Musician Tries To Change His Identity And Fails

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  • Опубликовано: 21 дек 2024

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  • @severeerror52
    @severeerror52 10 месяцев назад +6954

    Garth Brooks recently released an album exclusive to Bass Pro shops. So congratulations to him for continuing to have the weirdest instincts on the planet.

    • @kingozymandiass
      @kingozymandiass 10 месяцев назад +244

      I love this man more every day

    • @aronastron9538
      @aronastron9538 10 месяцев назад +407

      Man knows his audience

    • @MrHendrix17
      @MrHendrix17 10 месяцев назад +293

      The pharaohs could only dream of having a bespoke Garth Brooks album play in their pyramids

    • @Matthew-bp9tm
      @Matthew-bp9tm 10 месяцев назад +206

      He also has almost no streaming numbers at all, because he exclusively licensed all his music to Amazon music. And zero humans ever subscribed to Amazon music…#sad

    • @nomoretwitterhandles
      @nomoretwitterhandles 10 месяцев назад +30

      I'm no backwoods hick but goddamn I love me a Bass Pro. Garth Brooks was so right for that.

  • @teddieprox2307
    @teddieprox2307 10 месяцев назад +6241

    danny is every paul zimmer clone's worst fear

    • @RubyNemesis
      @RubyNemesis 10 месяцев назад +169

      Meanwhile, going back to the The Update Corner is Danny's worst fear. Or at least the worst fear of his knees.

    • @raeofsunshine9401
      @raeofsunshine9401 10 месяцев назад +43

      Paul has been on my Instagram everywhere...I can't escape him

    • @KyKy-tries
      @KyKy-tries 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@raeofsunshine9401NAH SAME

    • @Hellens.melons
      @Hellens.melons 10 месяцев назад +3

      Fr

    • @Hellens.melons
      @Hellens.melons 10 месяцев назад +2

      @@KyKy-triesHUH!?😭

  • @steadie
    @steadie 10 месяцев назад +11987

    what garth loses, chris gaines.....

  • @lizbeffers4761
    @lizbeffers4761 8 месяцев назад +284

    5:43 - Hannah Montana DID release an album similar to this! It was called "Hannah Montana 2: Meet Miley Cyrus". One disc was Hannah and the other disc was Miley. They were the basis for her debut tour, literally called the 'Best of Both Worlds' tour!
    Source: 7-10 year old me who played that album until the CDs no longer worked

  • @szzaxx1604
    @szzaxx1604 10 месяцев назад +5460

    The running theme of giving your OC’s the most tragic backstory possible existed even back then, crazy man

    • @hoplul
      @hoplul 9 месяцев назад +191

      this has been a thing for several millennia wdym

    • @alicethemad1613
      @alicethemad1613 9 месяцев назад +253

      Bro has NOT read Frankenstein

    • @freshgoobigoblin
      @freshgoobigoblin 9 месяцев назад +12

      ​@@hoplul facts.

    • @poopoocaca918
      @poopoocaca918 9 месяцев назад +10

      @@alicethemad1613 LMAO😭

    • @prpl3v3n0m
      @prpl3v3n0m 9 месяцев назад +7

      @@alicethemad1613I’m laughing at your joke, good job 👏

  • @godslaughter
    @godslaughter 10 месяцев назад +7175

    Chris Gaines sounds like an emo Deviantart OC with a very tragic backstory, I'm surprised he's not some sort of angel with eyes that change depending on his mood

    • @mrziiz6893
      @mrziiz6893 10 месяцев назад +251

      Who’s to say he’s not?

    • @klymothe
      @klymothe 10 месяцев назад +175

      deviantart oc 😭😭😭

    • @nonctm777
      @nonctm777 10 месяцев назад +219

      Don't mention eyes that change color depending on the mood, i made an OC like that many years ago thinking i was so creative and original 🥲🥲

    • @southparkfirefly
      @southparkfirefly 10 месяцев назад +73

      @@nonctm777 GOOD I hope you're ashamed!!
      I'm joking o3o we all have our cringey period in our life~

    • @nonctm777
      @nonctm777 10 месяцев назад +67

      @@southparkfirefly I promise i'm kinda improving in OC creation lmao, but i miss those times when i felt like the most original kid in the world

  • @abracabadass
    @abracabadass 9 месяцев назад +3116

    Chris Gaines' dark backstory sounds like a kid making their first D&D character

    • @shaeVettori
      @shaeVettori 9 месяцев назад +25

      What was yours?
      ...don't lie

    • @RadikAlice
      @RadikAlice 9 месяцев назад +39

      This makes me laugh so much, because my first ever character was an edgelord rogue who licked
      his rusty, bloodstained dagger because he enjoyed it and by the time I got to play him, I retooled him
      into a good boy monk. Granted, there was still tragedy. Raised in orphanage, burns down

    • @isabelflann4087
      @isabelflann4087 9 месяцев назад +4

      Mbmbam would like a word

    • @Theanonymousbystander
      @Theanonymousbystander 9 месяцев назад

      You don't look like you'd even know what DnD is

    • @abracabadass
      @abracabadass 9 месяцев назад +9

      @@shaeVettori tbh my first character was a Goliath Rogue because I didn't know wtf I was doing and nobody stopped me 💀 she absolutely had a tragic backstory though.

  • @austinjoiner5968
    @austinjoiner5968 9 месяцев назад +1030

    Missed opportunity to call his dark brooding alter ego, Darth Brooks

    • @CanadianPine45
      @CanadianPine45 4 месяца назад +6

      W comment

    • @wildfirefox1
      @wildfirefox1 3 месяца назад +3

      How's it feel being the funniest person alive, holt shit 😂😂

    • @TonyMichaels166
      @TonyMichaels166 2 месяца назад +4

      Garth Reznor

    • @Theunicorn2012
      @Theunicorn2012 Месяц назад

      Missed opportunity to call his dark brooding alter ego, Darth Brooks

    • @ratfanatic82
      @ratfanatic82 Месяц назад +1

      @@Theunicorn2012I read the comment you don’t need to repeat it

  • @onstr
    @onstr 10 месяцев назад +4468

    one of my favorite SNL sketches ever was when Garth Brooks was the musical guest and Tracy Morgan pulled him aside and just trashed Chris Gaines. Said he was horrible and even got Garth to agree. After Garth exited the scene Lorne Michaels comes up to Tracy and said "You do know Garth IS Chris, right?" and Tracy said "I know. Somebody gotta tell him"

    • @elliejones9872
      @elliejones9872 9 месяцев назад +28

      womp womp

    • @pseudo.sadness
      @pseudo.sadness 9 месяцев назад +151

      that is the most tracy morgan thing ive ever heard

    • @radishsayshi
      @radishsayshi 9 месяцев назад +66

      You can still find the VH1 Chris Gaines behind the music special, where they made a choice to make him a sex addict. Five stars, would recommend.

    • @TemmiePlays
      @TemmiePlays 9 месяцев назад +45

      the thing is nobody didn't know it wasn't him. and he didn't try to hide it.
      im pretty sure his PR team tried to market it as such and Garth is just too gullible and good natured to rebel.
      his Gaines' backstory was just the movie plot stuff for sure.
      they probably aimed for some grassroots/ guerilla marketing campaign and got cold feet partway through

    • @TemmiePlays
      @TemmiePlays 9 месяцев назад +8

      also Tracy Morgan is so dang unfunny I can see him being really proud he got to be a part of such an obvious joke lol

  • @IntermissionNovel
    @IntermissionNovel 9 месяцев назад +5477

    "Definitely seems like a weird thing to do" - guy who did exactly the same thing

    • @burgerpowder8
      @burgerpowder8 9 месяцев назад +41

      LMAO

    • @legowinnertoy
      @legowinnertoy 9 месяцев назад +107

      Twice

    • @spamtonsfather9621
      @spamtonsfather9621 9 месяцев назад

      I like it its hilarious when hes ironic ​@@user-gl6xu1wy7g

    • @peytvnz
      @peytvnz 9 месяцев назад +44

      @@user-gl6xu1wy7gwell danny did it for fun, it was a joke ? unlike chris gaines, he actually put out an explanation: his youtube video. its just what danny does ?

    • @rileygullins8024
      @rileygullins8024 9 месяцев назад +12

      @@user-gl6xu1wy7gHe’s not mad about it calling him a Karen is an interesting choice of words?

  • @ravioli3257
    @ravioli3257 10 месяцев назад +7867

    His alter ego in the thumbnail looks so much like onision, I took psychic damage from remembering he exists.

    • @angierose111
      @angierose111 10 месяцев назад +421

      so glad i’m not the only one that saw him

    • @slurmqueen930
      @slurmqueen930 10 месяцев назад +71

      Honestly
      Yeah

    • @rainbowlack
      @rainbowlack 10 месяцев назад +19

      ​@@angierose111same😭

    • @skyblue6092
      @skyblue6092 9 месяцев назад +20

      RIGHT

    • @rufusdrumknottvgc
      @rufusdrumknottvgc 9 месяцев назад +205

      SAME I honestly thought Danny just put Onision in the thumbnail as a joke??? Then I watched the vid and I was like so he just looks like that huh💀

  • @junejunejuniejune
    @junejunejuniejune 9 месяцев назад +404

    He just wanted to cosplay Snape, with a sprinkle of Chris Angel.

    • @Katrielible
      @Katrielible 7 месяцев назад +4

      Lol .... too early for that.

    • @Cinna_buns8826
      @Cinna_buns8826 7 дней назад

      Shh……,,,,.,.,.,.,.,,.,,.,,….,,,,,,,…

    • @ShinyPrimarina
      @ShinyPrimarina 4 дня назад +2

      There's a little bit of early onision in there

  • @esleep
    @esleep 10 месяцев назад +4310

    Chris Gaines is just the "original character DO NOT STEAL!!!1!" from Garth Brooks' preteen DeviantArt days, complete with angsty backstory

    • @bassetts1899
      @bassetts1899 9 месяцев назад +274

      "here's my musicsona guysss ^_^ pls comment and fave!! =3"

    • @poopykira
      @poopykira 9 месяцев назад +103

      HELPPP thats what i was thinking hes like the edgy oc you make when ur 12

    • @MsSheerAwesomeness
      @MsSheerAwesomeness 9 месяцев назад +13

      That is so funny

    • @bejeweledbat13
      @bejeweledbat13 9 месяцев назад +50

      chris gaines is just the shadow the hedgehog of garth brooks /j

    • @alicegallagher9291
      @alicegallagher9291 9 месяцев назад +10

      It’s like a creepypasta origin story

  • @persephone6457
    @persephone6457 10 месяцев назад +3703

    Chris Gaines is just Garth’s dark and edgy OC you can’t not convince me that. The 90s weren’t ready for Gaines, but I think 2024 could be his year

    • @MohammedAlharbi-w9m
      @MohammedAlharbi-w9m 10 месяцев назад +15

      Greg.Robert.Grebert.

    • @radiofreejenn0
      @radiofreejenn0 10 месяцев назад +59

      Having lived through the Chris Gaines era while I was in high school...I actually agree with this lol

    • @TheAlishaPictureShow
      @TheAlishaPictureShow 10 месяцев назад +47

      He is literally just Garth Onision-ified

    • @lydiamv21
      @lydiamv21 10 месяцев назад +4

      @@TheAlishaPictureShownooo omg

    • @thekawaiislartibartfast42
      @thekawaiislartibartfast42 10 месяцев назад +13

      Agreed, actually. I was working at Borders when the album came out and I really enjoyed it but I feel it was definitely ahead of its time.

  • @adammgolan
    @adammgolan 10 месяцев назад +3196

    Robert has to be fake. Danny has used this tactic before, and I see right through it. He's doing something.

    • @Annicamd
      @Annicamd 10 месяцев назад +164

      Fr I won’t believe in Robert til I see him 😡😡

    • @brídeann
      @brídeann 10 месяцев назад +61

      Look up Robert Schulz (i think thats it?) its a real person 😭😭

    • @username-re9yk
      @username-re9yk 10 месяцев назад +55

      Leave our guy Robert out of this!!!!!!!

    • @brídeann
      @brídeann 10 месяцев назад +44

      @@username-re9yk yeah he actually makes pretty funny videos, i saw him before i realized it was the same person 💀

    • @Simply_here1
      @Simply_here1 10 месяцев назад +15

      Yea, He is real. Guy is a comedian

  • @notkonni
    @notkonni 7 месяцев назад +90

    musicians creating alter egos or going by other names in order to release music is actually a lot more common than you would think, especially in more underground scenes. a lot of artists have side accounts completely disassociated with their original personality to make different types of music, and they sometimes gain a lot of popularity before people even realize they're the same person.

    • @yolobathsalts
      @yolobathsalts 2 месяца назад +15

      EDM artists are so bad for this. People think Yabujin stopped making music but really he's just 7 names down the road lol

    • @Justice-b6y
      @Justice-b6y Месяц назад +3

      ​@@yolobathsaltsdrop names

    • @yolobathsalts
      @yolobathsalts Месяц назад +3

      @@Justice-b6y dj gyrotta zao, for one.

  • @erinnn73
    @erinnn73 9 месяцев назад +5541

    I 100% thought that alter ego picture was onision

    • @zoeishahaha
      @zoeishahaha 9 месяцев назад +100

      SAME

    • @haruthegremlin
      @haruthegremlin 9 месяцев назад +77

      I DID TOO LMAO

    • @tori1076
      @tori1076 9 месяцев назад +53

      glad it wasn’t just me !

    • @pickleslicker
      @pickleslicker 9 месяцев назад +26

      i was about to comment the same thing

    • @travis_redfern6771
      @travis_redfern6771 9 месяцев назад +48

      Holy shit I forgot about Onision

  • @KindWanderer94
    @KindWanderer94 10 месяцев назад +1236

    That's really sweet of you to shout out small artists like fox szn I'm sure he really appreciates it.

    • @azetac_
      @azetac_ 10 месяцев назад +61

      He only has the one single, hope he puts out another one soon

    • @KindWanderer94
      @KindWanderer94 10 месяцев назад +30

      @azetac_ oh he has to now that Danny shouted him out. It's gonna be a banger.

    • @BuriedMelanie.Official
      @BuriedMelanie.Official 10 месяцев назад +6

      @@KindWanderer94gonna be on all our playlists for sure

    • @k.i.t.k.a.t.
      @k.i.t.k.a.t. 10 месяцев назад +5

      Fox szn is so underrated fr 🙏

  • @jujuexe
    @jujuexe 9 месяцев назад +5976

    as someone with OCs its genuinely so real of him to just make every possible traumatic event to happen to chris gaines

    • @niaram
      @niaram 9 месяцев назад +354

      idk why it’s a STRUGGLE for me to have an OC with a least a decent life 😭 nope, just trauma after trauma

    • @jujuexe
      @jujuexe 9 месяцев назад +92

      @@niaram LMAO it's more interesting that way

    • @sixfeetundertheradar6080
      @sixfeetundertheradar6080 9 месяцев назад +110

      @@niaramif I have to have trauma so do my ocs 😂😭

    • @probablyprin
      @probablyprin 9 месяцев назад +16

      How do you guys make the ocs? Do you draw them or do you just think of them?

    • @criptideancia
      @criptideancia 9 месяцев назад +39

      @@probablyprin I personally draw them, write stories, keep them on ToyHouse

  • @hx0ad5
    @hx0ad5 9 месяцев назад +107

    the combination of the mopey emo look with the light acoustic elevator music is scrambling my brain bigtime

  • @kerrijustice8865
    @kerrijustice8865 10 месяцев назад +6688

    Danny, I am 43 and my daughter and I watch you together.😊 As a teenager during this time in Garth's life, I can tell you that Garth is trying so hard to rewrite history. At the time, Garth LIVED as Chris Gaines. Nobody ever mentioned "a movie" back then. He wore that wig full time and refused to answer to "Garth." It was confusing because Garth was "method acting" but acting like THE PUBLIC was crazy. The fact that they've rewritten history and lied about this fake movie and "the public wasn't ready..." 😂 We weren't ready to accept Garth selling us Chris Gaines was a real person. That wig must've squeezed his brain too tight! Great video, Danny, my daughter and I love your content! 🎉

    • @angelbabies7
      @angelbabies7 10 месяцев назад +1001

      47 and this is exactly right. We all thought he'd gone crazy and just wanted it to stop. The cringe was palatable.

    • @mad_hatt
      @mad_hatt 10 месяцев назад +331

      This is so wholesome! I’d love it if my mom and I watched RUclipsrs together 😭💜

    • @heyjustj
      @heyjustj 10 месяцев назад +397

      I’m 39 and this is the FIRST time I have heard about the movie. I definitely remember the VH1 special and SNL Garth/Gaines appearance. It was bizarre.

    • @elizabethpemberton8445
      @elizabethpemberton8445 10 месяцев назад +296

      Yeah, I’m 54, and it was never a secret. It was a huge thing, just weird. I thought that “Chris Gaines” was fully integrated into pop culture references as a weird and unsuccessful dual persona thing, but apparently it’s been so long it went out of circulation. Also I think the sex addiction thing in the biography is a swipe at David Duchovny.

    • @isntmeulooking4
      @isntmeulooking4 10 месяцев назад

      ​@@elizabethpemberton8445a swipe?

  • @killerjag
    @killerjag 9 месяцев назад +1844

    Every time someone is both the host and musical guest on SNL I always want them to introduce themselves while sitting in the audience and then sprint on stage in a panic while their band starts playing

    • @Demiglitch
      @Demiglitch 9 месяцев назад +204

      "huh thats a familiar number... oh dear God!"

  • @乂
    @乂 9 месяцев назад +7500

    Honestly I feel like there’s so many artists that would like to change their style, but they can’t because that’s not what people would expect from them.

    • @jyoung6366
      @jyoung6366 9 месяцев назад +221

      Absolutely… their fans expect a certain style. They’d likely push away current fans while having a hard time gaining new ones

    • @carolinatorres7575
      @carolinatorres7575 9 месяцев назад +129

      Reminds me of how Julian Casablancas from The Strokes created The Voidz to make more experimental music that he wanted to try. They definitely sound different.

    • @savannahacevedo
      @savannahacevedo 9 месяцев назад +3

    • @stephniay
      @stephniay 9 месяцев назад +99

      No one: Doja cat
      "I volunteer, i volunteer as tribute!"

    • @savannahacevedo
      @savannahacevedo 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@stephniay HAHA

  • @pudding3cloudforgottenworl163
    @pudding3cloudforgottenworl163 8 месяцев назад +38

    “yes ned flames” we all say in unison

  • @RubyNemesis
    @RubyNemesis 10 месяцев назад +811

    I hate it when my wedding photographers try to shoot my wedding like Schindler's List.

    • @shwing1428
      @shwing1428 10 месяцев назад +7

      haha that's immediately what I thought

    • @Andy-jh2fs
      @Andy-jh2fs 10 месяцев назад +12

      OMG same thought! I was like "the ol' Schindler's wedding photographer eh?"

  • @Moonwalker2923
    @Moonwalker2923 10 месяцев назад +11711

    Don’t act like this isn’t just you, Danny. We’re too good at critical thinking for this.

    • @missy2375
      @missy2375 10 месяцев назад +246

      He's trying to get one over on us again, we should form a union

    • @aqua_potat4812
      @aqua_potat4812 10 месяцев назад +12

      Real😂

    • @Easton555
      @Easton555 10 месяцев назад +34

      Top notch critical thinking 🧠

    • @taraantovska6519
      @taraantovska6519 10 месяцев назад +19

      HES PLAYING MIND GAMES WITH US!! HE BETTER STOP DECEIVING US LIKE THE GOVERNMENT PUT ON YOUR TINFOIL HATS GUYS!!! :0

    • @kuzeyrl
      @kuzeyrl 10 месяцев назад +1

      lol

  • @radishsayshi
    @radishsayshi 10 месяцев назад +1250

    I was in highschool at the time. He was extremely popular back then, he wasn't losing traction at all, he just got bored and wanted to be a rock star for a change. We all knew immediately, and roasted him to no end.

    • @amandakrause9394
      @amandakrause9394 9 месяцев назад +2

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @OGimouse1
      @OGimouse1 9 месяцев назад +29

      IIRC the original album back then didn't have "Garth Brooks as..."

    • @bethanysolimine5428
      @bethanysolimine5428 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@OGimouse1 I'll have to dig it out and check it.

    • @chadrific
      @chadrific 9 месяцев назад +11

      the endless roasting tho 😂 no one took it seriously AT ALL

    • @LacroixboiMarx
      @LacroixboiMarx 9 месяцев назад +1

      Yea we had the big “limited edition” box set of all of Garth’s CD’s. Then out of nowhere, CHRIS GAINES 😅

  • @mariajw4803
    @mariajw4803 9 месяцев назад +102

    David Bowie did something similar. He created a fictive person, an alter ego that he named Ziggy Stardust. It worked quite well for David Bowie.

    • @briandavid7849
      @briandavid7849 4 месяца назад +7

      Have you listened to "Ziggy stardust and the spiders from mars"? That album kicks ass.

    • @Cardinalt
      @Cardinalt 4 месяца назад +4

      ​@@briandavid7849 bowie just never missed

    • @briandavid7849
      @briandavid7849 4 месяца назад +3

      @@Cardinalt He didn't miss. You are correct.

  • @staceyvickers
    @staceyvickers 10 месяцев назад +508

    Old lady watcher here. At the time there was no mention of a movie. He hosted SNL as Garth Brooks and the musical guest was Chris Gaines. We had no idea what was going on. It was totally bizarre.

    • @GustavoPizza
      @GustavoPizza 9 месяцев назад

      wtf stop watching old ladys

    • @chikari123
      @chikari123 9 месяцев назад +14

      Idk why this is killing me rn 😭

    • @colinsteadland
      @colinsteadland 9 месяцев назад +10

      You watch old ladies?

    • @staceyvickers
      @staceyvickers 9 месяцев назад +29

      @@colinsteadland avidly.

    • @Kerrviii
      @Kerrviii 9 месяцев назад +4

      Me too.

  • @kestrelsss
    @kestrelsss 10 месяцев назад +597

    this whole situation is fucking me up so bad bc garth brooks sounds like such an edgy emo musician name and chris gaines is peak god loving country singer name. and yet.

    • @kaemincha
      @kaemincha 9 месяцев назад +23

      idk if its just bc i live in the south and grew up with the name, but garth brooks is a country ass name

    • @giboi03
      @giboi03 9 месяцев назад +1

      The tale writes itself LMAO

  • @louloudaki_
    @louloudaki_ 9 месяцев назад +617

    2:38 glad chris gaines failed as an alter ego because respectfully that looks like onision with a goatee and that’s really cursed

    • @grafi838
      @grafi838 9 месяцев назад +65

      yes it’s the same similarity onision and young shane dawson share for me. it’s odd and evil

    • @amiahh6157
      @amiahh6157 9 месяцев назад +63

      literally though the thumbnail was onision. i got war flashbacks

    • @hallocher608
      @hallocher608 9 месяцев назад +4

      Gaines will be back

    • @Razmattazer
      @Razmattazer 9 месяцев назад +5

      Omg yes, that's who he looks like!

    • @adventureisntfar
      @adventureisntfar 9 месяцев назад +16

      I assumed this video was about onision because of the thumbnail. He looks just like him 😬

  • @beautifulpokerface8630
    @beautifulpokerface8630 9 месяцев назад +20

    Danny changed his mind 1200 times, you did it Chris, we're all confused

  • @The_Roach_Hiding_In_Your_Room
    @The_Roach_Hiding_In_Your_Room 10 месяцев назад +712

    His friend's plane had to crash because he's not allowed to have friends in high places.

    • @bluefairyme14
      @bluefairyme14 9 месяцев назад +3

      😂😂😂😂

    • @LacroixboiMarx
      @LacroixboiMarx 9 месяцев назад +14

      This is a beautiful comment.

    • @Diva3450
      @Diva3450 9 месяцев назад +6

      Golden

    • @callmeqt1269
      @callmeqt1269 9 месяцев назад +4

      I am in awe of you

    • @yuki97kira
      @yuki97kira 7 месяцев назад +1

      It must be hard to be his friends..you gotta end the friendship before boarding

  • @cosmicfunfetti
    @cosmicfunfetti 10 месяцев назад +1198

    a few months ago I was at a writing camp where we learned about Chris Gaines and then did an activity where we took genres we didn’t write about and made up a persona who did write those book genres. The counselor said we were “Chris Gaines-ing ourselves”

    • @thosefroggyfolks2004
      @thosefroggyfolks2004 10 месяцев назад +48

      That’s amazing 😂

    • @eri020
      @eri020 10 месяцев назад +10

      please be real

    • @tiacat11
      @tiacat11 10 месяцев назад +80

      Well don't keep us in suspense, who was your Chris Gainesona??

    • @coffeegirl18
      @coffeegirl18 10 месяцев назад +26

      I'm pretty sure Stephen King did the same idea; he's written novels under the pseudonym Richard Bachman.

    • @cosmicfunfetti
      @cosmicfunfetti 10 месяцев назад +79

      @@tiacat11 it was a 40-something year old mother of 3 who specialized in romance novels

  • @clambersc3917
    @clambersc3917 9 месяцев назад +3194

    I genuinely thought that was Onision in the thumbnail

    • @salbei_honig
      @salbei_honig 9 месяцев назад +80

      THANK YOU! I thought I was going insane

    • @clambersc3917
      @clambersc3917 9 месяцев назад +22

      @@salbei_honig HAHA ME TOOO! Glad I'm not the only one!

    • @sweetlemons4617
      @sweetlemons4617 9 месяцев назад +10

      RIGHTTT

    • @mossygrub
      @mossygrub 9 месяцев назад +16

      SAMEEE i was scaredd lmao

    • @NekagaiKpcat
      @NekagaiKpcat 9 месяцев назад +5

      Me too

  • @Marqhll
    @Marqhll 9 месяцев назад +23

    Holy shit! I was around when this happened and watching young people discover this is amazing. I'm 30 seconds into the video and I can't wait to watch this.

  • @lovecheese45
    @lovecheese45 10 месяцев назад +246

    "that's his famous song about friends trapped in a well"
    absolutely killed me lol.

    • @corywilson2007
      @corywilson2007 9 месяцев назад +5

      I'm sorry for your loss

    • @minimel222
      @minimel222 9 месяцев назад +5

      you will be missed 🕊️

  • @Lyndiloo
    @Lyndiloo 10 месяцев назад +1320

    I'm an old and I remember when this happened. Back then and still today I firmly believe this was Garth Brooks having a mid-life crisis and wanting to try rock/emo/alternative music. The movie is a fabrication to explain it away when the career pivot failed miserably. I will die on this hill. Thank you very much.

    • @kbolin1592
      @kbolin1592 10 месяцев назад +65

      We're on that hill dying together hahaha

    • @OGimouse1
      @OGimouse1 9 месяцев назад +9

      Same

    • @chadrific
      @chadrific 9 месяцев назад +52

      i think the only one not on the hill is garth 😂

    • @MovableNu
      @MovableNu 9 месяцев назад +19

      Fellow old. Also dying on that hill with y’all. 😂

    • @bashlea
      @bashlea 9 месяцев назад +12

      I’m old but I just thought it was a weird cash grab

  • @Kumanosuke
    @Kumanosuke 10 месяцев назад +835

    There was a really big popstar in Germany in the 90s named Sasha.
    At the beginning of the 00s, he took a break from his musical career and a few years later a band called "Dick Brave and the backbeats" showed up. They made rockabilly inspired music (completely different from Sasha) and Dick Brave (who had a plausible biography) said he was Canadian and had a thick North American accent when speaking German. He never broke character and would invent stuff when being asked something in interviews.
    I think it was never made official that Sasha was Dick Brave and it took years for the public to notice it even though it was rumored for quite a while, but it was funny how much lore they made up for it and how plausible it seemed in the early 00s.

    • @imelimadame9244
      @imelimadame9244 10 месяцев назад +78

      I was thinking about that too. But he eventually did talk about it. He kinda had to do it because (iirc) he was still under contract as Sasha but wanted to make different music and wasn't allowed under his name.

    • @CocoLicious
      @CocoLicious 10 месяцев назад +32

      I mean we knew it was him and it was speculated about in Magazines and accepted that he couldn't have done this as Pop Sasha. The accent was pretty crinfe though lol

    • @KingOfGaymes
      @KingOfGaymes 10 месяцев назад +54

      To choose the name Dick Brave as a cover is so funny 💀

    • @breauseph
      @breauseph 10 месяцев назад +15

      Not totally the same but Orville Peck kind of did this too. I only did a little bit of digging because I love the Orville mystique, but he was in other pretty successful bands prior to inventing the Orville character. That being said he's not out here trying to convince amyone that his birth certificate literally says Orville Peck or pretending that he doesn't have a very particular South African-Canadian accent, LOL that's wild about Sasha.

    • @ZebraJess92
      @ZebraJess92 10 месяцев назад +18

      Lol as a German who never reads those kind of magazines I thought it was perfectly clear it was Sasha from the beginning. I thought everyone on TV just was "in on the bit"... Did people actually think that was a different person? I can't really believe that tbh, it wasn't a real disguise, it was just Sasha in a rockabilly costume lol

  • @cashdingo6386
    @cashdingo6386 9 месяцев назад +39

    My theory is Chris Gaines is his real identity and he was the original singer for the Goo Goo Dolls. After being kicked out for being TOO moody he changes to Garth and plans his life long revenge plot to take over the music industry and destroy John Rzeznik.

  • @Alien_Spit1
    @Alien_Spit1 10 месяцев назад +830

    “sex that’s the best thing about being a musician” had me dying 😂

    • @LucyGem98
      @LucyGem98 10 месяцев назад +6

      "about being a musician"

    • @Alien_Spit1
      @Alien_Spit1 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@LucyGem98thanks I’ll fix that

  • @d-rocky
    @d-rocky 10 месяцев назад +585

    I just gotta say as someone who grew up around this - while it may have been goofy af, a huge part of the reason it wasn’t well received was because of how emotional, timid & feminine Gaines was. Garth made the mistake of building a fan base that despised the kind of man he portrayed with Gaines.

    • @gr33ngirlsea
      @gr33ngirlsea 9 месяцев назад +94

      It's too bad he couldn't go at it anonymously and build a different fan base with Chris. I wonder how long they might've been able to keep it a secret...

    • @lordlittletoeq8537
      @lordlittletoeq8537 9 месяцев назад +13

      @@gr33ngirlsea ngl thatd have been great

    • @lordlittletoeq8537
      @lordlittletoeq8537 9 месяцев назад +96

      yeah contry people and emos werent super tight back then

    • @kainotachi
      @kainotachi 9 месяцев назад +71

      The other thing is that Garth was known as a very "clean" artist, you know, safe for a hardcore Christian fanbase during the moral panic of the 90s (around the time the parental advisory labels got popularized), and that's where much of his popularity was. So him going on about sex and such was really kind of shocking at the time.

    • @bubblegumplastic
      @bubblegumplastic 9 месяцев назад +22

      ​@@kainotachi Poor guy, he was probably bored to death trying to appeal to his pearl clutching audience

  • @zeldaninja15
    @zeldaninja15 10 месяцев назад +1308

    Honestly I was living that Garth Brooks and Chris Gains double aesthetic as a teen because of my love of being dramatically emo conflicting with my Christian parents. Chris Gains at school, Garth Brooks at church.

    • @tylerwhite1322
      @tylerwhite1322 10 месяцев назад +229

      Garth in streets, Chris in the sheets, as they say.

    • @frozenwarrior1354
      @frozenwarrior1354 10 месяцев назад

      do you are have stupid?

    • @nkr8851
      @nkr8851 10 месяцев назад +63

      @@tylerwhite1322they do say that a lot actually! might even be one of his song titles

    • @o0Scarrow0o
      @o0Scarrow0o 10 месяцев назад +21

      I guess you could say you got the best of both worlds

    • @sewerside01142
      @sewerside01142 10 месяцев назад +5

      All we pray, although we can't decide
      Catholic in the morning, satanist at night

  • @RobwithoneB
    @RobwithoneB 9 месяцев назад +55

    Danny, Garth wasn't trying to hide his identity or pretend it wasn't him. He just wanted to try something different (and weird) because he got bored of being so famous and rich as Garth, that he wanted to try something else. Still weird af, but he wasnt trying to hide the fact that it was him

    • @user-gl6xu1wy7g
      @user-gl6xu1wy7g 9 месяцев назад +9

      its crazy how Danny doesnt understand Garth Brooks was trolling people and it was not as serious as it seems, its satire of rock stars, its alter ego, its art projects, etc He thinks people in the 90s didnt know about any of that

    • @RobwithoneB
      @RobwithoneB 9 месяцев назад +13

      @user-gl6xu1wy7g well, he wasnt trying to troll anyone. He just wanted to try something different. He wasnt trying to hide the fact that its him either. Garth is just a weird dude, and because he's so inconceivably rich, he got bored being himself. So he tried "Chris Gaines" and in doing that, he weirded everyone out

    • @user-gl6xu1wy7g
      @user-gl6xu1wy7g 9 месяцев назад +1

      @@RobwithoneB i can easily imagine Garth and his wife and friends laughing and having fun while doing this project, i doubt he was as emo as he seemed, this was the peak time of prank phone calls and Dennis Rodman wearing dresses, being subversive, like Michael Jackson trolling music executives, tricking parapazzis, Spinal Tap, Waynes World, etc, MarylinManson rumors, the concept of a brooding rockstar was well established into comedy by that point. His BehindTheMusic episode is an obvious spoof and meant to be (subtextually/conceptually) funny, is what i always got from him at the time.. But yes the haters didnt understand, this was also a time where TV shows would get cancelled just for someone changing their hairstyle, people writing letters, etc

    • @WillaMcrae
      @WillaMcrae 8 месяцев назад +1

      This and the album was released as a test to see if people would like the movie and it would work it was a combination of things but garth certainly had fun doing this and trolling people

    • @PointsofData
      @PointsofData 8 месяцев назад +4

      ​@user-gl6xu1wy7g
      "The haters didn't understand"? He intentionally hid that he was part of the project at first, the first releases of the albums didn't have his name, how were people supposed to recognize it as a joke when it seemed he was seriously trying to branch out as someone else?

  • @Kellyeeeee
    @Kellyeeeee 10 месяцев назад +2512

    "Lost In You" is unironically such a serve. It's pure 90's r&b written by babyface. Childish Gambino also did a beautiful cover.

    • @cuhleef
      @cuhleef 10 месяцев назад +32

      Loved his cover.

    • @iloveblackdudes
      @iloveblackdudes 10 месяцев назад

      Let me kiss all three of u

    • @iloveblackdudes
      @iloveblackdudes 10 месяцев назад +6

      Ure all great and i appreciate you

    • @isdeirinnme
      @isdeirinnme 10 месяцев назад +192

      Donald Glover as Childish Gambino covering Garth Brooks as Chris Gaines is just layers of meta

    • @3skin556
      @3skin556 10 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@isdeirinnme truuu

  • @therealslmccl
    @therealslmccl 10 месяцев назад +2792

    He is the IRL Hannah Montana of this generation

    • @ianianianianian
      @ianianianianian 10 месяцев назад +39

      not the artist we needed, but the artist we deserved

    • @TheQueenOfSheba
      @TheQueenOfSheba 10 месяцев назад +7

      Garth Brooks!? 😂

    • @SaintShion
      @SaintShion 10 месяцев назад +6

      Orville Peck has been real quiet since this video.

    • @klaythoring1326
      @klaythoring1326 10 месяцев назад +2

      That's what I was thinking too XD

    • @SK2NK
      @SK2NK 10 месяцев назад +13

      You get the best of both Garths

  • @meganchambers8108
    @meganchambers8108 10 месяцев назад +865

    LMAO based on the thumbnail, I definitely thought this was about Onision trying to make country music XD

    • @Annicamd
      @Annicamd 10 месяцев назад +90

      I’m so glad I wasn’t the only one lol

    • @Bubaiel
      @Bubaiel 10 месяцев назад +27

      SAME

    • @Tottosmile
      @Tottosmile 10 месяцев назад +18

      Deadass me too

    • @ChristinaLF
      @ChristinaLF 10 месяцев назад +19

      Me too! It’s too uncanny …

    • @brinncognito
      @brinncognito 10 месяцев назад +10

      YUPP

  • @mckaylamurphy5336
    @mckaylamurphy5336 9 месяцев назад +7

    This is legit so interesting and strange lol like this is actually a fascinating story. I love watching videos like this about stuff from years ago I’ve never heard about lol it’s really actually intriguing.

  • @longbttms4255
    @longbttms4255 10 месяцев назад +535

    i love how robert sends danny on a little webquest every video, like he's a history student doing his schoolwork

    • @simplycharming4593
      @simplycharming4593 9 месяцев назад +2

      Can u tell me who this Robert guy is ? I can't find his youtube channel or anything ☹️☹️

    • @TC-ku4vv
      @TC-ku4vv 9 месяцев назад

      @@simplycharming4593I'm trying to figure out where I know him from

  • @granatabols
    @granatabols 10 месяцев назад +635

    i love girth books i hope he doesnt have any alter egos

    • @Annicamd
      @Annicamd 10 месяцев назад +84

      GIRTH

    • @infernoshrimp
      @infernoshrimp 10 месяцев назад +23

      Girth

    • @r_puff
      @r_puff 10 месяцев назад +44

      girth books

    • @murchhonaa
      @murchhonaa 10 месяцев назад +19

      I love girth books

    • @koasterlover1045
      @koasterlover1045 10 месяцев назад +4

      Girth Brooks is amazing I love his videos

  • @silverserpent420
    @silverserpent420 9 месяцев назад +1400

    I remember this. What a weird stunt. 😂 Later when Chris Angel appeared I legit almost thought Garth was back at it again.

    • @AmyAberrant
      @AmyAberrant 9 месяцев назад +22

      Lmao

    • @yuki97kira
      @yuki97kira 8 месяцев назад +44

      Garth brooks
      Chris gaines
      Chris angel
      We have never seen them all in one room

    • @silverserpent420
      @silverserpent420 7 месяцев назад +5

      @@yuki97kira Big facts 👀

    • @veryferalthing
      @veryferalthing 7 месяцев назад +33

      "almost thought Garth was back at it again" is SUCH a funny sentence to me

    • @silverserpent420
      @silverserpent420 7 месяцев назад +6

      @@veryferalthing Making you smile or laugh is everything!!! 💚🫶🏽💚

  • @Clownkhitty
    @Clownkhitty 9 месяцев назад +36

    10:30 why does it look like he’s blushing like an anime girl

  • @macularius
    @macularius 9 месяцев назад +990

    no one who has been a teen within the past several decades is surprised that garth brooks came up with an edgy emo OC with an unnecessarily elaborate backstory, bless his heart

    • @bleedthebeat1
      @bleedthebeat1 9 месяцев назад +35

      The story is much better than that. Chris Gaines has an elaborate backstory because he was the main character in a movie that was going to star Garth Brookes playing Chris Gaines. The album was released as sort of a promotional album for the movie. The album did so bad that the movie was cancelled.

    • @macularius
      @macularius 9 месяцев назад +46

      ​@@bleedthebeat1 damn that's wild someone should make a youtube video about that

    • @galstibilj9913
      @galstibilj9913 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@macularius😂😂😂

    • @adamprice3466
      @adamprice3466 9 месяцев назад +5

      ​@@bleedthebeat1
      The movie got scrapped before the album was released. Garth had already written the album for the movie so he decided to release it as the character. It didn't go over well.

    • @adamprice3466
      @adamprice3466 9 месяцев назад +2

      The album isn't that bad if you listen to it now

  • @heytriskit
    @heytriskit 10 месяцев назад +662

    Garth Brooks lived in my town growing up. He once saw a family struggling to get home in bad weather and bought them a car. He's a really nice guy. Very charitable.

    • @adventurer425
      @adventurer425 9 месяцев назад +43

      Same situation here, I never heard anything but good stuff about him

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 9 месяцев назад +9

      That is sweet but also an insane display of his wealth but I guess it's better to put it towards actually helping people.

    • @heytriskit
      @heytriskit 9 месяцев назад +38

      @hedgehog3180 There wasn't any publicity around when he did it. The family told our local news. He did things like this for tons of people, and when anyone went to his gate (the whole town knew where he lived), he would come out to take pictures and sign autographs. Just a very genuine dude.

    • @Peanut_taco_muffin
      @Peanut_taco_muffin 9 месяцев назад +22

      @@hedgehog3180 he has wealth and was doing something out of the goodness of his heart- the fact that he did something life changing for someone that cost money isn’t a bad thing in any way

    • @bmckong
      @bmckong 9 месяцев назад +12

      Have worked with him a few times. Hella nice

  • @jacobj297
    @jacobj297 10 месяцев назад +259

    Garth brooks will definitely copyright claim this video because he doesn’t even allow his music on RUclips, so I’m glad I’m here early. Haha

    • @topotondo828
      @topotondo828 10 месяцев назад +31

      It’s been too long since Danny reviewed his legal options

    • @star-not-moon
      @star-not-moon 10 месяцев назад +17

      ​@@topotondo828 I can already hear the slap by legal.

  • @raimarulightning
    @raimarulightning 7 месяцев назад +5

    Man, this was actually a pretty funny and cool part of music history.
    It's so wild seeing somebody else discover it for the first time, lol

  • @HalvyRen
    @HalvyRen 10 месяцев назад +937

    Hannah Montana literally has an album called “Meet Miley Cyrus” and I can’t tell if Danny was making a joke bc he knew this or if he just happened to pick a bad example 😅

    • @Tess321
      @Tess321 10 месяцев назад +41

      Lmao I was wondering that as well. I happened to be looking away at that point and had to rewind it to see if he edited in a picture of that album

    • @professorhaystacks6606
      @professorhaystacks6606 10 месяцев назад +19

      "It's like if they put Lassie in the Louvre" "Lassie is in the Louvre" "I know, I was deliberately describing a similar situation."

    • @Countdownsmiles
      @Countdownsmiles 10 месяцев назад +42

      I think he meant in the context of the show. All of us in real life knew it was miley cyrus the whole time

    • @randomtinypotatocried
      @randomtinypotatocried 10 месяцев назад +6

      I thought that album happened and wasn't sure if I misremembered it

    • @cambuck2231
      @cambuck2231 10 месяцев назад +2

      I was legit about to say something haha

  • @finchfull
    @finchfull 10 месяцев назад +196

    the baby falling from the tree in the fox szn video gets me every time

  • @oliviacranston31
    @oliviacranston31 10 месяцев назад +548

    no because when taylor swift wore a brunette wig in the you belong with me mv i genuinely thought it was a different actress for YEARS… i for sure would have fallen for the Chris Gains act…

    • @tangerinelemonn
      @tangerinelemonn 9 месяцев назад +15

      WAIT WHAT R U SRS 😭😭 i didn’t know…… omg

    • @didip1000
      @didip1000 9 месяцев назад +41

      She was in disguise for not one but two MVs and people still couldnt tell it was her 😂😂

    • @bbs.5157
      @bbs.5157 9 месяцев назад +24

      Me but with Avril Lavigne in the Girlfriend video

    • @alfasusi5415
      @alfasusi5415 9 месяцев назад +5

      I have aphantasia and difficulty recognizing faces, so I understand.

    • @monicag_00
      @monicag_00 9 месяцев назад +3

      IT WASN'T JUST ME THANK GOD LMFAO

  • @Whitney341
    @Whitney341 8 месяцев назад +5

    I'm guilty of thinking back then that Garth was just absolutely going THROUGH ittt. I never knew it was all just for a movie that never... happened.. 😂

  • @meep3709
    @meep3709 10 месяцев назад +193

    The Chris Gains project was awesome. I think country music can be so restrictive as a genre (bc of its fans) that he didn’t want to branch out publicly but wanted to explore new music and honestly good for him lol

    • @littlexxbull
      @littlexxbull 10 месяцев назад +43

      That's what I'm saying like at the time this was really the only safest way to completely switch up aggressively

  • @SamuelBrunet-t1f
    @SamuelBrunet-t1f 9 месяцев назад +107

    It actually makes perfect sense for a superstar to want to experience just being a musician again, without influencing or being influenced by their main brand. Many famous artists have done some variation of this, though maybe not quite as comedically.

    • @Sp0rkWafflez
      @Sp0rkWafflez 9 месяцев назад +10

      Which is why it's confusing he didn't do it the same way as those artists because this isn't new it's been done before. Authors have done it too. Usually in both cases they get miffed that they are as successful as their normal identity so it gets "leaked" and then they become successful but they don't go through all this weirdness.

    • @uikmnhj4me
      @uikmnhj4me 9 месяцев назад +3

      Yeah even JK Rowling did this, releasing mystery novels under a random name

    • @RealLifeIronMan
      @RealLifeIronMan 9 месяцев назад +2

      Sounds like he just wanted to branch out into another genre.

  • @FundamentallyFlawed
    @FundamentallyFlawed 10 месяцев назад +145

    I'm old enough to clearly remember all of this. They did a lot of press releases explaining what he was doing prior to the release of the album, so he definitely wasn't trying to trick anyone. I believe they released the album to see if there was enough interest to drum up funding for the film.

  • @pelago_
    @pelago_ 8 месяцев назад +3

    Putting together that 40-something minute doco would have been so fun, that’s real commitment to the bit.

  • @FlyoverStatePark
    @FlyoverStatePark 10 месяцев назад +835

    So I've done a lot of research into the Chris Gaines phenomenon and... I just want to clear up a few confusing tidbits. First off, the album was originally released as "Chris Gaines Greatest Hits". His backstory includes being in the band "Crush" (he and his bandmate wanted to be the new Lennon and McCartney) and then going on to do some solo projects. Another important tidbit is that while he was doing this stunt in 1999, Garth Brooks and his then wife were separated, with his divorce happening a few years later in 2001. With that context in mind, his VH1 Behind the Life documentary is a WILD ride. The amount of time spent discussing his sex addiction is insane and plays out like what a middle schooler thinks sex addiction would be. Pair that with the fact that he was separating from his wife and it looks like he's severely overcompensating with a character that HE CREATED by making Chris Gaines a rocker sex god. For more context, I made a helpful video analysis: ruclips.net/video/rC-VjV8cDDw/видео.html

    • @Neomie92
      @Neomie92 9 месяцев назад +73

      This is CRAZY hahahah omg thanks for giving more insight. I’m so tickled

    • @kainotachi
      @kainotachi 9 месяцев назад +79

      THANK YOU. I was certain I remembered that the Garth Brooks name wasn't originally on the album cover, and that's why it was such a big joke how quickly people figured it out, but I was seriously starting to think I'd been Mandella Effected.

    • @samanthaloudermilk7779
      @samanthaloudermilk7779 9 месяцев назад +16

      boosting this

    • @lkelevra7636
      @lkelevra7636 9 месяцев назад +12

      to be the new Lennon... that explains the cult thing reference, I guess 💀

    • @AmySay
      @AmySay 9 месяцев назад +14

      any time an artist tries deliberately to be the new beatles, things usually end up disastrous (hi there, pretty odd era of panic at the disco)

  • @waleedbaidas281
    @waleedbaidas281 10 месяцев назад +232

    13:15 When Danny is reading Chris Gains’ backstory my first thought was this is someone’s first DnD edge lord, emo character that they just gave THE MOST tragic backstory they could possibly think of. Like anyone else agree?

    • @hedgehog3180
      @hedgehog3180 9 месяцев назад +12

      It's absolutely the kind of tragic backstory that an OC would have or you'd see on like AO3. Like just an insane series of tragedies one after the other where everyone keeps dying but also nothing that could ever add like real moral baggage to the story nor have like wider implications since it is just there to make the character cool and edgy.

  • @phoenixgirl70
    @phoenixgirl70 9 месяцев назад +931

    As an old…he really was hiding who he was. The single came out and Garths name or a project was never mentioned. Someone outed him, and people were laughing about it, and that’s when PR stepped in and the albums label was changed to put Garths name on the cover. He wanted us to believe Chris was real, the album was supposed to be ground breaking, and then he’d surprise us all that Chris was Garth all along. But it didn’t happen that way.
    I wasn’t a country music fan, but he was say about 1/2 Taylor Swift popularity. In fact he’d be second I think in popularity as of now. But I understand he was put in a box and wanted to try something super different but fans would of just left if he said “I wanna go Emo”. But I think the overdone character just made people say wtf no matter what music we all liked. But his career still recovered and then he retired pretty early still hugely popular.

    • @TC-ku4vv
      @TC-ku4vv 9 месяцев назад +38

      This should be the top comment

    • @AngryVet44
      @AngryVet44 9 месяцев назад +31

      I was a fan and remember when that album came out as part of a movie that never happened.
      Google is your friend. From Wikipedia:
      “Chris Gaines is a one-off fictional rock persona created as a movie character for Garth Brooks to explore musical styles far removed from his success as a country singer.
      Initially, Brooks planned to feature the Gaines persona in The Lamb, a motion picture that never materialized. In 1999, Brooks released Garth Brooks in...the Life of Chris Gaines, his only album as Gaines. The album produced two charting Billboard singles, including the top 5 pop hit "Lost in You".”

    • @functionatthejunction
      @functionatthejunction 9 месяцев назад +70

      This. I was alive then and he never attached his name to Gaines until much later when it became apparent it wasnt working out. His name was NOT on the first batches of CDs and stuff at Wal Mart and Chris was being 100% pushed as a real dude that was not related to Garth Brooks. It is just like the OP said, his name was not stuck on the records until later when he was outed and all the older CDs got pulled and replaced.

    • @h0rriphic
      @h0rriphic 9 месяцев назад +14

      @@AngryVet44lol Garth/Chris, is that you? 💀

    • @phoenixgirl70
      @phoenixgirl70 9 месяцев назад +7

      @@MomeGnome Sorry it was a long time ago. I said I wasn’t a country music fan but he was huge. I think others would have a problem with your comparison when many here don’t know who he is because they were too young. You can see I’m making a guesstimate. But I thought that slot went to Michael Jackson. There’s too many variables and lists and they’d probably juggle around the same 4 names. But as I said, he was HUGE.
      And that’s all I have to say about that. - Forrest Gump

  • @lovelyjuliexo
    @lovelyjuliexo 9 месяцев назад +22

    1:38 to this day??? kinda crazy when i’ve never even _heard_ of this guy 😭

  • @ruedays
    @ruedays 10 месяцев назад +426

    The thing about musical artists is that they also enjoy a wide variety of music, just like anyone else, but they're essentially forced into picking A Sound that becomes the only thing people want to hear from them, and is therefore the only thing their producers and labels will let them sing. So it's not uncommon for them to get really bizarre in their attempts to break out and try something new. Sometimes it's forgotten about, sometimes it becomes a meme, and sometimes they genuinely completely change their music and persona and people start coming up with conspiracy theories about them having died and replaced with a body double.

    • @beastmaster9050
      @beastmaster9050 9 месяцев назад +1

      is that really the thing about musical artists??

    • @ayumuchorizo4486
      @ayumuchorizo4486 9 месяцев назад

      Yeah, the switch to a different genre of music tend to be subtle in most cases -- not too far off their "sound". And then there're those who accumulated so much fame and following that it doesn't matter if they suddenly release an album that's an entirely different style, won't be a super hit but will still attract a sizable amount of listeners. And then there's the third category which isn't the former or latter, and things just become awkward.

    • @ruedays
      @ruedays 8 месяцев назад +1

      @beastmaster9050 I know this is a late as hell response but yeah, the music industry and fanbase are just Like That sometimes. The conspiracy theory thing wasn't even an exaggeration, that's just a real thing that happened. People were convinced Avril Lavigne died and was replaced with a body double because she abruptly swapped styles.

  • @awarlockunkindlyborn1353
    @awarlockunkindlyborn1353 10 месяцев назад +312

    Fell asleep listening to Garth Brooks and woke up to this lol. Gonna fall asleep listening to Norwegian folk metal next and see if Danny talks about it.

    • @corywilson2007
      @corywilson2007 9 месяцев назад +6

      I love how this is definitely true and you are the most honest and funniest person that ever was

    • @awarlockunkindlyborn1353
      @awarlockunkindlyborn1353 9 месяцев назад +33

      @@corywilson2007 I have a playlist with nothing but 3 Garth Brooks songs on it and I put it on for my nap. The three songs are "more than a memory," "the thunder rolls," and "learning to live again." Why are you mad?

    • @corywilson2007
      @corywilson2007 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@awarlockunkindlyborn1353 lol okay dude I believe you. I get it you have some of the worst musical taste know to man you win. You win.

    • @awarlockunkindlyborn1353
      @awarlockunkindlyborn1353 9 месяцев назад +31

      @@corywilson2007 I'm 100% okay with having "the worst musical taste known to man" because I only listen to what I like, not what I think other people like. Do you have an objective reason why I shouldn't listen to Garth Brooks or Folk metal?

    • @bigcheese4797
      @bigcheese4797 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@awarlockunkindlyborn1353the thunder rolls scared me so bad as a kid

  • @Rin-re8ej
    @Rin-re8ej 10 месяцев назад +91

    I don't think i could've predicted a single thing that was said in this video

  • @KekuTheLaughing
    @KekuTheLaughing 9 месяцев назад +3

    It's rare I find a new channel that I actually wanna subscribe to. Good job man.

  • @justinfincher2385
    @justinfincher2385 10 месяцев назад +121

    As someone who was alive and somewhat aware back then, and a massive country fan, we had no idea there was a movie. Nobody told us there was a movie. We just heard that he had went off the deep end on drugs.

  • @SpectraStarShooter
    @SpectraStarShooter 10 месяцев назад +220

    My first concert was Garth Brooks. I unironically like his Chris Gaines album, but people thought he lost the plot because the movie never came out.
    What is of note, he didn’t set out to be a country singer. He just got pigeonholed into it because his voice was made for it.
    Also, was not his most popular song, just the only song that charted outside of the country charts.

  • @dollyii
    @dollyii 2 месяца назад +3

    14:41 it exists, danny. a series of unfortunate events. WE exist. I am one of many, among the others who have scoured kindle and netflix to read the book or watch the show, WE exist. You just don't know it yet.

  • @grace2487
    @grace2487 9 месяцев назад +84

    the way they wrote Gaines' backstory is exactly how catfishers lie - then my mom got cancer, then my brother went to jail, then I got diagnosed with a rare condition no one else has ever had before..........

  • @caoimheelise2182
    @caoimheelise2182 10 месяцев назад +162

    A Garth is an enclosed quadrangle or yard, especially one surrounded by a cloister 😍

    • @haleymist09
      @haleymist09 9 месяцев назад +2

      The world needs more cloisters!

    • @toflrost
      @toflrost 9 месяцев назад +2

      me studying when i was an art history major

  • @NinaElizaStratton
    @NinaElizaStratton 10 месяцев назад +171

    Your oldest fan here just chiming in to say yes, this was very much at the height of his fame. He was widely mocked for it at the time and no, ;he wasn't trying to fool anybody. He was trying to do a different kind of music out of the Country genre, and honestly that album wasn't bad. H:is move was just way before its time - people were expected to stay in their genre lane. Anyway, feelin' old and sad now....gonna go eat some ice cream.

    • @platypusparasol9825
      @platypusparasol9825 10 месяцев назад +29

      dont be sad :( its cool that you know all this stuff. hope you enjoy your ice cream😋

    • @jamberrytoastie
      @jamberrytoastie 9 месяцев назад

      nice what flavour

    • @luiginastro8831
      @luiginastro8831 9 месяцев назад +1

      There's too much positivity in this thread, someone say something slightly mean to balance it out

    • @Jack_216.
      @Jack_216. 9 месяцев назад +4

      ​@@luiginastro8831 Something slightly mean

    • @platypusparasol9825
      @platypusparasol9825 9 месяцев назад

      @@Jack_216. nailed it

  • @ninalove3044
    @ninalove3044 9 месяцев назад +12

    @16:54 Not the interviewer calling him Chris Grains🤣

  • @CharlieSimmer27
    @CharlieSimmer27 9 месяцев назад +306

    silly danny has never heard of the absolute banger no skips album "hannah montana 2: meet miley cyrus" from like 2008

    • @ashleyyeoman9872
      @ashleyyeoman9872 9 месяцев назад +15

      with the double discs! i thought the same thing!

  • @betty_bitss
    @betty_bitss 10 месяцев назад +431

    Every time I hear the name Garth, my brain is like ✨Garth Vader✨

    • @aussiejo5764
      @aussiejo5764 10 месяцев назад +23

      Darth Garth!

    • @risxra
      @risxra 10 месяцев назад +19

      Gartholomew

    • @rei_is_here
      @rei_is_here 10 месяцев назад +16

      my uncles names is garth, next time i see him im calling him garth vader😭

    • @AnodyneJS
      @AnodyneJS 10 месяцев назад +8

      Darth Brooks. His biggest single was "I've Got Friends In Sith Places."

    • @spooningbards9138
      @spooningbards9138 10 месяцев назад +2

      Garth actually dresse up as 'Garth' Vader one year.

  • @LauracLaurac
    @LauracLaurac 10 месяцев назад +90

    The guy just created an OC and ran with it

  • @aesthetix3398
    @aesthetix3398 9 месяцев назад +3

    Whenever you upload me and my mom and my brother watch you, you are seriously the best.

  • @RAN480L64
    @RAN480L64 10 месяцев назад +208

    Losing his friend Tommy in a plane crash is a reference to Tommy Brown the character played by Johnny Cash in an episode of Colombo who crashes his plane to kill his wife and young mistress

    • @saddesklunch2544
      @saddesklunch2544 10 месяцев назад +5

      I had assumed it was a reference to The Day the Music Died from the American Pie song

    • @SpookiestAlice
      @SpookiestAlice 10 месяцев назад +16

      @@saddesklunch2544 I feel like it'd be kind of disrespectful to use a real life tragedy for such a cartoonish backstory

    • @icu3869
      @icu3869 10 месяцев назад +9

      ⁠@@SpookiestAliceYes. Thank you for having some ethics and sensitivity, it’s so inappropriate, tacky and unnecessary.

    • @saddesklunch2544
      @saddesklunch2544 10 месяцев назад +1

      @@SpookiestAlice I agree, but I’d assumed it was probably one of those things where someone sees media reference an event and not realize it was a real thing. At least, that’s the charitable reading of my interpretation

    • @RAN480L64
      @RAN480L64 9 месяцев назад

      @@saddesklunch2544 lol ur likely right then

  • @theonenamedv
    @theonenamedv 9 месяцев назад +69

    6:10 "he's not a rock star, he looks more like a cult leader"
    Jared Leto: "what's the difference??"

  • @garfieldbrooks
    @garfieldbrooks 10 месяцев назад +233

    despite my username i know nothing about garth brooks. thank you for educating me about this absolute lunatic, danny

    • @caoimheelise2182
      @caoimheelise2182 10 месяцев назад +12

      LMAO this made me giggle

    • @tehr6809
      @tehr6809 10 месяцев назад +4

      BHAHA! a whole danny video just for you 🫶

    • @icu3869
      @icu3869 10 месяцев назад +3

      This is the tip of the iceberg- you will not regret checking out Tom Segura’s real life lore surrounding Garth Brooks- Ymh podcast- it’s WILD how nutty this country star is. ( you’re welcome in advance .😎😉)

    • @jimmymushrooms420
      @jimmymushrooms420 10 месяцев назад

      tutter avatar

  • @zie8238
    @zie8238 9 месяцев назад +6

    How have I never noticed how pretty Danny’s eyes are? They look like the turquoise water in the Caribbean. (I’m faded rn and I spent the whole video trying to determine if they were edited or not)

  • @Mangolite
    @Mangolite 9 месяцев назад +155

    Chris Gaines failed as a rock artist, but at the encouragement of his late father, Gaines became Garth Brooks, the country singer. As Garth Brooks, his career skyrocketed, but Chris's passion as a rockster still burns inside, believing that he can make it work as his true self and not having to hide behind the Garth Brooks facade anymore. However, the country star power was proven unstoppable. Chris maintained the monster he created, but deep down, he will always be Chris Gaines.

  • @veryferalthing
    @veryferalthing 9 месяцев назад +297

    lemony snicket's hit series about a tortured musical artist, "a series of bad things happening"

    • @gachathis4858
      @gachathis4858 9 месяцев назад +6

      Isn't it "a series of unfortunate events" ??

    • @veryferalthing
      @veryferalthing 9 месяцев назад +25

      @@gachathis4858 ahh, that is the joke. im doing a play on words

    • @chillcreep4926
      @chillcreep4926 7 месяцев назад +1

      doubly funny, I think, as lemony Snicket is a pseudonym / "nom de plume" too

  • @JoaoVitor-ge4le
    @JoaoVitor-ge4le 10 месяцев назад +113

    I love how trying to change your identity and failing is a running theme in Danny's content.

    • @Peanut_taco_muffin
      @Peanut_taco_muffin 9 месяцев назад +6

      There was the Troy Becker/Paul Zimmerman debacle, Garth Brooks- are there other ones too?

    • @ghowostie
      @ghowostie 9 месяцев назад +2

      @@Peanut_taco_muffinprobably danny's own attempts (fox szn & zayden long)

  • @lovelyjuliexo
    @lovelyjuliexo 9 месяцев назад +6

    6:49 okay but if _all_ the fans were confused, then they didn’t do a good job with marketing 😅

  • @rancidprince3133
    @rancidprince3133 10 месяцев назад +48

    7:55 the reason none of his other songs ever hit billboard charts is because they didn’t play on pop radio stations. They were super popular, just not eligible for that specifically.

  • @HollyG1903
    @HollyG1903 10 месяцев назад +95

    As an old lady that was a huge Garth Brooks fan back in the day this was a wild ordeal

  • @houseonwillowbrook
    @houseonwillowbrook 9 месяцев назад +322

    when you mentioned "was this as his career was starting to fade into irrelevance or is this at the height of his fame?" I laughed a little. just for background, he never really faded into irrelevance. he's STILL wildly successful. He regularly sells out stadiums and still makes new music. Friends in Low Places is in the top 5 on several country music charts, and is even #1 on a few.

    • @NonSimonary
      @NonSimonary 7 месяцев назад +18

      Yeah I saw him in concert a few years back! It was actually pretty cool. He's a good singer. Honestly, regardless of whether he was actually trying to be two different people or it was a movie, I think it was just some weird thing he did. Like, most super famous people (thinking of Doja Cat being a cat at that Met Gala and Lil Nas X just going almost naked lol) do something really outlandish and weird.
      Of course it is super strange, but so is Lady Gaga wearing that meat dress, and the whole thing with Jojo Siwa now. I think he was just doing some weird thing.

  • @RadikAlice
    @RadikAlice 9 месяцев назад +1

    From the moment I saw the thumbnail and even after the video was over,
    can't unsee Gaines as Adam Gontier with a soul patch. It's even more accurate for his younger self

  • @aviddreamerofficial4444
    @aviddreamerofficial4444 10 месяцев назад +67

    recently I saw paul zimmers tiktok without having to search for it and people have NO idea that hes paul zimmer

    • @mad_hatt
      @mad_hatt 10 месяцев назад +1

      No way😂😂😂

    • @SK2NK
      @SK2NK 10 месяцев назад +2

      I KNOW it drives me insane!!

  • @jsan2548
    @jsan2548 10 месяцев назад +89

    The whole “Brooks’ only Top 40 Hit” thing is a function of how the country charts are quarantined from the pop charts to keep all the ‘merica concentrated in one place.

  • @Bowjak47
    @Bowjak47 10 месяцев назад +824

    2 Danny 2 greg
    Edit: to the guy that said 2 Danny 1 cup 💀

    • @Sanrioxgrl
      @Sanrioxgrl 10 месяцев назад +16

      2 Greg 2 danny
      2 dreg 2 granny
      2 Greg
      2 Dan
      2 gr 2 eg

    • @valleyluvsU
      @valleyluvsU 10 месяцев назад +13

      danny 2 greg 2

    • @laurenv.11
      @laurenv.11 10 месяцев назад +18

      2 granny 2 dreg

    • @sian186
      @sian186 10 месяцев назад +11

      2 Furious 2 Danny

    • @chillpolarbear
      @chillpolarbear 10 месяцев назад +5

      22 danny greg

  • @r0tting_ren
    @r0tting_ren 9 месяцев назад +3

    i live for every time danny says "one guy named robert"

  • @kingsleycy3450
    @kingsleycy3450 9 месяцев назад +111

    Has anyone considered the unreleased movie might have been a comedy? Chris Gain's life is so outrageously tragic. It's like someone is taking the piss of the tortured artist trope