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I don’t think those fans that expressed their displeasure with the Chicks are generally the type to cry victim. If you’re caught deceiving your fans, don’t expect them to take it lying down. The rest is opportunistic distraction and media circus.

Henley talks trash on everything Right and no one bats an eye. That’s him being him. No deception, no backlash, no circus.

If one day Palin revealed she was extremely liberal after building a conservative base, believe me she would hear about it. Her supporters would turn on her in a heartbeat.

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I don’t know that it was assumed she was a Bush supporter, but I think it was assumed she was not someone who would make a rude and gratuitous statement about the president. She could have said, “We aren’t big fans of our president, but we support our troops”. No backlash. But that’s not what she wanted to express. She wanted it to bite a little bit more. She wanted to demean and ridicule the president a bit. She’s perfectly entitled to say what she wants, and in just the way she wants. It’s not for me to tell her how to “properly” express herself. It’s her opinion, her thoughts reveled, and it says something about her. Obviously a lot of fans didn’t like what they learned about her.

FWIW, I don’t think it’s necessarily fair to the artists when the fans project their OWN perceptions upon the artist. OTOH, it’s not realy “fair” that some artists have a lot of success over others and make a lot of money because the misperception is favorable, as in this case. No more than the entire business is “fair” in who catches a break and who doesn’t. Let’s be real.

In retrospect, the words “deceived” or “dishonest” is not completely accurate in this case. I’m not saying the Chicks were at fault for letting their fans assume something inaccurate about them or maybe being oblivious to the fact that they were the sweethearts of the rodeo. What I’m saying is that they benefitted from the misunderstanding through most of their career and when the people found out they had they had an inaccurate perception of the Chicks, they walked away. The fan giveth and the fan takeith away. The alternative scenario is that the fans NEVER like them and they NEVER have any success. I don’t think perpetual obscurity was the new direction they had in mind when they hired Natalie and fired her predecessor.

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Kanye's Fame Kills tour has been canceled, hopefully providing more time for reflection.

Perhaps KW can now learn it's inappropriate to diss women. To the tune of millions.

Remember Robin Williams quip, "Cocaine is God's way of letting you know you are making too much money."?

He needs to ask himself what his mother would have wanted him to do with all this money, power and influence, aside from apologizing to Taylor, who bore him no ill-will whatsoever.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/Music/10/01/kanye.west.tour.canceled/index.html

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Just wanted to post this Lefsetz epiphany regarding Taylor Swift in this thread as well. I've long maintained that Ms. Swift, although a pretty girl with a nice smile, is no match for real singers like Adele, who does not need to rely on Auto Tune to sound good. When people start to compare her to Joni Mitchell ... Anyway, over to Bob:

"That's HORSESHIT!

No, I'm not afraid of putting that in the title. It's just that if I do, this missive won't pass through your spam filters. Hell, for those of you working at companies hyping supposedly limit-testing acts, it probably won't pass through your company filters now that I've actually spelled the word out in this missive. Because that's how afraid of plain English this country is. And if you are protected from reality, how can you know the truth?

And speaking of the truth...

Every time I write about Taylor Swift, and let's be clear, I've foamed at the mouth plenty, I get e-mail from people, true pros, people I know, with big jobs, that she's auto-tuned to death, not only on record, but live. Sour grapes? None of these people are involved with Ms. Swift.

But now I know they're right.

Because I just caught Ms. Swift's opening monologue, a song, on SNL.

Holy shit, she can't sing a lick.

It's like when you're in the car and someone pipes up, singing along to the song on the radio, and you start to cringe, and ultimately need to say something, telling them to shut up, because their voice is so bad.

Believe me, I know I've got a bad voice. But I don't try to be a professional singer.

And we're not talking Bob Dylan here. Forget about the goose farts on his Christmas album (notice how now that it's dropped no one is saying a word...it's just that bad), Dylan was a student of the art, and in his heyday could sing rings around Ms. Swift. Ms. Swift couldn't even make the high school glee club. Not even the junior high version. Hell, I know, I made it once then got kicked off.

What were they thinking here?

I could blame Ms. Swift, but she's not old enough to know better.

But her handlers are.

Why reveal the truth? They almost even had me faked out. But watching this execrable performance I'm questioning the entire product. She can't sing, there are co-writers... Sure, she's got pure desire, but how much is real underneath?

Believe me, the albums are great. But what kind of fucked up world do we live in where to make it as an act, you don't even have to sing well?

I mean it's one thing if you're doing comedy.

Then again, My Son The Nut, Allan Sherman, had a better voice than Ms. Swift.

But the handlers got too greedy, they didn't know their limits. Like Master P, trying to play professional basketball. Worse, Michael Jordan trying to play professional baseball. But at least Mr. Jordan was a professional athlete.

This is the greatest case for preserving mystery in the Internet era. Hell, you didn't see J. Lo singing on SNL. Why deflate the golden goose? Do you really need this victory lap?

Call it hubris.

Not the first time we've seen this in the music business.

http://www.hulu.com/watch/107502/saturday-night-live-taylor-swift-monologue "

and then this email was sent to Bob:

"told you that 3-4 months ago.
but I was just ignored.
Wait until you hear the award show tomorrow night.
Nashville should change its name to Auto Tune City

name withheld so I can still work in this fake business we call country music.
ex-monitor guy for Taylor Swift."

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I wouldn't know a Taylor Swift song if I heard one. I saw that SNL show. I thought the same thing Bob did. I was really hoping she was just being goofy.

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Taylor is now under attack in the media for being too sexy too soon. At this point, she looks more and more like Miley Cyrus, careerwise. Another marketing escapade going off the rails.

If Nashville can't find a bona fide female country artist without resorting to trickery, then perhaps they just need to ratchet down and wait.