The Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice [Country] (2006)

I love the way that Natalie Means handles the second verse of this song, knowing how the country continuously spat on them and sent them death threats out of jingoistic pride and retaliatory furvor over 9/11 just because they (CORRECTLY) disagreed with Bush about the Iraq war just packs it full of rage at such brazen injustice. The crescendo is so well done and you can feel she’s come to a breaking point and isn’t forgiving or forgetting anything that people have done to her, instead using it as fuel for their art and giving us the most intense verse ever recorded in country music history. It’s such an engaging part of the song, gives me chills every time. The Chicks didn’t deserve that shit and also they f****** rule so it’s our loss in the end.

My girlfriend had never heard this song and she had every chick CD leading up to the backlash. She had no idea 7 Grammys, because our local radio station never played it

>How in the world can the words that I said send somebody so over the edge that they'd write me a letter saying that I better shut up and sing or my life will be over. These lyrics hit hard. Such a great song and I'm glad The Chicks stood their ground.

Knowing the actual context behind this song makes it kickass even more.

Ugh what a f****** classic. Great track.

Such a great song that was of the moment and still is. The lyrics, the music, the energy/anger, everything about it is perfect to me. I've seen them perform this live several times and I get chills every single time. After taking a long hiatus, they started teasing a new album in 2018 and had lined up a big tour for 2020 that I don't think had been announced yet. The album was finally announced the first week of March 2020 that it would be released in May. Well, we all know what happened just a few days/weeks after they made that announcement. That album was delayed until June. Unfortunately, it sort of got lost in everything that was going on. It's really sad because I think *Gaslighter* was a fantastic album. They eventually did that tour in 2022.

This is one of my favorite Chicks songs.

Co-written by Dan Wilson, lead singer of Semisonic. Fantastic song.

The best song they ever did.

I had no idea they changed their name. 

Not a fan of country music, but I really like this song

Proof, if it was needed, that things were going pair shaped in American long before Trump came along.

Cancelled for being correct. Wtf

So much respect for these guys. F*** Republicans

This has been one of my theme songs. I try to play nicely with others until they prove to me otherwise.

This is a great tune learned to play the chords on guitar and sing da words. It's fun 

This whole song is perfection

One of my favorite songs of all time.

The whole album is great. As is their follow up. They’re a fantastic band. I’ve seen them live a couple of times and they kick ass every time.

Great song!!!

I was reading some of the comments and I think the big that hit them at this time was the American bravado at the time, plus their statement came during a foreign show. If they had been in America, especially in Texas it would have just been a big statement. Definitely a great song.

Political stances aside, this isn’t good music.