For decades, Garth Brooks has been everyone’s favorite country music legend. His songs are iconic, and his stage presence draws thousands of people to his live concerts year after year. However, country music fans are growing displeased with Brooks now that he plans to sell “every brand of beer” at his new Nashville bar, including Bug Light, despite the conservative boycott of the brand for its support of transgender activist Dylan Mulvaney.
Brooks, sixty-one, is busy opening up his new bar, Friends In Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk, in Nashville, Tennessee. He is eager to have his shop open up to the people celebrating their bachelorette parties as well as tourists checking out the music in the southern city. Because he wants to appeal to as many potential customers as possible, Brooks plans to sell “every brand of beer” at his establishment, including Bud Light, despite the conservative push to boycott the beer brand until they dissociate from the transgender icon.
Brooks told Billboard last week that he wants his new bar to “be a place you feel safe in” and where “there are manners and people like one another.” He also made it clear that he would sell Bud Light and all other beer brands at his establishment.
Since Brooks’s conversation with Billboard, some outraged fans have reportedly said that they plan to “throw out his records” and “never attend another one of his concerts” since he is not joining the conservative boycott of Bud Light after it allied itself with the transgender woman.
For months now, Bud Light and its parent company Anheuser-Busch have been blasted by conservatives over its partnership with transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney.
“I know this sounds corny,” the country-singing father-of-three told Billboard. “I want it to 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. 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 a**hole, there are plenty of other places on Lower Broadway.”
Brooks wants his bar in Nashville to be a safe space for everyone who wants to visit. His bar is among many other artist-owned bars in Nashville, including John Rich’s Redneck Riviera and Kid Rock’s Big A** Honky Tonk Rock N’ Roll Steakhouse, which have both quit selling Bud Light as part of the conservative boycott against the beer brand.
Robert Cornicelli confirmed that he would no longer be a Garth Brooks fan because he is going to be selling Bud Light at his Nashville bar.
“Country music star @garthbrooks has no tolerance for Bud Light boycotters, calling them ‘a**holes’ and promising he will serve the beer brand in his new Nashville bar,” Cornicelli tweeted. “Now I delete every Garth Brooks song from my collection. NEVER AGAIN, GARTH!”
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