Garth Brooks’ Plan to Offer Every Brand at His Upcoming Bar: As some conservatives boycott Bud Light for its partnership with a transgender influencer, the country singer spoke about his new pub in Tennessee.
In response to conservative outrage over Bud Light’s partnership with transgender TikToker Dylan Mulvaney, Garth Brooks has promised to “serve every brand of beer” at his new Tennessee bar.
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Garth Brooks’ Plan to Offer Every Brand at His Upcoming Bar
During an interview with Billboard on Wednesday, the country singer detailed his plans for the forthcoming Friends in Low Places Bar & Honky Tonk in Nashville. Brooks stated that he desires for his establishment to be one where patrons “feel safe.”
“I want it to be a place where you feel there are manners and people like one another,” he said, alluding to the right-wing beer backlash.
“Yes, we will serve all beverage brands. We just are. It is not up to us to decide. “If you are allowed to enter this house, you must love one another,” he said.
Anheuser-Busch, which produces Bud Light, received criticism in April for the Mulvaney partnership from country artists such as John Rich and Travis Tritt, who said they would stop drinking the beer. Other notable critics included Georgia Republican Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene and musician Kid Rock.
The company has reportedly struggled with sales and pours of the brew due to the conservative boycott.
Brendan Whitworth, the chief executive officer of Anheuser-Busch, issued a statement in an apparent effort to pacify the controversy, which Twitter users criticised as “bland and generic.”
The Human Rights Campaign, the nation’s largest LGBTQ+ rights advocacy organisation, also criticised the company for demonstrating “a profound lack of fortitude in upholding its values of diversity, equity, and inclusion.”
