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2. Chris Gaines http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-COxPNVHg8 Ah, Chris 'Garth Brooks' Gaines. Garth's famous experiment in putting the cart before the horse, this emo-based alter ego was an attempt in crossing musical genres back in the late 90's. Brooks, the undisputed King of Country of the time decided that basically out-selling every major country star wasn't enough, he needed more. He began to develop a movie that sounds both 'meta' and 'ridiculous'; called The Lamb it was a story about a successful singer and his emotionally conflicted life in the public eye (almost like that Casey Affleck bomb he promoted here). Unfortunately he made two major mistakes in genre of music (pop/rock instead of country) and casting (himself instead of anybody else). The confusing promotion of 'Chris Gaines' including an appearance on Saturday Night Live in which Garth Brooks was hosting only led to a lot of people misunderstanding what Garth was trying to do; either cross musical genres, get in touch with his inner emo or disassociate himself entirely as Garth Brooks. Although the Chris Gaines pseudo-based movie failed to materialize, Garth rode the Gaines Crazy train to a strong start, with his first single hitting #2 on the top 100 before the bad press started to really take effect and the album became more of a symbol of wrong career move than strong career choice. Thankfully, Garth's fans quickly forgave him as he promised never to put on the emo wig again (in public).