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My Top 24 Reasons
For Disliking Garth
1.He had Scott Hendricks and
Five Other People fired. Why? Because Garth's album Fresh Horses only sold
3 million copies, and Garth feels it was Hendricks' fault. It has since
went on to sell 6 million. Instead, I think Garth should have paid attention
to the music on Fresh Horses. Even though I was a fan when I bought it,
it sucked. If Scott had been under Garth, it would have been a different
matter, but Scott was supposed to be Garth's boss.
Above: (Left) Scott Hendricks at Trace Adkin's celebration. Scott is to the far left. (Right) Scott at John Berry's celebration. Scott is nearest left. 3. He
has a box set which is an obvious attempt to reach 100 million albums.
Sorry, but to real Garth fans, this is ridiculous. You pay $30 for 6 new
songs. No thanks.
4. And
he is ceasing productions of the original six albums until their anniversary...GREEDY!!!!!
5. All of the hype over SEVENS made me want to vomit. . . "It's all about the music..." Then why doesn't he just play the stuff instead of flexing his advertising degree? 6.
Notice how he is always going to retire? I wish he'd make up his mind.
Either retire, or don't.
7. He is causing his fellow label mates to jump ship. As of 7-10-98, Dean Miller, The Ranch(except for the lead singer), and Tanya Tucker have all left Crapitol. Miller and The Ranch were both signed by Scott Hendricks...hmmm...coincidential? I think not! Dean Miller's manager claims Puppet Pat "Is there for Garth Brooks, which is fine..but they happen to have a lot of other artists on the label." 8. Pat Quigley says really stupid quotes. Visit the Crapitol section to see what I mean. For Garth to endorse anyone who says some of this crap, says something bad about Garth . UPDATE- Puppet no longer works at Crapitol. Mysteriously, the man who could do no wrong was fired after the Chris Gaines project was such a disaster. Geez, that's loyalty for ya. Visit the saga section for more info. 
9. Everyone who defends his decision to release
his box set says "George Strait released a box set, why can't Garth?" Well,
let's look at that. George Strait has been around for almost 20 years.
He has made over 20 albums, and he is a revered artist cited as an influence
by any new artist today. Also, George did not "cease publication" of his
older albums when his box set came out. Box sets, as a rule (and no, I did
not make this rule, but it is one which makes sense) are reserved for when
an artist has been around a long time and shown plenty of artistic merit.
George has been around long enough to deserve this, Garth hasn't. Oh, and
artist merit is not defined by number of albums sold. Plain and simply,
George and Garth are NOT in the same class, as the above quote would have
you believe.10. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Garth outed his own sister. And Betsy had no warning of this ahead of time... I bet she was real happy about that. 11. Did I mention that old Garth is a plagiarist? The chorus to "Papa Loved Mama" is in fact a poem by Carl Sandburg. Let's not even mention all the people who have since sued Garth for copy-right infringement...... 12. In his mission to end the scalping of his tickets, he makes fans stand in long lines not once, but twice. First to get wristbands, then to get actual tickets....someone needs to explain to me exactly how that helps rid the world of scalpers anyway.... 13. His mission to end the sale of used CDs. It only shows yet another side of his greedy nature. OH, GARTH-I bought a used CD today! Ha ha ha! 
14. THE
DOUBLE LIVE CRAP. It was more original when KISS did it.
16. CHRIS GAINES.... in the old days, they locked people up for going around saying they were someone they weren't. Nowadays, we at least give 'em Prozac. Not for Garth, no he gets praised by his fans for being "daring" and "courageous" and "not afraid to try something new"-My dear misguided Garth-groupies, having an identity crisis is not anything new. 
17. RETIREMENT....AGAIN! Mother
of God, Garth-give it up! And the family stuff is really getting old. Millions
of parents work EVERY DAY to support their children-I really can't feel
your pain. AND
NO ONE BELIEVES YOU ANYMORE WHEN YOU SAY YOU ARE GOING TO RETIRE!!!!! YOU
ARE THE GROWN UP, BALD, PATHETIC BOY WHO KEEPS CRYING WOLF!!!!
19. Well, is he an awful husband, or what? Yep, he finally got divorced 
from the woman who married him before his ego became the size of Texas.
Good for her. 20. The man dissed George Jones. Now, I admit, I do not particularly like George Jones...but still, he's a legend. For more on the Garth-George issue, click HERE Please, how is "Wrapped up in You" any more appropriate for the "Events of September 11" than "Beer Run"???? Both are stupid, pointless songs. Please. Garth doesn't seriously think "WUIY" has any cultural healing power or significance, does he? Excuse me while I vomit. Talk about getting waaaaay to full of yourself. 21. Garth's Fans. One of his psychotic ones, named CAROL sent me the following email: I think in light of the events
of September 11, you need to rethink your definition of hate.
Well, Carol-you're retarded. To compare this
page-in which I vent a little about stupid things a singer has done-to flying
planes into buildings and killing thousands of people-is completely nuts.
Also, if any of Garth's fans (or his "non-fans", as they like to pretend
to be when they email me) think I care that much about this page or my reasons
above, they need to have their head examined. NOTE: Some of the select
stupid few (i.e. Garth's fans) have come interpreted this last line as
my saying that I do not care about the page at all. That's not what
I said. Re-read it. 22. The DR. PEPPER COMMERCIALS!!!! Hmmm...let's see, why exactly does no one else see something wrong with using his children as marketing objects? True,the little girls in the commercial are not his actual children, but good God, have some class, Garth! Is nothing sacred to you? 
You'll use even your children in your marketing schemes? How sad.
For them and for you . 23. The multiple Christmas albums. Yes, I know Garth is not the first such performer to have multiple Christmas albums. Amy Grant, for example, has about as many Christmas albums as I have appendages. However, Garth has only been making records since 1989. And his second Christmas album came out conveniently in time for Garth to make his goal of selling 100 million albums by the year 2000. Hmm... 
24. BASEBALL!! If Garth's little baseball fantasy wasn't a simple
display of a spoiled child, I don't know what is. Baseball fanatics
were not pleased, justifiably so. |