Country band The Dixie Chicks announced Thursday it would be changing its name to The Chicks in an apparent effort to pander to protesters decrying racial injustice.
The band's new name appears on its newly-released single and on the group member's social media accounts. The group - made up of Emily Strayer, Natalie Maines, Martie Maguire - dropped its new single
"March March" off their album
Gaslighter Thursday about the protests that have taken place for weeks around the country following the death of George Floyd.
The protest song, produced by Jack Antonoff, combines a minimalist electronic beat with subdued instrumentation from Maguire’s fiddle and Strayer’s banjo.
Lyrically, Maines addresses everything from Greta Thunberg and youth climate protests to gun violence and underpaid school teachers, over a music video that edits together footage from recent Black Lives Matter protests and police confrontations. Toward the end, as Maguire dives into a fiery fiddle solo, the names of black Americans killed by police flash onscreen, and the video concludes with a message from the Chicks — “Use your voice. Use your vote.” — along with links to various social justice organizations and nonprofits.
