Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (also known simply as
Shut Up and Sing) is a 2006 documentary film produced and directed by
Academy Award-winning director
Barbara Kopple and
Cecilia Peck (daughter of famed actor
Gregory Peck).
The film follows the
Dixie Chicks, an extremely successful all-woman
Texas-based
country music trio, over a three year period of intense public scrutiny, fan backlash, physical threats, and pressure from both corporate and conservative political elements in the
United States after lead singer
Natalie Maines publicly criticised then President of the United States
George W. Bush during a live 2003 concert in
London as part of their
Top of the World Tour.
It is the first Rated R project by the Dixie Chicks.
Synopsis
The film opens during the
Dixie Chicks' 2003
Top of the World Tour, discussing the Dixie Chicks' super-star status prior the incident at their London show. They had sold more albums in the United States than any other female band in history. With the release of their 2002 album
Home, they were again at the top of the
Billboard Charts. The new
single from that album "
Travelin' Soldier", a sensitive depiction of a soldier's life during the
Vietnam War era, and the young woman who waited for him, finding he was killed in battle, had peaked at #1 on the US Billboard
Hot Country Songs Chart.
The film then cuts to a scene from the
Dixie......
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