“It feels like somewhere along the way, that sense of community and respect has gotten lost.” “When u grow up in a small town, it’s that unspoken rule of ‘we all have each other’s backs and we look out for each other,’” Aldean wrote on Instagram when he launched the video. If Aldean isn’t trying to make a point about the Black Lives Matter protests, what is Try That in a Small Town about then? Community, apparently. There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it – and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage.” These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. “In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song,” Aldean tweeted on Wednesday, “and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests. “The Left is now more concerned about Jason Aldean’s song calling out looters and criminals than they are about stopping looters and criminals,” she tweeted.Īldean, for his part, is furious at insinuations there is anything racist in his song about shooting outsiders who come to his little country town.
The woke mob will hate you for liking this song.” Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the governor of Arkansas, also didn’t miss the chance to stoke a little culture war. The Tennessee house GOP leader, William Lamberth, similarly tweeted: “Loved this song since it was released and will continue to fight every day to spread small town values … Give it a listen.
“I am shocked by what I’m seeing in this country with people attempting to cancel this song and cancel Jason and his beliefs,” the South Dakota Republican governor, Kristi Noem, posted in a video on Twitter on Wednesday. Try That in a Small Town has generated a lot of criticism, but it also has fervent supporters. They were killed by Stephen Paddock, an angry white man from Iowa. Those people weren’t killed and injured by a Black Lives Matter protester. Sixty people were killed and 867 injured. Aldean was performing and got out unscathed. Crow was referencing the shooting at Las Vegas’s Route 91 Harvest festival in 2017: the deadliest mass shooting by a lone shooter in modern US history. She further noted that Aldean should know better, “having survived a mass shooting”. “There’s nothing small-town or American about promoting violence,” Crow tweeted on Tuesday. (While CMT has confirmed the video was taken off rotation, it hasn’t put out a statement as to why.) Fellow country star Sheryl Crow has also voiced her disapproval. The song has been called “ a modern lynching song” by detractors and the video was pulled from Country Music Television (CMT) on Monday. That last bit isn’t spelled out – it’s not like Aldean yells “I’m a massive racist!” in the middle of the track – but the dog whistles are difficult to ignore. Cities, meanwhile, are hotbeds of violence … and diversity.
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Full of “good ol’ boys” who were “raised up right”. Small towns are wholesome, the message is. The video leaves little doubt as to what Aldean is trying to communicate: it intersperses footage of him singing in front of Maury county courthouse in Tennessee – the site of the lynching of a Black man, Henry Choate, in 1927 – with footage from protests, looting and civil unrest. Try That in a Small Town was released in May but when the music video came out last Friday it generated immediate controversy. Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck.” He is, it would appear, referencing a conspiracy theory that the government is going to confiscate Americans’ guns to impose martial law. “Got a gun that my grandad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up.
A little later in the song Aldean elaborates further on what might happen if lines are crossed.
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