![]() Today, the Chicks have plenty to be happy about. “Who was it that said you should be spanked, Nat?” Strayer asks, cocking her head. “But it’s disappointing and a little shocking”-here she mimes retching-“when it's from women! You almost expect it from men.” ![]() “To me, comments like that don’t hurt at all,” Maines says of the vitriol over Zoom from her home in Los Angeles, flanked by Strayer (San Antonio) and Maguire (Austin). It’s the middle of the afternoon, days after the release of the band’s eighth studio album, Gaslighter, and the women are recounting the worst things they heard during the blowback to Maines’s now-vindicated, then-vilified 2003 comments about George W. They’re laughing now, video-chatting from various pockets of the country, simply remembering how much they laughed during one of the darkest times in The Chicks’ career. They’d laugh when their tour manager, who they’d send out nightly to scope out the signs protesters held as they picketed their shows, would return with photos of misspelled insults (“You’re traders to our country!”). They’d laugh about what men were saying about them on major cable networks, men like Bill O’Reilly ("These are callow, foolish women who deserve to be slapped around”) and Pat Buchanan (“The dumbest, dumbest bimbos I have seen”). ![]() Seventeen years ago, Emily Strayer, Martie Maguire, and Natalie Maines would sit backstage at their sold-out Top of the World Tour and laugh. ![]()
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