The Dixie Chicks return with "Gaslighter" and drag Nathan Petrelli by the neck

The Dixie Chicks have officially returned with their song "Gaslighter". Their first original song in well over a decade. And it's good y'all.

As is custom for women in Country music and on brand for the Country gals who have never given a single fuck, "Gaslighter" is dedicated to lead singer Natalie Maine's ex-husband, whom she divorced in 2019.

This is Dixie Chicks in 2020 after a national smear campaign and blacklisting. Of course they gon' come back and drag somebody. Whilst "Gaslighter" is about a life event and a person specific to Natalie, there are lines in the song can be applied to many a situation and person; 'Repeating all of the mistakes of your father', 'You're sorry, but where's my apology?'. It wouldn't be such a broad stroke to say the song could be taken by some as a political statement by some, especially when you tie it in the context of the music video.

As now feels customary for the Dixie Chicks following their blacklisting, this new song of theirs doesn't come without controversy or some form of caveat which puts them on the back foot. In an interview that the Dixie Chicks did with Allure, the publication were made aware that Natalie's ex-husband has filed something (I don't know the legal term) to prevent Natalie from actually discussing the marriage in any form, which means that the Dixie Chicks can't talk about the content of their upcoming album whatsoever, given the whole thing is about the breakdown of Natalie's marriage. The loophole in them being able to release "Gaslighter" and the album of the same name may be that the songs could be about anybody, as nobody is mentioned by name and a song can easily be waived fiction. Or the fact it's all music itself is the loophole. So the Dixie Chicks are having to promote an album that they're unable to talk about, which in 2020 I don't think will hurt them. I think fans are so happy to have the Dixie Chicks back and to hear the new material for the first time in 14 years, that THAT alone will generate all of the hype and buzz Gaslighter needs. And the Dixie Chicks speaking nothing of the album will make it all the more fresh and new when it finally hits.

It definitely opens the narrative of the music video though. Given that it features historic footage of women from periods in time when they had no rights, weren't listened to and weren't taken seriously. And here the Dixie Chicks are in 2020, still being muzzled.

And get this. Natalie ex-husband is Adrian Pasdar, who many may know as Nathan Petrelli from the 2006 show Heroes. I'm more familiar with him as Glenn Talbot from Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. He was a piece of shit in that show, and if "Gaslighter" is anything to go by, he wasn't playing much of a role. Can you believe he plead poverty in the divorce to get spousal support from Natalie?

Men be trash.

The Dixie Chicks 8th studio album Gaslighter will be released on May 1st and is produced by Jack Antanoff; the guy responsible for Lorde's Melodrama, Lana Del Rey's Norman Fucking Rockwell! and the bulk of Taylor Swift's Lover, which also features the Dixie Chicks. So it's gon' sound good from top to bottom.