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Joe Biden was inaugurated as the 46th President of the United States on Wednesday afternoon in Washington DC.
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The inauguration of the new president was filled with musical performances by Lady Gaga, Jennifer Lopez and Garth Brooks.
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While the performances took place, social media quickly joked about the musical guests, including Brooks.
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Joe Biden and Kamala Harris were sworn in on Wednesday as the 46th President and Vice President of the United States of America. The new administration called on entertainers such as Lady Gaga to sing the ‘National Anthem’, Jennifer Lopez to sing ‘This Land is Your Land’ and ‘America, The Beautiful’, and finally Garth Brooks was present to ‘ Amazing Grace ‘to sing.
Once Brooks climbed on stage, and even before he started singing, he was met on social media with memes and reactions.
People have raised Brooks’ history as a vocal advocate for the LGBTQ + community since the early 90’s.
On Monday, it was announced that Garth would perform during President Biden’s inauguration. After the announcement was made, his conservative fanbase called for a boycott of Brooks.
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One person tweeted, “Just lost all respect for @garthbrooks, this is the moment of his Dixie Chick,” and nodded for the moment when one of the Dixie Chicks singers, Natalie Maines, criticized George W. Bush, who led to their blacklist of the country music community. .
Another person wrote in a tweet: ‘This is a statement of submission. ‘I accept your fraud and hell with the people who made me rich because I already got mine’, suggesting that Brooks does not care what his conservative supporters believe. .
—Nick Searcy, INTERNATIONAL FILM & TELEVISION STAR (@yesnicksearcy) 19 January 2021
Many Twitter users came to his defense for perform during the inaugurationand note that the message in his music was often about unification. In 1992, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, Garth Brooks released a song called ‘We Shall Be Free’, the lyrics of which state that anyone is free to love whoever they choose. Brooks also mentioned a magazine called George, which expressed its support for gay rights. He told the magazine, which released its last issue in 2001: ‘But if you’re in love, follow your heart and trust that God will explain to us why we sometimes fall in love with people of the same sex. . “
Although Brooks is a Republican, he has always been determined in his message of unity and ‘reach out’.
Brooks spoke to Esquire about accepting the invitation to act, saying, ‘I may be the only Republican in this place. But it stretches over each other and loves each other, because that’s what we’ll probably be going through the most divided times. I want the divided times to be behind us. ‘
Read more: Garth Brooks wore a Barry Sanders Lions jersey during a concert in Detroit, and Trump fans thought he supported Bernie Sanders
After performing, he walked around and shook hands with and embraced the former presidents of both parties who attended: former Vice President Mike Pence, current Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Barack Obama, the former President Bill Clinton and former Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. He almost forgot to embrace former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush.
People did not hold back from making jokes about his entrance, as well as his dress code.
The country singer wore a cowboy hat, boots, jeans and a black button-down shirt, while almost all the attendees were dressed in designer pieces from top to toe, with subtle historical nods, from the choice of Vice President Harris to Jennifer Lopez’s head-to-toe.
Lopez and Gaga made headlines for their performances. Lady Gaga started the performance wearing a Schiaparelli gown with a large gold dove pin. Jennifer Lopez then took the stage and threw in a non-subtle nod to her song by saying, “Let’s get hard!”
Twitter has not held back when it comes to making fun of Brooks and his interactions with former presidents.
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