Dixie Chicks Rename Themselves | Talking Points Memo

discobot · June 25, 2020, 5:21pm

The Dixie Chicks are ready to make nice.

The platinum-selling, Grammy-winning country trio is dropping the “dixie” in their name after facing criticism over the term — a commonly used nickname to describe the Civil War-era South. The group announced the move as nationwide protests emerged in the wake of George Floyd’s death, prompting a movement to remove Confederate statues and memorials of other historical figures linked to racism.

This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=1317153

teenlaqueefa · June 25, 2020, 5:28pm

Good for them, but “Chicks” is pretty much sexist.

They’ve been screwed over so many times by so many I really feel for them.

lastroth · June 25, 2020, 5:28pm

Dixie Cups, can’t be too far behind. Maybe they’ll go back to the company’s original name Individual Drinking Cup Company.

dickweed · June 25, 2020, 5:29pm

Duh Chicks, might have been better.

srfromgr · June 25, 2020, 5:32pm

Owned by you-know-who now. Fucking Koch Bros. or brother since the other one up and died finally. My guess is they don’t plan to change a thing.

lastroth · June 25, 2020, 5:35pm

Yeah I’ve tried to stop buying anything Koch produces. I’m almost done with the last package of Dixie Cups.
I’m doing it for the environment.

mattinpa · June 25, 2020, 5:37pm

And really it’s time for the entire South to start calling itself the Not North. No more nibbling at the edges here.

garrybee · June 25, 2020, 5:41pm

They should rename themselves Los Chicas. That would blow what ever is left of Rump’s remaining grey matter.

1 stone, two birds

paul_lukasiak · June 25, 2020, 5:41pm

Maybe it doesn’t flow, but they should have released at least one album as “The Not Treasonous Loser Chicks” just for the heck of it.

j.dave · June 25, 2020, 5:44pm

Dixie Cups is taken.

“Chapel of Love,” anybody?

Anybody?

docd · June 25, 2020, 5:44pm

“The Base” will have a problem here: they already stopped buying their stuff because of what they said about W, and now they may have to go buy more stuff so that they can burn it and stop buying their stuff again.
Well played, Chicks!

srfromgr · June 25, 2020, 5:45pm

Fun fact: Southern Comfort is way ahead of these people and companies. They didn’t change their name but they took off a picture of the Woodland Plantation in LA from their bottles in 2010 from what I read. Now that’s only 10 years ago but clearly they were onto something way ahead of the rest.

Old bottle…

New bottle.

castor_troy · June 25, 2020, 5:49pm

Can’t wait to see Grantville, Florida, although General Jackson fans won’t be too happy.

inversion · June 25, 2020, 5:50pm

The country trio’s move comes after country group, Lady Antebellum, renamed themselves “Lady A” earlier this month.

tena · June 25, 2020, 5:53pm

Good on you, Chicks! Good on you.

castor_troy · June 25, 2020, 5:54pm

Hope the Dixie Chicks actually had their publicists actually check whether the new name was taken…

dannydorko · June 25, 2020, 5:54pm

I hear that the name “Lady Antebellum” is now available.

inversion · June 25, 2020, 6:05pm

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txlawyer · June 25, 2020, 6:08pm

I saw the Dixie Chicks playing a backyard party in Austin, pre-Natalie Maines.

I am old.

castor_troy · June 25, 2020, 6:14pm

Figures… I know people in the publishing and publicity world, they do have staff that are supposed to be checking on things like names to be sure they’re not stepping on someone else’s turf.