Maybe his Amazon exclusivity is because he had something to hide?
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Crystal Leww: When looking for a place to listen to “Ask Me How I Know” by Garth Brooks, the only place that I could find it was on Amazon Music. Doing a little digging surfaced Brooks’ comments at SXSW this year, where he claims that Amazon is the only place — not Apple, not Spotify — that is supporting artists with the ‘full suite’ of sales solutions, including album and physical sales. He claims that there are some singles that are worth 10 dollars all by themselves, which is why we, as consumers, should opt for those kinds of options. Well, I hope Grandpa got paid handsomely for spouting off this kind of horseshit. FYI: “Ask Me How I Know,” with its saccharine, goopy, old-fashioned feel, isn’t even good enough to be worth a one dollar sale.
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Katie Gill: I see Garth has reached the ‘you’re going to buy my album anyway so who cares if I release a B-Side track as an A-Side single’ phase of his career. That spoken word bit is embarrassing and the song is generic as hell. We all know you can do better Garth, c’mon.
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Ramzi Awn: Good guitar work and Garth Brooks’ voice always have a way of working together. An easy earworm.
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Edward Okulicz: Brooks’ delivery on the chorus makes falling in love with the girl sound as terrifying as losing her a few lines later. That can’t be how he intended to sing it, right?
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Alfred Soto: Speaking as the voice of experience who loses his sangfroid when he has to belt the chorus insights, Garth Brooks looks Blake and Kip and Luke in the eye and reminds them that soon they’ll be shipping/streaming low six figures too.
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Jonathan Bradley: Garth Brooks is here some kind of Ancient Mariner of heartbreak, doomed to walk the earth retelling his misery. He enters the hook in a strange panic, his yelps undermining his status as authoritative bearer of hard-won wisdom. No one told the tireless adult-contemporary guitars, tentative and careworn, that they should get ready for any such excitement either.
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