Garth Brooks First Facebook Post & Video

regrettable typo in the first line, should be "I we're NOW on facebook", sorry.

this is one of the best videos i've ever seen

...you know what i mean

I don't really like any of his music but I still love this man

look, for the record

we're not on facebook --> we're now on facebook
'think of more as a conversation' --> 'think of it more as a conversation'
wiping out the walls --> wiping the walls out
than i say --> then i say

This is raw stuff.

i saw this for the first time last night. i don't really know much about garth brooks the person. from this one video, he seems really strange, but then i started to think that maybe he's used to having conversations with giant crowds of people, from the stage? so maybe that's why he speaks in the way he does, like with gaps left in for applause and cheering?

"I wanna post cool stuff" is basically the ethos of the internet, easy pick

he does this nose-wrinkle eye-twinkle thing that reads like a knowingly cute kid doing his "I'm being a cute kid" act.

xp the post cool stuff is raw truth, it's embarrassing but relatable

slick stuff is the really weird one though. i guess he's saying that most of his videos are "slick", and the facebook video post is raw (obviously, it's in a hotel room), but he's not quite ready to admit that there's anything wrong with slick videos (his normal videos), because that would be a criticism of how his videos had been up to that point

nobody who's sold as many records as he has (in the US he's #2 all-time, behind the Beatles and ahead of Elvis) is going to be well-adjusted or normal at all, the best you can hope for is a lovable weird guy

Good chance to post this video of recent vintage, where at the start he talks about the dumb controversy over him saying his new Nashville bar will serve Bud Light: "Diversity, inclusiveness — that's me. That's always been me."

https://fb.watch/mqpN_8G92S/

aimless yeah, the video is strange because he's stuck between acting and being real. it's neither one. and he's obviously a bit terrified about that, but his personas - both the actor and the one where he's "real" and sharing the raw footage - are confident and leader-like. so he's in this uncomfortable space between acting and his 'real' self where the midpoint between the two is a confident persona, but he's terrified

damn, i really should have combined the final two options into one:

so if this is truly a conversation, than i say let the conversation begin

that's my favorite line, and it needs both parts. honestly imo a vote for either one of the last two lines counts as a vote for that whole line, and i started this poll and it's gonna be christmas

*THEN

"this is just who I am"

i listened to it at 75% speed on youtube while transcribing his words with 75% accuracy, and i think it's my preferred way to listen to it. "this is just who i am" sounds better at 75

uh hi yes hello. Is this where i join the conversation I've heard so much about?

"this is just who I am" is really good too. but "if this is truly a conversation, let the conversation begin" and the way he says it is so good because he does it in a villain voice. the way it comes off is

if this is truly a conversation [questioning the premise]
let the conversation begin [takes on the role of officiant and implies that he's going to win the conversation either way]

it's very strongman vs little guy where the strongman laughs at the prospect of the little guy even fighting but then invites him to fight and get his ass kicked. only, it's garth brooks first facebook video

very tough call, lotta bangers here

on paper, it's "but most of the stuff i'm going to post is gonna be raw stuff like this"

but for the execution, my vote goes to "i like that!"

“I really wasn’t sure about this at the start” is underrated

Pause then “the hotel room” is excellent

never listened to his music but I appreciate that he's kind of weird, and also that he came out on the side of Bud Light in the defining moral battleground of our time

"I like that" is pretty stunning. honestly this is one of the most compelling documents anywhere

Voted “I really like that”. Has an unintended sinister edge to the tone that makes you rethink every other sentence. Going to add it to my regular lexicon when I want people to second guess the intentions behind something I have said

TS i like that vs i really like that

and i really like both

Going to add it to my regular lexicon when I want people to second guess the intentions behind something I have said

if anyone of you ever catch me muttering something to myself and then laughing to myself, bizarrely, it is usually something exactly like this. saying stuff like "i really like that!" to yourself in a sinister tone and then lol'ing, it's embarrassing but real

yea there's something weird with Garth that he both seems very fake and real at the same time. I'm not really sure what it was that caused his massive success but I think Garth def had a moment where he thought "oh shit, if I'm gonna be a country megastar I gotta start acting like one", and just started playing the role of what he imagined that was like. and I guess over time he just became that guy.

i just listened to my first chris gaines song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCPYt6BYOSI

i feel like it relates to what frogbs just posted but i'm still processing what happened

also, just because if anyone else feels this way i'd love to hear it, this made me think of the episode of full house where jesse (john stamos) becomes a music superstar and does a horrible music video where he obviously is full of himself, and he learns a big lesson at the end of the episode. does anyone else remember that episode, and is this related to chris gaines or garth brooks (who have never met)

I have no idea who Garth Brooke’s is, like had not even heard of him till opening this thread, but based of this video alone I completely understand how he is the 2nd best selling US artist

Does Chris Gaines have a separate profile?

This is raw, purified charisma. Everyone knows people like this, when they talk you cannot help but be charmed. That kind of charisma gets you to the top of whatever you put your time into

This conversation is better content than you can find on like 95% of the internet.

I like that.

...

i REALLY like that

This thread allows us into one another’s worlds

Or hotel rooms.

as good as the video already is, i want to make a fan edit where the 2-3 seconds where he pans to the hotel room reveals something very strange

i'll probably do it tomorrow tbh. someone else who is not me should definitely do it first

"the hotel room"

wtf garth

This is raw, purified charisma. Everyone knows people like this, when they talk you cannot help but be charmed. That kind of charisma gets you to the top of whatever you put your time into

this is correct. I know people who've worked with him. he travels with a giant crew of people and once a week they circle the buses and have a barbecue and he's there talking to everybody and remembers absolutely everybody's name, makes everybody he talks to feel like a million bucks. plus, he's now on Facebook

fb friends in leyow pleyacis

I know you're not the real Chris Gaines. I'm old enough to know how it works. But I also know you work for him. I'd like you to give him a message.

damn, i really should have combined the final two options into one

I dunno, it's a great combo, but the "if this is really a conversation" could be a sort of "i'm the fun manager at work" vibe, if it weren't for the "let the conversation begin" which is absolutely sinister and tips the scale at the very end, it was chris gaines all along

This is so much fun to rewatch damnit. This man is definitely a main character in the universe’s story

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBPKdl_YeqE

don't remember talking about this, what an improvement, but the song is still there, it's a pretty good song

I want to join his tour bud and be invited to his bbq and hear him say “let the conversation begin” to me as he stares into my soul with his gigantic internal smile. I think I’m in love

garth brook to play the judge in ashton kutchers blood meridian

has anyone investigated chris gaines? was it just impossible at the time to crossover into pop from country without inventing a much weirder and better funded ziggy stardust, wasn't he going to star in an autobiographical chris gaines movie?!

think of the riches we might have, had we supported this, we just didn't believe, we should have gone all in on chris gaines

https://i.imgur.com/I5YuI4h.png

incredible screenshot, thank u

Having gone to a lot of youth church camps in the south, I cannot separate him from the older camp counselors with acoustics and loads of… well positive energy

Young, dumb and full of positive energy.

actual lol

https://www.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/494958/garth-brooks-delivers-news-nobody-saw-coming-what-this-means-wife-trisha-yearwood/

During a Q&A interview at Billboard Country Live: In Conversation, Garth confirmed he's bringing back his rock star alter-ego, Chris Gaines.

!!!!

https://i.imgur.com/7ZkECks.jpg

he's even growing out his soul patch! what a pro

this is how you save the music industry

Garth Brooks announces new album available only in CD box sets at Bass Pro Shops https://t.co/Z89TF6UcrT

— Stereogum (@stereogum) October 25, 2023

If you already own the other CDs you can use them as lures

Which prompts the question: small mouth or large mouth?

i spent time verifying that this was real news and uh... it's not a joke. he posted it on his own account.

its wild there's like no information or reviews about this album whatsoever, I can't even find it anywhere online (not that I'm particularly interested), it's not listed on RYM or Discogs either. totally bizarre that somehow one of the best selling artists of all time managed to release an album that just totally slipped through the online ecosystem

Paywalled but https://www.404media.co/has-anyone-on-the-internet-listened-to-garth-brooks-time-traveler-new-album-released-exclusively-on-cd-through-bass-pro-shops-an-investigation/

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i really like that!!

damn, i hadn't voted til then, i guess! suppose i wanted to let it all sit for a couple months and see what stands out. "i really like that!" is what i think of most often

really wanna read that paywalled review but oh well

https://i.imgur.com/8wirnaZ.png

there are currently no plans to release it there

i will say, 7 CDs for just $30 is a bargain, and in this economy

welll now podners, if y'all kept up us over at Rolling Country, you'd-a seen this review---

From NPR music newsletter:

Garth Brooks has a new album…for Bass Pro Shops customers

by Stephen Thompson, NPR Music

...there remains about Garth Brooks a little-known fact: On Nov. 7, he released a new album. Titled Time Traveler, the record came out with notably little fanfare — a TV appearance here, a Billboard profile there, and that’s about it. News articles about the record have begun to pop up as word has spread, most of which focus less on the music than on the method of distribution: The only way you can get Time Traveler is to buy it on CD, as part of a seven-disc box set sold exclusively at Bass Pro Shops.

You can’t stream Time Traveler — not even via Amazon, which has otherwise-exclusive rights to Brooks’ catalog. You can’t even buy it as a single disc, though fans who’ve lost track of Brooks’ recent work might be glad to catch up on the box set’s remaining contents: everything the singer has released since coming out of retirement in 2014. (That’d be 2014’s Man Against Machine, 2016’s Gunslinger, 2019’s three-disc live set Triple Live and 2020’s Fun.)

If you’re wondering how one of the biggest stars in the world wound up releasing an album via Bass Pro Shops outlets, consider another fact about Garth Brooks: The guy really, really hates streaming. And, since he’s amassed the fame and fortune to do (and not do) pretty much whatever he wants — and remember that this is a guy who, at the height of his power, released a 1999 album under the guise of a brooding, soul-patched pop-star alter ego named Chris Gaines — Garth Brooks has decided to release albums his way, leaving heaven-only-knows how much money on the table in the process.

So, you might ask, what about Time Traveler itself? Is it any good? In the spirit of reportorial intrepidness — not to mention 30-plus years of accumulated goodwill toward the singer and his work, plus a fondness for physical media — I plunked down $30 plus shipping and ordered a copy from Bass Pro Shops, no doubt to the great confusion of my search engine’s algorithms. (It’s worth noting here that $30 for a seven-disc box set, even a bare-bones one, is a good deal, especially if you haven’t heard Time Traveler’s recent predecessors.)

What I found was an album that’s pretty deeply uncompromising in its own way. It’s not a lavish production, but it nods in directions that place it well outside the mainstream of modern bro country. “Rodeo Man,” a duet with Ronnie Dunn — no stranger to duets with guys named Brooks — would’ve fit right in on Garth Brooks’ terrific early-’90s best-sellers. “The Ship and the Bottle” pairs the pop-curious country star with country-curious pop star Kelly Clarkson, culminating in a vibe that would have made Jimmy Buffett proud. Dispensed with maximum agreeability, “Only Country Music” celebrates the greatest loves of Brooks’ life. And “The Ride” covers a 1983 hit from a country star whose iconoclasm exceeds even Brooks’: David Allan Coe.

Time Traveler closes with a track called “We Belong to Each Other,” which calls for national unity while celebrating our shared humanity. And, though none of its sentiments should qualify as revolutionary — “We belong to each other / We are sister and brother / Born to love one another” — it’s a far cry from the seething revanchism of Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” or the omnidirectional resentment of Oliver Anthony’s “Rich Men North of Richmond,” both of which topped country charts in 2023. It’s a reminder that we need more Garth Brooks in our lives and on our radios, and that there’s nothing wrong with venturing into Bass Pro Shops to get it.

kept up *with* us, I meant!

Sellout!!!!!

curious, I checked YouTube, and found GB at a Bass Pro, presumably promoting the set. his charisma...it's just that truly rare essence. like for ten seconds he looks like this dorky ass guy, what the hell are you doin man, playing to the crowd like it was an arena it's actually a private party, do you not adjust your flow for...well fuck is that a Seger tune you're doin? I'll be damned. seriously though dude are you sure you're gonna hit these notes at your age, lookin like not..."this isn't gonna be good," you think, and then somewhere in the middle of what seems like a sketch comedy bit he will get you. you don't even notice it happening. it's like you're looking at him to go, jeez you're dorkin it up here my man, and then because you were looking, you get completely mesmerized. he knew it'd happen, he just had to get you to look. ymmv obviously but I find his charisma genuinely astonishing, it's like The Rock levels of "I belong here and I own your attention, it is my birthright"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjD350XbNQ

even more curious, I checked the uploader's other vids. you're not ready for this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNxlduRKC5A

Wow---goes with

2019’s three-disc live set Triple Live

Circulating briefly, apparently authorized---as a free download, no less.

https://i.imgur.com/Ze3h822.png

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then I say let the conversation BEGIN

How many other performers (in any genre) can turn the single word “low” into a multi-syallabic symphony the way GB does on “friends?”

I think Missy Elliot could.