Érase una vez un grupo country y pop. Las Dixie Chics. Todo iba bien, tenían llenos en sus conciertos, en EEUU todo el mundo las adoraba, vendían muchos discos (36 millones)...
Entonces, tres días antes de la invasión de Irak la vocalista criticó publicamente al Presidente Bush. Y todo se fué en picado. Comentarios de estilo "las Dixie Chicks deberian dedicarse a cantar, no ha hablar". La campaña de desprestigio fué tal que las ventas de entradas a sus conciertos se redujeron a la mitad. La mayoria de las emisoras de musica country dejaron de radiarlas. Fueron abucheadas y humilladas, pero no se callaron.
No me gusta el country, pero creo que la libertad de expresión y la valentia merecen un homenaje. Recordemos que hay muchos tipos de censura.

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Os dejo una canción con la que, ahora mismo, me siento muy identificada.

                       Dixie Chicks - Not ready to make nice

Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting

I'm through, with doubt,
There's nothing left for me to figure out,
I've paid a price, and i'll keep paying

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

I know you said
Why can't you just get over it,
It turned my whole world around
and i kind of like it

I made by bed, and I sleep like a baby,
With no regrets and I don't mind saying,
It's a sad sad story
That a mother will teach her daughter
that she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they'd write me a letter
Saying that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

I'm not ready to make nice,
I'm not ready to back down,
I'm still mad as hell
And I don't have time
To go round and round and round
It's too late to make it right
I probably wouldn't if I could
Cause I'm mad as hell
Can't bring myself to do what it is
You think I should

Forgive, sounds good.
Forget, I'm not sure I could.
They say time heals everything,
But I'm still waiting