Allie Colleen wants to carve out her own path. During an interview on the Bobbycast podcast, Garth Brooks’ youngest daughter shared why she doesn’t want her music career tied to her famous dad’s.
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“I’m just asking, more so the industry, to help me out, to not put me in that box,” she told host Bobby Bones. “… I’m not gonna fit in that box. They’re not gonna like me in there. I don’t represent him at all.”
“So it’s just always been really tough when it’s like, ‘Garth Brooks’ daughter, Allie Colleen, doing this…’ Now, all of a sudden, everyone thinks ‘Friends in Low Places’ is gonna be in my set, and it’s not,” Colleen added, referencing her dad’s 1990 song.
Colleen, 28, added that being known as a country superstar’s daughter is “this really hard label that nobody will move.” She even compared it to “just being a product’s daughter.”
“There’s not even an ‘Allie’ in the title. I feel like we’ve talked about this in the past grammar-wise my vendetta with ‘Garth Brooks’ daughter, Allie Colleen, is really really great and works really hard on her own,’” she said. “That whole sentence is still wrong because I am an adjective of the noun. That’s crazy… Garth Brooks is a product that has been molded and shaped and worked for.”
“I am a fan of it, I love what it represents, I love who it is…. I love everything about it,” Colleen continued. “But that’s what it is. Garth Brooks is a product. Allie Colleen is a product. I’ve worked really hard on it… its shelving, on its packaging, on what it represents, on where it comes from, all of those things. But it doesn’t have a byproduct.”
Allie Colleen Says She’s “Not a Byproduct” of Dad Garth Brooks
Colleen went on by insisting that she’s “not a byproduct of Garth Brooks.”
“He’s just my dad and we love each other and then I went off and made a career for myself in music,” she said.
That’s certainly true. Colleen released her debut album, STONES, in 2021, and has multiple shows scheduled through November. Even so, Colleen said that she feels that she’s always considered Brooks’ daughter first, especially in her home state of Oklahoma.
“You’re just always a daughter, you’re always someone who’s probably never worked very hard for anything, you’re always someone who probably has all of our finances taken care of, you’re probably someone whose dad sits in the meetings with you and makes sure that you’ve become as successful as you are,” she said. “You’re just always some kind of byproduct of someone else’s legacy. That’s not what I am.”
Brooks shares Colleen with his wife Trisha Yearwood. The longtime couple also has August, 31, and Taylor, 32.
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