The all girl pop band changed their name after 31 years in the music industry.
The world’s favorite pop girl trio Dixie Chicks is back with a new name The Chicks and the girls released their new album Gaslighter after a hiatus of 14 years on July 17.
The Chicks changed their band’s title which was earlier after 31 years, which was in response to the Black Lives Matter movement. The name change was framed as part of a widespread racial reckoning that led many to reconsider words and symbols from the Civil War-era South.
“We want to step into this moment”, the Chicks stated on their website, a similar statement was echoed from the countries group Lady A, who recently cut short her name from Lady Antebellum.
The Song Gaslighter was Co-written and co-produced by Super producer Jack Antonoff, and included previously released singles March March and Gaslighter. The song is free of features and guest artists, so it swings chicks all the time.
During an interview with Vulture, The Chicks divulged their other highly updated band names which comprise of DCX, Squatter’s Daughters, MEN(Martie, Emily, and Natalie Maines).
The Chicks are a U.S based pop group led by singer Natalie Maines and multi-instrumentalist sisters Martie Erwin Maguire and Emily Strayer. The band was formed in 1989 in Dallas, Texas, and consisted of four females performing bluegrass and country music, busking and touring the bluegrass festival circuits and small venues for the period of six years without earning a bigger label.
The Chicks have been entitled with 13 Grammy Awards, including five in 2007 for Taking a Long Way, which received the Grammy Award for Album of the Year and it is single Not Ready to Make Nice.
By March 2020, with 33 million certified albums sold, and sales of 27.5 million albums in the U.S. alone, they became a success and best selling female band and bestselling group in the U.S. during the Nielsen SoundScan era (1991–present).
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