The Dixie Chicks

[Ladybug]

I thought Hayden dated Milo Ventimiglia on Heroes.

[kostgard]

Jul 21, 2020 20:45:29 GMT -4 purpleppleater said:

I saw Natalie say the tights line was just for drama which bummed me out a little because I love tea. But her (ex)-husband was rumoured to have had an affair with a very, very young Hayden Panettiere on the set of Heroes back in the day so I’m just running with that because the thought of some of the lyrics being about Hayden is a laugh.

I actually wonder how much the denials are true denials and how much is part of whatever Natalie and Adrian settled on in court.

Adrian sued to stop the release of this album, because he said it violated the NDA portion of their pre-nup agreement (after earlier in divorce proceedings trying to argue that the pre-nup was invalid). I follow the Chicks on Instagram and they were teasing a new album for a looooong time, and I wondered why it was taking it so long to get out the door. Turns out because of Adrian. It could be they finally settled on “Natalie can’t say she’s talking about Adrian or confirm anything in the lyrics is true.”

Adrian seems like a piece of work. He kept their divorce tied up in court for about two years. He was trying to get more of her money and tried to get a portion of her future earnings because he said he sacrificed his career to stay home with the kids because Natalie was touring so much, which was maybe true at the beginning of their marriage, but not past 2006. He was working steadily from 2000-2006, and 2006 is when he got Heroes. The Chicks took a break after 2006, and while Natalie did some solo work and they did little mini tours, they mostly toured during the summer (because they all have kids), and never extensively toured until 2016. He had a decade to “rebuild” his career if he indeed suffered from being unable to work due to babysitting duties. But I strongly suspect he’s he’s full of shit because a peek at his IMDb page shows he’s mostly done voice work since he was killed off on Heroes in 2009, and it’s super-easy to make voice work fit your schedule because it’s not like you have to be on a set for 16 hours a day. He was pleading poverty to get more spousal support from her, all while reporting an annual income of $400K.

So, in my mind, I like to think maybe it was some earrings or a scarf on that boat, rather than tights.

[MrsOldManBalls]

Who wears tights when they know they’ll be boating? Sounds like this mystery person makes multiple bad choices.

While I don’t listen to country music, I’m glad the Chicks are back 🙂 their fans must be thrilled

[Carolina]

My money's on Amanda Righetti, Adrian's costar on Colony. She's also been going through a long divorce which coincidentally was initiated around the same time as Natalie & Adrian's. They are definitely a couple now and looked extremely cosy in interviews while both were still married.

[kostgard]

Jul 22, 2020 10:33:07 GMT -4 Carolina said:

My money's on Amanda Righetti, Adrian's costar on Colony. She's also been going through a long divorce which coincidentally was initiated around the same time as Natalie & Adrian's. They are definitely a couple now and looked extremely cosy in interviews while both were still married.

It would fit the song lyrics that Adrian’s other lady was married. Natalie has a line in one song that is “My husband’s girlfriend’s husband just called me. How messed up is that?” It would also fit another line in the same song (if true) about Adrian taking his other lady backstage at their Hollywood Bowl performance and she told Natalie she was a huge fan. It would seem perfectly innocent on the surface that Adrian would bring his costar to such a thing, rather than, like, “Oh, hey, this is Jane. She’s a big fan. Don’t worry about how we met or how I know her.”

[Mutagen]

Oh my god the TRASH!! Was he trying to be country music album fodder?

[madangela]

Weirdly, as I was reading the latest here just now, a Dixie Cups commercial came on my TV. I started wondering if they’ll rebrand too, and then felt like a moron for having that cross my mind.

[ennazus]

My dog has a niece named Dixie, and similar thoughts crossed my mind...

[Ginger]

There was online chatter about Dixie cups actually. Apparently they were invented by a Pennsylvania company with a name borrowed from a New York dollmaker, so pretty far removed from anything related to slavery.

The (Dixie) Chicks, to my knowledge, did not announce a specific rationale behind their name change. As a nickname for the South, I am unable to dig up anything inherently offensive about the word "Dixie". The song "Dixie" is another matter. It originated in minstrel shows and was an unofficial anthem of the confederacy. It was also a favorite of Abraham Lincoln's, and he had the song played as a peace offering after the North won the war.

But I believe the Chicks took their original name from some obscure song having to do with the Mason-Dixon line. Their name change seems kind of excessive and bandwagon-jumping since there doesn't seem to be a real reason for it.

Admittedly, I am a frustrated northerner who speaks ill of the South sometimes, but I don't think blanket condemnation of anything related to the South is justified.

[kostgard]

They named themselves after the Little Feat song “Dixie Chicken”.

They said in a recent interview that they haven’t liked it for a while - Martie and Emily chose it when they were teenagers and now they look back and roll their eyes (Natalie says she liked it because it was corny and stupid). They tried softly rebranding by referring to themselves as “The Chicks” or “DCX” but it never really caught on. Then they decided with recent events, it was the right time to go ahead and get rid of something they weren’t crazy about anyway.