Garth Brooks Invented Emo??!
Question: Can anyone confirm my suspicion that Garth Brooks invented "Emo" with his "Chris Gaines" project? Remember when he went crazy and created his "alter-ego" Chris Gaines? That was in 1999, long before the "Emo" craze of the new millenium....
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Answers: Can anyone confirm my suspicion that Garth Brooks invented "Emo" with his "Chris Gaines" project? Remember when he went crazy and created his "alter-ego" Chris Gaines? That was in 1999, long before the "Emo" craze of the new millenium....
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Garth Books DID invent emo, I saw with my own eyes!
Chuck Norris Round-House Kicked him in the face and he turned into Chris Gaines! It took him 2 years to recover!
ummm... no.
emo has been around longer than garth sorry
Yes I remember.
But no, He didn't invent emo.
I don't know anything about Garth Brooks, but he didn't invent Emo. It came from the 80's DC punk scene. Emotive-Hardcore died in the 90's and some journalist saw this term a year later and was like "Nobodies even heard of this! I should use it to describe pop-punk and I'll sound original". And so it went on and morphed into this horrible amorphous thing it's become.
He didn't go crazy and say he was Chris Gaines it was for a movie that never came out--
Chris Gaines began in 1994 when Brooks, attempting to expand his career boundaries, collaborated with his production company Red Strokes Entertainment and Paramount Pictures to develop a movie Brooks was meant to star in, as Chris Gaines. The Lamb was to have revolved around Chris Gaines, a fictional rock singer and his emotionally conflicted life as a musician in the public eye. To create buzz for the project, Brooks took on the identity of Gaines in the October 1999 album Garth Brooks in ... The Life of Chris Gaines, which was intended as a 'pre-soundtrack' to the film. Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind The Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which Brooks hosted as himself.
Brooks' endless promotion of the album and the film did not seem to stir much excitement and the success of the Chris Gaines experiment became fairly evident mere weeks after the album was released. Although critics admired Brooks for taking a musical risk, the majority of the American public was either totally bewildered, or completely unreceptive to the idea of Garth Brooks as anything but a pop-country singer. Many of his fans also felt that by supporting the Gaines project they would lose the "real" Garth Brooks. Sales of the album were unspectacular and although it made it to #2 on the pop album chart, expectations had been higher and retail stores began heavily discounting their oversupply. Poor sales of the album and lack of interest in the film brought the film production to an indefinite hiatus in February 2001 and Gaines quickly and quietly faded into obscurity.
The mediocre success of the Chris Gaines persona has become the butt of many jokes within the media and country music industry. The opening night of Brooks' November 2007 nine concert stand at the Sprint Center in Kansas City was "protested" by a local group of performance artists handing out "Missing Person" flyers for Gaines as a part of "The Chris Gaines Initiative." [1] Also, in Strong Bad E-Mail #142, titled "Secret Identity" pokes fun at this by saying "Secret identities aren't just for superheroes and Garth Brooks anymore." [2] The subject of that particular episode of the Homestarruner.com staple was some of Strong Bad's own alter egos.
Despite the failure of the Chris Gaines project, Brooks gained his first - and only - US Top 40 pop single in "Lost in You", the first single from the album.