{"id":30,"date":"2020-03-23T23:59:19","date_gmt":"2020-03-24T03:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/?page_id=30"},"modified":"2020-04-28T19:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T23:37:48","slug":"dixie-chicks-ready-to-run","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/dixie-chicks-ready-to-run\/","title":{"rendered":"Dixie Chicks &#8211; &#8220;Ready to Run&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Released on their album <em>Fly <\/em>in June 1999, the same year CMT was acquired by Viacom, the Dixie Chicks\u2019 single \u201cReady to Run\u201d is about women challenging dominant, gendered stereotypes of marriage by running away instead of towards a traditional, monogamous marriage. The video correlates to the song\u2019s lyrics (typical of country music videos), portraying a narrative of the trio acting as runaway brides; the brides physically run from their wedding and metaphorically escape from the larger narrative of the expectation that women want to have a traditional wedding. After they run away, they are chased by their bridal party, who attempt to reel them back into their expected roles of married women.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chicks - Ready to Run (Official Video)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L2ksenLQ_RE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Ready to Run&#8221; Music Video via Dixie Chicks on YouTube<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As compared to Travis\u2019 \u201cForever and Ever, Amen,\u201d the way that country music video content has transitioned over time is apparent, beginning to include MTV strategies and shifting values in line with mainstream society. Rather than being simple and conservative, \u201cReady to Run\u201d incorporates various elements of MTV\u2019s strategy of spectacle, such as the three singers riding on the back of a garbage truck and throwing cake in the faces of their ex fianc\u00e9s, as well as a more progressive theme of breaking gender roles.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these transformations, \u201cReady to Run\u201d maintains its ties to country music by incorporating country iconography and elements of storytelling. The video is set in a rural neighborhood with white picket fences and an American flag, and the wedding attendants are all Caucasian, wearing conservative, Southern-styled attire such as \u201cchurch hats,\u201d which were commonly worn to church service by Southern women as a sign of respect (\u201cWhat Are Church Hats?\u201d). Lastly, the video maintains country music\u2019s typical video formatting by telling one wholistic story.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_224\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-224\" style=\"width: 618px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-224\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/files\/2020\/04\/church-hat.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"618\" height=\"590\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-224\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Example of Church Hat via Amy Ward on Etsy<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released on their album Fly in June 1999, the same year CMT was acquired by Viacom, the Dixie Chicks\u2019 single \u201cReady to Run\u201d is about&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/dixie-chicks-ready-to-run\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Dixie Chicks &#8211; &#8220;Ready to Run&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3424,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"coauthors":[117707],"class_list":["post-30","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/spring2020-mus235-03\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}