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In reply to the discussion: Garth Brooks Quote ... Repug Heads Will Explode ---> [View all]mathematic
(1,434 posts)Throughout this subthread you mention The Thunder Rolls. You say it's a song about how Garth Brooks beating his wife made her better (post 110). That's not what the song is about and your outrage is based on a poor reading or misunderstanding.
The lyrics are about a woman that shoots her husband for his cheating heart. The music video makes the woman a more sympathetic character by making the husband an abuser. I'm guessing the video does this because let's face it: shooting your husband just for cheating makes you a horrible person.
Now I'm going to guess what you heard and how you interpreted it. You heard Brooks discuss the characters in the song. The interviewer asked why the video made the husband a wife-beater. Brooks explains that making the husband an abuser turns the wife into a better character: instead of a jealous murderer she is now a victim driven to extremes and justified in shooting her husband. You interpreted this at the time or now, years later, as a statement by Brooks about husband and wives and endorsing abuse in general or about Brooks and his wife in particular. You were unable to distinguish between the character and the creator and unable to appreciate discussion about the character creation process.
This is why "just google it" and "I heard it with my own ears" and similar deflections just don't cut it. People wanted the original source of the quote to see if what you say you heard is what was actually meant.
Finally, it should be clear that since Brooks thinks being the victim of domestic abuse justifies homicide (which is a socially acceptable point of view) that Brooks does not in fact think a man beating his wife makes her better.