With new name and album, The Chicks' voices ring loud again

The Texas trio of Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire and Natalie Maines have been teasing new music for a year, and "Gaslighter" finally drops on July 17 when the nation is embroiled in divisive politics, cancel culture and reckoning with inequality. The timing is right for their voices to be heard again.

As the bestselling female group in RIAA history, The Chicks appealed to generation of country fans that saw themselves in the band's stories, whether it was "Wide Open Spaces" or "Cowboy Take Me Away." After three independent albums, their first major label record in 1998 sold 13 million copies in the U.S. alone.

"I was putting off showing them because I have one that's 11 and I just thought she was a little young," Maguire said. "I thought she might be upset by just the death threat stuff." "We were all at March for Our Lives with Emma Gonzalez leading that charge," said Strayer. "We were in the hundreds of thousands of people in that march. And it's the first time I've ever experienced something like that. And it was very powerful."

Hit pop songwriter Justin Tranter, who has penned hits for Justin Bieber, Selena Gomez and Imagine Dragons, helped The Chicks co-write some of the album's most raw, vulnerable breakup songs, including "Sleep at Night." Their last album, 2006's "Taking the Long Way," earned five Grammys, including album, record and song of the year, and won over masses of fans who never listened to them before. But it's unlikely the fans who turned their back on The Chicks 17 years ago are going to feel any different about the band's return.

"When you invite knowing that she's going to bring that elevation to the show and those eyeballs and then you diss her like that, it's twisting the knife," said Strayer.

The Broads that used to be called Who Gives a Fuck.

all eight of the Chicks fans will be so excited

traitors the lot of them.

Love the new name, THE DUMB CHICKS.

Way to ride the anti-racism wave to sell albums

Makin bank on the “climate”.

Oh please, more like sell outs trying to be relevant.

Wait, I thought they've been canceled by the media?

Who?

So the whole name dropping (dixie) thing was just a marketing ploy to promote their album?

Like the Dixie chicks?

You will always be known as the DIXIE CHICKS. Good to hear you are back.

Never going to listen to them again unless they change their name back

I’m just surprised you killjoys are not going after the Barenaked Ladies again And nukethesocial

These hateful, vile and intolerant women do not deserve the free advertising from the Canadian MSM.

Does anyone actually give a fuck about this name change? Who ever cared? Did they get a bunch of new fans for this or just alienate some of their old ones for getting political?

But 'the chicks' is offensive to trannies hahahahahahaha. Gotta change it again.

Country music still sucks

Trump is Earl

Chixie dicks

Weren't they formerly known as the Dixie Chicks?

Never listening to them again

If you say so

They need to change “chicks” to “pricks” because that’s what the’ve become larrydaliberal

Who?

Let’s be serious here, the name is giving serious negative racist undertones towards poultry. If I was a chicken, a chick or a duck, I’d be pissed. Sheesh 🙄

Always liked the Dixie Chicks. Props.

Woke capitalists lovin’ that free publicity from the media. The revolution is makin bank baby!

They are garbage and so is their new name.

They really should find another name than 'Chicks'.They need a name that reflects their age and longevity.

It's time

you mean the dixie chicks?

Wokeness is the last grasp at popularity.

Nice to see that the Dixie chicks are back at it.

March March, best song by them!

They solved racism

You go girls I'll get one tomorrow,been waitin a long time but I agree with you in everything especially your music.Kudos

ahahaah!

K..sure

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