I read what the media says about itself and then form my own opinion. These guys are pissed that they let Bush go to war and couldn't get Kerry elected. They won't say that directly, but it's not hard to see at places like Romenesko or Steve Lovelady's CJR Daily.
So it's ok if an artist supports a view point that "you" believe in with there art, but it's bad if they support a view point that "you" don't believe it in with their art? Where the hell am I living!?
Oh please stop, lest you give me a fat head. I have biases just like everyone else. Just ask Wnes regarding my bias for the Tibetans over the PRC or Deckard about my bias that I think JFK wasn't that great of a president and my bias that I think that Sarah Silverman is hot..
I think this is the main question. Can you appreciate art if you don't agree with the message? I thought The Triumph of Will was a great piece of cinematography even though its a Nazi propaganda film. I think political message is important but art can be appreciated on a variety of levels. In regard to the Dixie Chicks I don't think this is even about that they made an overtly political album just that they made some comments so the art itself isn't political.
or the messenger? German politicians to block prize for Milosevic sympathizer BERLIN (AFP) - German politicians said they would not allow an important literature prize to go to Austrian writer Peter Handke because of his Serbian nationalist sympathies. The coalition heading the city council in Duesseldorf, western Germany, plans next week to vote down a decision to give Handke the Heinrich Heine prize, according to Greens member of the council, Karin Trepke. Handke was named as the winner by a jury last week but the council, which gives the prize money of 50,000 euros (64,000 dollars), must approve their decision. The move to honour Handke came just a month after France's foremost theater company decided not to stage one of his plays because of a eulogy he delivered for late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic. The renowned Austrian writer paid tribute to Milosevic, the former Yugoslav president and alleged war criminal who died earlier this year, as "a man who defended his people". It has sparked a heated debate in Germany. The leader of the Greens in the federal parliament, Fritz Kuhn, has said it was a "scandal" to give the prize to Handke and a slap in the face of those who suffered under Milosevic. The Social Democrats, which is part of Germany's ruling coalition, have agreed. The administrator of the Paris theater Comedie Francaise, Marcel Bozonnet, cancelled the 2007 season of the Handke play "Voyage to the Sonorous Land or the Art of Asking" in response to the author's eulogy. Bozonnet's decision was condemned in art circles in France, where Handke lives, and farther afield, including by German publishing house Suhrkamp and one of Berlin's foremost theaters. http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/st...tory/7000/20060530/1325000002.htm&sc=shpeople
the point is no one cares where shania is from. they are just happy she's doing her thang. the dixie chicks? they dont impress me much! for music, artists need universal appeal to get their music across. shania has it! she's no way the chunky chix will ever catch up in record sales to shania. keep it real shania!
Actually, if I'm not mistaken, her breasts are from the US. I'm not sure what their views are about the Iraq war though. But I sure as hell would like to ask them myself.
