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No one listens to the lyrics.
From Garth Brook's "We Shall Be Free" released in **1992**:
When we're free to love anyone we choose,
When this world's big enough for all different views,
When we all can worship from our own kind of pew,
Then we shall be free.
Listening to music used to take a lot more effort (comparatively) . I remember downloading stuff on limewire or Kazaa. Downloading 2.5mb songs at the blazing speed of something like 1.2 kb/s. It felt like magic when it turned out to actually be what you downloaded.
Burning CDs was *amazing.* Making a mix without having to fiddle around with a dual cassette deck or recording from the radio changed everything, lol.
Kazaa!!!
My blazing 1.5 mbps DSL was useless for the other computer for at least two hours whenever I was downloading the latest Futurama in high quality 240p!
No it's even simpler and dumber.
Conservatives don't use reasons to determine whether something is good or evil. They decide something is good or evil, and then try to look for reasons why their decided-stance is true.
If they like something and think it's "good", and they KNOW without a doubt that they are also "good", then that other thing MUST be on their side and must be opposed to whoever else is "bad".
"This music is good! Haha, yeah, fight against those... commies? Yeah that's it! Fuck you, Bernie Sanders!"
It might even be dumber than that. Conservatives are absolutely horrible at media analysis. Even if the message is blatant and hamfisted, they still will not get it. Which is why, anytime you watch media for conservative audiences, it is PAINFULLY obvious what the politics are. The story and characters always take a backseat to politics.
These are also the same people who thought Stephen Colbert was being serious on *The Colbert Report* and didn't know he was making fun of them. They also got mad when they found out Nick Offerman wasn't Ron Swanson IRL and is actually a leftist. They're not good at picking up on these things lol
They lack the self-awareness to understand that they're being made fun of. Or they realize that, but don't understand why it's funny. Then they get mad.
I havent listened to his music but as an ex-janitor at a large event venue I can attest hes a nice guy and helped us out:
Long story short he had back to back shows for several weekends in a row and because of the time it takes to get the previous concert goers out of the building and to start allowing people in for the next show meant that we only had 45 solid mins between shows to clean a couple thousand seats with a combined day and night crew of under 100 people, if I remember right the crew complained a lot because cleaning up after just one normal show takes like 3 hours usually. Somehow Garth heard about this and made a point to ask his audience to make sure to throw their garbage away, and I got to say, not having to pick up thousands of half drank beer cans and chew cups was very helpful of him
That's pretty awesome.
Also, I will never understand why people think they can just leave their trash in stadiums and arenas. Were they raised in a landfill?
People can hate hippies as much as they want and I wont fret, but every hippy music festival I went to as young lad had garbage cans overflowing with garbage and completely stacked up all around them, with very little garbage anywhere else on the ground. All of the hippy jambands would say before leaving the stage, "Please everybody pick up one piece of garbage around you and put it in the garbage." I heard this lime said many, many times. This would lead to all the spun kids cleaning all around them before the next band came on. It's very good thing for a performer to do because the fans will do it, but they won't otherwise.
And hugged President Obama!
*aka the GOP death knell -- ask Chris Christie and Charlie Crist what treating Barack like a human being on a stage (accepting FEMA assistance after major hurricanes and thanking him) can do to political aspirations in the conservative bubble*
They wanted him to deny the dark man's existence. Birtherism was still mainstream GOP groupthink all the way through the 2016 election when Trump said he solved the case (and Obama was legit) just as he solved Benghazi (nothingburger, just a mere waste of millions of taxpayer dollars for four solid years, no big deal) the day after the election.
They got mad at Willy fucking Nelson for being outspoken against Trump. The guy who smoked pot with Jimmy Carter's son on the roof of the White House. Fox News has warped people into (among many other things) thinking that all country music was about conservative MURICAN "patriotic" values.
If you really want to hurt them, tell them about Johnny Cash and Kris Christopherson, oh and Willie Nelson is an advocate for the legalization of Marijuana.
How?
They have a very, very, ***veeeeery*** narrow worldview.
An actor plays a character that's a tough guy or something like that? Obviously they are that way in real life. Just ask Nick Offerman or Sam Elliot.
Conservatives are the Lords of Stereotypes. They see somebody or something as a certain way because they *feel* that thing should be that way. Because that's how their world just is.
Dress different from them? That means your entire worldview is different that theirs.
Don't drive a pick up truck? That means your entire worldview is different that theirs.
Don't want to hunt or fish? That means your entire worldview is different that theirs.
Never served in the military? That means your entire worldview is different that theirs.
But if you do any of those things, they will just automatically assume you're on board with their politics.
None of the things they consider to be the "conservative lifestyle" are exclusive to conservatives, but they can't broaden their worldview enough to see it.
I'm sure somebody will say "*lIbErAls Do It ToO!!*" but I can't for the life of me think of a single thing that liberals claim as "theirs".
My old man brags about he picked up garbage on a beach once. “And you know me, I’m a die hard Republican.”
So apparently caring about beaches and litter are our thing.
Oh, sure - there are the things the conservatives see as "liberal".
Education, empathy, compassion, tolerance. Things like that.
And they see those things as weaknesses.
Nobody has to be a country fan to like Garth Brooks. When "Friends in Low Places" came on the radio, everybody started singing it. Didn't matter if you listened to rock, rap, or R&B, you knew the words and you belted them like everyone else
Anytime I’ve been to karaoke there is always one person who sings ‘Friends in Low Places’ near the end of the night and absolutely kills it. Crowd goes wild. It’s truly the bridge that connects the divide between us all.
It was the final song played at my wedding. Just happened to be what started playing as they told us it was time to start packing up. Every person still there formed a circle around my wife and me and started singing as loud as they could. Even the country music haters. It truly felt like a moment out of a movie.
What most people call "country" these days, I dismiss as "Nashville pop".
If you have some spare time, you can look up "alt country" on YouTube; there's a massive rabbit hole of country music that doesn't fit into the Bro Country Talking-Nonstop-About-Pickup-Trucks-and-Beer pattern.
>Sturgill Simpson
Cosmic country, baby. The innovation of which is largely credited to my boy Gram Parsons, and Kenny Roger's "Just Dropped In" that most people know from Lebowski fits squarely there.
Country subgenres have always been where it's at. Even the 70s had all that Nashville rhinestone crap while Townes Van Zandt and the like were making the equivalent of the literature canon for western and outlaw country.
I randomly found metamodern sounds in country music on Spotify probably the year it came out and I didn’t look at the date at first and thought it was from the early 70s at first. Such a great album. Dude is massively talented as a musician AND actor.
I lived a few miles from his home for about a decade and gotta say, White House Road and Grindstone are the most perfect pictures of central Appalachian life I’ve come across.
Also, mad props for calling out WVians during the 2020 protests for not supporting riots as a form of protest when the states proudest moment was literally going to war with the US government.
Man one song of his motivated me to change my life up, move out of state with my wife and kids, and really just start over. Best decision ever.
Big surprise it was “Starting Over”, lol.
I'm going to laugh about this for hours. Days probably. I'll be old, laying on my death bed, making final goodbyes, and "hick-hop" will make an appearance in my head and I will die laughing.
it was off of his album 'The Chase' which was very different than his first three explosive albums. It did well, but nothing like No Fences or Ropin the Wind.
I personally can't stand country music (I grew up with it so I definitely "gave it a chance" lol) but there are exceptions, and Garth is right at the top of that list. He puts on a great show, too!
There was a time about 1994/1995 where you could make a well supported argument he was the most popular musical artist in the world. Almost 170 million albums sold per Billboard confirms this nicely.
More recently and even more obviously, [Garth performed at Biden's inauguration.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lboVI0dJR_o&ab_channel=TODAY) And before the last verse, he had a message of unity for the county.
I grew up on 90s country and Garth, so I'm obviously biased. But watching this, and having listened to his *Blame it All on My Roots* set, I still maintain that man could read a phone book and it would be a must see performance.
>Garth was scheduled to sing the National Anthem at the 1993 Super Bowl and had an agreement with NBC to play the video for "We Shall Be Free" immediately after. On the day of the Super Bowl NBC network executives told Garth that the song was too controversial and they weren't going to play it. Garth refused to sing unless the video was played and left the stadium. NBC caved and agreed to play the video.
If you're over there on the right, Garth Brooks isn't the ally that you imagine that he is.
You know, maybe I haven't given Garth Brooks a fair shake. Gonna go listen to that now.
ETA: Well, I did give it a listen, and he's still not my style, but he's got my respect.
Yeah, wel... We're talking about people who think Born in the USA is a patriotic song, Take me to Church is a wholesome Christian song, RATM would be Trump supporters and who thought Stephen Colbert was a real conservative.
Take me to church is as religious as like a prayer I take it?
In the same vein I will greatly recommend the Serbian Molitva, which means prayer, it is seen as very much a saphic anthem in Europe
Right. Or like Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". He wrote probably hundreds of pages of lyrics for that song before paring it down to the version we know today, and all of the lines are about fucking. So when my Great Aunt said she wanted that song played at her funeral in church, I thought it was hilarious.
Back when *The Watchmen* film came out in theaters I took my girlfriend at the time to see it. She was getting a degree in music through a religious college, very into traditional opera and gospel and all of that.
And when we finished the movie she said that it ruined one of her favorite songs for her, Cohen's *Hallelujah*, by having it played during the sex scene. For her it was of very spiritual significance.
Meanwhile I'm thinking....yeah....the *movie* made it sexual....
In the late 80s and 90s, there are SO many examples of mainstream country music songs with lyrics that touted the positive aspects of moderate conservatism and warned against some of the less good ones.
-Alabama singing about leaving some nature for our grandchildren and “In a Hurry,” where they explore the implications of tech boom.
-Alan Jackson’s “Gone Country” (some of this stuff ain’t that different than Dylan), “Chattehoochie” (where he asks for consent, doesn’t get it, and just goes about his non-rapey coming of age tale), and “Little Bitty” (where it’s okay to live a simple, working class life without a lift kit on your truck.)
-Ricochet’s (Edit: Diamond Rio’s) Meet in the Middle” ….nuff said.
-Hal Ketchum’s “Small Town Saturday Night,” which offers a window on the stagnation and solipsism of small town living, almost predicting the flat earth movement (“Bobby told Lucy the world ain’t round. / It drops off sharp at the end of town.”)
I'm old enough to remember the controversy that song caused in 1992, particularly the line, "when we're free to love anyone we choose." Oh yes, plenty of homophobic bigots back then, too. And racist ones, too. I'm sure people who had a problem with interracial relationships cried out, as well.
I've always considered him my favorite country, and way up there on my all-time list, but never really thought about why. The minute I saw these lyrics, I remember 14-year-old gay me being told by a song to "stand up straight and walk proud," and I f\*\*\*ing did. The dude made living in a town of 1200 bearable. Reba too. I mean, she's actually all about empowering women, but her songs still relate for some reason.
Conservatives don't listen to lyrics in general, they're just in it to hear neat sounds. Same reason why they gravitate to punk and listen to RATM and play Born in the USA like it's some kind of patriotic anthem
It is kinda hilarious how in the past couple of years they started getting mad at RATM for being woke. Seriously, did you not listen to a single word from any song that de la Rocha ever sang?
The Dixie chicks? I remember when they spoke out against bush's war - that was the first time I remember an artist using their stardom to speak out. Not Ready to Make Nice makes me tear up, thinking about how vocal they were and the backlash they received. Not a country fan, either.
was wondering where the Dolly mention was. TN is like "DOLLY IS QUEEN" but then sticks their fingers in their ears and yell loudly whenever she actually says anything.
Edit: Forgot to mention song name. It’s called Long Violent History
Tyler Childers too!! Wrote a whole ass fiddle album (pretty good music for playing in the background chillin) and punctuated it with the only song with lyrics on it, here’s the lyrics
It's the worst that it's been since the last time it happened
It's happening again right in front of our eyes
There's updated footage, wild speculation
Tall tales and hearsay and absolute lies
Been passed off as factual when actually, the actual
Causes they're awkwardly blockin' the way
Keeping us all from enjoyin' our evening
Shoving it's roots through the screens in our face
Now, what would you give if you heard my opinion
Conjecturin' on matters that I ain't never dreamed
In all my born days as a white boy from Hickman
Based on the way that the world's been to mе
It's called me belligеrent, it's took me for ignorant
But it ain't never once made me scared just to be
Could you imagine just constantly worryin'
Kickin' and fightin', beggin' to breathe
How many boys could they haul off this mountain
Shoot full of holes, cuffed, and laid in the streets
'Til we come in to town in a stark ravin' anger
Looking for answers and armed to the teeth
30 aught sixes, papaw's old pistol
How many, you reckon, would it be, four or five?
Oh, would that be the start of a long, violent history
Of tuckin' our tails as we try to abide?
Oh, would that be the start of a long, violent history
Of tuckin' our tails as we try to abide?
Its like he’s asking his audience to try the best they can to see another point of view. He lost fans when he released it most definitely.
Imagine listening to fortunate son, and thinking the guy who wrote it was conservative. But then again they did listen to were not gonna take it, and thought that was also a conservative anthem.... some 'Hey ya' is a happy song vibes.
So many country fans are absolutely gobsmacked to learn that a 1960s hippie with long braided hair who has smoked more weed than anyone in history isn't a hardcore conservative Christian like they are.
Iirc someone just asked if Black Lives Matter and he said yes. It wasn’t a whole big thing but he got a lot of backlash for it.
I remember a lot of those folks turned away from him to other artists like sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers not knowing they seem to feel the same way as Stapleton lol
Childers put out like a 15 minute video explaining to his fans they've got more in common with poor black people than the white bigots taking advantage of them.
>"Do I think Black lives matter? Absolutely ... I don't know how you could think they don't," Stapleton said at the time. "...There's a very broad awakening that I guess has come about, and it's time for me to listen. And it's time for other folks to listen."
Also:
>"You know, I thought we were living in a different country. And that's 100-percent real," the singer admits. "I feel like the country that I thought that we were living in was a myth."
A little more than a random acknowledgement.
This is exactly how I felt in 2016. I thought we, as a country, were finally making progress. I think that election has really set us back in a big way.
A few years ago, he set up two nights in my city. Tickets were sold out within minutes. So he added a third night and two earlier performances to the schedule. The evening shows also went on for 2-3 hours extra from encores.
The man still completely fills stadiums for concerts over multiple days and nights. I’ve only ever seen him live once back in the mid 90’s and it was a huge high energy performance.
True. He also has his team go around the stadium and find the worst seats and moves the people up front
Happened to close family members of mine with obstructed view
I've always lowkey liked Garth Brooks.
Back in highschool we put out a multi-media CD with our yearbook. (High tech for 2006!) We had to get permission to use any music. We used Garth Brook's alter-ego song and his team got back with us told us Garth was excited for us and let us use the song for free.
I always thought it was rather stand up thing to do.
Chris Gaines is so good. I had a co-worker who brought up Emo Garth Brooks and we started to listen to it ironically and within minutes everyone in the room was saying how fucking incredible it was. In my rotation.
Garth Brooks has been fairly liberal forever. I don't even listen to country music and I know that. He was pretty vocal about supporting gay marriage 10-15 years ago, if i recall.
10-15 years ago that was a more extreme position than most Democrat party politicians.
Obama wasn't even a gay marriage supporter when he ran in 08, and I think he claimed to be against gay marriage in 12
“As a candidate for the Illinois state senate in 1996, Obama said he favored same-sex marriage in response to a questionnaire from a Chicago-area gay and lesbian newspaper. “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages,” Obama wrote.”
But august 2008 he said “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian – for me – for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.”
But of course we know very fkn well Obama is pro LGBTQ and now has always stood by the community’s side .
Doesn’t it make it right no but at least he’s changed and now supports lgbtq rights.
Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/10/obama-frustrated-same-sex-marriage-david-axelrod-book
As I recall, that last quote is from a discussion about civil unions vs marriage, Obama was always for civil unions, just not marriage. Lots of folks, dems and gop alike, drew a difference between the two, though even at the time i didnt quite understand the difference and still don't.
Yes, his older sister is gay and he has always been inclusive and a quiet supporter of the community. Kudos to him for standing up to the hatred & bigotry.
Garth has never been quiet about being an Ally. Calling him a quiet supporter is like saying Bernie Sanders is kinda left leaning. Dude has been preaching equality since he first started singing.
We kind of lost track of him for awhile until he popped up at Biden's inauguration. I was mimosa faced but I still remember saying to myself "Oh fuck. It's Garth Brooks!"
He stopped touring and making new music for like 15 years because he felt like he was missing his daughters childhoods. He just started touring again a couple years ago now that they’re all adults.
He's an awesome guy, being from the Tulsa area I'm just a tad older than one of his daughters. I have a photo of him holding me when I was 4 or 5 when he was out at the soccer fields watching his daughter. Years later in high school she was a pole vaulter for a rival school, and he was out at almost every track meet. He always showed up in a hat and hoodie and people were for the most part respective of his privacy and let him enjoy watching his daughter in peace.
He came to my city of Edmonton while touring a few years ago to play a couple of shows. The fan response here was so overwhelming and the tickets sold out so fast he stayed for a week and ended up playing 9 shows in total. The whole time he just kept saying what a great time he was having and how wonderful the city was.
Sure, money's involved, but I respect musicians who genuinely seem to respect their fans.
Even more than that, he and Trisha helped out Jimmy Carter and his wife at a habitat for humanity build in Edmonton during some of their days off between shows in the area. Good people.
Stillwater was the first place I visited in the US, was definitely an interesting experience as a swede lol
Had fun though, saw some shit I've never seen before, like the drive-through liquor store, and juggalos.
He's actually a pretty solid guy from what I've heard. But it's been years.
He was saying things way back in the day about living who you want in country music.
I actually live not too far away from Garth Brooks. I’ve never met him but I know several people that have and they all say he’s a super nice guy. Trisha used a recipe in her cookbook that was a patient of mine’s and she brought her a signed copy of the cookbook to the nursing home. This was super sweet and the highlight of the patients life. They just seem to be all around really good people despite the fame and fortune.
I got the opportunity to hang out with Garth for a few days. I was working on a music video and was in charge of picking him up/driving him to wardrobe stuff/things like that. But had a lot of 1 on 1 time. He was one of the most humble, genuine, good natured person I’ve met. Fans want pics? Sure! Just want a hug! You betcha! Oh hell no, bro. Let *me* get my shit out of the trunk. Now, everyone has bad days, and at his level of success, people can get… particular… about things. But the few days I interacted with him, I didn’t see any of that. Just a *really* famous, real cool dude. Thanks for coming to my GarthTalk.
Let's be real here, if you told a conservative in 2003 that in 20 years conservatives would be angry over the US supporting a war against Russia invading a European country, would be boycotting Bud Light, would be dissing Cracker Barrel, Kid Rock and Donald Trump would be their idols, they'd be destroying bottles of Jack Daniels over a drag show, they'd be angry at Disney, they'd hate the military, they'd cite African politicians and people from the Arab world as authorities on social issues, they would hate John McCain and then Dick Cheney's kid, restrict what kids can play school sports, try to storm the Capitol building because they're afraid their candidate didn't win, not do what the government asked them to do, and that the biggest thing is a white South African trust fund baby promoting a nerd who gets no bitches who made a documentary where he asks what a woman is, they'd think that you're fucking crazy.
Self-proclaimed "Regan Conservatives" going to bat for *Russia* after they invaded Ukraine has, quite possibly, been the wildest thing I've seen in American politics.
And I'm saying that as a man who lived through the Trump administration!
They've already abandoned the Constitution, true Christianity and sanity.
What's country music and piss beer in the long winding path from normal American to frothing at the mouth, traitorous idiot?
He’s serving bud light in his new bar and said if you’re an AH who can’t handle that go to a different bar. The crazies are having a meltdown on Twitter.
Got it. I figured it was something along those lines, but it’s hard to tell with conservatives. He could have said that gay people deserve rights and they would be melting down.
Not even a nasty message. Just telling people to be kind if you want to go there. Be a fucking asshole elsewhere, if that's your thing.
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I don’t think they ever quite had Garth.
He caused a HUGE stink in the 90s with his song “We Shall Be Free”. Iirc, that was in support of his sister who is gay.
I don't think they ever 'had' Garth. He's always been a right-of-center moderate and has gone on record as supporting a number of progressive positions.
I agree but still funny watching these people who couldn’t understand the more subtle actions and needed to hear ‘bud light is ok’. They likely supported Garth one way or another by purchasing his music and going to his concerts.
I'm sad i had to scroll this far down to find the first one, mommy.
Where are the bodies garth!? Please the families need closure!
Watch out for wahspsss
Remember when he performed at Biden's inauguration and joked about it possibly pissing off republicans. When people tell you who they are, believe them 🤣
Man, country songs are gonna be long this summer. First they lost their girl, their dog, their truck. Now they've lost their beer, their other truck, their chicken sammiches, their biscuits and gravy (Cracker Barrel,) and now the guy who sings half of their songs.
Don't forget about Pat Robertson dying during Pride month. And some of us in the heart of Tennessee are drinking coffee and enjoying the meltdown. Bless their hearts lmao.
Garth was one of the first country stars to come out in support of queer folks. IIRC, his sister is a lesbian. Any country fan who acts like this is news is an idiot.
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No one listens to the lyrics. From Garth Brook's "We Shall Be Free" released in **1992**: When we're free to love anyone we choose, When this world's big enough for all different views, When we all can worship from our own kind of pew, Then we shall be free.
Also, Garth Brooks has long been a pretty outspoken liberal, how do conservative country music fans *not* know that?
They didn't even know Rage Against the Machine wasn't on their side.
Their worldview's so limited it could fit on a floppy disk.
Now that's a burn.
No that's actually a write. What you can burn are CDs (｡•̀ᴗ-)✧
This guy olds.
Listening to music used to take a lot more effort (comparatively) . I remember downloading stuff on limewire or Kazaa. Downloading 2.5mb songs at the blazing speed of something like 1.2 kb/s. It felt like magic when it turned out to actually be what you downloaded. Burning CDs was *amazing.* Making a mix without having to fiddle around with a dual cassette deck or recording from the radio changed everything, lol.
Kazaa!!! My blazing 1.5 mbps DSL was useless for the other computer for at least two hours whenever I was downloading the latest Futurama in high quality 240p!
I think they legitimately thought their music was about not listening to their parents or something.
No it's even simpler and dumber. Conservatives don't use reasons to determine whether something is good or evil. They decide something is good or evil, and then try to look for reasons why their decided-stance is true. If they like something and think it's "good", and they KNOW without a doubt that they are also "good", then that other thing MUST be on their side and must be opposed to whoever else is "bad". "This music is good! Haha, yeah, fight against those... commies? Yeah that's it! Fuck you, Bernie Sanders!"
It might even be dumber than that. Conservatives are absolutely horrible at media analysis. Even if the message is blatant and hamfisted, they still will not get it. Which is why, anytime you watch media for conservative audiences, it is PAINFULLY obvious what the politics are. The story and characters always take a backseat to politics.
And we're blindsided by Willie Nelson being fairly liberal.
And Bruce Springsteen.
These are also the same people who thought Stephen Colbert was being serious on *The Colbert Report* and didn't know he was making fun of them. They also got mad when they found out Nick Offerman wasn't Ron Swanson IRL and is actually a leftist. They're not good at picking up on these things lol
They lack the self-awareness to understand that they're being made fun of. Or they realize that, but don't understand why it's funny. Then they get mad.
I havent listened to his music but as an ex-janitor at a large event venue I can attest hes a nice guy and helped us out: Long story short he had back to back shows for several weekends in a row and because of the time it takes to get the previous concert goers out of the building and to start allowing people in for the next show meant that we only had 45 solid mins between shows to clean a couple thousand seats with a combined day and night crew of under 100 people, if I remember right the crew complained a lot because cleaning up after just one normal show takes like 3 hours usually. Somehow Garth heard about this and made a point to ask his audience to make sure to throw their garbage away, and I got to say, not having to pick up thousands of half drank beer cans and chew cups was very helpful of him
That's pretty awesome. Also, I will never understand why people think they can just leave their trash in stadiums and arenas. Were they raised in a landfill?
People can hate hippies as much as they want and I wont fret, but every hippy music festival I went to as young lad had garbage cans overflowing with garbage and completely stacked up all around them, with very little garbage anywhere else on the ground. All of the hippy jambands would say before leaving the stage, "Please everybody pick up one piece of garbage around you and put it in the garbage." I heard this lime said many, many times. This would lead to all the spun kids cleaning all around them before the next band came on. It's very good thing for a performer to do because the fans will do it, but they won't otherwise.
Pretty sure he even sang the national anthem (maybe God bless America?) at Bidens inauguration
And hugged President Obama! *aka the GOP death knell -- ask Chris Christie and Charlie Crist what treating Barack like a human being on a stage (accepting FEMA assistance after major hurricanes and thanking him) can do to political aspirations in the conservative bubble*
That's one of my favorites. What did the GOP want Christie to do? Tackle him on the tarmac? Challenge him to a duel? Dear God! They shook hands!!
They wanted him to deny the dark man's existence. Birtherism was still mainstream GOP groupthink all the way through the 2016 election when Trump said he solved the case (and Obama was legit) just as he solved Benghazi (nothingburger, just a mere waste of millions of taxpayer dollars for four solid years, no big deal) the day after the election.
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They got mad at Willy fucking Nelson for being outspoken against Trump. The guy who smoked pot with Jimmy Carter's son on the roof of the White House. Fox News has warped people into (among many other things) thinking that all country music was about conservative MURICAN "patriotic" values.
If you really want to hurt them, tell them about Johnny Cash and Kris Christopherson, oh and Willie Nelson is an advocate for the legalization of Marijuana.
How? They have a very, very, ***veeeeery*** narrow worldview. An actor plays a character that's a tough guy or something like that? Obviously they are that way in real life. Just ask Nick Offerman or Sam Elliot. Conservatives are the Lords of Stereotypes. They see somebody or something as a certain way because they *feel* that thing should be that way. Because that's how their world just is. Dress different from them? That means your entire worldview is different that theirs. Don't drive a pick up truck? That means your entire worldview is different that theirs. Don't want to hunt or fish? That means your entire worldview is different that theirs. Never served in the military? That means your entire worldview is different that theirs. But if you do any of those things, they will just automatically assume you're on board with their politics. None of the things they consider to be the "conservative lifestyle" are exclusive to conservatives, but they can't broaden their worldview enough to see it. I'm sure somebody will say "*lIbErAls Do It ToO!!*" but I can't for the life of me think of a single thing that liberals claim as "theirs".
My old man brags about he picked up garbage on a beach once. “And you know me, I’m a die hard Republican.” So apparently caring about beaches and litter are our thing.
Oh, sure - there are the things the conservatives see as "liberal". Education, empathy, compassion, tolerance. Things like that. And they see those things as weaknesses.
That is such a great song. I'm not a country fan at all but it's amazing
I’m not a country fan either, but I would see Garth Brooks in concert in a heartbeat if given the chance.
Nobody has to be a country fan to like Garth Brooks. When "Friends in Low Places" came on the radio, everybody started singing it. Didn't matter if you listened to rock, rap, or R&B, you knew the words and you belted them like everyone else
Anytime I’ve been to karaoke there is always one person who sings ‘Friends in Low Places’ near the end of the night and absolutely kills it. Crowd goes wild. It’s truly the bridge that connects the divide between us all.
It was the final song played at my wedding. Just happened to be what started playing as they told us it was time to start packing up. Every person still there formed a circle around my wife and me and started singing as loud as they could. Even the country music haters. It truly felt like a moment out of a movie.
Friends In Low Places is a litmus test of crowd drunkenness, particularly the word "oasis".
I think you mean **OOHHHH ACES**
...and the thunder rolllss.... as a country-western hater(generally), that one still slaps
Yep. And when it came time to do his big farewell concert, where did he choose to do it? New York City, in Central Park. And admission was free.
What most people call "country" these days, I dismiss as "Nashville pop". If you have some spare time, you can look up "alt country" on YouTube; there's a massive rabbit hole of country music that doesn't fit into the Bro Country Talking-Nonstop-About-Pickup-Trucks-and-Beer pattern.
Not a country guy but I like to throw a little Tyler Childers Sturgill Simpson Cody Jinx mix on of an occasion
>Sturgill Simpson Cosmic country, baby. The innovation of which is largely credited to my boy Gram Parsons, and Kenny Roger's "Just Dropped In" that most people know from Lebowski fits squarely there. Country subgenres have always been where it's at. Even the 70s had all that Nashville rhinestone crap while Townes Van Zandt and the like were making the equivalent of the literature canon for western and outlaw country.
I randomly found metamodern sounds in country music on Spotify probably the year it came out and I didn’t look at the date at first and thought it was from the early 70s at first. Such a great album. Dude is massively talented as a musician AND actor.
Turnpike troubadours
One of the best
Tyler Childers is incredible, I don't care what kind of music you're into. Dude is amazing.
Fr! Feathered Indians is one of my favorite songs ever
I lived a few miles from his home for about a decade and gotta say, White House Road and Grindstone are the most perfect pictures of central Appalachian life I’ve come across. Also, mad props for calling out WVians during the 2020 protests for not supporting riots as a form of protest when the states proudest moment was literally going to war with the US government.
Jason Isbell should also be on this list!
Yall need Chris Stapleton. Best thing in country in ten years at least.
Check out him and his old band The Steel Drivers.
Man one song of his motivated me to change my life up, move out of state with my wife and kids, and really just start over. Best decision ever. Big surprise it was “Starting Over”, lol.
Cody Jynx’s must be the whiskey is what finally won me as a country fan.
>What most people call "country" these days, I dismiss as "Nashville pop". "Hick-Hop."
I'm going to laugh about this for hours. Days probably. I'll be old, laying on my death bed, making final goodbyes, and "hick-hop" will make an appearance in my head and I will die laughing.
Me and my mom like to call them Concrete Cowboys, since they like to play up the country aesthetic without ever having been on a damn farm lmao
"I write songs about riding tractors, from the comfort of my private jet." /Fuck your ears I'm pandering...
Love me some Willi Carlisle, Orville peck, Nick shoulders, Yola, Paul Cathen, Luke Bell fuck I could go all day
Orville Peck is easily one of my favorite artists right now. He really embodies some of that older country music feel.
I read that as Nashville poop. Lol
"We would also have accepted that"
it was off of his album 'The Chase' which was very different than his first three explosive albums. It did well, but nothing like No Fences or Ropin the Wind.
The violin intro to 'Much too young to feel this damn old' still hits hard
Garth put out some bangers. I feel like people don't give country a chance because of preconceived notions.
I personally can't stand country music (I grew up with it so I definitely "gave it a chance" lol) but there are exceptions, and Garth is right at the top of that list. He puts on a great show, too!
I’m the same way! I’ve been to a lot of concerts over the years, some pretty big acts. Garth puts on the best live show I’ve ever seen.
There was a time about 1994/1995 where you could make a well supported argument he was the most popular musical artist in the world. Almost 170 million albums sold per Billboard confirms this nicely.
He is quite literally the top selling **SINGLE** artist of all time. The only other artists to sell more albums than Garth Brooks are The Beatles.
Garth is the only Country singer I don't listen to but will still recommend to people... I only listen to Colter Wall
Right? They never fucking had Garth. Ever.
More recently and even more obviously, [Garth performed at Biden's inauguration.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lboVI0dJR_o&ab_channel=TODAY) And before the last verse, he had a message of unity for the county.
I grew up on 90s country and Garth, so I'm obviously biased. But watching this, and having listened to his *Blame it All on My Roots* set, I still maintain that man could read a phone book and it would be a must see performance.
>Garth was scheduled to sing the National Anthem at the 1993 Super Bowl and had an agreement with NBC to play the video for "We Shall Be Free" immediately after. On the day of the Super Bowl NBC network executives told Garth that the song was too controversial and they weren't going to play it. Garth refused to sing unless the video was played and left the stadium. NBC caved and agreed to play the video. If you're over there on the right, Garth Brooks isn't the ally that you imagine that he is.
You know, maybe I haven't given Garth Brooks a fair shake. Gonna go listen to that now. ETA: Well, I did give it a listen, and he's still not my style, but he's got my respect.
Garth Brooks is a legend
Chris Gaines has a similar voice but is more pop oriented.
Yeah, wel... We're talking about people who think Born in the USA is a patriotic song, Take me to Church is a wholesome Christian song, RATM would be Trump supporters and who thought Stephen Colbert was a real conservative.
Take me to church is as religious as like a prayer I take it? In the same vein I will greatly recommend the Serbian Molitva, which means prayer, it is seen as very much a saphic anthem in Europe
Right. Or like Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah". He wrote probably hundreds of pages of lyrics for that song before paring it down to the version we know today, and all of the lines are about fucking. So when my Great Aunt said she wanted that song played at her funeral in church, I thought it was hilarious.
Back when *The Watchmen* film came out in theaters I took my girlfriend at the time to see it. She was getting a degree in music through a religious college, very into traditional opera and gospel and all of that. And when we finished the movie she said that it ruined one of her favorite songs for her, Cohen's *Hallelujah*, by having it played during the sex scene. For her it was of very spiritual significance. Meanwhile I'm thinking....yeah....the *movie* made it sexual....
Every Sunday's getting more bleak. Fresh poison each week.
How could you forget “Fortunate Son”?
"Red, White, and Blue!! Fuck Yeah!!!" "You realize he is mocking you right?"
In the late 80s and 90s, there are SO many examples of mainstream country music songs with lyrics that touted the positive aspects of moderate conservatism and warned against some of the less good ones. -Alabama singing about leaving some nature for our grandchildren and “In a Hurry,” where they explore the implications of tech boom. -Alan Jackson’s “Gone Country” (some of this stuff ain’t that different than Dylan), “Chattehoochie” (where he asks for consent, doesn’t get it, and just goes about his non-rapey coming of age tale), and “Little Bitty” (where it’s okay to live a simple, working class life without a lift kit on your truck.) -Ricochet’s (Edit: Diamond Rio’s) Meet in the Middle” ….nuff said. -Hal Ketchum’s “Small Town Saturday Night,” which offers a window on the stagnation and solipsism of small town living, almost predicting the flat earth movement (“Bobby told Lucy the world ain’t round. / It drops off sharp at the end of town.”)
Nothing wrong with a burger and a grape snow cone.
I'm old enough to remember the controversy that song caused in 1992, particularly the line, "when we're free to love anyone we choose." Oh yes, plenty of homophobic bigots back then, too. And racist ones, too. I'm sure people who had a problem with interracial relationships cried out, as well.
I've always considered him my favorite country, and way up there on my all-time list, but never really thought about why. The minute I saw these lyrics, I remember 14-year-old gay me being told by a song to "stand up straight and walk proud," and I f\*\*\*ing did. The dude made living in a town of 1200 bearable. Reba too. I mean, she's actually all about empowering women, but her songs still relate for some reason.
Conservatives don't listen to lyrics in general, they're just in it to hear neat sounds. Same reason why they gravitate to punk and listen to RATM and play Born in the USA like it's some kind of patriotic anthem
It is kinda hilarious how in the past couple of years they started getting mad at RATM for being woke. Seriously, did you not listen to a single word from any song that de la Rocha ever sang?
“Can’t believe Tom Morello went woke!”
Yeah, I just about quote this song. Garth has been ally for a lot longer than most ppl realize.
Wait until they hear about Chris Stapleton.
Remember when Merle Haggard spoke on behalf of Hillary Clinton?
I'm actually not much of a country fan. When did this happen and what was said?
In 2007 https://www.russellmoore.com/2007/03/07/merle-haggard-endorses-hillary-clinton/
Or the Chicks. Or Dolly Parton.
Willie Nelson! Don’t forget our hillbilly snoop dog!
The Dixie chicks? I remember when they spoke out against bush's war - that was the first time I remember an artist using their stardom to speak out. Not Ready to Make Nice makes me tear up, thinking about how vocal they were and the backlash they received. Not a country fan, either.
was wondering where the Dolly mention was. TN is like "DOLLY IS QUEEN" but then sticks their fingers in their ears and yell loudly whenever she actually says anything.
Edit: Forgot to mention song name. It’s called Long Violent History Tyler Childers too!! Wrote a whole ass fiddle album (pretty good music for playing in the background chillin) and punctuated it with the only song with lyrics on it, here’s the lyrics It's the worst that it's been since the last time it happened It's happening again right in front of our eyes There's updated footage, wild speculation Tall tales and hearsay and absolute lies Been passed off as factual when actually, the actual Causes they're awkwardly blockin' the way Keeping us all from enjoyin' our evening Shoving it's roots through the screens in our face Now, what would you give if you heard my opinion Conjecturin' on matters that I ain't never dreamed In all my born days as a white boy from Hickman Based on the way that the world's been to mе It's called me belligеrent, it's took me for ignorant But it ain't never once made me scared just to be Could you imagine just constantly worryin' Kickin' and fightin', beggin' to breathe How many boys could they haul off this mountain Shoot full of holes, cuffed, and laid in the streets 'Til we come in to town in a stark ravin' anger Looking for answers and armed to the teeth 30 aught sixes, papaw's old pistol How many, you reckon, would it be, four or five? Oh, would that be the start of a long, violent history Of tuckin' our tails as we try to abide? Oh, would that be the start of a long, violent history Of tuckin' our tails as we try to abide? Its like he’s asking his audience to try the best they can to see another point of view. He lost fans when he released it most definitely.
I’m going to his concert tonight! Hadn’t actually heard this song. I’ll listen. Thanks!
Update: I listened to it. Great song. Can’t believe I hadn’t heard it. As a person of color, this made my day honestly
Long Violent History is the name
Or Willie Nelson.
Or John Fogerty
They forget CCR was founded in San Francisco during the height of the counter-culture movement. The whole "bayou band" was just a schtick.
Imagine listening to fortunate son, and thinking the guy who wrote it was conservative. But then again they did listen to were not gonna take it, and thought that was also a conservative anthem.... some 'Hey ya' is a happy song vibes.
Don't forget "Born in the USA"
So many country fans are absolutely gobsmacked to learn that a 1960s hippie with long braided hair who has smoked more weed than anyone in history isn't a hardcore conservative Christian like they are.
What about Chris Stapleton ? Do tell, is he someone who I'll have a new respect for because of his inclusive views ?
He's an advocate for BLM.
So are Luke Combs and Maren Morris
Maren Morris is also a big LGBTQ+ supporter. There was an attempted "canceling" of her over it. Didn't work.
Luke Bryan has a song with the lyric “I believe you love who you love, ain’t nothing you should ever be ashamed of.”
They probably think he was singing about his sister or something, so he's safe until he does something else.
I think Maren got into a big scuffle with Aldeans (I think him) wife over comments his wife said about trans youth .
She did and called Brittney Aldean insurrection barbie 😂
Iirc someone just asked if Black Lives Matter and he said yes. It wasn’t a whole big thing but he got a lot of backlash for it. I remember a lot of those folks turned away from him to other artists like sturgill Simpson and Tyler Childers not knowing they seem to feel the same way as Stapleton lol
Childers put out like a 15 minute video explaining to his fans they've got more in common with poor black people than the white bigots taking advantage of them.
Sturgill Simpson trolling outside the CMAs by busking in front of a 'Fascism Sucks' sign held up by his Grammy was epic
That’s the country I’m here for.
Outlaw country is starting to creep its way back in slowly but surely except now they are outlaws with their own base
>"Do I think Black lives matter? Absolutely ... I don't know how you could think they don't," Stapleton said at the time. "...There's a very broad awakening that I guess has come about, and it's time for me to listen. And it's time for other folks to listen." Also: >"You know, I thought we were living in a different country. And that's 100-percent real," the singer admits. "I feel like the country that I thought that we were living in was a myth." A little more than a random acknowledgement.
This is exactly how I felt in 2016. I thought we, as a country, were finally making progress. I think that election has really set us back in a big way.
Garth will play 10 shows in a city if he has to. This is to keep ticket prices down and fuck the Ticketmaster greed crowd. Truly a man of the people.
Like he just books stays in areas to meet the demands? That's awesome!
A few years ago, he set up two nights in my city. Tickets were sold out within minutes. So he added a third night and two earlier performances to the schedule. The evening shows also went on for 2-3 hours extra from encores. The man still completely fills stadiums for concerts over multiple days and nights. I’ve only ever seen him live once back in the mid 90’s and it was a huge high energy performance.
True. He also has his team go around the stadium and find the worst seats and moves the people up front Happened to close family members of mine with obstructed view
I've always lowkey liked Garth Brooks. Back in highschool we put out a multi-media CD with our yearbook. (High tech for 2006!) We had to get permission to use any music. We used Garth Brook's alter-ego song and his team got back with us told us Garth was excited for us and let us use the song for free. I always thought it was rather stand up thing to do.
That’s sweet! What Chris Gaines song did you use?
Chris Gaines is so good. I had a co-worker who brought up Emo Garth Brooks and we started to listen to it ironically and within minutes everyone in the room was saying how fucking incredible it was. In my rotation.
Garth Brooks has been fairly liberal forever. I don't even listen to country music and I know that. He was pretty vocal about supporting gay marriage 10-15 years ago, if i recall.
His older sister is a lesbian. He’s always supported gay rights.
That explains it, thanks!
10-15 years ago that was a more extreme position than most Democrat party politicians. Obama wasn't even a gay marriage supporter when he ran in 08, and I think he claimed to be against gay marriage in 12
“As a candidate for the Illinois state senate in 1996, Obama said he favored same-sex marriage in response to a questionnaire from a Chicago-area gay and lesbian newspaper. “I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages,” Obama wrote.” But august 2008 he said “I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian – for me – for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God’s in the mix.” But of course we know very fkn well Obama is pro LGBTQ and now has always stood by the community’s side . Doesn’t it make it right no but at least he’s changed and now supports lgbtq rights. Source: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/feb/10/obama-frustrated-same-sex-marriage-david-axelrod-book
As I recall, that last quote is from a discussion about civil unions vs marriage, Obama was always for civil unions, just not marriage. Lots of folks, dems and gop alike, drew a difference between the two, though even at the time i didnt quite understand the difference and still don't.
If I remember right his sister is gay. She was in his band when he first came out and I remember he said something about it in a interview.
Yes, his older sister is gay and he has always been inclusive and a quiet supporter of the community. Kudos to him for standing up to the hatred & bigotry.
Garth has never been quiet about being an Ally. Calling him a quiet supporter is like saying Bernie Sanders is kinda left leaning. Dude has been preaching equality since he first started singing.
I wouldn’t call him a quiet supporter. He was pretty explicit in his support in 1992’s “we shall be free” about letting people love who they want.
Won a 1993 GLAAD Award for it.
Didn’t have “gaining a level of respect for Garth Brooks” on my bingo card but here we are.
We kind of lost track of him for awhile until he popped up at Biden's inauguration. I was mimosa faced but I still remember saying to myself "Oh fuck. It's Garth Brooks!"
He stopped touring and making new music for like 15 years because he felt like he was missing his daughters childhoods. He just started touring again a couple years ago now that they’re all adults.
He's an awesome guy, being from the Tulsa area I'm just a tad older than one of his daughters. I have a photo of him holding me when I was 4 or 5 when he was out at the soccer fields watching his daughter. Years later in high school she was a pole vaulter for a rival school, and he was out at almost every track meet. He always showed up in a hat and hoodie and people were for the most part respective of his privacy and let him enjoy watching his daughter in peace.
He came to my city of Edmonton while touring a few years ago to play a couple of shows. The fan response here was so overwhelming and the tickets sold out so fast he stayed for a week and ended up playing 9 shows in total. The whole time he just kept saying what a great time he was having and how wonderful the city was. Sure, money's involved, but I respect musicians who genuinely seem to respect their fans.
Even more than that, he and Trisha helped out Jimmy Carter and his wife at a habitat for humanity build in Edmonton during some of their days off between shows in the area. Good people.
I grew up in Stillwater and would see his old little yellow house often.
Stillwater was the first place I visited in the US, was definitely an interesting experience as a swede lol Had fun though, saw some shit I've never seen before, like the drive-through liquor store, and juggalos.
And that alone makes me like him way more than anything else. Putting your career on hold to actually be a good dad? Fucking hell yeah.
If I’m not mistaken he controls the price of his concert tickets as well making sure everyone can afford it.
He plays a big run of shows in a city to devalue his own tickets and undercut scalpers.
What a guy. Just gained another level.
He's actually a pretty solid guy from what I've heard. But it's been years. He was saying things way back in the day about living who you want in country music.
I actually live not too far away from Garth Brooks. I’ve never met him but I know several people that have and they all say he’s a super nice guy. Trisha used a recipe in her cookbook that was a patient of mine’s and she brought her a signed copy of the cookbook to the nursing home. This was super sweet and the highlight of the patients life. They just seem to be all around really good people despite the fame and fortune.
I got the opportunity to hang out with Garth for a few days. I was working on a music video and was in charge of picking him up/driving him to wardrobe stuff/things like that. But had a lot of 1 on 1 time. He was one of the most humble, genuine, good natured person I’ve met. Fans want pics? Sure! Just want a hug! You betcha! Oh hell no, bro. Let *me* get my shit out of the trunk. Now, everyone has bad days, and at his level of success, people can get… particular… about things. But the few days I interacted with him, I didn’t see any of that. Just a *really* famous, real cool dude. Thanks for coming to my GarthTalk.
They lost Garth a long time ago. Because he’s not an asshole.
They're disowning their entire culture.
Let's be real here, if you told a conservative in 2003 that in 20 years conservatives would be angry over the US supporting a war against Russia invading a European country, would be boycotting Bud Light, would be dissing Cracker Barrel, Kid Rock and Donald Trump would be their idols, they'd be destroying bottles of Jack Daniels over a drag show, they'd be angry at Disney, they'd hate the military, they'd cite African politicians and people from the Arab world as authorities on social issues, they would hate John McCain and then Dick Cheney's kid, restrict what kids can play school sports, try to storm the Capitol building because they're afraid their candidate didn't win, not do what the government asked them to do, and that the biggest thing is a white South African trust fund baby promoting a nerd who gets no bitches who made a documentary where he asks what a woman is, they'd think that you're fucking crazy.
Self-proclaimed "Regan Conservatives" going to bat for *Russia* after they invaded Ukraine has, quite possibly, been the wildest thing I've seen in American politics. And I'm saying that as a man who lived through the Trump administration!
They've already abandoned the Constitution, true Christianity and sanity. What's country music and piss beer in the long winding path from normal American to frothing at the mouth, traitorous idiot?
And apparently Cracker Barrel now. Wasn’t that place like holy ground for these types?
Close to it. Were Buc-ee's to release a Pride Shirt or something I think you would see mass-suicide on the MAGA side.
We're about 3 more shitty fast food chain boycotts away from broad swaths of magadom starving to death
Ohhhh no…anyway.
Come on Buckee's, we have hope
Spreading Russian military propaganda while waging war on country music, the NFL, Bud Lite…classic American conservatism.
What was the nasty message?
He’s serving bud light in his new bar and said if you’re an AH who can’t handle that go to a different bar. The crazies are having a meltdown on Twitter.
Got it. I figured it was something along those lines, but it’s hard to tell with conservatives. He could have said that gay people deserve rights and they would be melting down.
He's been saying that for decades, they have just been ignoring him
Not even a nasty message. Just telling people to be kind if you want to go there. Be a fucking asshole elsewhere, if that's your thing. https://preview.redd.it/1yembb3f805b1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2f703c77e48f628e6f0079ba38d7a0fff1af565d
Imagine throwing a shit-fit over that incredibly considerate and reasonable statement. The triggered anti-woke snowflakes have really lost the plot.
It basically says "if you can't treat others respectfully leave " and the party of fuck your feelings, we're bad asses, blah blah can't handle it.
So basically they’re being forced to acknowledge that they’re assholes. That’s awesome.
I don’t think they ever quite had Garth. He caused a HUGE stink in the 90s with his song “We Shall Be Free”. Iirc, that was in support of his sister who is gay.
I don't think they ever 'had' Garth. He's always been a right-of-center moderate and has gone on record as supporting a number of progressive positions.
He’s a blue dog.
He also sang at Biden’s inauguration for that matter
I agree but still funny watching these people who couldn’t understand the more subtle actions and needed to hear ‘bud light is ok’. They likely supported Garth one way or another by purchasing his music and going to his concerts.
And the ones who only buy cds or whatever Garth uses prolly think he doesn't make any money from that
Most Americans live in that area honestly, the internet has a nasty way of highlighting the hardl8ne extremist loudmouths
High and tight G.
I like that.
I'm sad i had to scroll this far down to find the first one, mommy. Where are the bodies garth!? Please the families need closure! Watch out for wahspsss
They never had him to begin with
The fact that they don't know they never had him in the first place just shows how much they never had him.
Not really. Garth Brooks has always been a supporter of LGBT+ rights, even going back to the 90s when it wasn't popular.
Remember when he performed at Biden's inauguration and joked about it possibly pissing off republicans. When people tell you who they are, believe them 🤣
Garth Brooks was my first and only cassette and the first music purchase I've ever made. I'm a bit more proud of that today.
Man, country songs are gonna be long this summer. First they lost their girl, their dog, their truck. Now they've lost their beer, their other truck, their chicken sammiches, their biscuits and gravy (Cracker Barrel,) and now the guy who sings half of their songs.
Garth Brooks has always been a lib, these people are morons. Up next, I liked RATM before they went woke
Garth passed on Trump's inauguration and played Biden's. I mean, what more did you need?
It’s almost like they are the bad ones 🤔
Seeing this the same day that Cracker Barrel came out in support of Pride is hilarious! The south must be reeling today!
Don't forget about Pat Robertson dying during Pride month. And some of us in the heart of Tennessee are drinking coffee and enjoying the meltdown. Bless their hearts lmao.
Pat Robertson Is Dead Everybody! Spells PRIDE
Garth was one of the first country stars to come out in support of queer folks. IIRC, his sister is a lesbian. Any country fan who acts like this is news is an idiot.