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Jason Aldean Defends Himself Over Backlash to Controversial Song: ‘Goes Too Far’
New York Post ^ | July 18, 2023 | Erin Keller

Posted on 07/18/2023 11:56:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway

Jason Aldean defended himself Tuesday after CMT pulled the controversial music video for his song “Try That in a Small Town” from its rotation amid accusations it is pro-lynching and racist.

“In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests,” Aldean, 46, wrote in a statement posted to his Instagram Story. “These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.”

In the first verse, Aldean sings: “Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk / Carjack 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.”

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Tennessee
KEYWORDS: boycottcmt; cmt; country; jasonaldean; woke
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1 posted on 07/18/2023 11:56:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk /
Carjack 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

And what is wrong with these lyrics?

Was telling some folks just the other day about a druggie that tried to rob a Waffle House - yeah, that's not too smart to try.

Small towns are not like big cities, for a reason.

2 posted on 07/19/2023 12:03:09 AM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: nickcarraway

CMT ain’t country no more...

Go woke, Go Broke,


3 posted on 07/19/2023 12:28:20 AM PDT by CarmichaelPatriot (Recovering Kalifornian... Loving Alabama!)
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To: nickcarraway

Time to treat CMT a lesson as in a nationwide boycott of them until they apologize to Aldean and America for being fools and cowards.

They are off my watching list.

Perhaps we need a stronger, New pro-American country music organization/channel.


4 posted on 07/19/2023 12:50:17 AM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper (Figures )
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To: nickcarraway

From what I’ve read, lots of rap lyrics celebrate murder. And that’s okay?


5 posted on 07/19/2023 12:54:16 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: nickcarraway

CMT pulls Jason Aldean’s new ‘Try That in a Small Town’ music video after star denies it is a ‘pro-lynching song’ and criticizes BLM

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12313117/CMT-pulls-Jason-Aldeans-new-Try-Small-Town-music-video-star-denies-pro-lynching-song-criticizes-BLM.html


6 posted on 07/19/2023 12:55:20 AM PDT by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
I remember the Dixie Chicks spouting leftist rhetoric over 20 years ago.

While I'm no expert on country music, it seems to have been going downhill for a while.

7 posted on 07/19/2023 12:56:20 AM PDT by Angelino97
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To: Angelino97

Murder, rape, gang activity, drugs, anti-white in many cases, but rap is okay by social standards apparently.

Any time the left finds something they don’t like, they immediately trot out racist tropes: lynching, slavery, etc. it’s become so unoriginal. I think most of us have become numb to it.


8 posted on 07/19/2023 1:09:07 AM PDT by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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Never apologize for this.

Never!

9 posted on 07/19/2023 1:18:45 AM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (#notmypedophile)
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To: texas booster

How many of the patrons drew down on him?

The last time I was in a Waffle House, I strongly suspect 3/3 people at my table were carrying.


10 posted on 07/19/2023 2:11:30 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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I can't decide which song I love more, Aaron Lewis' "Am I the Only One" or this song.

The only people who could possibly see either as controversial are leftist thugs and those who support them.
11 posted on 07/19/2023 2:12:54 AM PDT by LIConFem (This Space For Rent)
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In other words - pick on someone your own size in our town. Just make sure the undertaker has your measurements first.


12 posted on 07/19/2023 2:15:31 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: LIConFem

The song is all truth and they hate truth.


13 posted on 07/19/2023 2:26:46 AM PDT by spincaster
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To: nickcarraway

Stick to mama, jail, trains, guitars and pickup trucks;)


14 posted on 07/19/2023 2:32:31 AM PDT by Jumper
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Considering the state of America’s judicial system that appears to be
lacking justice. Old fashioned lynching doesn’t seem like such a bad option.


15 posted on 07/19/2023 2:46:18 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk / Carjack an old lady at a red light / Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store

By the critics and MSM calling out this song as racist, they are admitting who is doing the sucker punching, carjacking, and the robbing of liquor stores.

16 posted on 07/19/2023 2:48:18 AM PDT by thegagline (Sic semper tyrannis! Goldwater in 2024 )
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To: nickcarraway

The corporate moguls have done to country music what they did to rock n roll.


17 posted on 07/19/2023 2:49:58 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
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To: nickcarraway

It’s a Paramount/Viacom/MTV organization, so no real suprise. Some pink haired aberration probably complained to the company and, voila! banned.

CC


18 posted on 07/19/2023 2:57:05 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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BINGO!! You nailed it.

By the critics and MSM calling out this song as racist, they are OPENLY ADMITTING who is doing the sucker punching, carjacking, and the robbing of liquor stores.

Funny thing, the more “they” complain about this song the wider the “truth” in this song spreads.


19 posted on 07/19/2023 2:59:59 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: nickcarraway

Hank Williams Jr “A Country Boy Can Survive” 1982

I had a good friend in New York City
He never called me by my name, just hillbilly
My grandpa taught me how to live off the land
And his taught him to be a businessman
He used to send me pictures of the Broadway nights
And I’d send him some homemade wine

But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife
For 43 dollars my friend lost his life
I’d love to spit some beech nut in that dude’s eyes
And shoot him with my old .45
‘Cause a country boy can survive
Country folks can survive


20 posted on 07/19/2023 3:19:31 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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