DIXIE CHICKS SET TO SPLIT AFTER THE GRAMMYS?

Country trio the DIXIE CHICKS are hatching a secret plan to split up after the Grammy Awards next February (07) because sisters MARTIE MAGUIRE and EMILY ROBISON want to concentrate on being great mothers.
Insiders claim the siblings are "tired and wrung out" after spending the past three years defending themselves from comments NATALIE MAINES made onstage in London in 2003 - and they're desperate for a long-term break.

The trio became the targets of fierce backlash from the country music world when Maines announced she was ashamed to come from the same state (Texas) as US PRESIDENT BUSH.

And now insiders claim the sisters have had enough of celebrity and want to hang up their fiddles.

A source tells US tabloid National Enquirer, "They feel they've come to the end , and they want a break from each other to spend more time with their families." And an insider claims the "passive" siblings are so sick of having to support outspoken Maines, and the controversies she has created have driven a wedge between the trio.

The source adds, "They've received death threats and it's made them all nervous wrecks... Natalie has so ruined things for the band that they can't stand to be around her, and they get in huge-in-your-face shouting matches."

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did you see the movie? it was really good. i'm not a huge fan of their music but have tons of respect for them and what they went through.

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i doubt that the shit about the Natalie thing is true, if they really were all hating her they would have just replaced her in the band or left already. I know Natalie is a major part of the band, but there are other voices!

ech...that gets overly gossipy at the end.

i believe that they might break up (they've done a LOT in the past decade, and their last record kind of sums it all up), but not because of death threats and shouting matches. insider are NOT insiders 99% of the time. they aren't outsiders either. they're nobodies.

i think they might just feel that looking after their children is the right thing to do, considering the fact that they are under huge pressure after the comments, they might just want to get out of teh limelight for a while