Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
- sombre
- brisk
Sombre, kinetic, measured music / documentary, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how one tiny comment against President Bush dropped their number one hit off the charts and caused fans to hate them, destroy their CD’s, and protest at their concerts. A film about freedom of speech gone out of control and the three girls lives that were forever changed by a small anti-Bush comment
Our read · Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (2006) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded music · documentary · political entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of Dixie Chicks
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“You want a music documentary about artists standing up for speech and facing backlash.”
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The reading.
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