Not Ready To Make Nice

When I first heard of the name Dixie Chicks, I always thought that it is a pop female band with girls who dress up sexily and dance to hot musics, very much like The Pussycat Doll, I presumed. Perhaps it is the word "Chicks" that gave me such a poor stereotypical impression on the band. I was really surprised to find out recently that Dixie Chicks is actually a country pop band. I came across them when I was trying to find a song that was sang by a contestants of the American Idol, and the song that I am going to introduce today is, as you might have already known it from the title of this post, "Not Ready To Make Nice" by Dixie Chicks.

This song is very well known for its Anti-Bush Theme. It is the first single released by Dixie Chicks after they have made some negative comments about the then American President George Bush. It was written by all the three member of the group and it was basically a statement of how they feel about the entire controversy, the banning of their song from American Country Radio Station and the freedom of speech.

The message of the song is rather clear, that they were still unwilling to succumb to the public pressure and that they still felt strongly that their freedom of expression have been clearly violated. Did I mentioned that they even received death threat from the public, asking them to just "shut up and sing".

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I a particularly in love with the chorus and I think that the lyric of the song is rather meaningful and that it has clearly reflected their views on the entire controversy.

Surprisingly, this song has became one of the major hits of Dixie Chicks. It has even won the award for both Best Records and Best Song of the Year at the 2007 Grammy Award. What an incredible song, I must say, it is plainly spectacular and it certainly deserved the two major music awards.

Here is a video of this amazing song.



There is another music video to this song but Youtube has disabled the Embed function. So if you are interested, you can go Youtube and search for it, it is a much more emotional and beautifully directed video than the one I put on this post.