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Well Dolly did pretty much say that both Trump and Clinton were jokes during the last campaign.
And she's well aware that openly identifying as Democrat is not good for a country music career- and hers is one of the top careers/business endeavors in the history of country music. You can get away with being Republican- see Lee Greenwood, Big and Rich, Tanya Tucker, Ricky Skaggs and Loretta Lynn. But openly IDing as a Dem is not an easy task in Nasheville.
The people who come closest- Kelly Clarkson, Vince Gill and McGraw/Hill still keep it at the periphery. Kathy Mattea has campaigned for environmental preservation and democrats but this was after her days as big draw and she was never at the level of the others in terms of sales/popularity (which is too bad because she really was special.) Johnny Cash and Willie got away with being Dems but that was 40 years ago and no one seems to remember Cash's various stances and efforts.
When Carrie Underwood said she felt homosexuals should have as many rights as anyone/went to church with them, she caught h e double L. In that regards Dolly has been able to thread the needle- she has always openly embraced her gay following. But that is as far as she has taken it in politics and has always couched is as 'I love everyone.'
Emmylou Harris has done pretty well for herself identifying with liberal causes over the decades. One could add Leanne Rimes, Steve Earl, and even Johnny Cash to that list.
Emmylou Harris has done pretty well for herself identifying with liberal causes over the decades. One could add Leanne Rimes, Steve Earl, and even Johnny Cash to that list.
There's nothing at all to stop anyone from voicing their opinions. Like I said, most musicians simply refrain.
That includes Johnny Cash. He was never political; he was anything but political his entire life. That didn't stop both parties. They both tried to use him for that purpose during his lifetime.
Richard Nixon was the first. He offered Cash a White House concert, which is always a very big and rare offer, but Cash was requested to sing some very divisive country songs if he accepted.
He accepted, and then ignored the President's request. That's how Johnny rolled. His causes were always social, but never political.
My post was not about the biggest stars in music. It was about all the working musicians out there who are not major recording artists and never will be. All the folks who perform on the smaller stages of everyday life, and those who teach music.
It's an industry like any other. Once any person becomes wealthy and/or famous enough, things like public opinion don't effect them very much. And there are always those desperate people who will try to advance their careers using politics. Admittedly, sometimes politics works, but usually only for those who side with the winners.
Dolly is Lesbian.
Nashville knows it.
Dolly never brings it up.
Nashville says that is alright.
Dolly is Liberal, too.
Nashville is not.
they all get along.
business is business.
Their career went up in smoke literally overnight after they bashed Bush 43.
Nine days before the 2003 invasion of Iraq, at a concert in London, lead vocalist Maines said: "We don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas."
That's it.
Stations all across the country pulled their music, concerts were cancelled, they were denounced, blacklisted, ...
All over a statement that we all should have been saying.
Watch this and tell me your foot isn't tapping, that they aren't darn fine musicians.
Joy Behar is a one trick pony, the living embodiment of the NPC meme. Anything Democrats do she will bend over backward to defend, and anything Republicans do she will find something wrong with it.
If someone jumped into a raging river to save a drowning puppy and she found out they were Republican she would find some reason to criticize it. She's an hysterical (as in loony, not funny) hypocrite.
And that would be different from Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingram, Mike Huckabee . . . HOW?
Is Dolly another "privileged white woman" or should she speak out more about American society?
Dolly is too busy running her businesses and charities to worry much about politics. She has given over five million books to children at her expense, just because she believes education is fundamental, and because a lot of children are too poor or too far from libraries to have access to books. That alone would set her apart from republicans.
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