Posted on 06/12/2023 4:14:44 PM PDT by Morgana
Garth Brooks raised the ire of some country music fans after saying he'd serve "every brand of beer" at his new bar — including Bud Light, which conservatives have criticized for its recent collaboration with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
Bud Light's collaboration with Mulvaney led to a widespread boycott of the brand and extravagant shows of force against the beer. In one case, MAGA-world favorite Kid Rock filmed himself shooting several cases of the beer to show his disdain for the partnership.
Brooks, the second-best selling musical artist of all time, told Billboard he hoped Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk, which is set to open in the South Broadway District of Nashville, would be "the Chick-fil-A of honky-tonks."
"I want it to be a place you feel safe in, I want it to be a place where you feel like there are manners and people like one another," he said. "And yes, we're going to serve every brand of beer. We just are. It's not our decision to make. Our thing is this: if you [are let] into this house, love one another. If you're an asshole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway."
Several bars in the same section of lower Broadway, including Kid Rock's Big Ass Honky Tonk Rock n' Roll Steakhouse, removed Bud Light from the menu in early April, but when Insider looked at the steakhouse's website in June, the beer was back on the menu.
Brooks' decision to support the beer has angered some of the country star's conservative audience. The hashtag #boycottgarthbrooks has more than 30,700 views.
"He's making me want to go to Nashville just so I could go ahead and piss on his doorstep," said one TikToker.
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Well, I don’t really bother with his music to begin with (his first album was not bad). I prefer ones like Ed Bruce (RIP) or John Anderson and many others in the classic country vein well before Garth.
he doesn’t have a friend in my low place.
He can offer all the Budweiser products he wants,
just like a store. but nobody will drink it. No skin off his nose.
Brooks is clueless. He doesn’t even know what country music is.
Well kudos for Yahoo to mention right up top what he called people boycotting bud light
Go to a country bar these days and order Blight. See what happens to you.
he’s not really “country” and its questiable about the singing part.....
It’s easy to imagine that customers who prefer Bud Light and aren’t hard core in support of the secular boycott can drink it on the down low by having it served to them out of an unmarked tap and/or in unmarked glasses.
Alternate headline: “People Garth Brooks called a**holes say they won’t patronize his bar”
Might screw up he and Trisha’s chances of getting the next “Yellowstone” spinoff.
Nothing like half measure boldness to annoy everyone.
How about just not ordering a bud light if you do not want one at his joint?
He Bud Lighted himself. Not smart at all. Might as well close the doors and sell the building.
Garth Brooks: a thumb wearing a hat.
He tells me he’s a stupid Leftist. There clearly is a way he could have handled the question without maligning Conservative protestors. He went out of his way to do so which discloses his liberal streak. He could have said that as a proprietary his bar will serve the public with a zero ideological agenda.
It was never about the beer. You should know that!
He couldn’t just stock Bud Light at his bar. He had to make a big production and announce it to everybody. He even got a couple of insults in at people who don’t fawn all over trannies.
He wanted the attention.
Of course he is a leftist.
Many past and present Country Stars are leftist.
Garth, Dixie Chicks, Faith Hill, Tim McGraw just to name a few.
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