Throughout the nineties, the only year Brooks did not release an album was 1996. He was a workaholic who never allowed a glimmer of opportunity for another artist[*] to usurp his dominion. What mattered most, though, was his singularity of purpose: His only goal was to provide maximum entertainment to the largest possible audience at all possible times. Brooks was immune to the prevailing attitudes of the era; he did not view total commitment to the consumer as a compromise of his artistic credibility. Garth operated in a separate silo, disassociated from all other conceptual abstractions and
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