Girls Sing

Amazon.com loves me and sends me presents.

Yesterday they sent me the new Dixie Chicks CD Taking the Long Way. It's too soon to review it and sheesh, who the hell am I to review a country album anyway? Nobody, that's who. I only started listening to the Dixie Chicks because they trashed Bush and caught shit for it.

For what it's worth, while the album is probably a bit more mainstream and "produced" than I'm entirely comfortable with, I'm liking it. Highlights are the two singles, the first being "I Hope," which they did brilliantly as a Hurricane Katrina benefit piece, and which contains some truly glorious lyrics:

Sunday morning
heard the preacher say
Thou shall not kill
I don't wanna hear nothin' else, about killin'
And that it's God's will
Cuz our children are watching us
They put their trust in us
They're gonna be like us
So let's learn from our history
And do it differently

Amen, chicks.

The other single is the anthem-y smackdown "Not Ready to Make Nice," which I rhapsodized about before. It's still just as good as it ever was, and the chicks are still sleeping like babies. The rest of the album is sounding good to my un-countryfied ear, but I'll shut up now because I know nothing about country music, I only know what I like, and what I like is country singers saying Bush sucks.

I also discovered two old songs by other artists that are burning a hole in my iPod this week. One is the Free Man in Paris remix of Amanda Ghost's "Glory Girl." She's normally a bit too smooth for me too, although lyrically very dark, but this mix, done by Boy George and Kinky Roland, roughs and thumpa-thumpas things up so that I can love the beauty of her voice and the melody without feeling like I'm lost in AOR land.

The other one, I have no excuse for liking - none none none. I've had the dance remix of Sarah McLachlan's "I Love You" for ages, and while I liked it fine, it was no big deal. So today I listened to the original version of the song. I normally don't like Sarah McLachlan's un-remixed originals, because I find them too pretty and almost cloying. Yes, her voice is stunning, her songs are amazing, it's just the production doesn't work for me. That's why I mostly get her remixes instead, and her guest appearances with other artists (check out her duet of "Time After Time" with Cyndi Lauper sometime, talk about beautiful). But the original of "I Love You" showed me why people love her, because it's just so sad and beautiful and agonizing. It really hurts. (Shut up KT, we've acknowledged I'm a closet romantic, don't rub it in.)

Now, let's go back to talking about dogs.

Comments

[KT]

Shutting up, but wondering why this is such a horrible thing that results in "rubbing in" ...

;)

(You can save and whack me over the head in person tomorrow!)

lucky!!!!! you are IN with amazon.com! The Chicks so Rule. Just read the Time mag article on them...it mentions all the male singers who've told the truth about bush and his war since the chicks did...Springsteen, Eminem, Neil Young, Green Day....nary a blip in their cd sales nor a death threat to be heard...hmmmm.

[Christie Keith]

all the male singers who've told the truth about bush and his war since the chicks did...Springsteen, Eminem, Neil Young, Green Day....nary a blip in their cd sales nor a death threat to be heard...hmmmm.

True, but I think it's about country music as much as gender, or more.... hasn't hurt P!nk's sales to speak out against Bush, the war, etc.

whats up having fun.what are you going to do