Garth Brooks’ Daughter, Allie Colleen, Doesn’t Want Her Music Career To Be Associated With Her Father: “I Don’t Represent Him At All”

Allie Colleen

Did you know that Allie Colleen is Garth Brooks’ daughter? If you didn’t, that’s probably because Colleen doesn’t really want people to know that.

She’s the youngest of Garth’s three daughters, and she’s currently trying to make a name for herself in the world of country music. That’s easier said than done when your father happens to be one of the biggest country music stars on the planet. In a recent interview, the 28-year-old artist voiced that she wishes the industry would stop seeing her as just “Garth Brooks daughter” and instead view her as the country music artist that doesn’t even go by the same last name as her father.

Colleen also put her foot down and said she’s not a representation of her dad, and that she doesn’t have any interest in being that:

“I’m just asking, more so the industry, to help me out, to not put me in that box… 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.”

So that’s unaccepted nepotism on full display, right?

Now some might be quick to jump to the conclusion that Colleen is saying she’s “not representing” Garth at all because her father is currently facing sexual assault allegations. In fact, a handful of headlines (Yahoo.com, Parade Magazine) made that exact implication, but of course, that lacks very important context, and is not what she said at all. She even shared a father’s day post with him just a couple days ago that read:

“Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there doing their best to raise strong, independent babies. Sorry I got the best one guys. Dad, I love you more than a life time could convey— you’re the best.”

Not exactly the words of someone who is trying to distance themself from their father for… let’s call it “off the stage” issues.

Rather, Allie is approaching this conversation from an artistic standpoint. She’s making a “I’m not my dad, don’t expect me to be” declaration, which has been shared by just about everyone who comes from country music royalty. Ask Hank Williams Jr. or Lukas Nelson what it was like to try and fill the shoes of their fathers.

She went on to say that she’s always going to be judged as a byproduct of someone else’s legacy, her father’s, and that she just wants to escape the constant “Garth Brooks’ daughter” title:

“It’s like a just like this really hard label that nobody will move. Just being a product’s daughter. Like there’s not even an “Allie” in the title. I feel like 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,’ that whole sentence is still wrong because I am an adjective of the noun that’s crazy. You know what I mean? Like I am a daughter to a title because like he’s a product.

Garth Brooks is a product that has been molded and shaped and worked for, and I am a fan of it. I love what it represents, I love who it is…. I love everything about it. 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. Do you understand what I’m saying? Like, I’m 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. In 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 who dad sits in the meetings with you and make sure that you’ve become as successful as you are. You’re just always some kind of byproduct of someone else’s legacy and that’s not what I am.”

And while one can appreciate her desire to forge her own path, and one can maybe even be sympathetic to always being called “Garth’s daughter,” you ummm… are Garth’s daughter. You’re the daughter of highest-selling country music artist of all time, an absolute superstar who is still selling out stadiums around the world… I just don’t think you can really escape that. Sorry about the headline…