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This happened to Sinead O'Conor with career ending results a few years ago. (Ref: tearing up a picture of the Pope on SNL)
I found that her music is fantastic. She sings of angst, lost love, sorrow with more emotion than perhaps any other female singer I know. Her Lion and the Cobra album is still one of my favorites.
Was her SNL stunt wrong? Perhaps it was the wrong audience and the wrong era. By the time she was on the scene, punk rock was getting way watered down - nothing like what it was in its infancy - remembe the antics of the Sex Pistols, The Clash, and the like? Had she done her stunt a few years prior, it may have just been part of the whole 'anti-establishment' feeling that punk rock offered - alas, it was too much, too shocking, too late in the punk rock era.
The difference between Sinead O'Conor and the Dixie Chicks is that O'Conor had talent, and had something to be voice an opinion against - the Dixie Chick have neither.
Just my $0.42,
-Z-man.
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