Garth Brooks’ stance on Bud Light boycott has the internet talking

Fans cheer for Garth Brooks during his concert at Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Ala., Saturday, June 4, 2022. (Vasha Hunt | preps.al.com)Vasha Hunt

Garth Brooks is going to mess around and get himself or at least his bar cancelled by the same folks who were against cancel culture not long ago.

Don't believe it?

Well, the country music legend waded right on into the Bud Light boycott thing earlier this week during an interview with Billboard. Turns out, Brooks is planning on opening a bar, "Friends in Low Places Bar and Honky Tonk," in Nashville soon.

And it sounds like anybody who wants an ice-cold Bud Light will be able to get one there.

"I know this sounds corny, I want it to be the Chick-fil-A of honky-tonks," he reportedly said. "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 just in case you don't think Brooks was pro Bud Light in the debate, there's more.

"And yes, we’re going to serve every brand of beer," he said. "We just are. It's not our decision to make. Our thing is this, if you (are let) into this house, love on another. If you’re an (expletive) hole, there are plenty of other places on lower Broadway."

Per Newsweek, Brooks’ bar is planned to open in a three-story house with more than 40,000 square feet of property.

If you like the beer, drink it. If you don't, don't drink it and move along. Treat everyone with love and respect. His message seems reasonable.

Not everyone thought so, though. Just check out social media where Brooks’ stance and nod toward making the beer available in his bar really got under some folks’ skin.

"What an (expletive) this guy is," one person wrote.

"Big disappointment," another person wrote.

There were plenty of calls to boycott Brooks, too. But a whole lot of other fans were happy to see Brooks deliver the message.

"Way to go Garth," someone tweeted.

"(Laugh out loud) at people upset that Garth Brooks won't join in their anti-LGBTQ Bud Light boycott clearly don't remember him singing that we shall be free ‘when we are free to love anyone we choose’ 31 years ago," another person wrote. "And then performing it with rainbow stage lights a few years back."

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