U2Bama
Rock n' Roll Doggie
Country singer Willie Nelson, who preformed the song "Slow Dancing" with U2 on the "If God Will Send His Angels" CD single, has now recorded a song and video with country singer Toby Keith wherein they are some type of crime fighters. I'm sure as U2 fans we could find something "offensive" in the song or video, but that's another subject.
Toby Keith has been in a long running quarrel with Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, whom we are all supposed to support because of her anti-George W. Bush statement made at a concert in Europe. It seems that when Toby Keith released his patriotic single "Courtesy fo the Red, White and Blue," Dixie Chick Natalie Maines commented to the L.A. TIMES that the song was ignorant and that people who listened to it are ignorant as well. When Toby Keith responded to that comment and her anti-Bush comments on his current tour, featuring the photoshop image of Maines and Saddam Hussein on the overhead jumbotron, Maines responded by wearing a t-shirt that said "F.U.T.K." during their satelite awards show feed which was broadcast on national television.
Now, we all know that Willie Nelson has done some great things with Farm Aid, he has made some cool, feel good statements in support of pot, and of course, given us a great vocal contribution to a soothing U2 song. But what do we do now that he has performed a song and video with a "bad guy"? Do we ban him? Boycott him? Demand that he explain his misdeed? Should we extend our boycott to U2 until they order all copies of the "If God Will Send His Angels" CD single destroyed? Likewise, should we organize a huge record-burning rally in which members of the web-based commmunity known as www.interference.com get together and destroy their copies of the single? Should we extend our boycott to Sting, who made a cameo appearnce in Toby Keith's cover of Sting's song, "Im So Happy (I Can't Stop Crying)"?
What should we do? Is everyone else seething mad about this?
How could U2 and Sting associate with such evil warmongers?
~U2Alabama
Toby Keith has been in a long running quarrel with Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks, whom we are all supposed to support because of her anti-George W. Bush statement made at a concert in Europe. It seems that when Toby Keith released his patriotic single "Courtesy fo the Red, White and Blue," Dixie Chick Natalie Maines commented to the L.A. TIMES that the song was ignorant and that people who listened to it are ignorant as well. When Toby Keith responded to that comment and her anti-Bush comments on his current tour, featuring the photoshop image of Maines and Saddam Hussein on the overhead jumbotron, Maines responded by wearing a t-shirt that said "F.U.T.K." during their satelite awards show feed which was broadcast on national television.
Now, we all know that Willie Nelson has done some great things with Farm Aid, he has made some cool, feel good statements in support of pot, and of course, given us a great vocal contribution to a soothing U2 song. But what do we do now that he has performed a song and video with a "bad guy"? Do we ban him? Boycott him? Demand that he explain his misdeed? Should we extend our boycott to U2 until they order all copies of the "If God Will Send His Angels" CD single destroyed? Likewise, should we organize a huge record-burning rally in which members of the web-based commmunity known as www.interference.com get together and destroy their copies of the single? Should we extend our boycott to Sting, who made a cameo appearnce in Toby Keith's cover of Sting's song, "Im So Happy (I Can't Stop Crying)"?
What should we do? Is everyone else seething mad about this?
How could U2 and Sting associate with such evil warmongers?
~U2Alabama