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MEMernet: Memphis on TikTok, Garth Brooks for Sale on Nextdoor

Who to follow

Still want to know what TikTok is all about (but are afraid to ask)? Follow Memphian @kingthagman. He spoofs other TikTok videos, dances, lip syncs, drinks, hangs with friends, and does it all with an effortless hilarity.

Frampton v. Lee

Peter Frampton (yes, that one) took on Tennessee Governor Bill Lee in a tweet last month, asking, “What possible reason could you have at this point to not issue a mask mandate? This is beyond serious!” We’re still wondering, too.

Friends in Low Prices

Bold Nextdoor user Isabel Coulter recently listed country music mega-star Garth Brooks for sale. The singer was listed for $12, down from the $20 Coulter was asking previously.

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Garth Brooks Announces Show at FedEx Forum

Garth Brooks.

Garth Brooks will return to Memphis for the first time in 19 years when he plays the FedEx Forum this February with Trisha Yearwood. The country music superstar’s world tour will stop in Memphis on Saturday, February 4th, and tickets to the event go on sale on Friday, December 2nd at 10 a.m..

Tickets are available through ticketmaster and the FedEx Forum website, but it is important to note that NO tickets will be on sale at the FedEx Forum box office the day the tickets are available.

Tickets are estimated to be around $75.00, check out videos from Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood below.  

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Garth Brooks Tops Elvis For Best-Selling Artist

Your friends at the Recording Industry Association of America have announced that country star Garth Brooks passed late local man and King of Rock-and-Roll Elvis Presley as the highest selling solo artist ever.

The RIAA, beloved in digital file-sharing circles, reports that Brooks has sold 123 million units to Presley’s 118.5.

If nothing else, this renders the notion of Brooks having friends in low places less plausible.

However, an unofficial survey of superstar impersonators, er, tribute artists, shows that the number imitating Brooks is nowhere close to the number paying tribute to the King.