if you think the dixie chicks are on par with the eagles then your perspective is most definitely skewed. why are you so desperate to compare the two? why are you so hung up on the fact that they are females? cant they just be a band? i dont judge bands or musicians on what sex they are. i listen to all kinds of music made by males and females. sex of the artist is irrelevant to me as a listener. the dixie chicks have not been active in the last 5 years so why do you want me to name a female group from that time frame? what does that matter? many of my favorite bands have females in them and as a musician myself, many bands i have been in had females in them. my current band has a female in it. who cares? there are tons of female acts making good music right now... st vincent, tune-yards, peaking lights, alot of african stuff like fatoumata diawara, khaira arby, oumou sangare...dirty projectors, big freedia, juana molina, my bloody valentine, pj harvey, nellie mckay, ect. i sincerely hope you are just trollin' here yo!
Here's what A good female group looks like The Dixie Chicks were bad country - the epitome of Country-pop..but then again I think country-pop is just as bad as regular pop music. Sorry, I never saw them as real country. If mass record sales equal great music, then what does that say about Justin Bieber and Katy Perry?
CLASSY, ROMANTIC, HOT, and most importantly, IMPORTANT singing female artists: Kelly Clarkson, Adele, Alicia Keys, sir. Spoiler Spoiler Spoiler
ARGH, never mind... you said "five years"... I think Adele is the only one that fits that category. Kelly Clarkson is a veteran... and I don't know when Keys started. Nerrrrrrrr mindsssss...
Adele's first album was released in 2008, so I assume she doesn't qualify. Still not sure what the relevance of this is. A number of female artists have become relevant within the past 5 years even though they got started longer than 5 years ago. For example, The Dixie Chicks debuted in 1989 but certainly were not relevant in their first 5 years.
Swoly, you are the least of my worries in this thread. What is irony is that most board members here LOVE popular movies and tv shows: [insert any comic book movie], a so-clearly chick flick (Hunger Games, lol), Breakin Bad, Game of Thrones, most of which I can't stand. Popularity seems to be a key to this, but with music, the less you are liked, the better clutchfans like you. You, Manny, and a few others don't follow that pattern. So I guess I created this thread to remind myself how much my tastes differs from the board, because that's about all it accomplished, and to further my reputation of: what.
Taste doesn't matter as everyone has different likes across everything that others simply don't understand. What took this thread in a different direction is your comparison of the Dixie Chicks to the Eagles. Regardless of anyone's feeling about the two groups, the Eagles were far more successful from a sales/concert/popularity point of view than the Dixie Chicks.
They are, especially the 2 sisters, very good musicians. I hated their pop crap that they put out for most of their career. They started making more roots-y stuff a few years ago and what little I've heard of it ranges from "not bad" to "pretty good".
