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...quality of the automobile was only part of the problem. The larger reason I was speeding—well, that’s somewhat more embarrassing. You see, while I held the hammer down, I was grooving to the exciting, pulse-pounding, adrenaline-boosting music of none other than. . . Garth Brooks...
...there was a time, before I knew anyone from points south and west of Pennsylvania, when the very idea of Garth Brooks was enough to make a haughty sniff rise in my northeast coast nose. Country music of any kind was considered by my friends and neighbors to be déclassé and faintly ridiculous— the music of rednecks and trailer-park dwellers and yes, Republicans...
...outside of the classroom, and my unexpected fondness for the man who sings “Friends in Low Places” and “Thunder Rolls” is living, fiddling proof of that maxim. True, it hasn’t been easy to overcome my anti-Garth bigotry; indeed, the first time my freshman year roommate blasted “Rodeo” (It’s bulls and blood / it’s dust and mud / it’s the roar of a Sunday crowd) in our cramped dorm room, I felt every snobbish joint...
...honestly, who sings along to Radiohead? Heck, who even knows what a Radiohead song is about? (Yeah, I know— “fake plastic trees.” Wicked cool.) With Garth Brooks, things are simpler: there are songs about truck drivers whose wives cheat on them, songs about rodeo cowboys, songs about people running into their high school girlfriends and thanking God that they didn’t marry them. There are songs for Republicans, like the rousing “American Honky-Tonk Bar Association” (It represents the hardhat, gun rack, achin?...
...subcultures; we take mediocre artistic efforts seriously when they represent the work of Chicano immigrants in California, or spunky lesbians in lower Manhattan. But when it comes to the mediocre art that millions of Americans love, in Baton Rouge and Nashville and Denver and all the other places that Garth Brooks sings about, we roll our eyes and go back to downloading German techno...