Shut Up And Sing (R) :
Shut Up And Sing is a movie about the three-year professional and personal fall-out from Dixie Chicks' singer Natalie Maines' Bush-bashing comment. Everybody would remember that comment, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed that the president is from Texas.” Three years after Natalie made the comment, the Chicks' current U.S. tour is playing to crowds about half the size they used to attract, and most country radio stations are still refusing to play their music.
Shut Up And Sing is an intriguing, sometimes startling documentary film. It is a shout of defiance, a chronicle of the price we have to be willing to pay to stand up for what we believe in. The movie "Shut Up & Sing" doesn't give the anti-Chicks brigade much traction. Even when Bush points out to a TV interviewer that the ladies had a right to express their opinions, you can almost laugh at the hypocrisy in his statement. At the same time, we hear the girls laugh at a few vitriolic emails and blog postings, when they are being read out aloud to them.
People are seen destroying the Chicks' records, protesting at their concerts. Maines even
receives a serious death threat at a show in Dallas. It becomes clear that, from the public's rejection of her earliest, Maines had no intention of ever making peace. But she refuses to be a martyr, and takes everything in her stride. Whether you're a Dixie Chicks fan or not, you'll love this documentary about the Texas trio as they face their worst critics. |
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