{"id":1642,"date":"2025-04-27T06:30:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/04\/27\/garth-brooks-unearths-music-video-banned-for-decades\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T06:30:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T06:30:26","slug":"garth-brooks-unearths-music-video-banned-for-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/2025\/04\/27\/garth-brooks-unearths-music-video-banned-for-decades\/","title":{"rendered":"Garth Brooks Unearths Music Video Banned For Decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"abh_box abh_box_up abh_box_fancy\">\n<div class=\"abh_tab_content\">\n<section class=\"vcard author abh_about_tab abh_tab\" itemscope=\"\" itemprop=\"author\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" style=\"display:block\">\n<div class=\"abh_image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><a href=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/author\/jennifer\/\" class=\"url\" title=\"Jennifer Havener\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gravatar\/jennifer.jpg\" class=\"photo lazyload\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Jennifer Havener\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 179px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 179\/250;\"\/><\/a> <\/div>\n<div class=\"abh_text\">\n<p>Jennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing &amp; Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly &#8216;Days of Our Lives&#8217;, would come in handy someday. When she&#8217;s not writing, she&#8217;s playing with her dogs, Lola and Ruger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"abh_posts_tab abh_tab\">\n<div class=\"abh_image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/author\/jennifer\/\" class=\"url\" title=\"Jennifer Havener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/gravatar\/jennifer.jpg\" class=\"photo lazyload\" width=\"250\" alt=\"Jennifer Havener\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 179px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 179\/250;\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"abh_text\">\n<div class=\"abh_name\">Latest posts by Jennifer Havener <span class=\"abh_allposts\">(<a href=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/author\/jennifer\/\">see all<\/a>)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>The current legal issues Garth Brooks faces aren\u2019t his first brush with controversy. The music video for one of his most popular songs was banned from TV for decades. The singer re-released the music video as part of his reflection on his legacy. Keep reading to find out why the video was taken off the air.<\/p>\n<h3>Garth Brooks Faces Sexual Assault Allegations<\/h3>\n<p>Garth Brooks is widely respected in the entertainment industry. That\u2019s why it was such a shock in October 2024 when news broke about serious allegations against the singer. A former hairstylist accused the \u201cWe Shall Be Free\u201d singer of sexual assault. He denied the accusations and <a href=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/2024\/10\/04\/garth-brooks-breaks-silence-on-sexual-assault-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">claimed the former employee<\/a> was trying to extort him.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_53255\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53255\" style=\"width: 900px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53255 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Garth-Brooks-second-photo.jpg\" alt=\"Garth Brooks\/Credit: YouTube\" width=\"900\" height=\"460\" srcset=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Garth-Brooks-second-photo.jpg 900w, https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Garth-Brooks-second-photo-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Garth-Brooks-second-photo-768x393.jpg 768w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 900px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 900\/460;\"\/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-53255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Garth Brooks\/Credit: YouTube<\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The legal battle is still ongoing. A judge denied an attempt to dismiss the accuser\u2019s lawsuit in December. That was the last update on the case, but there are rumors that Garth Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, are <a href=\"https:\/\/tvshowsace.com\/2025\/04\/22\/garth-brooks-trisha-yearwood-divorce-a-reality-amid-sex-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on the rocks<\/a> because of the allegations.<\/p>\n<h3>He Re-Releases Controversial Video Banned In The 90s<\/h3>\n<p>Garth Brooks was one of the best-selling country music artists in the late 80s and early 1990s. He released his self-titled debut album in 1989. The album landed at number two on the country charts and spawned one of the most-used wedding songs: \u201cThe Dance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Garth Brooks broke big into the mainstream in 1990 after the release of his second album, <em>No Fences.<\/em> In included some of his biggest hits, including hits \u201cFriends In Low Places,\u201d \u201cUnanswered Prayers,\u201d and \u201cThe Thunder Rolls.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Garth Brooks Performs His Classic \u2018Callin\u2019 Baton Rouge\u2019\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aDnJcvM6wrU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Country Music Channel (CMT) also helped the singer\u2019s rise to the top by constantly playing the music videos to some of his biggest songs. But there was one video that the network refused to play. \u201cThe Thunder Rolls\u201d video was quite controversial at the time. The video echoes the song\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/2024\/02\/29\/garth-brooks-trisha-yearwoods-docuseries-debuts-in-march\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">theme of infidelity<\/a>. The extra verse in the song was banned from radio because it allegedly promoted violence.<\/p>\n<p>In the verse, the scorned wife gets a gun out of the dresser drawer. While the song doesn\u2019t explicitly say, it\u2019s implied that she shot her cheating husband.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe runs back down the hallway and through the bedroom door \/ She reaches for the pistol kept \/ in the dresser drawer \/ Tells the lady in the mirror, \u201cHe won\u2019t do this again \/ \u2018Cause tonight will be the last time, she\u2019ll wonder where he\u2019s been,\u201d \u2013 \u201cThe Thunder Rolls,\u201d Garth Brooks.<\/p>\n<p>The video was immediately banned from country music networks. But Garth Brooks recently re-released the video on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.garthbrooks.com\/the-vault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cThe Vault\u201d<\/a> section of his website.<\/p>\n<h3>Why He Doesn\u2019t Put His Music On YouTube<\/h3>\n<p>The music video was banned from TV, but Garth Brooks banned almost all of his music from the internet. According to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/20210827231525\/https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-country\/garth-brooks-weighs-in-on-spotify-controversy-calls-youtube-the-devil-164435\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, the singer told\u00a0<em>Access Hollywood<\/em> in\u00a0 2014 that YouTube, Spotify, and other online music sites don\u2019t pay enough money.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople get millions and millions and millions and millions of views, and they don\u2019t get squat. Trust me. Songwriters are hurting,\u201d Garth Brooks said at the time.<\/p>\n<p>But there is one place to listen to the country star\u2019s music online. Garth Brooks has a deal with Amazon Music to exclusively stream his music.<\/p>\n<p>Do you think the \u201cThe Thunder Rolls\u201d video would be banned from TV if it came out today?<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"tbmarker\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/countrymusicalley.com\/2025\/04\/26\/garth-brooks-unearths-music-video-banned-for-decades\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Havener grew up in a small town in Upstate New York. She earned her B.A in Writing &amp; Literature from Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado. She always knew watching reality TV shows and soap operas, particularly &#8216;Days of Our Lives&#8217;, would come in handy someday. When she&#8217;s not writing, she&#8217;s playing with her dogs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1643,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1642\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1643"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/worldpostone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}