The Dixie Chicks were on top of the country music industry in late 2002, and their album “Home” had gone platinum many times.

But what a difference a few months can make for a Texas trio.

During a gig in London on March 10, 2003, Dixie Chicks frontwoman Natalie Maines made remarks regarding then-President George W. Bush and the Iraq War. “We don’t want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the president of the United States is from Texas.” Most of their country music fans and industry responded by boycotting their records and banning them from the airwaves.

Martie Maguire, Emily Robison, and Natalie Maines, members of the country music band, appeared on Monday’s edition of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, where they discussed how the world has changed while they took a break.

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“Imagine what she would say now,” Maguire said, referring to Trump’s presidency.

Maines told presenter Ellen DeGeneres that she and her band were the first to be canceled by fans and the business for adopting a political stance:

“I think we were one of the first people to experience that cancel culture, and I think what we said back then — what I said back then — would not even be a thing today because it was really mild compared to what people say today,” Maines said. “On one hand, everyone has this platform where they can say whatever they want to say, but on the other hand, this platform can move really quickly and, yeah, ruin peoples’ lives.”

Those statements, as she indicated, were memorable, but they pale in contrast to what you’d discover on social media or hear in the news now about Donald Trump.

It’s worth noting that Ellen is close with Bush (LOL), but it didn’t appear to make their conversation any less uncomfortable! Phew…

The group discussed why now was the best time to go back out there after working out all the kinks. While Maines acknowledged that she wanted to focus on parenting for a while, Robison alluded to the issue and admitted:

“We were pretty worn out at the same time. I don’t know, I think we needed a break. Maybe not 14 years.”

“I wanted the audience to know who we were and what we were about,” Maines told Allure magazine in a cover story in which she and bandmates Emily Strayer and Martie Maguire discussed the scandal that almost ruined their careers.

Maines told the newspaper, “I do not like when artists get on their soapbox — it’s not what people are there for. They’re there to listen to your music.” However, “the politics of this band is inseparable from the music.”