Country music stars are a little disappointing to me, but I guess they are no different from the rest of the world, except we all don't wear cowboy hats and drive pickup trucks. Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood were married today in Oklahoma. She's in Love with the boy, I guess (How could I NOT use that line?). The sad thing is that I remember when Brooks first came on the music scene and how he talked about how important his relationship with his wife was. When he said that his wife's name was not Trisha. He seemed so wholesome and took the country music scene by storm. But he always stressed he had to have time with his wife. Then along came Yearwood....and the next thing you know they are both divorcing their spouses and end up together. What a coincidence that is, right? Amy Grant and Vince Gill did the same thing.
I might enjoy some of their music, but have little to no respect for what they are doing. Their new marriages will be celebrated on all the country music magazines (and probably the Enquirer because the Enquirer celebrates everything from marriages to alien births), but what we won't hear about is that Brooks and Yearwood left spouses behind. So did Gill and Grant. We won't hear about the pain that created unless someone writes a tell-all book, which I think is probably past time for in the country music world. I have become quite the prude I guess because I was bothered by the movie "Walk the Line" because I didn't know Johnny and June had a relationship before Johnny and his first wife were divorced. Cash was always a music idol of mine, but he has lost some devotion from me. Celebrities walk in and out of marriages like they were nothing because they have the money to do it, like what was that Chesney/Zellwegger thing?? And how many country music stars is Lorrie Morgan going to marry..and will she eventually get back to Garth? The tragedy is the legacy they leave behind and the trails of broken homes and lives. Try writing a "cryin in your beer" song about that.
