Why I recommend "Dixie Chicks: Shut Up & Sing (Full Screen Edition)" — 1 year ago
I’m not a Dixie Chicks fan—mostly due to an admittedly adolescent kneejerk tendency to reject most of anything my parents listen to, something I’d already become aware of as being lazy and unfair, and seeing this only added fuel to that fire—but was invited to watch this by a friend who is and who thought I’d appreciate the content anyway. She was right. For me, very interesting material on what it means to be a shade of grey (specifically here, having a progressive opinion whilst proudly claiming membership of a musical genre typically considered conservative) in an environment that can’t see beyond black and white.
I’m never going to be a fan of very much of country music—I’ve ridden in my father’s car with my eyes wide open in horror at some of the sexist, heterosexist and just plain uninteresting subject matter of the majority of what’s played on his favourite station—but I’m always, and particularly in this case because the country music topic challenges me personally to look at my own views, going to be interested in artists who rock the boat with these ostensible contradictions and thereby prompt one’s mind to open a little more.
