Brooke Eden
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 July 2021
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Brooke Eden discusses her decision to come out as a queer country music artist, the initial pushback from the powers that be, her new single "Got No Choice," inspiring others to come out, her engagement to longtime girlfriend Hilary, having too many drinks before a performance, opening up for Garth Brooks, Garth's dad strength, performing at the Opry with Trisha Yearwood, and more.
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| 0:00.0 | All right, long overdue, Brook Eaton. |
| 0:18.6 | We were just saying before we hit record with Brooke that back in our late 20s, we had |
| 0:24.0 | hung out with Brooke at she was doing a show with Chase Brian at Joe's bar in Chicago, |
| 0:28.2 | I think we was a lot of fun getting to know Brooke and then Brooke, you kind of have a really |
| 0:34.6 | interesting story right now that's obviously everybody knows and if they don't know they're |
| 0:38.7 | about to find out, but you finally found the acceptance and the love and wanted to kind |
| 0:45.0 | of put that out there with Hillary who your story is kind of a really cool story started |
| 0:51.1 | on as far as putting it out there on social media, I wanted to ask you first back in January. |
| 0:56.1 | We posted that video and I thought that was really well done in a good way to kind of put |
| 1:00.4 | it out there and kind of just see how everything all the love kind of pour in was there like |
| 1:07.2 | is that what's that moment like where you're finally saying okay no more you know being |
| 1:12.2 | in our bubble maybe we're going to put it out there and let the world know who we are. |
| 1:17.1 | Is there that moment when you hit publish and you see the video go up and you just sit |
| 1:20.0 | back and go all right that felt like a huge weight off your shoulders yeah what's so |
| 1:25.4 | wild about it is that I don't even think I knew the impact that it was going to make like honestly |
| 1:32.5 | I had just been talking to my social media team and they were like hey you got to get on TikTok |
| 1:38.1 | girl and I'm like all right you know got to try this out what you know it's new platform |
| 1:45.3 | right so they were kind of teaching me how to make a video and I was like all right so I guess |
| 1:54.2 | you know I feel like I felt like at the time I had four years in between when I had last hung |
| 2:03.3 | and like talked to my fans for real for real and then I have like this whole different perspective |
| 2:11.4 | on life life that I'm living just everything is so different and I was like how do I put that in |
| 2:17.4 | like an under 60 second video and I also knew I was about to put out this music and for some people |
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