{"id":38257,"date":"2026-10-15T08:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T12:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=38257"},"modified":"2026-10-15T06:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T10:30:17","slug":"the-chicks-received-an-apology-letter-from-the-woman-referenced-in-not-ready-to-make-nice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/10\/the-chicks-received-an-apology-letter-from-the-woman-referenced-in-not-ready-to-make-nice\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chicks Received An Apology Letter From The Woman Referenced In &#8220;Not Ready To Make Nice&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>The Chicks<\/strong> said they <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/the-chicks-reflect-not-ready-to-make-nice-controversy-20th-anniversary-tour-12172180\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">received an apology letter<\/a> from the woman referenced in their Grammy-winning song, <em><strong>&#8220;Not Ready to Make Nice&#8221;<\/strong><\/em>.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>&#8220;She wrote us a very kind, apologetic letter, and that was sweet.\u00a0 It was something.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we were &#8216;skanks and bimbos.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>The line about the woman is, quote, &#8220;It&#8217;s a sad, sad story when a mother would teach her daughter that she oughta hate a perfect stranger.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Chicks are on a tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of &#8220;Taking the Long Way&#8221;, the album that song was on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Chicks - Not Ready To Make Nice (Official Video)\" width=\"900\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pojL_35QlSI?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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Chicks said they received an apology letter from the woman referenced in their Grammy-winning song, &#8220;Not Ready to Make Nice&#8221;.\u00a0 &#8220;She wrote us a very kind, apologetic letter, and that was sweet.\u00a0 It was something.\u00a0 Meanwhile, we were &#8216;skanks and bimbos.&#8217;&#8221; The line about the woman is, quote, &#8220;It&#8217;s a sad, sad story when","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-10-23 05:16:19","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2026\/10\/the-chicks-received-an-apology-letter-from-the-woman-referenced-in-not-ready-to-make-nice\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38257"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38259,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38257\/revisions\/38259"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}