Garth Brooks Releases His Most Controversial Music Video Alongside Six Other Classics

Garth Brooks has a deep catalog of songs and music movies. Sadly for a lot of followers, the “Friends in Low Places” singer doesn’t make his work available within the regular locations. Because of this, followers previous and new get excited when Brooks opens his Vault and permits them to view or take heed to issues they in any other case wouldn’t be capable to discover. Earlier this week, he introduced seven music movies out of the Vault, together with the controversial “The Thunder Rolls” video.

“Inspired by recent conversations about The Anthology series, Garth is restocking the Vault on [his website] with seven of his classic music videos,” the announcement learn. “Spanning the years 1991-2019, these videos won awards, introduced Garth as an actor and director, and sparked national dialogue about important social issues,” it added.

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Followers can head to the Vault on Brooks’ web site to see the movies for “The Red Strokes,” “We Shall Be Free,” “More Than a Memory,” “Dive Bar,” “I Don’t Have to Wonder,” “Midnight Sun,” and “The Thunder Rolls.”

Brooks spoke about among the songs and movies within the announcement. “The original ‘We Shall Be Free’ is so sentimental to me. So fragile, so strong,” he stated. “Funny thing is, I really thought I needed that message then, and now, I feel I may need it even more.”

He additionally spoke about his directorial debut, the “I Don’t Have to Wonder” video. “I loved, loved, loved directing this one,” Brooks stated. “I found myself really liking the director’s chair, even more than I liked being in front of the camera,” he added.

Garth Brooks Ruffles Feathers with “The Thunder Rolls” Video

“The Thunder Rolls” is one in every of Garth Brooks’ hottest songs. Throughout his live shows, he sings an additional verse that doesn’t seem within the album or single variations of the tune. That verse sees the spouse getting her revenge on her abusive, dishonest husband.

Brooks labored the revenge killing into the video together with the dishonest and abuse that brought on it. In his thoughts, it was one of the best ways to tie the extensively accessible model of the tune collectively together with his stay model. Whereas the video holds up greater than three many years later, it brought on controversy upon launch.

TNN banned the video the day after its launch. CMT pulled the tune from rotation lower than per week later. A spokesperson for the community stated CMT didn’t wish to promote gratuitous violence or “social issues.” Later, TNN provided to play the video if Brooks would file a disclaimer to play earlier than the clip. He refused.

The controversy brought on a number of radio and TV stations throughout the nation to request copies of the video from Capitol Data. They’d display the video as a part of fundraisers for native girls’s shelters. In line with The Garth Issue: The Profession Behind Nation’s Large Increase, a number of girls’s shelters contacted Capitol Data to thank them for elevating home violence consciousness.

The shortage of airtime on TNN and CMT didn’t cease “The Thunder Rolls” from profitable Video of the 12 months on the CMA Awards. It was additionally nominated for Greatest Music Video–Quick Kind on the Grammys.

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