It appears that Garth Brooks is looking to shed all of his friends in low places. Following the Bud Light Dylan Mulvaney fiasco in which sane people have decided to drink something else, the country music star has some thoughts. According to Brooks, if you are boycotting Bud Light because you disagree with the creepy pedo vibe of a man pretending to be a little girl, you are an asshole.
Brooks is opening a bar in Nashville called Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk and he apparently hasn’t yet hired a marketing manager. Billboard reports that he’s trying to close down even before he opens:
Garth Brooks kicked off his Inside Studio G livestream on Monday (June 12) by addressing some backlash to comments he made to Billboard last week about carrying all beers — including Bud Light — at his Nashville bar.
The country superstar made the original comments last week in a Billboard Country Live Q&A with Melinda Newman, Billboard‘s executive editor, West Coast and Nashville.
“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. 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 come into this house, love one another. If you’re an a–hole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway you can go,” said Brooks.
Now that’s what I call a winning formula for launching a successful business. Brooks essentially said, if you are offended by the sexualization of children and the normalizing of deviant sexual freakishness, go f*ck yourselves. Truly brilliant.
Making this even funnier, Brooks started this out with a hilarious quip:
“I know this sounds corny, but I want it to be the Chick-Fil-A of honky-tonks,” Brooks said.
Chick-Fil-A doesn’t promote transgenderism or or any kind of bizarre sexual fetish. In fact, the LGBT community still has a boycott of the popular fast food chain because the CEO used to donate money to Christian groups that opposed gay marriage. If Brooks wants his place to be the Chick-Fil-A of honkeytionks, the first step is not selling Bud Light, and the second is to not call people assholes for not wanting to drink Bud Light.
Obviously this was a dumb thing to say for a guy who hopes to attract Country Music fans into his bar, so Billboard gave Brooks a chance to walk back his bullshit. Instead, he kind of dug himself a bigger hole:
“We did an interview with Melinda Newman from Billboard, and from that came quite a little bit of a stir. So let’s … address two things on it. One is diversity. Inclusiveness: That’s me,” said Brooks, never getting to the second thing.
“Everybody’s got their opinions, but inclusiveness is always going to be me. I think diversity is the answer to the problems that are here and the problems that are coming. So I love diversity. All-inclusive, so all are welcome,” Brooks added.
I don’t think he understands what “inclusive” means because he’s literally excluding 99.9% of the people who would patronize his establishment. He’s catering to the virtually non-existent transgender demographic while alienating normal beer-drinking people. Now who’s an asshole?
