![]() ![]() Even people in small towns are sick of violence. What else do y’all expect from a man who wore black face in 2015?” Sheryl Crow wrote, “I’m from a small town. ![]() ![]() Margo Price re-posted a story about Aldean wearing blackface eight years ago and wrote: ““Just popping on here to say Jason Aldean is a clown. ![]() However, Bryan made a show of support for Aldean at his own concert, introducing “Huntin’, Fishin’, and Lovin’ Everyday” by telling the crowd, “Wanna send this one out to my buddy Jason Aldean, all right,” and then adding, “If you like to love one another, where you at?“Īrtists based in Tennessee who lean toward the Americana side have not been shy about taking on Aldean’s proudly xenophobic track, or what some see as an either inherently or blatantly racist video.Īdeem the Artist took to his social media to post “Sundown Town,” a parody track making clear what Adeem sees as historic racial undertones between the lines in the song. Although Aldean has defended the song on social media, he has not addressed the filming site issue directly, except to strongly maintain that the tune is not “pro-lynching.”įew major country artists have spoken up about Aldean’s song one way or another so far, even as politicians and commentators on the right have rushed to align themselves with the MAGA-supporting singer.Ĭontrary to a false meme that was widely distributed among conservative country fans on social media Friday, Luke Bryan did not move to have his videos pulled from CMT as a response to the network removing Aldean’s video from its playlist this week. Some critics have said that, by projecting footage of demonstrators onto a courthouse where a Black man was famously hung from a second-story window in the 1920s, the music video means to impart that modern-day protesters are deserving of the same. (vid courtesy Karli Bonne) /T77P0MAwod- SweetPeaBelle July 22, 2023 Jason Aldean speech before performing “Try That in a Small Town” in Cincinnati yesterday. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly this week.” So somebody asked me, ‘Hey man, you think you’re going to play this song tonight?’ The answer was simple. “You kind of have the same values, the same principles that I have, which is we want to take our kids to a movie and not worry about some asshole coming in there shooting up the theater. “I know a lot of you guys grew up like I did,” Aldean said. The targets of the song’s vigilante threats seem to be scattershot, so to speak.īut the only example that Aldean offered in his defense of the song at the Cincinnati concert was something that doesn’t come up in either the lyrics or the music video: mass shootings. The music video goes further, though, mostly showing footage of demonstrators - some of it stock footage of Canadian protests - along with brief shots of violent crime. Some of the criticism over the song and video have had to do with the long list of things that the lyrics maintains will be subject to swift retributive action, should big city types bring them to a small town - some involving violent crime (carjackings, liquor store holdups), some having to do with hooliganism that would be common even in small towns (“cussing” at cops), some involving exercising legal, First Amendment-protected rights (flag burning, the only reference to protests in the song itself), some bogeymen (would-be government gun confiscators). I saw country music fans rally like I’ve never seen before and it was pretty badass, I gotta say. One thing I saw this week was a bunch of country music fans that can see through a lot of the bullshit. He continued, “You guys know how it is this day and age, cancel culture… This day and age, if people don’t like what you say, they try to make sure they can cancel you, which means try to ruin your life. ![]()
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