Anyone see Garth Brooks talk about his new song "Mom" this am?

[amuse bouche]

He got all emotional, choking back tears just talking about it. I burst out laughing at the ridiculous bullshit

"The iconic country music star described "Mom" as "a conversation that goes on between God and this unborn baby who's about to go down to Earth."

Some of the pathetic lyrics... "A little baby told God, 'Hey I'm kinda scared, don't really know if I wanna go down there, because from here it looks like a little blue ball, but that's a great big place and I'm so small. Why can't I just stay here with you? Did I make you mad, don't you want me, too?' And God said, 'Oh child, of course I do, but there's somebody special that's waiting for you.'"


Yes, a grown man, not in an asylum, wrote this. I wanted to ask him what god said to the baby about to be born to the abusive crackheads who will keep him in a cage and feed him dog food.

It was so stupid....I had to share

If you want the full Monty...http://www.christianpost.com/news/garth-brooks-debuts-song-mom-on-live-tv-conversation-between-god-and-unborn-baby-moves-audience-to-tears-129315/

[GeorgeGist]

1. Garth's God sounds like a sadist.

[onager]

2. He gets one thing right, anyway...

Other than this, yes, Brooks is a registered Repub , though he got in trouble for saying nice things about Obama.

He does seem to work Gawd/Jesus into just about every one of his songs. And his quotes, see below:

Support for gay rights

In the lyrics to his song "We Shall Be Free", Brooks sings "When we're free to love anyone we choose," which has been interpreted as a reference to gay relationships.[112] Brooks won a 1993 GLAAD Media Award for the song. In a 1999 interview with George, Brooks said, "[...]But if you're in love, you've got to follow your heart and trust that God will explain to us why we sometimes fall in love with people of the same sex."

In 2000, Brooks appeared at the Equality Rocks benefit concert for gay rights. He sang a duet with openly gay singer George Michael.

Brooks' half-sister Betsy Smittle, who died in 2013, was a well-known musician and part of Brooks' band for some years; she also worked with the late country star Gus Hardin and other musicians in Tulsa. Smittle was also a lesbian, and Brooks has credited her with some of the inspiration for his tolerant attitude. (Wikipedia)

While he's at it, maybe God can also explain why so many members of his fan club hate gays.

[truebrit71]

3. Yes it was fucking pathetic....

[amuse bouche]

5. My son thinks this is just another lame attempt at a comeback

He reminded me of Garth's alter ego Chris Gaines

That was a short lived attempt at Alternative Rock in the late 90's

I still don't understand the crying this morning. I strongly recommend he get some good therapy

[RussBLib]

4. well, Garth IS from Oklahoma

...simply a gratuitous swipe at that yahoo state.

[Warpy]

6. Glurge like that goes over well with the C&W audience

It's got everything, a baby, a god, and enough schmaltz to clog every artery in the country and slopping over with enough sugar to give us all diabetes.

It sounds almost as mawkish as "Honey," the second worst pop song of all time.

[onager]

7. I must nominate this POS...

Which makes both "Mom" and "Honey" seem like black-metal-death-rock...

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[Warpy]

8. Doesn't come down to the level of this craptacular offering

although it's definitely in the bottom ten when we're discussing the nadir of pop music, which really did hit the all time low point during the mid 70s when this little gem came out:

Incredibly bad pop music isn't just nauseating. It also needs to be irritating as hell, infuriating to anyone with regularly firing synapses.

Number three is here for sheer offensiveness along with glurge, way to take all the credit Mr. Two Minute Wonder:

And number four was by the one-chord-one-hit-wonder, Debby Boone not just glurge but pious glurge and I'm sure she envisions Daddy Pat when she sings it:

Simply saccharine a pop disaster does not make. It also has to be witless, insulting and repetitive and has to be on Muzak wherever you go because Americans have no taste at all times along with no brains on election day.

[RussBLib]

10. Well, I don't know about you...

but this one made my cry (the Carlisle tune).

[mr blur]

9. Wow. Just wow!

[RebelOne]

11. As far as I know Garth Brooks and his wife Trisha Yearwood are both Democrats. n/t

[onager]

12. He "thinks" he's a registered Republican...

http://www.planetgarth.com/news/article.php?cid=00078

[amuse bouche]

13. I don't care about his political leanings

This was about his cringe worthy song. The BS made me want to retch

[AlbertCat]

14. The BS made me want to retch

Can't you just hear it in the weird accent thing he does when he sings... and slide guitars!

I suppose he didn't write a lyric where god gives the baby some congenital disorder.

[kdmorris]

18. Whether they are or not... that song is disgusting

Just because one is a Democrat doesn't mean that one can write music well or that they won't pander to the lowest common denominator.

[progressoid]

15. Gaaaack.

I could only make it through about 45 seconds.

[AlbertCat]

16. Garth brooks....BAH! Here's Jimi Hendrix's version!

And here's the arraignment (that I love) by my good e-freind Darrell Katz played by the Jazz Composers Alliance Saxophone Quartet

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Take that Garth!

[kdmorris]

17. That is ridiculous crap