Re: Chicks play falls

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>]

On 19 Mar 2003 at 23:02, Dan Billings wrote:

> Radio monitoring service Mediabase 24/7 reports that airplay for the Dixie
> Chicks slid on all U.S. radio stations by about 20 percent in the
> seven-day period ended on Monday and by about 30 perecnt on country
> stations.

As it turns out, there are protest songs after all, but it's not coming from country music, 
which is conservative, and it's not coming from folk music, which simply doesn't exist in the 
form it did in the 60s.  It's coming from rock music.  I heard this morning on MTV that 
Madonna has a video out with some antiwar lyrics, which has prompted Saddam Hussein to 
reverse a ten-year ban on Madonna in Iraq.  A day or two ago I heard of another group, 
whose name I didn't catch, which has anti-war lyrics in its latest video.

So the protest songs are coming from just where we might expect -- that part of the pop 
music industry where it's OK to be anti-establishment.

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