Dixie Chicks

This week we had read about the Dixie Chicks. I really love listening to the Dixie Chicks and have listened to them many times before. When people hear the music that the Dixie Chicks perform, they do not think that they are really country singers. Their voices are so unique and I personally find their voices very pleasing to listen to.

 In class on Monday I was given the quote, “When a society privileges like-minded mentality, that society fails to take into account how diversity and deliberation shapes the United States” (53). When I was analyzing this quote, I came to the conclusion that the quote was saying that if you only surround yourself with people who are similar to you and share the same values as you, then you really never understand what the world is really like. These people will not have any knowledge of any other cultures or different ways that people live their lives. This country would not be even close to the way it is now if we did not have diversity.

We had also listened to the song “Not Ready to Make Noise”. I absolutely loved this song I found it very catchy and the lyrics were very interesting too. What the Dixie Chicks were basically saying was that they are not going to apologize for what they have said. People expected the group to have the same opinions as everyone else and were taken back when the Dixie Chicks said what they really felt. I think this song got the message across loud and clear that they are not apologizing for anything that they have said. They are sticking to their beliefs and I actually find that very admirable about this group.