20 years after country music canceled the Chicks, they have no regrets: 'It set us free'

When the Chicks aren't working, the three members keep a group text going to stay in touch about band matters and about one another's families — and to trade jokes, "the more inappropriate the better," says lead singer Natalie Maines.

If people could read what they write, the 48-year-old adds with a laugh, "we'd be canceled 10 times over already."

This summer, the Grammy-winning pop-country trio — which also includes sisters Martie Maguire, 53, and Emily Strayer, 50 — are on the road, touring behind their most recent studio album, 2020's Jack Antonoff-produced "," which addressed Maines' messy divorce from actor Adrian Pasdar in brutally specific songs set on her boat and at the Hollywood Bowl.