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In a new interview with Time magazine, posted online Sunday, the Dixie Chicks firebrand takes back the apology she extended to President Bush three years ago. Maines and bandmates Martie Maguire and Emily Robison are back with a new album, Taking the Long Way, in stores Tuesday, and a new, no-apologies attitude. The CD’s first single, aptly titled “Not Ready to Make Nice,” is selling well on iTunes but has been picked up by few country stations. Due out Tuesday, the collection is the country-raised outfit’s first collection since Maines, 31, began wearing a bull’s-eye for bashing Bush when his then-70 percent approval rating made the sport unfashionable.

“I apologized for disrespecting the office of the President,” Maines says in Time. “But I don’t feel that way anymore. I don’t feel he is owed any respect whatsoever.” Back in 2003, Dixie Chicks singer Natalie Maines created an uproar when she told a London concert audience, “Just so you know, we’re ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.”
Days after the remark fired up talk radio lines, Maines issued a new one, apologizing for being “disrespectful”: “I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect.”

“If people are going to ask me to apologize on who I am,” Maines tells the magazine, “I don’t know what to do about that. I can’t change who I am.”
To put a finer point on that point, the Chicks’ first single from the new album was “Not Ready to Make Nice,” basically the Time interview with country-pop accompaniment. Sample lyrics: “I’m not ready to make nice/I’m not ready to back down/I’m still mad as hell and I don’t have time to go round and round and round.”

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