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Jul 17, 2020 · The Dixie Chicks announced that they changed their band name to The Chicks, following the Black Lives Matter protests. Here's the story behind the name change, and what "Dixie"...
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Jun 25, 2020 · Country band Dixie Chicks have changed their name to The Chicks, to help highlight racial inequality in the US. "Dixie" was often used as a nickname for the southern...
Jun 25, 2020 · Country band Dixie Chicks have changed their name to The Chicks, to help highlight racial inequality in the US. "Dixie" was often used as a nickname for the southern states...
Jul 13, 2020 · In late June, the Dixie Chicks dropped the word “Dixie” from its name. The band’s statement was brief and elegant: “We want to meet this moment.” The Dixie Chicks were founded in Texas,...
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- 'It Makes The Album So Much Deeper'
Still, there was one wrinkle: a New Zealand band was already using the name the Chicks. But before long, the American group and the New Zealanders had hammered out the details and come to an agreement. "It happens with lawyers talking to lawyers and lawyers talking to managers, so we have not spoken to them," says lead vocalist Natalie Maines, who ...
Recently, Maguire played a documentary about that time for her daughters, who were confused about the anger and hate being directed toward the group. "We're all raising our children to speak their minds and have an opinion and be kind, so they didn't get it," says Maguire. "It feels like that could have happened 50 years ago, but it didn't. It's qu...
The band says the whole situation would likely be different today, given the influence of social media channels like Facebook and Twitter, which didn't exist at the time. Now the band has returned with a new album, Gaslighter, and in keeping with the band's strong stances, it includes a song called March March, which features lyrics like, "Standing...
Jun 25, 2020 · Why Did Lady Antebellum Just Change Their Name to Lady A? A New Zealand pop group from the 1960s also is named "The Chicks" also exists, but the two bands appeared to settle any dispute...
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Jun 25, 2020 · The Dixie Chicks dropped “Dixie” from their name ahead of the release of their new album, Gaslighter, in response to the ongoing nationwide reckoning with racism and the legacy of the Civil War.
