Dixie Chicks Rankdown - (Revealing)

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I finally uploaded the video from last summer when I saw them in Toronto!

[zaclord 🌈]

Tragic. This is so good! I much prefer it to Beyoncé solo version

[.indulgecountry]

I ranked it pretty high because I love "Daddy Lessons" buuuuut I'm totally okay with it going out early because it's still more of a Beyonce song.

[Deleted]

I love Daddy Lessons, not just b/c it's a Bey song - it's a great country song, period, and I think DC's addition really makes that clear. The only thing keeping it from feeling like DC featuring Beyonce is that Natalie doesn't open the first verse. It's a perfect fit for the group and certainly a top 10 quality song, even though I admittedly debated whether a feature should rank so high.

With that said...gah, that CMA performance. It isn't that it wasn't great, but as the old saying goes, when in Rome do as the Romans do. What is the point of showing up to the CMAs to perform a country song if you're not going to give a country performance? It would be like if Jennifer Nettles recorded a really r&b sounding song, and BET saw Mary J. Blige cover it in concert so they asked Jennifer and MJB to perform it at the BET Awards. So then Jennifer shows up with a fiddler and a banjo and throws a hoedown on stage - the whole audience would be like 'wtf are you doing here' and nothing MJB did would make it feel any less out of place. Black Twitter would have such a field day with the reaction gifs lol.

You just have to understand the crowd you're trying to win over and offer them what they came for. BET's audience didn't come for a country hoedown and the CMA crowd didn't come for The Beyonce Experience. It's also tricky with the country audience because to a certain extent you have to be willing to accept that as a whole they actively do not want you to be the star of the performance even if it is your own song. They want you to take a bit of a backseat and will hate you if you end up outshining one of their own. Beyonce's presence and ego haven't been on the back of anything since she outgrew her baby car seat so she showed up and put on the most Beyonce show ever, in the most Beyonce-thinks-she's-at-the-Grammys dress ever, and it blew up in her face.

Thing is, replace Beyonce with say, Lady Gaga showing up and putting on of her more outrageous theatrical shows and it would have been the same problem. I can understand why the performance went over like a cannonball. But this ended up being something I was not able to say when the moment actually happened, because all the racists showed their asses and blamed it all on Beyonce's blackness instead of just on Beyonce as an individual not reading the temperature in the room. They pretty much made it impossible for anyone to legitimately criticize the performance without being accused of whitesplaining s**t.

[.indulgecountry]

Jun 10, 2017 11:44:21 GMT -5 @antigonerising said:

I love Daddy Lessons, not just b/c it's a Bey song - it's a great country song, period, and I think DC's addition really makes that clear. The only thing keeping it from feeling like DC featuring Beyonce is that Natalie doesn't open the first verse. It's a perfect fit for the group and certainly a top 10 quality song, even though I admittedly debated whether a feature should rank so high.

With that said...gah, that CMA performance. It isn't that it wasn't great, but as the old saying goes, when in Rome do as the Romans do. What is the point of showing up to the CMAs to perform a country song if you're not going to give a country performance? It would be like if Jennifer Nettles recorded a really r&b sounding song, and BET saw Mary J. Blige cover it in concert so they asked Jennifer and MJB to perform it at the BET Awards. So then Jennifer shows up a fiddler and a banjo and throws a hoedown on stage - the whole audience would be like 'wtf are you doing here' and nothing MJB did would make it feel any less out of place. Black Twitter would have such a field day with the reaction gifs lol.

You just have to understand the crowd you're trying to win over and offer them what they came for. BET's audience didn't come for a country hoedown and the CMA crowd didn't come for The Beyonce Experience. It's also tricky with the country audience because to a certain extent you have to be willing to accept that as a whole they actively do not want you to be the star of the performance even if it is your own song. They want you to take a bit of a backseat and will hate you if you end up outshining one of their own. Beyonce's presence and ego haven't been on the back of anything since she outgrew her baby car seat so she showed up and put on the most Beyonce show ever, in the most Beyonce-thinks-she's-at-the-Grammys dress ever, and it blew up in her face.

Thing is, replace Beyonce with say, Lady Gaga showing up and putting on of her more outrageous theatrical shows and it would have been the same problem. I can understand why the performance went over like a cannonball. But this ended up being something I was not able to say when the moment actually happened, because all the racists showed their asses and blamed it all on Beyonce's blackness instead of just on Beyonce as an individual not reading the temperature in the room. They pretty much made it impossible for anyone to legitimately criticize the performance without being accused of whitesplaining s**t.

This + a good chunk of the audience that doesn't like Beyonce and people from "outside the genre" also still think the Dixie Chicks themselves are flag-burning satanist witches because they said Dubya suxxx so there was that going against the performance too. Like, the DXC could've came on stage and performed it solo without a big pop star who "hates the police" (that was the main criticism with Bey's inclusion I saw getting tossed around on social media ) and they probably still would've made a lot of people upset, lol.

[LBTrocks]

"Daddy Lessons" is surprisingly good. Could have seen this a little higher, but am okay with it's placement.

[bat1990]

I just realized that by making "Daddy Lessons" a feature, Beyonce has songs with both DCs of the same era (turn of the millennium).

[Kanenrá:ke]

Beating "Daddy Lessons" by 1 point comes our next song!

It also number 2 for highest standard deviation right behind DL!

[Kanenrá:ke]

23. Truth No. 2
Points: 335
Average Rank: 21
SD: 9.9701



Album: Home
Release Date: August 27, 2002
Writer(s): Patty Griffin
Producer(s): Dixie Chicks & Lloyd Maines

Charts:
N/A

With this song being gone we now only have 3 album tracks left in the running. This one was my personal favorite of the album tracks so I'm a bit disappointed with you all.


Individual Rankings:

Kanenrá:ke - 4
@quirkyfarang - 8
The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 - 12
Rose "Payola" Nylund - 12
bboat11 - 14
Au$tin - 15
sabre14 - 15
bat1990 - 16
someguy - 16
codyj100 - 20
zaclord 🌈 - 20
countrymusicjunkie - 22
.indulgecountry - 22
LBTrocks - 22
raylatch98 - 23
Troublemaker - 26
@antigonerising - 30
castleoblivion26 - 31
Sambalada - 31
austin - 33
mamasaid - 33
stonemc06 - 33
toomuchboy - 35

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{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining:}01. I Can Love You Better
02. There's Your Trouble
03. Wide Open Spaces
04. You Were Mine
05. Tonight The Heartache's On Me
06. Ready To Run
07. Cowboy Take Me Away
08. Goodbye Earl
09. Cold Day In July
10. Without You
11. If I Fall You're Going Down With Me
12. Heartbreak Town
14. Long Time Gone
15. Landslide
16. Travelin' Soldier
18. Top Of The World
20. Not Ready To Make Nice
21. Everybody Knows
22. The Long Way Around
26. Easy Silence
28. Let Him Fly
32. Sin Wagon
34. White Trash Wedding

[The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷]

Oh! So SAD to see this go so early... definitely a highlight from HOME and one of their best!
Patty Griffin <3

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Don't blame me.

[Kanenrá:ke]

Also a hint for #22!

[The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷]

hummm... Heartbreak Town?? It has the line "stardust well it's a funny thing..." in it
Another one who deserved a top 20 placing...

[LBTrocks]

Commenting on "Voice Inisde My Head" now: It's really pretty and I like it, but again, it just can't compete with their older work for me.

"Truth No 2" is great, but the instrumentation is a bit repetitive, which is probably why it didn't make my top 20.

[LBTrocks]

Jun 11, 2017 11:23:21 GMT -5 The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 said:

hummm... Heartbreak Town?? It has the line "stardust well it's a funny thing..." in it

I think you may be right.... and that would be great!

[Kanenrá:ke]

22. Heartbreak Town
Points: 335
Average Rank: 21
SD: 7.3412



Album: Fly
Release Date: June 25, 2001
Writer(s): Darrell Scott
Producer(s): Blake Chancey & Paul Worley

Charts:
U.S. Country: #23
Bubbling Under Hot 100: #21

The seventh and lowest peaking single from their sophomore album, "Heartbreak Town" is written by the great songwriter Darrell Scott! 

I've always loved that they released this to radio even if it was a little sleepy. Lyrically this is one of my favorite songs about trying to make it in Nashville, I just wish the song had a little more energy. Still love it though!


Individual Rankings:

bboat11 - 3
countrymusicjunkie - 6
someguy - 7
@antigonerising - 9
sabre14 - 10
The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷 - 15
mamasaid - 15
Sambalada - 18
stonemc06 -19
castleoblivion26 - 20
toomuchboy - 20
raylatch98 - 20
.indulgecountry - 21
austin - 22
Kanenrá:ke - 22
zaclord 🌈 - 28
@quirkyfarang - 29
LBTrocks - 31
Au$tin - 31
codyj100 - 32
bat1990 - 34
Rose "Payola" Nylund - 34
Troublemaker - 35

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{Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Songs Remaining:}01. I Can Love You Better
02. There's Your Trouble
03. Wide Open Spaces
04. You Were Mine
05. Tonight The Heartache's On Me
06. Ready To Run
07. Cowboy Take Me Away
08. Goodbye Earl
09. Cold Day In July
10. Without You
11. If I Fall You're Going Down With Me
14. Long Time Gone
15. Landslide
16. Travelin' Soldier
18. Top Of The World
20. Not Ready To Make Nice
21. Everybody Knows
22. The Long Way Around
26. Easy Silence
28. Let Him Fly
32. Sin Wagon
34. White Trash Wedding

[.indulgecountry]

The "square people in a world that's round" lyric is a big standout on this song for me, but aside from that, this one just doesn't compare to most of their bigger hits.

[LBTrocks]

It's a nice enough song, but doesn't do a whole lot for me.

[Deleted]

A decent album track, not a lot else.
No shock losses so far.
My number 1 is normally out by now, so I am doing better than normal!
Truth #2 is my biggest loss so far, but I sort of expected it since it's just an album cut. Definitely one of the better ones though.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

I don't even remember what it sounds like. A travesty that it made it higher than other gems so far. :(

[The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷]

I love this song and proudly had it in my top15!
It's unfortunate that it didn't made top20, but at this point I love most of the songs left so it alright, I guess! LOL

[someguy]

One of my favourites of theirs. Not sure how this broke their streak and peaked so low during their prime.

[zaclord 🌈]

This wasn't bad, but the trying to make it in the music industry story has been done much better and more interestingly (see: Baby Girl and Even If It Breaks Your Heart), but there are some good lyrics here

[Au$tin]

I've been pretty okay with everything so far minus one or two things.

[.indulgecountry]

Jun 11, 2017 13:18:50 GMT -5 zaclord 🌈 said:

This wasn't bad, but the trying to make it in the music industry story has been done much better and more interestingly (see: Baby Girl and Even If It Breaks Your Heart), but there are some good lyrics here

[someguy]

Jun 11, 2017 13:18:50 GMT -5 zaclord 🌈 said:

This wasn't bad, but the trying to make it in the music industry story has been done much better and more interestingly (see: Baby Girl and Even If It Breaks Your Heart), but there are some good lyrics here

Yeah I guess that's true, but this came first

I also like how the narrator in this song doesn't necessarily make it, as is what happens i so many songs about trying to break into the industry.

[The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷]

Jun 11, 2017 13:42:01 GMT -5 someguy said:

Jun 11, 2017 13:18:50 GMT -5 zaclord 🌈 said:

This wasn't bad, but the trying to make it in the music industry story has been done much better and more interestingly (see: Baby Girl and Even If It Breaks Your Heart), but there are some good lyrics here

Yeah I guess that's true, but this came first

I also like how the narrator in this song doesn't necessarily make it, as is what happens i so many songs about trying to break into the industry.

Yes, what I like the most about this is that it offers a less "romantic" view I guess... It makes it more real in a way for me.

[Deleted]

I pretty much love all songs about "Hollywood" for some reason - though Heartbreak Town is technically about Nashville, the theme still fits. And I agree, this one stands out because it's one of the few that is about someone who doesn't quite make it; most other songs in this realm tend to focus on someone who does make it, only to find out that even success is not all it's cracked up to be.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jun 11, 2017 14:03:09 GMT -5 @antigonerising said:

I pretty much love all songs about "Hollywood" for some reason - though Heartbreak Town is technically about Nashville, the theme still fits. And I agree, this one stands out because it's one of the few that is about someone who doesn't quite make it; most other songs in this realm tend to focus on someone who does make it, only to find out that even success is not all it's cracked up to be.

You should check out Lissie's last album. Many of the songs are about that theme AND there's a song called Hollywood.

[Kanenrá:ke]

So the following participants haven't lost a top 10 song yet:
The Brazilian Guy 🇧🇷
castleoblivion26
codyj100
LBTrocks
stonemc06
toomuchboy


That changes for one of them while the rest can enjoy having their entire top 10 make it to the top 20!

We also see somebody lose a #1 joining Sambalada!