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Did Garth Brooks Rip Country Music's Soul Out?
Posted on 3/3/18 at 8:07 pm
Posted on 3/3/18 at 8:07 pm
I think so.
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Posted on 3/3/18 at 8:34 pm to TaTa Toothy
Kinky Friedman called Garth Brooks the anti-Hank. A very apt description.
Posted on 3/3/18 at 9:43 pm to TaTa Toothy
I kinda like him, but agree he was the catalyst that started the sharp decline.
Posted on 3/3/18 at 10:02 pm to TaTa Toothy
He may have been the beginning of bro country
Posted on 3/3/18 at 10:14 pm to TaTa Toothy
It started with the pop stylings of the group Alabama.
Posted on 3/3/18 at 10:32 pm to TaTa Toothy
He started the downfall of country music.
Posted on 3/4/18 at 6:32 am to TaTa Toothy
Country noise has always been soulless. Garth just made it more popular among the redneck populace.
Posted on 3/5/18 at 3:36 pm to TaTa Toothy
Garth didn't kill country music. Untalented hacks trying to be Garth killed country music.
Posted on 3/6/18 at 10:24 pm to TaTa Toothy
I am on the fence about Garth. Yes, he had some pop tendency. But he was a fantastic song writer and singer. These bro guys are no talent arse clowns.
Posted on 3/7/18 at 1:35 am to TaTa Toothy
I'm actually interested what country fans have to say about this.
I'm not a country fan. But I'm 30 and grew up in Louisiana (in Seattle now) so of course I grew up listening to Garth Brooks at Barbeques and crawfish boils and have always really liked him. Mainly the hits; I haven't dug too deep in the guy's catalogue - mostly because I'm just not into the genre.
I drove to Spokane last November to see him and his show was great. Like, technically his band is fantastic and he played all the hits and worked the crowd, took requests, the whole thing. It was quite the show. But as I reflected on the concert over the next couple days, I realized what many of you probably realized about him in the 90s when I was 10 - everything about Garth Brooks is predicated on putting on a good act. Listening to the content of his songs really drove home how poppy and impersonal most of his songs are. They sound like bullshite cowboy/western/rural America tropes that he only he really doesn't seem a part of. He's so ...suburban. He has never really struck me as a real "country guy" in the traditional sense.
He writes the songs that people want to hear, plays them the way they want them to be played, and is centrally focused on entertaining moreso than expressing himself. He's polished. He's funny and full of energy and he patronizes the crowd so well. He's not the first guy to put on that shtick and he obviously hasn't been the last (it's grown fricking exponentially since then), but I'd say he has a role in it's proliferation. I still like his music and enjoyed the show, but I kind of agree with many of you that Garth did signal a sort of shift in the quality/style of country music.
I'm not a country fan. But I'm 30 and grew up in Louisiana (in Seattle now) so of course I grew up listening to Garth Brooks at Barbeques and crawfish boils and have always really liked him. Mainly the hits; I haven't dug too deep in the guy's catalogue - mostly because I'm just not into the genre.
I drove to Spokane last November to see him and his show was great. Like, technically his band is fantastic and he played all the hits and worked the crowd, took requests, the whole thing. It was quite the show. But as I reflected on the concert over the next couple days, I realized what many of you probably realized about him in the 90s when I was 10 - everything about Garth Brooks is predicated on putting on a good act. Listening to the content of his songs really drove home how poppy and impersonal most of his songs are. They sound like bullshite cowboy/western/rural America tropes that he only he really doesn't seem a part of. He's so ...suburban. He has never really struck me as a real "country guy" in the traditional sense.
He writes the songs that people want to hear, plays them the way they want them to be played, and is centrally focused on entertaining moreso than expressing himself. He's polished. He's funny and full of energy and he patronizes the crowd so well. He's not the first guy to put on that shtick and he obviously hasn't been the last (it's grown fricking exponentially since then), but I'd say he has a role in it's proliferation. I still like his music and enjoyed the show, but I kind of agree with many of you that Garth did signal a sort of shift in the quality/style of country music.
Posted on 3/8/18 at 8:29 am to TaTa Toothy
He kind of set the stage, but really it's the record producers that spent much of the 90's looking for the next Garth Brooks that killed country music. The mid to late 90's was just a train of male one-hit wonders with no soul to their music. Then Kenny Chesney came around and ripped off Jimmy Buffett to further drag it down.
Posted on 3/9/18 at 7:05 pm to TaTa Toothy
Garth took Chris Ledoux’s show and made it mainstream
Posted on 3/10/18 at 7:46 pm to TaTa Toothy
Garth finished it, it was initiated by Kenny Rogers.
Posted on 3/15/18 at 5:58 pm to TaTa Toothy
quote:
Did Garth Brooks Rip Country Music's Soul Out?
No but Florida-Georgia Line, Luke Bryan, and the new pop country did.
Posted on 3/15/18 at 9:35 pm to TaTa Toothy
No mention of Billy Ray Cyrus? Achy Breaky Heart gave country music a facial it hasn't washed off since.
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