Garth Brooks thread

I'm a big country fan and I'll listen to about anything... at one time he was the 'it' thing in Country music. Now that the years have passed though, I can only listen to a handful of his songs. Some are pretty great, most are just pretty bad.

I've got to say, what it comes down to is, the guy isn't that talented, and he's really more of a rock fan than a country fan. So the whole thing was kind of a farce, which kind of hurts the credibility of the music. If he was being more true to himself the music would have went over better.

Also, he's so full of himself, just in everything he does, that it's really, really hard to like the guy. For instance, I saw him on an awards show about three months ago. They announced he was going to be singing with George Strait... so Garth comes out, sings one of his songs, then George starts one of his classics, Garth walks back on the stage and basically tries to steal the show from George. It just looked petty and stupid, George came off as a legend and Garth came off like a frat boy.

His supposed infatuation with outselling the Beatles (which he failed at) also reeks of idiocy.

You also can't listen to his songs on youtube, because he's one of the only people alive who's successfully had most of his music removed from there. He doesn't want to do Itunes because he wants to make sure people pay him for the entire album, and not just single songs. Even the way he talks and the cadence of his voice is pretty annoying.

Still though, there's a few songs I really like.

"That Summer" Very well written, great song, and he's a co-writer which I would imagine means somebody else wrote it and he changed a few lines. I can't imagine that he's talented enough to write a song this great.

"Callin Baton Rouge" I always liked the imagery in a song, a guy driving down the road and he stops at every truck stop to call his girlfriend in Baton Rouge. Then the bridge, is he gets her on the line "Hello Samantha Dear, I hope You're feelin' fine! It won't be long until I'm with you all the time!"

"Learning To Live Again" - great song about a guy going on a double date with somebody he's being set up with, and how he's a screw up. The whole song, he's making mistakes and thinking about his ex, and at the end, the woman says "we'll see" when he asks her back out, because now he's ruined this deal too. Really nice slow song, very well done imho.

"What She's Doing Now" - great song, also about a lost woman. "Last time I saw her it was... turning colder... but that was years ago. Last I heard, she'd moved to Boston... but where she is now, I don't know" Very relateable song, I always listen to it when it's on the radio.

"Unanswered Prayers" - song about meeting an old flame at a high school football game, and not having anything to talk about although she was the girl you were infatuated with back in the day. "Some of gods greatest gifts, are unanswered prayers"

"Much Too Young (To Feel This Damn Old)" - about an old rodeo cowboy driving from town to town competing and doing worse each time. Very similar to George Strait's standard stuff, like "Amarillo By Morning". Still a very good song in my opinion.

I'm a big country fan so I'm his market... but I see him almost as pathetic at this point in his career. His ego is so fucking huge that he's gotten so removed from what made him marketable, he can't sell albums anymore. Here's a guy who was as big as you can possibly get, and he screwed it all up. Everybody I know that likes country music thinks the guy's a jerk.

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