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Monday 13 July 2020
With new name and album, The Chicks' voices ring loud again

By KRISTIN M. HALL the three-part harmonies
AP Entertainment Writer backed by fiddle and ban-
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — jo, in new ways.
The Dixie Chicks are no Their last album, 2006's "Tak-
more. Breaking their ties to ing The Long Way," earned
the South, The Chicks are five Grammys, including al-
stepping into a new chap- bum of the year, and won
ter in their storied career over masses of fans who
with their first new music in never listened to them be-
14 years. fore. But it's unlikely the fans
The Texas trio of Emily Stray- who turned their back on
er, Martie Maguire and The Chicks 17 years ago
Natalie Maines have been are going to feel any differ-
teasing new music for a ent about their return.
year, and "Gaslighter" fi- When The Chicks and Be-
nally drops on July 17 when yoncé performed at the
the nation is embroiled in This combination of self-portraits shows, from left, Martie Maguire, Emily Strayer and Natalie Country Music Association
divisive politics, cancel cul- Maines, of The Chicks, who are promoting the release of their latest album "Gaslighter." Awards in 2016, a vocal mi-
ture and a racial reckon- Associated Press nority unleashed their an-
ing. try music's next big thing got so mad?'" said Ma- who feel like they've let ger on social media at the
"It just seemed like a good until suddenly the door was guire. The trio are all now down their kids. idea that both artists would
reflection on our times," slammed on them. parents of teenagers when Hit pop songwriter Justin be invited to perform.
said Maines. "In 20 years, In 2003, as then-President youth activists are taking Tranter, who has co-written Although their fallout oc-
we'll look back at that al- George Bush was prepar- the lead on gun control, hits for Justin Bieber, Selena curred before Twitter or
bum cover and title and ing to invade Iraq, the climate change and ra- Gomez and Lady Gaga, Facebook, The Chicks have
remember exactly what trio were playing a show cial inequality. Their song, helped The Chicks co-write a unique viewpoint on the
was going on in the coun- in London when Maines "March March," which was some of the album's most rise of cancel culture, when
try right then." announced they were released the same day raw, vulnerable break up prominent people are at-
"Gaslighter" is a term that ashamed that the presi- they announced they were songs, including "Sleep At tacked online in an almost
describes a psychological dent was from Texas. dropping the word Dixie Night." mob mentality.
abuser who manipulates The fallout became coun- from their name, was in- "Some of those pre-cho- "On one hand, you know,
the truth to make a person try music lore, a warning spired by student-led gun ruses are not songs," said it's freeing now. People
feel crazy. In recent years, to stay away from political control demonstrations in Tranter. "Natalie was just just are way more vocal,"
it's been used to describe talk, especially of the lib- 2018. talking and I was literally said Maines. "But then the
powerful men like Harvey eral kind. They were booed On "Juliana Calm Down," writing down what she was downside is one slip up,
Weinstein or Donald Trump. on awards shows, radio their daughters and niec- saying and then I found a one major slip up, and no
"I think most everybody has stations pulled their music es are name-checked in way to put it to a melody." publicist can make that go
a gaslighter in their lives and fans destroyed their a song that encourages "Gaslighter" was recorded away."
somewhere," said Strayer. CDs. Maguire only recently young women to keep and co-written with Jack Maines said for movements
"But, yeah, it was so weird showed her daughters the their heads held high when Antonoff, a Grammy-win- like #MeToo, those speak-
how it echoes our current 2006 documentary called struggling through life's ob- ning producer-artist known ing out online held people
administration." "Shut Up and Sing," that stacles. Maines speaks to for recording with Taylor accountable. "And you
As the best-selling female showed how the backlash her two teenage boys on Swift, Lana Del Rey and can't silence or quiet them
group in RIAA history, The affected them behind the "Young Man," a song for Lorde. He pushed them when you've got so many
Chicks appealed to a scenes. all those divorced parents to use their core strength, women coming forward."q
generation of country fans Maguire feared her
band's stories, whether it young for some of the Search of California lake resumes for
who saw themselves in the 11-year-old might be too

was "Wide Open Spaces" or material, which included missing ‘Glee’ star
"Cowboy Take Me Away." death threats.
Their first major label record Instead, her social media-
in 1998 has sold 13 million savvy daughters were con- northwest of Los Angeles.
copies in the U.S. alone. fused by the reaction to Her 4-year-old son was dis-
With Maguire on fiddle and Maines' tame comments covered alone in a rented
Strayer on banjo, they were compared to today's vitri- boat.
all steeped in bluegrass olic criticism. The boy, who was found
and classic country, but rel- "And it was just funny hear- asleep and wearing a life
ished in fun country pop on ing 16- and 11-year-olds vest late Wednesday af-
crossover songs like "Good- going, 'Why? What? Wait. ternoon, told investigators
bye Earl." They were coun- She said that? And people that he and his mother
went swimming and he got
back on the boat, but "his
mom never made it out
In this Jan. 13, 2018, file photo, Naya Rivera participates in the of the water," Sheriff's Sgt.
"Step Up: High Water" panel during the YouTube Television Critics Kevin Donoghue said.
Association Winter Press Tour in Pasadena, Calif. Rivera began acting at a
Associated Press young age, but she rose to
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The ties said. national attention playing
search to find "Glee" TV The Ventura County Sher- a lesbian teen on "Glee,"
show star Naya Rivera in a iff's Office said last Thursday which aired from 2009 until
Southern California lake re- that they believe Rivera, 2015 on Fox.q
sumed on Sunday, authori- 33, drowned in Lake Piru,