Billy Ray Cyrus Was booked to play the Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival in 1992 in Niceville, Florida just before Achy Breaky hit. He actually told the organizers that he wouldn’t play the gig because they wouldn’t raise his payment. He was eventually shamed into playing, but that incident remained a marker that “country” wasn’t country anymore. Nothing has happened since to change my mind. They’re all a bunch of managed Hollywood hacks.
Garth Brooks is the absolute worst, it’s like watching a clown show with him exploiting every southern stereotype possible from that fake ass accent of his, to the fake rebel yells and the stupid pilot microphone not mention the guy is a leftist d-bag. If it wasn’t for that song “Friends in low places” which had absolutely NOTHING to do with, that asshole would be playing dives in some lame ass copy band.