars
I'm a Progressive Rock person, but the Dixie Chicks have exceeded My wildest expectations with this Album. One will fall in love with every song on it, & if your a Progressive Person, You will understand & feel for the Lyrics of each song. J.E. Silverton, Blue-Oregon.Free Music Review: Taking the Long Way is such a political Album that it reflects Maines' Axl Rose-like Martyr Complex & Bush Derangement Syndrome!
Hit: 1 Stars
Taking the Long Way--should be called "Taking the Liberal Sellout Way for a Pop Audience While Stabbing Country Music Fans in the Back"--is the Dixie Chicks' notoriously billed "comeback" album, after Natalie Maines ineptly ruined their careers by provoking the real, American patriots called country music fans!!!! It's impossible to separate politics and current events from the music on this CD since Taking the Long Way glaringly symbolizes the Chicks' defiant attitude towards those (real Americans and patriots) who demanded an apology from them for their anti-American, anti-Bush tirade on foreign shores in 2003.
Since they alienated the country music fan base--where they rightly received death threats and had their CDs symbolically boycotted by country music radio stations--the music on Taking the Long Way is totally a 180 degree turnaround from the country on their prior CDs. The vast majority of songs on this CD are pop/rock, and as such, they egregiously appeal to a new audience, that audience being those in the more liberal, blue states with an appetite for thoughtless pop/light rocky music--the complete opposite of the patriots, real Americans and conservatives making up the country music fan base. The Chicks' calculatingly necessary shift to the musical left was born not out of artistic "merit"; it was pressured on them by a country music fan base that Maines segregated/antagonized with her anti-Bush tirade. Likewise, because of their shunning of country music fans, their tour last year saw many E-M-P-T-Y arenas and sub-par ticket sales with only liberal, big cities really going to their concerts!!!! Taking the Long Way also debuted with the lowest number of first week sales of ANY of their albums.
This treasonous shift to pop music is seen instantly on the first song, The Long Way Around. Though it begins subtly like a country tune, it's clear they plotted a rockier tune due to the overpowering basslines and speedier guitar "licks." The lyrical content of The Long Way Around is also planned to appeal to a stereotypical liberals' school of thought because of the shamelessly outright rejection of traditional values espoused in that wreck of a song. Maines sings, lewdly, about smoking (obviously some illegal or self-destructive substance) with hippies and also repels the honorable, traditional virtues of her high-school classmates from Lubbock, Texas, for settling down and raising families with their husbands!!!! Predictably, impressionable, liberal apologists will find merit in the song's quaint resolve set to a hopeful melody.
From there, the album's ALL downhill in a worsening, downward spiral as the Chicks furiously plan to attract liberals with their suspicious, newly found values system and remorselessness about Maines' anti-Bush tirade. In Not Ready to Make Nice, Maines scornfully sings of berating Bush all over again if she had a second go at it!!!! Contradictorily, Maines defies reconciliation, then wonders why the heck she keeps paying the price of being hated by a large segment of patriotic Americans, and rightly so. Also disturbing in the song's lyrical content is Maines' admission that her tirade against Bush was totally unwarrantable hatred of a perfect stranger and her plans to tell her daughter that it's "ok" to do so. When Maines sings, "I'm mad as hell," she's clearly using her continuous upkeep of her anti-Bush controversy as a maneuver to generate interest around her band.
Despairingly, simple-minded liberals will misguidedly credit Maines for what they misconceive as her "standing up" for what she believes in. But, the impartial listener will sentence her for being so arrogant that she presumes the world revolves around her and her little controversy. Also noteworthy in that song is the feint-but-audible rock guitar that's prominently used to underscore Maines' resolve--again, verifying the theme that the Chicks have basically turned into a rock/pop outfit.
Though I analytically went into detail on only two songs, I could've just as easily dissected other songs like Easy Silence (comfort in family interspersed with complaints about war and radio stations), Everybody Knows (paranoia and insecurity about being in the spotlight), Bitter End (irreconcilable partings), or Lubbock or Leave It (ridicules Maines' southern hometown of Lubbock, Texas, with scorn of liberal elitism). But, I focused on The Long Way Around and Not Ready To Make Nice to make a convincing case and convict the Chicks for writing an album with a political agenda.
Though the Chicks insecurely made their first, brittle foray into writing some songs, they didn't independently write this record, getting help from liberal radicals like Sheryl Crow. As such, the songwriting quality is noticeably lowered from CDs like Home. This album is just a phonily dressed-up version of the girls exercising their martyr complex, as in assuming that they've been "through hell" because of Maines' foot-in-mouth slur against Bush, yet it reflects on them as a CD wherein they presume that their rightly deserved backlash somehow elevated them to the status of "heroes," totally furthest from the truth.