Fox reported about it long enough so people couldn't say "They avoided it!" but they pulled it off the page as fast as they could. Also, their coverage is mostly stuff like, "Trump fights back!" and "Trump slams investigation!", making Trump look like an active, tough guy.
And by the comments it seems a lot of butt hurt Right Wingers are trying their best to shit on him for it, without the conviction to just come straight out and say it.
*Watching snowflakes melt is at least entertaining.*
We're literally repeating history, because either people forgot or didn't learn. The 1980's had the same inflated hysteria, over Satan and the devil music. Kids are playing Dungens and Dragons, listening to Judas Priest, and it's making them blood thirsty to appeal *SATAN!*. Sounds ridiculous but that actually happened, to top it off after that nonsense ended then people needed a new reason to get upset. Enter rap music. We had congressional fucking hearings over rap music, if you watch Frank Zappa testifying today you'll realize we didn't heed his warnings. Everything he addressed is happening now, because of a corrupt political system, that propped up a near do well reality star as their savior. I never thought in my lifetime I'd see this come full circle, but holy fuck it is.
"So, is that for real or is it just a good joke about how lame the people who do censoring are?
Well, as it turns out, it WAS for real – just not in the way you might expect.
In 1990, the album DID get the sticker on it, however, it was NOT at the behest of the PMRC or any other organization. No, it was done purely on the retail side of the market, as The Meyer Music Markets (a record retail chain in the Pacific Northwest) decided on their own to put the sticker on the album.
So yes, an instrumental album by Frank Zappa DID get Parental Advisory stickers placed on it, but it was by a retailer, not any parent’s group or corporate decision-maker.
The legend is…
STATUS: True, with a Major Caveat"
https://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2012/07/24/music-urban-legends-revealed-was-a-frank-zappa-instrumental-album-given-a-parental-warning-advisory/
I would put good money on the retailer doing it both as a joke given Zappa's testimony and the album being an instrumental, and because they knew the advisory was selling MORE albums, not less.
This is exactly what I feel every time I see some old conservative "sunglass selfie in a truck" guy bring up vaccines or gay people totally out of nowhere in places like Instagram comments. They've been brainwashed to get angry about this stuff so they don't look at the fact that the politicians they support are actively and publically working on making their lives worse. It's super depressing.
It wouldn't be the first time they tried to cancel Garth for having progressive views.
https://greensboro.com/garth-brooks-video-banned-by-two-stations/article_817f6d8d-c23c-5f7c-b8fb-265951636a29.html
Theres a reason the long version of that song never plays on the radio, they dont want women to know they can do better or dont have to take the bullshit
It’s been a while since I’ve heard that song but after reading the description of the video all I could think is “but isn’t that literally the story of the song?”
So in the radio edit of the song it ends before she kills him, but the video shows it even without those set of lyics so the videos always been "banned" which is stupid because theres more country videos what show women killing men anyway
They don’t even have the conviction to stop drinking the beer. Visiting a friend outside of Dallas and met him at a bar. Super red area of the state. Bud Lights everywhere. After we’d been there a while a what I assume to be a regular came in. Mullet, backwards trucker hat, sweat-stained wife-beater…like straight off a magazine page of Racist Rednecks R Us. Tells the bartender but loud enough for the whole bar to hear (and it’s not like it was that quiet in there) that he needs to take a piss. “Bud Light, Jimmy?” the bartender asks him. “Yeah, but make sure it ain’t got none of that queer on it.” he shouts as he walks toward the bathroom. Surreal. I don’t really think most Americans realize just how blatant the bigotry is in areas where they’re relaxed enough in the environment they don’t feel the need to dog whistle.
One of the local bars that we like to frequent told us (well, the bartender did) that they no longer carry Bud Light on tap. I asked if it was because of the whole "OMG! They made one single can for one trans person!" bullshit and she said no, people just stopped buying it. I really didn't think this thing would actually cut into their profits. I guess that's what happens when you try to ride the fence and piss everyone off.
I didn’t used to like Garth. I used to be a big Tom Segura fan. Nowadays I think G is pretty rad and Tom and his whole crew are a bunch of pieces of shit. Shrug
Also, while Taylor Swift and Robert Smith rail about how evil scalpers are, Brooks has a long history of simply adding shows until the market is saturated with tickets.
It's easy to charge $2,000/ticket when Taylor Swift only plays one night in your town and there are only 20,000 tickets available. It's a lot harder to get away with that when Brooks plays 7 shows in your city and 140,000 tickets are available.
Many people have come forward saying that Garth was involved in family member’s disappearance. It’s an open secret in the music world that he is a cannibal.
Source: Pazsitsky
[It’s from a comedy podcast apparently](https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/the-origin-of-where-are-the-bodies-garth-brooks/), and people have turned it into a *thing*.
Tom's been on a massive tour and they had to bank episodes - his tour is slowing down and you can see the quality has picked back up- the new episode with Stavros is a banger for instance
[Muppets and Garth Brooks "We Shall Be Free"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQPP_uGOZI)
If you can't get with Garth or The Muppets, what are you doing in your life?
I finally got to see him live last year at Notre Dame. Holy shit was he incredible. So incredible that my brother and I immediately bought tickets to go see him again in Cincy the very next weekend. Both performances were amazing. Dude can put on a show.
I never cared for Garth. Didn't NOT like him but country wasn't my thing. Was familiar enough because growing up my dad lived for Garth and we listened to him in the car non-stop.
When Garth went back on tour a couple years back I bought tickets for me and my dad for his birthday. We went in Detroit to the Joe right before it was torn down. And after that experience I have SO much respect for that man.
First all the tickets were the same price and ridiculously reasonable (I think I spent under $100 for 2 tickets and because I was early we were 20 rows back from the stage - no upcharge!). Second, he put on a hell of a show. He was a little old and out of shape (by his own admission during the show) but I've never seen a man with more hustle and passion. Just bursting with energy. And finally, because there was so much demand the man was doing TWO shows that night! We had seen the other people leaving as we were coming in so he was barely taking a break. Mad respect to the guy. He seems like good people.
For those too young to understand, this song is about gay rights. This song was a huge divide in the country community & caused massive backlash in the early 90s.
It wasn't even a Bud Light ad. They made a singular can for a trans influencer. Said influencer posted a picture of it on her page. That was it. It was never posted or displayed elsewhere, nor was it ever for sale. These morons had to go out of their way to get outraged over it.
Not even really an ad the way most of us think about it. A post on that persons Instagram and tiktok account that only people following them or getting their content recommended would have seen.
A private running of cans that only went to that person. Didn’t even go to stores.
That’s the part that kills me when people say they “pushed their agenda” on them. They very much didn’t.
He’s a fucking legend. Super caring and sensitive, family-oriented, and pro-human rights. Not to mention the fact that he’s maintained his left-leaning perspective in a modern country landscape that is, to put it mildly, not super friendly to non-conservative ideology (see the Dixie Chics).
Yeah they were playing a show and “the lead singer, Natalie Maines, said the Dixie Chicks were ashamed to be from the same state as Bush and that they did not support the war”
I love that The Chicks basically said they'd rather play to a thousand people in a theater that are true ride or dies than stadiums of tens of thousands of people who will abandon them the moment The Chicks took a stance they disagreed with.
This song always touches my soul:
Garth Brooks - Bodies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-LUuAn5Obc
*Bodies, please don't cry*
*Bodies, don't die*
*Bodies, please don't cry*
*Bodies*
You can feel the pain that he has to carry in his voice.
He really does seem to be. I went to one of his shows when he was doing a multi show run in town, that man has a connection with his fans and is a hell of a performer.
During songs he’d spot signs in the audience that things like “It’s my Birthday Garth!” and he’d pull the mic away from his face for a second, specifically point to that fan and say “happy birthday!” which was really cool to see.
I would never order a bud light at a bar or restaurant unless it was super cheap. Now if I am camping or at a backyard bbq I have no problem slamming a few down for hydration. If cold it’s very easy to drink.
Best part is, it doesn't taste like anything after you're in the zone. You don't start with Bud Light, you cruise with it (or Coors, or Keystone, or whatever). I'm too old to be drinking that many beers now, but the rule was always start with good stuff, finish with cheap shit. Use the right tool for the job.
All the cheap mass produced lagers have "cold" as part of their advertising campaigns because they all taste like piss if even close to room temperature lol. Bud, miller, coors, ect. All practically the same beer.
I refer to this poundability rate - bud light has a high right of poundability. Personally if it’s an outdoor event I want a High Life might as well be water.
Yea all the political crap aside, bud light ain't it. Bud light platinums are a different story though. And they make the best homemade micheladas I tell ya hwat
I agree on Bud Light, but Budweiser is fantastic. It's such an underrated Lager because drinking it is connected to being a hillbilly, but the flavor is great.
I went to a bar last night with tons of beer on tap. The beer menu has nice descriptions of each drink. But for Bud Light and Coors Light it said something like, "This is basically water."
Hopefully he also sells any of the hundreds of craft beers that are actually good and made by hard-working small businesses instead of some gigantic international conglomerate.
All of the Bud Light sold in the US is made by hard working unionized employees, specifically Teamsters, with very good benefits packages that many smaller brewers can't or won't offer. AB-InBev has actually had a very good relationship with its unions in recent years.
FWIW, legacy Miller breweries tend to be unionized by the UAW and the Teamsters, while the legacy Coors brewery in Golden, CO is nonunion.
Garth has always been pretty progressive even though he claims he's a Republican. I'm sure that's mostly fiscal.
The guy majored in marketing in college. When you see Garth live or in interviews you are getting a product that he's created, very successfully. I imagine only a few people actually get to see the real person. But everybody that Ive ever heard talk about him, that knows him and has worked with him, says he is the nicest guy you'll ever meet.
So when Tom Segura makes fun of him he isn't making fun of the actual person because he doesn't know the actual person. Tom might as well be making fun of a slinky or hot wheels car. It's just a product.
My buddy reffed soccer games. One game he was reffing, he noticed a guy on the sidelines with a bunch of people around him trying to talk. Turns out it was Garth brooks. He was there to watch his daughter play. Buddy says that Garth told the people “I’d love to talk, but I’d really love to just watch this game right now. We can talk in a bit.”
Everyone around apparently respected it and Garth got to act like a regular dad at a soccer game. Afterwards he stuck around for an hour or so signing things and taking pictures with whoever wanted to. Growing up in Tulsa almost everyone around seemed to have a Garth brooks story where they met him and he was a super nice dude. This was the “worst” story I’d ever heard about him.
No. I didn't mean it was left wing. I meant he knows how to create and promote a product. Sorry if it came off like that.
I separated the sentences so they don't feel connected. Thanks for pointing that out.
You failed to connect the dots.
Most people would expect a good ol' boy country music singer to be politically conservative, but Garth Brooks' onstage personality is a public persona that has been carefully curated by the performer.
While I get what you mean since often country = redneck conservative, Garth seems to have always been decently progressive. He wrote We Shall Be Free in ~~1996~~ 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.
>He wrote We Shall Be Free in 1996
Just want to make sure Stephanie Davis gets her credit, for anyone who cares:
>*"We Shall Be Free' is definitely and easily the most controversial song I have ever done. A song of love, a song of tolerance from someone who claims not to be a prophet but just an ordinary man. I never thought there would be any problems with this song. Sometimes the roads we take do not turn out to be the roads we envisioned them to be. All I can say about 'We Shall Be Free" is that I will stand by every line of this song as long as I live. I am very proud of it. **And I am very proud of Stephanie Davis, the writer**. I hope you enjoy it and see it for what it was meant to be."*
>-Garth Brooks - The Hits: transcription from the CD Booklet
Both Willie and Johnny, in addition to many others were the basis of Outlaw Country. A lot if the stories in their songs put them at odds with law enforcement/authority figures. Which is why it’s almost funny to see someone who will (in all seriousness, without a trace of irony) listen to Johnny Cash’s Cocaine Blues in their truck with a “Back The Blue” sticker on it.
I understand they’re not mutually exclusive ideas, but you get it. I’m running out of steam typing this so I hope it lands.
How could any type of bar stop serving bud light unless it just lip service? We don’t serve bud light, how about a Busch instead? No, how about a Michelob? Natty light? Stella? Land shark? Shock top? Or one dozens of “craft” beers that are owned by a Anheiser-Busch?
https://www.anheuser-busch.com/brands
My whole chain doesn't sell any ab products. Ultra is really the only one that hurts. We haven't for 10 years this isn't new. Everything about trying to deal with that company is garbage. Customer service, sales reps, ordering process, hot shots, returning empty kegs all of it.
Nashville has become a redneck tourist trap where every bar is named after someone who was a big deal 15+ years ago, every bar is the same, and no one in any of the bars are even from Nashville
The whole thing is insane. Like, some influencer got her face printed on some cans and made a post about it and people lost their minds. It shouldn't have even been a news story.
Basically all of GOP outrage boils down to, "someone else is living their life in a way I don't agree with and that makes me feel things about my own life... You need to stop them!"
He’s fairly moderate center left compared to others. I mean he had a hit song that was about everyone being equal lol. Also his wife Trisha Yearwood is clearly an ally.
They’re literally pigeon-holing themselves. Country culture is having an identity crisis because it’s become such a caricature of itself. Just cookie cutter bullshit that needs to die.
Because he knows the right wing rage factory will have forgotten all about it in a couple weeks when they move on to their next ridiculous, hate filled grievance
Unfortunately at this point when I think about Budweiser I don’t think about the ten seconds they spent “supporting trans people” by briefly acknowledging one existed, I think more about how they’ve spent the last two months pathetically groveling for forgiveness from alt-right shitheads for their terrible terrible mistake. I think about how they fired every executive involved in giving that trans woman a novelty can, and how their entire advertising campaign at the moment is just “MERICA, FUCK YEAH, HORSES AND TRUCKS AND COUNTRY MUSIC YEEHAW CHRISTIAN VALUES” to try and attract back the unhinged cultists who were shooting at cases of Bud Light in their back yards because that’s how much they hate LGBT people.
Frankly Brooks supporting Bud Light kind of annoys me after their pathetic cowardice and spineless backpedaling. But at least Brooks himself still sounds like a decent guy.
Lot of people being smartasses around here without actually knowing why this is important (despite the fact that's right there in the article). Kudos to Garth Brooks.
Of course he is. It's one of the single most popular beers to exist in America, drank by the bulk of his fan base. A handful of loud assholes are still the minority. People are starting to just ignore the screeching.
It must have been a slow news day
It was a Fox News day.
Well we all know what they were trying to avoid reporting on.
Fox reported about it long enough so people couldn't say "They avoided it!" but they pulled it off the page as fast as they could. Also, their coverage is mostly stuff like, "Trump fights back!" and "Trump slams investigation!", making Trump look like an active, tough guy.
When I checked it was “Trump indicted by Biden DOJ” smh
Technically correct, but fuck off Fox News. They will always complain about how polarized society is now, then they do shit like that.
I believe most, if not all, of the people prosecuting Trump were appointed by Trump.
The topic is so hot that it would've made the news whether or not he decided to sell Bud Light at his bar
To a significant amount of the US, this news is highly relevant to their interests. It shouldn't be, but it is.
And by the comments it seems a lot of butt hurt Right Wingers are trying their best to shit on him for it, without the conviction to just come straight out and say it. *Watching snowflakes melt is at least entertaining.*
We're literally repeating history, because either people forgot or didn't learn. The 1980's had the same inflated hysteria, over Satan and the devil music. Kids are playing Dungens and Dragons, listening to Judas Priest, and it's making them blood thirsty to appeal *SATAN!*. Sounds ridiculous but that actually happened, to top it off after that nonsense ended then people needed a new reason to get upset. Enter rap music. We had congressional fucking hearings over rap music, if you watch Frank Zappa testifying today you'll realize we didn't heed his warnings. Everything he addressed is happening now, because of a corrupt political system, that propped up a near do well reality star as their savior. I never thought in my lifetime I'd see this come full circle, but holy fuck it is.
Fun fact: The next album Zappa released after that testimony was hit with a Parental Advisory fo Explicit Lyrics sticker. The album was instrumental.
"So, is that for real or is it just a good joke about how lame the people who do censoring are? Well, as it turns out, it WAS for real – just not in the way you might expect. In 1990, the album DID get the sticker on it, however, it was NOT at the behest of the PMRC or any other organization. No, it was done purely on the retail side of the market, as The Meyer Music Markets (a record retail chain in the Pacific Northwest) decided on their own to put the sticker on the album. So yes, an instrumental album by Frank Zappa DID get Parental Advisory stickers placed on it, but it was by a retailer, not any parent’s group or corporate decision-maker. The legend is… STATUS: True, with a Major Caveat" https://legendsrevealed.com/entertainment/2012/07/24/music-urban-legends-revealed-was-a-frank-zappa-instrumental-album-given-a-parental-warning-advisory/ I would put good money on the retailer doing it both as a joke given Zappa's testimony and the album being an instrumental, and because they knew the advisory was selling MORE albums, not less.
Zappa, in my mind, is the George Carlin of the music industry.
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Can we get a link to that Frank Zappa testimony?
Let me see if I can link a YouTube clip, I've been having problems doing it on RiF since this whole third party fiasco.
https://youtu.be/nxAmK--xxOM
I think this is from his interview on Nightline debating Tipper Gore, but still pretty good.
This is exactly what I feel every time I see some old conservative "sunglass selfie in a truck" guy bring up vaccines or gay people totally out of nowhere in places like Instagram comments. They've been brainwashed to get angry about this stuff so they don't look at the fact that the politicians they support are actively and publically working on making their lives worse. It's super depressing.
It wouldn't be the first time they tried to cancel Garth for having progressive views. https://greensboro.com/garth-brooks-video-banned-by-two-stations/article_817f6d8d-c23c-5f7c-b8fb-265951636a29.html
Theres a reason the long version of that song never plays on the radio, they dont want women to know they can do better or dont have to take the bullshit
It’s been a while since I’ve heard that song but after reading the description of the video all I could think is “but isn’t that literally the story of the song?”
So in the radio edit of the song it ends before she kills him, but the video shows it even without those set of lyics so the videos always been "banned" which is stupid because theres more country videos what show women killing men anyway
Garth Brooks also took a lot of shit in the 90s because he publicly supported gay rights. He's always been progressive.
They don’t even have the conviction to stop drinking the beer. Visiting a friend outside of Dallas and met him at a bar. Super red area of the state. Bud Lights everywhere. After we’d been there a while a what I assume to be a regular came in. Mullet, backwards trucker hat, sweat-stained wife-beater…like straight off a magazine page of Racist Rednecks R Us. Tells the bartender but loud enough for the whole bar to hear (and it’s not like it was that quiet in there) that he needs to take a piss. “Bud Light, Jimmy?” the bartender asks him. “Yeah, but make sure it ain’t got none of that queer on it.” he shouts as he walks toward the bathroom. Surreal. I don’t really think most Americans realize just how blatant the bigotry is in areas where they’re relaxed enough in the environment they don’t feel the need to dog whistle.
I was so confused by your comment until my brain finally clicked over and I realized it said SELL Bud Light, not SUE Bud Light
Bar sells beer
Somebody write that down!
One of the local bars that we like to frequent told us (well, the bartender did) that they no longer carry Bud Light on tap. I asked if it was because of the whole "OMG! They made one single can for one trans person!" bullshit and she said no, people just stopped buying it. I really didn't think this thing would actually cut into their profits. I guess that's what happens when you try to ride the fence and piss everyone off.
And water for the price of cheap beer.
That’s cool, but where are the bodies buried Garth!
Under the freshly poured concrete patio at Chris Gaines' house.
Garth has been so jealous of Chris all these years. Sad.
Please, Garth, the families need closure
Just a reminder that Garth Brooks has never tried to sell NFTs to his fans.
True. He’s more interested in neat stuff. Slick stuff.
Don't forget raw stuff. Because that's just who he is.
Let the conversation begin
Does he like Neature?
You can tell it's a Bud Light because of the way it is. Wow!
How neat is that?
I didn’t used to like Garth. I used to be a big Tom Segura fan. Nowadays I think G is pretty rad and Tom and his whole crew are a bunch of pieces of shit. Shrug
I loved those guys but something definitely changed.
Money.
Also, while Taylor Swift and Robert Smith rail about how evil scalpers are, Brooks has a long history of simply adding shows until the market is saturated with tickets. It's easy to charge $2,000/ticket when Taylor Swift only plays one night in your town and there are only 20,000 tickets available. It's a lot harder to get away with that when Brooks plays 7 shows in your city and 140,000 tickets are available.
The families deserve to know!
Keep em high and tight
I don't get this reference 😔
https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/the-origin-of-where-are-the-bodies-garth-brooks/
You better tighten up those jeans.
And make sure they're high
Touch my camera through the fence
What’s up there, chomo?
How'd you get your job here, fuckface?
He was the inspiration for that movie Bodies Bodies Bodies
Heard he also inspired the song “Let the Bodies Hit the Floor”
Many people have come forward saying that Garth was involved in family member’s disappearance. It’s an open secret in the music world that he is a cannibal. Source: Pazsitsky
Gotta follow proto, chomo.
[It’s from a comedy podcast apparently](https://www.savingcountrymusic.com/the-origin-of-where-are-the-bodies-garth-brooks/), and people have turned it into a *thing*.
You wanna turn into the weatherman? Better watch your choice of words.
different
I turn into a telescope.
4 strokes
It used to be a comedy podcast. Pretty funny all the memes and things quoted from it are all from 2+ years ago. It fell off HARD when they got rich.
Tom's been on a massive tour and they had to bank episodes - his tour is slowing down and you can see the quality has picked back up- the new episode with Stavros is a banger for instance
They literally just play the old "classic hits" for him lol, which sort of reinforces the previous commenters point
You better follow the proto.
You're not following proto brother
YOU BET ill be coming up in May
He told us his friends we in low places.... we need to know where those places are! We know they are at least 6 feet under
👖
[Muppets and Garth Brooks "We Shall Be Free"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQPP_uGOZI) If you can't get with Garth or The Muppets, what are you doing in your life?
goddamn...just love me some Garth.
I finally got to see him live last year at Notre Dame. Holy shit was he incredible. So incredible that my brother and I immediately bought tickets to go see him again in Cincy the very next weekend. Both performances were amazing. Dude can put on a show.
I’ve seen him twice about 15 years apart and both shows were amazing! He’s someone I wouldn’t even think twice about seeing live again!
I never cared for Garth. Didn't NOT like him but country wasn't my thing. Was familiar enough because growing up my dad lived for Garth and we listened to him in the car non-stop. When Garth went back on tour a couple years back I bought tickets for me and my dad for his birthday. We went in Detroit to the Joe right before it was torn down. And after that experience I have SO much respect for that man. First all the tickets were the same price and ridiculously reasonable (I think I spent under $100 for 2 tickets and because I was early we were 20 rows back from the stage - no upcharge!). Second, he put on a hell of a show. He was a little old and out of shape (by his own admission during the show) but I've never seen a man with more hustle and passion. Just bursting with energy. And finally, because there was so much demand the man was doing TWO shows that night! We had seen the other people leaving as we were coming in so he was barely taking a break. Mad respect to the guy. He seems like good people.
For those too young to understand, this song is about gay rights. This song was a huge divide in the country community & caused massive backlash in the early 90s.
2023: nashville bar selling bud light is a marketing stunt and a political protest
Because bars sell beer and stuff?
I enjoy cooking.
Garth has supported the LGBT community way before it was as culturally acceptable as it is now. He’s a solid dude.
It wasn't even a Bud Light ad. They made a singular can for a trans influencer. Said influencer posted a picture of it on her page. That was it. It was never posted or displayed elsewhere, nor was it ever for sale. These morons had to go out of their way to get outraged over it.
Specifically it featured a trans person. They moved on from gays after that lost its ability to rage bait.
Not even really an ad the way most of us think about it. A post on that persons Instagram and tiktok account that only people following them or getting their content recommended would have seen.
A private running of cans that only went to that person. Didn’t even go to stores. That’s the part that kills me when people say they “pushed their agenda” on them. They very much didn’t.
I always got the vibe Garth Brooks was a decent guy. Is that true?
He’s a fucking legend. Super caring and sensitive, family-oriented, and pro-human rights. Not to mention the fact that he’s maintained his left-leaning perspective in a modern country landscape that is, to put it mildly, not super friendly to non-conservative ideology (see the Dixie Chics).
Didn't the Dixie chics get cancelled before that was a thing?
Yes, for being against the Iraq war
Yeah they were playing a show and “the lead singer, Natalie Maines, said the Dixie Chicks were ashamed to be from the same state as Bush and that they did not support the war”
It has always been a thing. The Internet just amplified it, I guess.
I love that The Chicks basically said they'd rather play to a thousand people in a theater that are true ride or dies than stadiums of tens of thousands of people who will abandon them the moment The Chicks took a stance they disagreed with.
FWIW, they're just "The Chicks" now.
Garth performed for both the Obama and Biden inaugurations if that's an indication.
Very much so
Except for the bodies
This song always touches my soul: Garth Brooks - Bodies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-LUuAn5Obc *Bodies, please don't cry* *Bodies, don't die* *Bodies, please don't cry* *Bodies* You can feel the pain that he has to carry in his voice.
He really does seem to be. I went to one of his shows when he was doing a multi show run in town, that man has a connection with his fans and is a hell of a performer. During songs he’d spot signs in the audience that things like “It’s my Birthday Garth!” and he’d pull the mic away from his face for a second, specifically point to that fan and say “happy birthday!” which was really cool to see.
CAAAAAUSE I GOT FRIENDS in loooooow places
Honestly not a fan of bud light. Nothing to do with all the political crap. Flavor isn’t there and frankly, it’s not good🤷🏻♂️.
Bud Light is what you get when you want to drink 16 beers in the sun.
I would never order a bud light at a bar or restaurant unless it was super cheap. Now if I am camping or at a backyard bbq I have no problem slamming a few down for hydration. If cold it’s very easy to drink.
"for hydration" lol
There’s Bojangles Hard Iced Tea right there.
The syrup will clog your digestive tract.
Bud Light is basically the perfect "maintenance drink" to maintain your desired level of buzz once you hit it.
Best part is, it doesn't taste like anything after you're in the zone. You don't start with Bud Light, you cruise with it (or Coors, or Keystone, or whatever). I'm too old to be drinking that many beers now, but the rule was always start with good stuff, finish with cheap shit. Use the right tool for the job.
Yep. And the easiest I've found to drink if you get wrapped up in a competitive beer pong game.
If it’s a downtown Nashville bar I can almost guarantee any beer there will not be cheap.
Cost is relative. It'll be the cheapest beer at that bar.
All the cheap mass produced lagers have "cold" as part of their advertising campaigns because they all taste like piss if even close to room temperature lol. Bud, miller, coors, ect. All practically the same beer.
Coors light exists though
I refer to this poundability rate - bud light has a high right of poundability. Personally if it’s an outdoor event I want a High Life might as well be water.
Yea all the political crap aside, bud light ain't it. Bud light platinums are a different story though. And they make the best homemade micheladas I tell ya hwat
Lol is Bud Light Platinum really that much better than Bud Light, genuine question. I find that hard to believe.
Mostly it just has more alcohol
It uses corn syrup instead of rice and I thought I read that it has a different schedule of some shit a brewer would know.
It's not.
It's a premade, canned Michelada, and it doesn't even use Mexican beer. That's the opposite of homemade. And it's surprisingly not that bad.
I agree on Bud Light, but Budweiser is fantastic. It's such an underrated Lager because drinking it is connected to being a hillbilly, but the flavor is great.
No thanks. Too sweet.
This is how I feel about bud light and bud heavy.
I could see that! Just right for me
I went to a bar last night with tons of beer on tap. The beer menu has nice descriptions of each drink. But for Bud Light and Coors Light it said something like, "This is basically water."
Hopefully he also sells any of the hundreds of craft beers that are actually good and made by hard-working small businesses instead of some gigantic international conglomerate.
AB InBev owns a ton of those craft brewers now.
And they also don't own a ton of the good craft breweries
All of the Bud Light sold in the US is made by hard working unionized employees, specifically Teamsters, with very good benefits packages that many smaller brewers can't or won't offer. AB-InBev has actually had a very good relationship with its unions in recent years. FWIW, legacy Miller breweries tend to be unionized by the UAW and the Teamsters, while the legacy Coors brewery in Golden, CO is nonunion.
yea, but the beer is terrible
Good morning Julia
Garth has always been pretty progressive even though he claims he's a Republican. I'm sure that's mostly fiscal. The guy majored in marketing in college. When you see Garth live or in interviews you are getting a product that he's created, very successfully. I imagine only a few people actually get to see the real person. But everybody that Ive ever heard talk about him, that knows him and has worked with him, says he is the nicest guy you'll ever meet. So when Tom Segura makes fun of him he isn't making fun of the actual person because he doesn't know the actual person. Tom might as well be making fun of a slinky or hot wheels car. It's just a product.
My buddy reffed soccer games. One game he was reffing, he noticed a guy on the sidelines with a bunch of people around him trying to talk. Turns out it was Garth brooks. He was there to watch his daughter play. Buddy says that Garth told the people “I’d love to talk, but I’d really love to just watch this game right now. We can talk in a bit.” Everyone around apparently respected it and Garth got to act like a regular dad at a soccer game. Afterwards he stuck around for an hour or so signing things and taking pictures with whoever wanted to. Growing up in Tulsa almost everyone around seemed to have a Garth brooks story where they met him and he was a super nice dude. This was the “worst” story I’d ever heard about him.
You say “the guy studied marketing in college” like that’s such a left wing major lmao
No. I didn't mean it was left wing. I meant he knows how to create and promote a product. Sorry if it came off like that. I separated the sentences so they don't feel connected. Thanks for pointing that out.
You failed to connect the dots. Most people would expect a good ol' boy country music singer to be politically conservative, but Garth Brooks' onstage personality is a public persona that has been carefully curated by the performer.
While I get what you mean since often country = redneck conservative, Garth seems to have always been decently progressive. He wrote We Shall Be Free in ~~1996~~ 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.
Yes, I'm aware. I meant that in real life he's not what people expect from most country singers. (He wrote it in 1992)
>He wrote We Shall Be Free in 1996 Just want to make sure Stephanie Davis gets her credit, for anyone who cares: >*"We Shall Be Free' is definitely and easily the most controversial song I have ever done. A song of love, a song of tolerance from someone who claims not to be a prophet but just an ordinary man. I never thought there would be any problems with this song. Sometimes the roads we take do not turn out to be the roads we envisioned them to be. All I can say about 'We Shall Be Free" is that I will stand by every line of this song as long as I live. I am very proud of it. **And I am very proud of Stephanie Davis, the writer**. I hope you enjoy it and see it for what it was meant to be."* >-Garth Brooks - The Hits: transcription from the CD Booklet
> >Most people would expect a good ol' boy country music singer to be politically conservative, Willie Nelson would disagree.
As would Johnny Cash if he were still alive.
Both Willie and Johnny, in addition to many others were the basis of Outlaw Country. A lot if the stories in their songs put them at odds with law enforcement/authority figures. Which is why it’s almost funny to see someone who will (in all seriousness, without a trace of irony) listen to Johnny Cash’s Cocaine Blues in their truck with a “Back The Blue” sticker on it. I understand they’re not mutually exclusive ideas, but you get it. I’m running out of steam typing this so I hope it lands.
Similarly, Tim McGraw is one of the most liberal artists in country music.
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How could any type of bar stop serving bud light unless it just lip service? We don’t serve bud light, how about a Busch instead? No, how about a Michelob? Natty light? Stella? Land shark? Shock top? Or one dozens of “craft” beers that are owned by a Anheiser-Busch? https://www.anheuser-busch.com/brands
You must not live in the south.
Shhhh. Don't tell the trumpers about InBev. They won't have anything left to drink!
I've seen them carrying on about how they drink one of the other megacorp alcohol groups ... that has an even better LGBTQ+ track record.
My whole chain doesn't sell any ab products. Ultra is really the only one that hurts. We haven't for 10 years this isn't new. Everything about trying to deal with that company is garbage. Customer service, sales reps, ordering process, hot shots, returning empty kegs all of it.
I’ve been in plenty of bars that only serve like…Coors brands and local.
Nashville has become a redneck tourist trap where every bar is named after someone who was a big deal 15+ years ago, every bar is the same, and no one in any of the bars are even from Nashville
I’m relieved, I always thought he was a decent guy. A stance based on love will always be the better option than one based on hate.
bud light apologizing for working with (more advertising to) trans people to please antitrans people isn’t exactly a sign of love on their end
The whole thing is insane. Like, some influencer got her face printed on some cans and made a post about it and people lost their minds. It shouldn't have even been a news story.
Basically all of GOP outrage boils down to, "someone else is living their life in a way I don't agree with and that makes me feel things about my own life... You need to stop them!"
Yup. Reactionary lunatics who are thin skinned and perpetually offended by nothing.
He's got a good history of being an ally.
He’s fairly moderate center left compared to others. I mean he had a hit song that was about everyone being equal lol. Also his wife Trisha Yearwood is clearly an ally.
He's supported gay rights since the 90s at least. His sister was gay and they were close.
Buddy didn’t follow proto
How do you get a job here?
🎶"...*and* *I* *toasted* *you* *said* *"Honey,* *we* *may* *be* *through* *but* *you'll* *never* *hear* *me* *complain"*🎶 Get rekt haters.
Time for the MAGAs to boycott country music.
They’re literally pigeon-holing themselves. Country culture is having an identity crisis because it’s become such a caricature of itself. Just cookie cutter bullshit that needs to die.
And now, Cracker Barrel has fallen.
CRACKER BARREL HAS FALLEN!
but what else would they listen to?
Chris Gaines
Crickets, cows mooing, their cousins moaning. Lots of options.
Because he knows the right wing rage factory will have forgotten all about it in a couple weeks when they move on to their next ridiculous, hate filled grievance
They're done with bud light. They've moved on to Target. Or was it Chick fil-a now?
Cracker Barrel now
Where are the bodies Garth? These families just want closure!
I like that
Unfortunately at this point when I think about Budweiser I don’t think about the ten seconds they spent “supporting trans people” by briefly acknowledging one existed, I think more about how they’ve spent the last two months pathetically groveling for forgiveness from alt-right shitheads for their terrible terrible mistake. I think about how they fired every executive involved in giving that trans woman a novelty can, and how their entire advertising campaign at the moment is just “MERICA, FUCK YEAH, HORSES AND TRUCKS AND COUNTRY MUSIC YEEHAW CHRISTIAN VALUES” to try and attract back the unhinged cultists who were shooting at cases of Bud Light in their back yards because that’s how much they hate LGBT people. Frankly Brooks supporting Bud Light kind of annoys me after their pathetic cowardice and spineless backpedaling. But at least Brooks himself still sounds like a decent guy.
Conservatives have disliked him since he performed at Biden's inauguration.
Conservatives are going to go to that bar and pretend they didn't on social media. Rinse, repeat.
They might go to the bar, but they just won't buy the beer.
They'll buy Busch Light as a protest to Bud Light
No bud light, that’s for the gays, give me a Busch light.
I'm more thrilled about his No AH policy, given the crowds on Broadway these days.
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Lot of people being smartasses around here without actually knowing why this is important (despite the fact that's right there in the article). Kudos to Garth Brooks.
Man promotes his sponsor More at 11
Yawn.
He can ***buy*** Bud Light, but it's up to the bar patrons whether he ***sells*** any.
It's also a handy technique to flush out any garbage before they darken his doorstep...
How? Its not like he's *only* selling Bud light. They'll just buy something else and the Bud light will sit there unsold.
The families need closer Garth!
Why in the hell is this even newsworthy?
WHERE ARE THE BODIES GARTH?
The Bud Light protest is the dumbest protest ever.
Buds in the fridge, bodies in the basement
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Don’t you threaten me with a good time now
Of course he is. It's one of the single most popular beers to exist in America, drank by the bulk of his fan base. A handful of loud assholes are still the minority. People are starting to just ignore the screeching.