قراءة لمدة 1 دقيقة Not Ready to Make Nice

"Not Ready to Make Nice" is the first single off of American country band Dixie Chicks's seventh studio album "Taking the Long Way".
The song was released on March 20, 2006.

The song was able to make it to #4 on the "Billboard" Hot 100, #29 on the Adult Top 40, #32 on the Adult Contemporary, and #36 on the Hot Country Songs music charts.
The song was certified 2× Platinum and the mastertone was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
At the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, it won Song of the Year, Record of the Year, and Best Country Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

During a concert in London, England, vocalist Natalie Maines was speaking to the crowd about the 2003 invasion of Iraq and said "..
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we don't want this war, this violence, and we're ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.
" This caused a huge amount of backlash from country fans.
Some country radio stations blacklisted their music and other country musicians like Toby Keith dissed them at his concerts.

In "Not Ready to Make Nice", Maines sings about the backlash that the band recieved from the comments.
Speaking about how she recieved death threats and seeing mothers teach their children to say "screw 'em".