A hit song like this year’s “ This Is How We Roll,” by the duo Florida Georgia Line, with a cameo by another current megastar, Luke Bryan, may sound like any other modern, genre-busting pop song. And country music has changed in several rather contradictory ways: it has become more musically innovative and inclusive at the same time that, lyrically and thematically, it has grown, in large part, more conservative and tribal. (Brooks has sold more than a hundred and thirty million in twenty-five years). Nobody but Taylor Swift seems to sell records anymore, in any genre. This week, with “Man Against Machine,” the dormant king of pop country returns to a different world. Garth Brooks last released an album of original material thirteen years ago. ![]() Garth Brooks performs at the We Are One concert to celebrate the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama.
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