Jason Aldean: Try That in a Small Town! By Chris Knight (Florida)
Country music star Jason Aldean has a great song, “Try That in a Small Town.” The recording sailed quickly to number 1. Here is a sample of the lyrics”
LYRICS: SUCKER PUNCH SOMEBODY ON A SIDEWALK
CAR JACK AN OLD LADY AT A RED LIGHT
PULL A GUN ON THE OWNER OF A LIQUOR STORE
YA THINK IT’S COOL WELL ACT A FOOL IF YA LIKE
CUSS OUT A COP SPIT IN HIS FACE STOMP ON THE FLAG AND LIGHT IT UP
YEAH YA THINK YOU’RE TOUGH
WELL TRY THAT IN A SMALL TOWN
SEE HOW FAR YA MAKE IT DOWN THE ROAD
‘ROUND HERE WE TAKE CARE OF OUR OWN
YOU CROSS THAT LINE IT WON’T TAKE LONG FOR YOU TO FIND OUT
I RECOMMEND YOU DON’T TRY THAT
IN A SMALL TOWN
Naturally, even though the song beat Leftists like Taylor Swift, and Black rappers who usually sing about gunning down police etc., the song was banned from the charts. So much for the charts. And, that has led to even more popularity. I think this event shows that the tide may be turning, and that people may have had enough. At least for the United States. Mass resistance is still a way off in Australia, but hopefully the tide will turn there as well.
“Bowing to the politically correct progressive censors, Country Music Television has pulled from broadcast the newest release by one of the true superstars of the genre. Billboard broke the story Tuesday:
CMT has pulled Jason Aldean's incendiary video for his new single, "Try That In a Small Town."
The visual, which his label Broken Bow Records/BMG, released on Friday (July 14), was in rotation on CMT through Sunday (July 16), playing in the morning music video hours. It is unclear how many times CMT played the video before pulling it on Monday. Other than confirming the outlet had yanked the video, CMT declined to comment on the decision to cease playing the clip.
The video, which has received more than 346,000 views on YouTube since its release, features Aldean performing in front of courthouse with an American flag hanging from the entrance. The performance is interspersed with footage of a flag burning, protesters screaming and attacking police in various scenarios, and robbing a convenience store. It's unclear where the footage was taken from, but at one point, a Fox News chyron appears with the words "state of emergency declared in Georgia." Aldean is from Macon, Ga.
As of the time of this writing, 16 hours after Billboard's story, the views on YouTube totaled 842,000. Because Google, the owner of YouTube, likes to censor conservatives, a Rumble video is embedded below, and you can take three minutes to see for yourself if the video is "incendiary" or "racist" or merely expresses view consistent with your values.
The New York Times coverage of the story implies that the backdrop used for the video is a signal of racism:
Country Music Television has pulled a music video for the song "Try That in a Small Town," by the country music superstar Jason Aldean, which was filmed at the site of a lynching, amid accusations that its lyrics and message are offensive.
The video, released in May, was shot in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., a site known for the 1927 mob lynching of Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black man, and is interspersed with violent news footage, including protests. An American flag is draped between the building's central pillars, while Aldean, strumming a guitar, lists what he imagines as big city behavior that would not be well received in a small town; "carjack an old lady"; "cuss out a cop"; "stomp on the flag."
How many people instantly recognize the courthouse where permission was obtained for filming? I certainly didn't know about the lynching almost a century ago.
Meanwhile, the rap genre of popular music celebrates all sorts of violence, vulgarity, and racism with no pushback from the dominant media.”
https://www.google.com/search?q=Henry+Choate&rlz=1C5CHFA_enAU929AU929&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPBdCfFbFn8
“Nashville country artist Austin Moody never thought he’d have a song in the top five on country music iTunes charts. But after being featured on breitbart, that’s exactly what happened to the young crooner, procuring him the number four spot, amidst industry megastars Jason Aldean, Luke Combs, and Morgan Wallen. But according to the humble rising star, the success of his smash hit, “I’m Just Sayin,'” is “driven by fans. That’s who dictates where this thing is landing on the charts.”
“It’s completely fan-driven,” Moody told Breitbart News Daily host Mike Slater in an interview Tuesday. “How this thing gets to number one is people going to iTunes and paying the 99 cents for it. I think we’ve got a good chance of getting there.”
“I’m Just Sayin‘” pulls no punches as it lambasts out of control crime, university indoctrination, and a transgender movement that Moody says “is singularly focused on exposing children to sexualized material.”
Moody has no illusions about the target this song puts on his back. He believes being an independent artist gives him the freedom to “take a stand” on issues other artists tend to shy away from.
“There are a lot of patriots in Nashville who can’t say anything because they’ll lose their [record] deal, their support. It’s pretty scary,” he said.
But this isn’t stopping Moody, who says what’s going wrong in the country goes far beyond politics.
“Democrat, Republican, there’s this huge gap right down the middle for all of them. I’m sure they look at the stuff going on with this trans movement and these once great American cities and institutions that are now decaying, looking at it and going ‘what the heck? This is crazy.'”
“I was one of those people who talked about it but I didn’t say anything about it. People are scared to stand up. They feel isolated. That’s why I wanted to cut this song that Wynn Varble and Mike Loudermilk wrote,” Moody continued. “Maybe somebody hears it and says ‘wow. Ok. There’s somebody else who feels the way I do. Maybe I’m not crazy.'”
The song begins:
They’ve torn Portland all to pieces, let Chicago go to hell
There’s people leaving New York City like they rang the fire bell
They call themselves enlightened but cancel those who don’t agree
I wish all these folks who claim they’re woke would just go back to sleep
I’m just sayin’ Have we all lost our minds?
I’m just sayin’ where do we draw the line
I know ya’ll think it takes b*lls to be singing what I’m singing
But I’m just singing what you’re thinking.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY
“ Jason Aldean's song "Try That in a Small Town" and the accompanying music video rocketed to the top of the iTunes charts in less than 24 hours as outlets began reporting that the video had been pulled from country music channel CMT.
Louder with Crowder reported that the song had reached the top spot on the iTunes all-genre charts, beating out the massively popular Korean pop stars from the group BTS as well as fellow country artist Luke Combs.
In addition, Aldean's visuals made their way to the top of the music video chart, passing artist Taylor Swift, who is also a vocal left-wing activist.
The video, which was pulled by CMT on Monday, July 17, 2023, showed familiar clips of Antifa and BLM rioting. News coverage of looting, violent protests, and spitting on police were all featured in the video.
Billboard reported that Aldean's video was released on a Friday and was in CMT's rotation through Sunday, but the outlet noted that CMT declined to comment on why it stopped playing the video by Monday. The Billboard report dropped Tuesday, and by 11 p.m. that night the music service had reported the song had reached number one on the charts.
At the time of Billboard's report on July 18, 2023, Aldean's music video had approximately 346,000 views on YouTube. At the time of this publication (about 14 hours later), that view count is well over 1.3 million.
Aldean said that he had been "accused of releasing a pro-lynching song," to which he responded that "these references are not only meritless, but dangerous."
"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 -and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far," he added.
"Try That In A Small Town, for me, refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief," Aldean explained.”
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