How Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' became a political controversy

Aldean is trash and CMT took the trash out.

CMT is owned by Paramount and operates under the MTV umbrella. "Country" stuff is an embarrassment to them

Omigod, little white snowflakes want to be victims so bad for this visibly alcoholic hillwilliam. They think they're so slick by saying "rappers are WORSE!!!" and "YOU must be the REAL RACIST for thinking this is racist".

The fact he purposely chose to show BLM protests is the problem. I am loathed to agree with Whoopi Goldberg but as she pointed out, the BLM protests were about protecting the rights and lives of Black People and you turned it into a song about shooting them, preaching the Qanon mantra that the government is coming for their guns.

Oh no... Anyway

The other thread was mysteriously closed for some reason (hmm...), but here's a good point that was made in it:

[italic]The song, coming from this guy, is fraudulent on its face, since he’s not even from a small town to begin with. The video was filmed at the site of a 1940’s race riot and the 1927 lynching of a black man, and is rife with clips of BLM protests. If he's such a cop-loving patriot, then why not include clips of the cops being beaten to a pulp on Jan 6th? Why not include clips of bigots marching through Charlottesville carrying torches or running a car through a group of anti-racism protestors and ultimately killing a girl? Why not include footage from one of your own concerts in which multiple people were killed by the very weapon glorified in your song’s lyrics?

While there may not be anything overtly racist in the song itself, the lyrics certainly evoke imagery of the sundown town era of the still-virulently racist South, and of a time when black people had to travel through those “small towns” with a green book telling them where they could and could not go.[/italic]

It conflates crime and constitutionally protected protest and gives jackasses the illusion of omnipotence.

It's an anti-American, pro-Jan Sixth anti-BLM anthem. Racist motherfucker, go ahead and stroke out you bigoted retard.

R8 sounds lovely

Thank you, R9.

[quote]The other thread was mysteriously closed for some reason (hmm...),

Yeah, that thread seemed relatively tame by DL standards. What gives?

R11 there’s an agenda here and you betta comply! YAAAASSSSS!!!

You have to admit that there is currently a war against the right of self-defense, for better or for worse, so that would have a lot to do with it. Aldean put himself in the line of fire by suggesting that people in a small town wouldn’t just acquiesce to their town being destroyed. That’s currently considered wrongthink.

It is a white supremacist's manifesto.

Daniel Penny said “not in a big city” and was arraigned.

Oh, please. So it’s the “pry them out of my cold dead hands” NRA shit I grew up with in the 1980s? We’re the most armed and imprisoned nation on earth. And we nonetheless have the greatest loss of innocent life to gunshots. Still. John Cougar crooned about Small Towns back then and my jaded ear didn’t enjoy his innocuous take on the subject any better.

Bull crap r13. It was filmed on the site of a notorious lynching and extolled using violence. For that alone it should have been banned.

MAGA deplorables and racists use "I feared for my life" as a get-out-of-jail free card when they gun down black people. The batshit racist old bag in Florida who, from behind her locked door, shot the mother while her child watched and subsequently got off without being charged with at least second degree murder is just the latest case of many.

R18 yeah, we hear about all 3 or 4 cases like that every year. The mainstream media makes sure they dominate the headlines.

No, R13, no one has to admit that because it's not true. Fucking "stand your ground" retard.

We still have more gun shops that gas stations and our population is not only armed to the teeth but shooting at will. Shooting people who stop at the wrong house. Kyle Fuckwit, that kid who shot three people down in the street and two of them died - that motherfucker walked. We see this vigilante shit all the time. Trayvon Martin died for going to buy a package of Skittles in his own neighborhood.

You're stupid and you're wrong.

I'll repeat what I said in the first thread. I don't like either the song or its presentation. I also don't like the hypocrisy of the people trying to cancel it.

[quote] It was filmed on the site of a notorious lynching

If not that they'd find something else to complain about. Film it in Virginia, why that was part of the Confederacy. Film it in Massachusetts, that was where the slave ships were built and crewed. etc etc

[quote] extolled using violence

Isn't it saying violence shouldn't occur in the first place.

[quote] For that alone it should have been banned.

But for heavens sake leave alone the murder songs by our rappers

[quote]If not that they'd find something else to complain about. Film it in Virginia, why that was part of the Confederacy. Film it in Massachusetts, that was where the slave ships were built and crewed. etc etc

Bullshit straw man argument because your goal is obviously to side with the racist dog whistle that is clearly present in the song and the video. They could have filmed the shit in a field and included Jan 6/Charlottesville imagery along with the BLM stuff, but they didn’t.

"Film it in Virginia, why that was part of the Confederacy. Film it in Massachusetts, that was where the slave ships were built and crewed. etc etc"

Or film it in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where, in 1921, white people went on a rampage and destroyed 35 square blocks of black owned homes and businesses, killing 36 people and jailing thousands of black people for NO FUCKING REASON AT ALL.

To this day, the mother fucking white trailer park trash that runs the shithole state is still trying to sweep this under the rug by refusing to allow any mention of it in textbooks.

[quote][bold]You have to admit that there is currently a war against the right of self-defense, for better or for worse[/bold]

Where, specifically, R13? And don't dodge the question.

R24 yaaassss hunty Stan that issue

When "self defense" means "black guy rang my doorbell" we probably need a war against it.

Are they upset with all the dead cops on 1/6?

Here's another little known race riot that the POS pig @R26 can attempt to sweep under the rug.

I want to write a song about guys living in trailers, who fuck their nieces and shoot at Repo men and can’t keep a meth pipe out of their caved-in mouths and call it “Try That In New York City”.

Try being thin in a small town.

R20 is probably a Nazi. Those two murder victims are their patron saint

R30 Since you’re making vast stereotype songs, how about guys living in tract homes with bars on the windows in S. LA, who fuck their nieces and shoot at anyone “disrespectin” them and can’t keep a weed pipe out of their convex mouths and call it “Try That In Beverly Hills”?

Block him r32. He’s the only poster on here who doesn’t get it. Reading his posts will only make you regret the precious seconds wasted.

R34 is right, there is only dissenter and it’s me. Sleep safe knowing all the rest of the Yaaaassss Kweeennn Army agrees with everything you say. There is only one Fag Boogie Man out there, just one.

You’re such a follower and it’ll be interesting to see how far “progressive” the agenda pushers can guide you over the next decade, since you have no brain of your own. You’ll be supporting things then, that you’d find appalling now. Best of luck.

Try having a fucking working brain in a small town

R30 tell us more about these elaborate hillbilly scenarios

You are truly a Christian martyr for your cause, R35.

As soon as you kick off (the sooner, the better for humanity), the Catholic Church will beatify you, the first step in the canonization process. You will be known as St. Douchebag of the Fighting Keyboard Brigade.

Muriel, why the fuck have I been paying money to read racist garbage? Take the trash out for fuck's sake

The Yaaassss Kweeen’s humor here is cringe

R39 sees racism everywhere she goes

R39, you’re so right, anyone who comes on here and uses the F-word should be permanently banned and their posts removed.

R39 is a racist

I wonder how many chocolate pies the Aldean’s have enjoyed courtesy of the colored help over the years?

Jason is the type who prefers vanilla soft serve over chocolate because…well, you know why.

Jason's new chapeau:

Shit.

Jason's REAL new chapeau with photo included:

BLM protests was about looting Nike shoes and destroying shit. Ih, also making founding members super wealthy.

What do you think should happen to Daniel Penny? Death penalty?

No, R48, that was not at all what BLM was about and intelligent, educated people know that. It's redneck rubes with sub-standard degrees (or no degree at all) who pretend that BLM wasn't about Black people being gunned down by the cops and the totally predictable and justified reaction to those murders.

It's time for you to go back home, R48. You'll have to get your "robes" ready for this weekend's big cross burning, you dumb cunt.

This romanticized version of growing up in a small town is ridiculous. Maybe if the town has like 50 people in it.

BLM. was about building Patrice Cullor’s Real Estate portfolio

Pro lynching? Evidence please?

R55, it was fillmed in front of a notorious spot where a lynching occurred and extolled violence. You don’t have to use the word to support lynching. In fact, the “justice” they talk about in the song sounds a lot like lynching.

Pastaboi is a troll, r56

Yup r57. It’s blocked now. One thing I’ve noticed is that when I someone sign a new, verified signature it’s usually a troll. The people who’ve been using verified signatures for awhile are not.

&oh dear myself. …when I see someone…

Dammit. Posted too soon, feel free to “oh, dear” me at r59 and r59, I haven’t had my morning coffee.

I absolve you, r60.

Wow I didn’t know that r56 that ads a whole new layer. The video is definitely very pro maga

Just watched the video. Aside from the message, it’s not a great song. Not very catchy, the lyrics are very repetitive, and the tune is very generic country.

I didn’t notice anything overtly offensive in the song (didn’t listen that closely, though), but the video definitely made it so.

The message that a lot of the BLM protesting was objectionable and not something to be tolerated (but that doesn’t mean vigilante justice) might have been OK if done differently, but that would be challenging. And why would a white country singer think he should go there? Which is why I don’t think this was something innocent that got executed poorly.

The video went beyond criticizing BLM by making the song an explicit threat. I expected the video to be not as bad as people are saying. If anything, it was worse.

I know there are rap songs that glorify violence, but are there rap songs or videos that suggest that white people and those that support them had better watch their step in black neighborhoods? Even if there are, that is different (but not OK).

I think there are parallels to ESG investing (I’m using this example because it’s less emotionally loaded, I’m not equating racism and environmentalism). It’s not ethically wrong to have the opinion that ESG factors are difficult to measure, there are unintended consequences to incorporating them, the drag on economies isn’t worth it, etc. But when people want to create or allocate to specifically anti-ESG investments you have to wonder about their character. You can not believe in man made global warming and be a good person. You can believe it’s too late to do anything and be a good person. But if you are burning tires in your backyard to piss off your neighbor with a save the planet bumper sticker, you are an asshole.

R64 “I know there are rap songs that glorify violence, but are there rap songs or videos that suggest that white people and those that support them had better watch their step in black neighborhoods? Even if there are, that is different (but not OK).”

Your progressive gay white guilt and insanity is showing. Go get brainwashed some more.

R65, you are probably an asshole but you have a point about my post. I put that poorly and was trying too hard to preclude objections that this or that rap song is not offensive. It is potentially different, but including acknowledgment of that was unnecessary.

There are way too many people these days (like you), who are incapable of thoughtful discussion and are too quick to use any excuse to nullify someone else’s opinion. But I shouldn’t pander to that.

Why is rap music included in this discussion? Even if there was agreement that rap glorifies violence, that agreement would not nullify or cancel out the depravity of Aldean's song.

Equally, hating blacks doesn't elevate the hater. To the bigot troll who keeps defending Aldean, we know you fear black men. Maybe you think black men have bigger dicks or that they could handily beat your pasty ass (without a gun) - who's to say? You're obvious.

I looked at the Twitter of this one porn guy (I don’t follow him, he just came across my radar) and he posted “Fuck yeah! Glad someone finally said it out loud”) about this. He’s from Florida, dumb and apparently emotionally volatile. He’s not hot enough to overlook his right wing orientation and character flaws. Hey Buddy, getting fucked by a guy in the ass on camera isn’t exactly something that goes over well with righteous small town folks.

I googled "loser white guys" and it led me to Aldean's video. Funny.

I googled "loser white guys" and it led me to multiple items of guys scoring with hot Asian chicks

It always makes me laugh when I see how passionate rednecks get about their music r68. I don’t listen to music whose lyrics I agree with and go “fuck yeah!”

R71 see the Beyhive for the mirror version

The video doesn’t reference race. It’s pure we love our guns stuff.. The reaction has been overkill and turned an ok song into a big hit. Continuing to pile on it just makes it bigger and bigger. Whatever.

"It’s pure we love our guns stuff."

Especially when we get to use them on our perceived enemies, i.e. non-whites, foreigners, fags, trannies and Jews.

R73, maybe you're purposely being obtuse or maybe you're just a troll, but the video was shot on the site of a past race riot and the lynching of a black man. It is filled with footage of BLM protests - something we all know racist MAGA deplorables hate. The entire affair is one big foghorn for the loons who fill Trump rallies spouting racist, xenophobic and homophobic rhetoric, and who hated the fact that a black man and his black family occupied the White House for eight largely unproblematic years. This isn't rocket science here.

Blake Shelton is backing Aldean. Ugh Blake never changed, he is still an asshole.

Bruce called out that statement, “We take care of our own”, for the hollow insular bullshit it was after Katrina.

R75 I guarantee production had no idea about that. They probably found the courthouse and ran with it, also back in the day every courthouse probably had something that happened at. Only the Twitter junkies have enough time to sit and research every little last thing like that.

[quote]I guarantee production had no idea about that.

And that makes it ok? The fact that Aldean is a “cop-lovin’ patriot,” yet he neglected to include footage of cops being beaten to a pulp and a man carrying a confederate flag through the Capitol on Jan 6 in his video is just coincidental, right? Just say that you agree with the problematic sentiment of the video and stop pissing on us and telling us it’s raining, for crying out loud.

I have the OP who’s referred to in r79 blocked, but I have to comment on his asinine statement. So you think the production didn’t know and picked that site at random? If so, I have some swamp land in Florida to sell you.

[quote] I guarantee production had no idea about that. Only the Twitter junkies have enough time to sit and research every little last thing like that.

see r22

This MAGAt won't give it. The obsfucation is straight from the Trump playbook. He wants to be able to take his kids to the movie without getting shot -- so why demonize BLM? Black people don't shoot up schools and movie theaters -- or Country music festivals -- crazy gun-toting MAGAts do.

The fucktard racist has no idea how video productions function.

R82 he hasn’t made it about race, you have

If MAGAts can call for a boycott of "Barbie," then turnabout is fair play.

R83 what’s your resume. Liar.

R86 ..

R87

[quote] You have to admit that there is currently a war against the right of self-defense, for better or for worse, so that would have a lot to do with it. Aldean put himself in the line of fire by suggesting that people in a small town wouldn’t just acquiesce to their town being destroyed. That’s currently considered wrongthink.

Bullshit. The video crystallizes the intended message of the song. It's a reactionary, anti-woke, racist message that has nothing to do with self-defense. "Self-defense" didn't save those 60 people who were massacred by a crazy white dude when they gathered in Las Vegas to see this MAGA shitstain perform.

^Precisely!

Aw, gee. The video shows BLM protests, but not the 1/06/21 violent attempt to overturn a lawful Presidential election! No Shaman Dude! No attacks on Capitol police! No home-made gallows! And seriously---no showing the feces on the walls?

Do y'all think Jason maybe jes' forgot??

Wait a minute, I just realized! There's no video of White cops shooting, pressing, or otherwise killing Black citizens, goshdarnit! No "No-Knock" killings of---OOPS!---a sleeping Black woman!

That's a real oversight, it pains me to say.

Well, at least Mr. Aldean's heart is in the right place, bless it.

Who DOESN'T want to return America and her patriotic, flag-wavin', Bible-reading small towns to those halcyon days of yore, when White people knew who their neighbors were NOT going to be; who knew who WASN'T going to be in their children's classrooms or swimming pool; who could count on the Right Kind of candidates running for office; and who who could live peacefully because others KNEW THEIR PLACE!

Now, tax rates on the wealthy were much higher back in the day, but I never said our past was perfect!

It is not a second armed men meant song. This is née jerk Raycioust dog whistle!

Absolutely. Every building in the South probably has some ugly history associated with it. The pro guns message is ugly enough. Why drag racism into this mess as well.

Racism is in this mess because it's a racist song on a racist theme encouraging racist lynching and other racist behaviors.

We didn't "drag it into this mess." This mess existed before we heard a single note played because of the racism that was already there in the song.

I haven't read the entire thread yet, but I'm just going to assume it's a dumpster fire, anyway. Brb, gonna grab some chamomile tea and an aspirin.

^^^The Black guy in that video never bothered to define "white culture." White people, at least how that term is used in America, are not a single culture, ethnicity or faith. White people do not share the same language, customs or originate from the same geographic region. So what is "white culture"?

[quote]So what is "white culture"?

Putting raisins in everything.

^ And whatever the hell ambrosia salad is.

Sandwiches made with Wonder Bread and mayonnaise.

[quote] So what is "white culture"?

What a depressing question

R20 that case was a crime of opportunity, plain and simple. It had nothing to do with race. The men involved had white girlfriends. Get a life.

R102 oh okay, so date a black guy and anything you do won’t be considered racist. Got it.

Miss Aldean can't even handle Connecticut. Some tough guy

[quote] How Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' became a political controversy

I would never even have heard of it if the hall monitors hadn't become so hysteric in their efforts to cancel it

From what I saw during the 2020 BLM protests, the vast majority of those causing destruction, riots, and violence were White (likely progressive) people. The peaceful protestors were mostly Black. Just saw his video and the main individuals highlighted during the BLM protests were, in fact, all of those crazy White folks who were fucking shit up. Mostly in our communities which...don't get me started on that.

But of course, the media tried to make it seem like it was us doing it when in reality it was those of "the other persuasion." Kinda makes you wonder about their true motives. Did they really care about racial injustice or were they just using the BLM movement to raise hell? A lot of those (mostly White) kids came from the suburbs into urban areas to start riots. Facts.

From what I saw of the 2020 BLM riots in 2020, R106, was the thoroughly pathetic gutless, spineless POTUS scared shitless and running with his tail between his legs to the nearest heavily guarded bunker.

A true profile in chicken shitness for the ages.

I watched the video, I found it not so much racist, as just plain dumb. Of course, it will be a hit, as it plays to the lowest common denominator ( the Trump-tards).

r108 Agreed. The song is corny as hell. But, some of the lyrics are, indeed, racist dog whistles. I'm fairly certain I heard him literally say "Good ole boys" at one point. I mean...come on.

Another reason why I don’t like country music.

I like all of Lyle Lovett's work and a bit of Willie Nelson now and then. Dolly, of course, and that Trio album she did with Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt. That's about it.

You people really don't know what country music was do you

Whatever the case may be, music has the ability to influence emotions and, to a degree, behavior. This song is basically "Knuck If You Buck" for White supremacists. People have actually been shot in the club when that song came on because it as undertones of incitement of violence. Many clubs refuse to play it to this day because it tends to start fights. The same applies to this record. Aldean knew exactly what he was doing. Sorry. Not sorry.

I love you R91 The only thing you missed was/is the wholesome small town value of women being routinely beaten by their drunken "Patriotic" husbands and having ZERO recourse. Slap on Tammy Faye style make up and pretend like things were peachy keen. Life was but a dream for uneducated, sociopathic white, straight "Christian" men. Shucks!

[quote] the wholesome small town value of women being routinely beaten by their drunken "Patriotic" husbands

Yeah a girl has to watch out for those patriotic guys

zzzz r115

Facts.....................

Try raping your underage stepdaughter in a small town, and see what happens!

Everyone will call the girl a slut, that's what will happen.

Try fucking your parishoners' prepubescent children in a small town and see what happens!

The kids will get a whoopin' for being disobedient and unchristian, that's what.

Try murdering your twenty year okd son's boyfriend in a small town!

The police will call it an "accident", and the boy's family will.be called "groomers".

Try setting fire to a black neighbor's house in a small town!

You'll be invited to join the local "militia". Half the police force will already be members.

I come from a small town. Smaller towns of with population of 700 can 25 minute ride away from me. They are sundown towns, but no one speaks of it. A town will be majority black but the next town over will be majority white. These racists down here love to say: "you don't know the history," but some of us unindoctrinated, or with a shred of critical thinking may know otherwise.

The song is an attempt (of many) for all those bumpkins to feel better about themselves about living in their shitholes. I'm from one: our community has been hollowed out for decades, by white flight, by climate change, by the total collapse of local industry, by gun violence, by preventable disease.

Frankly, I don't even recognize the "small-town" in Mississippi I grew up in.

You are dealing with people trying to find small-town dilapidation charming; I find it embarrassing. At least they haven't figured out that we own guns, too.

"Oh, Dearing" my grammar, but didn't that dude that DL loves that shot those assholes live in a "small-town?" Isn't Uvalde a small town? The town near the river where where Emmitt Till was beaten into human pulp is a small town, too.

Our governor in Mississippi tweets about how this song was #1 on iTunes (that's a different laugh, when five songs on the chart are various remixes of one kpop song). Meanwhile, our rural hospitals are closing, both cities and towns don't have clean water, and private insurance is pulling out of protecting at-risk (i.e. small, Black) communities from natural disaster.

[quote] didn't that dude that DL loves that shot those assholes live in a "small-town?" Isn't Uvalde a small town?

DL loves Salvador Ramos ? That's news to me.

All conservatism begins with lies about history. This song is part of that. Emporia, Kansas was once the most liberal town in the country, a beacon for people who wanted government to better people's l ives. There has been a non-stop right-wing propaganda effort beginning with World War I, when southern bigot Woodrow Wilson hired 75,000 speakers to tour the country lying for the government, to make rural people into morons, and it has worked.

You must be new here. I'm speaking of "Jimmmmmmmmay!" Be careful where you blow your snow. You never know if someone is packing in a small-town, as this song confers.

"The song is an attempt (of many) for all those bumpkins to feel better about themselves about living in their shitholes."

Yes. It's an attempt to convince themselves that although their shitholes may be a meth-cooking "Sundown Town", where domestic violence is routine, people are so afraid of their psycho neighbors that they think they need home arsenals to stay alive until dawn, and people mysteriously vanish while in police custody, that "crime" is really an urban problem.

That what goes on in this here shithole isn't actually "crime", even if people end up dead, it's not "crime", not unless a black person is arrested for it.

I try to maintain hope whenever I can, but America 2023 is fucking depressing.

How much you want to bet that the same individuals defending this song are also the same individuals who decried Beyonce's 2016 Super Bowl half-time performance as "anti-White racism?"

I think there's an expectation that rap is mostly bluster and bullshit. I'm not familiar with country music. Are vaguely violent titles common? 'Try That in a Small Town' and ... what? The good ole boys are going to kick your ass? You'll get your head blown off?

I saw something on Reddit saying most school shootings happen in small towns leaving those communities devastated. Not a good ole boy in sight to stop it. Those lyrics are just as stupid and hollow as any rap song.

I don't know whether anyone needs those sentiments right now. But it's all about $$$ in the end. His record company will be pleased that such a lame, dreary song is generating so much controversy.

Try That in a Ball Gown

[quote] I think there's an expectation that rap is mostly bluster and bullshit. I'm not familiar with country music. Are vaguely violent titles common? 'Try That in a Small Town' and ... what? The good ole boys are going to kick your ass? You'll get your head blown off?

There is precedent for revenge songs. Coward of the County, Courtesy of the Red White and Blue, that song about smashing a cheating guy’s car spring to mind immediately and I’m not a music fan.

But the vigilante aspect of this one is different.

R105 = "Barbie" boycotter.

Has Kelly Clarkson commented yet? They did a great duet years ago. I thought she was still friends with him. The Dixie Chicks should say something.

Small town life in Magashit America is so great that country fans dream of getting away from it in Tracy Chapman's Fast Car.

Perfectly stated…

R136, And even then, she pulled plenty a punch.

"Give him and his crew the benefit of the doubt" in using as the main backdrop that infamous courthouse? SOMEbody making that video knew.

Anyone---entertainer, shop proprietor, festival vendor---purveying pro-Confederacy-themed merchandise while positing himself as Super-Patriot is a repulsive pro-treason anti-American who is totally devoid of the irony gene.

To borrow a page from the Republican playbook: I recommend a boycott of Jason Aldean who, along with exemplifying the aforementioned, is a Beta (Zeta?) who is too pusillanimous to own up to what his song and video are about.

One of this nation's greatest and most consequential mistakes was President Andrew Johnson's pardon of Jefferson Davis.

I muted all references to the word Aldean in my Twitter feed. I can deal Trump and the other shit but I don't need to see his canonization in my feed.

Blq supremacist behavior and attitudes are on the rise too. Yts are more talk. Blqfolx actually act on their hate citizen to citizen.

You sure showed them R138.

Quiet r139, you’re either trolling or you’re supernaturally stupid.

Or you’re both.

It sounds like there’s some dog whistling in the lyrics of this song.

You’re not ever going to change the way that white supremacists think. Never.

R139 = More evidence of the decline and fall of public education.

On the contrary R142. The US was not developed by an indigenous peasantry who are deeply conservative and suspicious. It was founded by people who were sent from the cities, already part of the cash economy, and engaged in mass production for the world markets. Their conservatism is only based on lies about who they are and how they got there. Erase the lies and you erase the conservatism.

Just you try reading one of your word books in a small town

It’s hard to know who to side with anymore. Everyone are extremists now. It’s either they want some fake Leave It To Beaver act or to get fucked & felch their assholes in the streets, what happened to moderation.

Stop it R146. All the "extremists" are on the right. Seriously.

R147 supports Trans’ing toddlers

So stale, r148.

R148 is a toddler.

[quote]It’s hard to know who to side with anymore.

Not if you're a sane, rational person, r146...which you appear not to be.

It's the right who inflicted the whole trans thing on us. You know that, so why do you pretend it has anything to do with the left? Rene Richards, Jan Morris, Kaitlyn Jenner, Jennifer Pritzker. Not a leftie in the bunch.

There is not a war on self-defense there is a war on USING self-defense as a means to commit crimes. George Zimmerman is the poster boy for that. He killed an unarmed kid and got off because he felt threatened. Florida and other states have a stand-your-ground law where you can legally kill someone just by saying you felt threatened. People will scoff and say that is not true but it is. Happens all the time. Tell me what happened to the old guy who shot a black kid point blank for knocking on his door and asking for directions? I just saw in Ohio a truck driver was chased for 30 miles because he was missing a mud flap. He was so scared he called the highway patrol to come out. He stood there unarmed and they released a police dog on him.

R144, True, re: Indigenous tribes.

Nobody was more "conservative" or bigoted than our Puritan forebears of 1620 Plymouth Rock fame. Yet Democrats and Republicans alike celebrate them annually. Go figure!

"HOW BIG IS HIS DICK??? I'D FUCK HIM!!!"

Aldean is #2 on the Billboard Top #100, behind Jungkook's " Seven."

Nobody wants to fuck fascist Jason Aldean, R155. I'm sure his dick is as small as his tiny, racist heart and his uneducated little brain.

r157 His wife's dick is bigger.

With the exception of Dolly and Reba and a couple of songs from Restless Heart, I despise country music.

Aldean on the Billboard chart? Must be the same consumers as the ticket-buyers for "Sound of Freedom."

IYKWIMAITYD. 😉 😄

Plus, Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” debuts at No. 2 on the Hot 100. The song, released in May, debuts with the biggest sales week for a country song in over 10 years, after CMT pulled its video, which premiered July 14, from rotation after three days, resulting in a surge of attention.

Good job, you stupid woke fucks!

The wokies should be happy now, they were so pissed about Morgan Wallen’s drinking & love songs blocking the top spots from their Mothers & Kweens. Now he’s down. Yaaaasssss!!!

The woke party is coming to a sudden end.

There is so much deja-vu in that little story about Cancun Cruz.

It's our old enemy Newty all over again.

Woke is not ending. We will continue to beat you to a pulp at every turn.

Do we care if redneck morons bulk-buy bad, racist fucked up country music? No we do not.

We still see them for exactly what they are, ignorant, repulsive thugs we wouldn't have in our houses.

*kicks cuntbone* Try that in a small town, you hillbilly witch. Send Ron packing or I’ll kick again. I’m not kidding! 🌽

R161, r162, See r160.

Rs can do nothing but lie, cheat, and steal from children's cancer charities.

Addendum:

R161, r162, Aren't you supposed to still be ranting about $300 million "Barbie"?

R166, I still loathe and despise everything about DJTJ and wish him ill, EXCEPT - I really like that tie.

R166 Can’t land a book list on his own merit and his daddy had two chances and still couldn’t get the popular vote. WHAT LOSERS!

The song sucks like 90% of country music imo. I finally watched the video out of curiosity today. I couldn’t finish it because of the awful music and the video is more offensive than I was expecting. He might as well be wearing Klan robes. And he’s ugly. But I did hear a nice country song the other day which reminded me of Dolly. I love classic country.

[quote] Aldean is #2 on the Billboard Top #100, behind Jungkook's " Seven."

The Billboard charts are trash.

Imagine the bloviating from MAGATs if it ever gets to #1! It's the US traitors vs the BTS Army.

[quote] The song, coming from this guy, is fraudulent on its face, since he’s not even from a small town to begin with.

I absolutely loathe this song, but even so that doesn't make any sense as a criticism that it is somehow "fraudulent" because it does not accord with his life experience.

When you sing the lyrics to a song, you assume a persona. It doesn't have to be from directly autobiographical experience.

No one thought when Madonna sang "Papa Don't Preach" that she really was pregnant and her father was pressuring her to have an abortion, or that Terry Jacks was claiming he was literally dying when he sang "Seasons in the Sun."

Jesus wept.

I've managed to completely avoid BTS until now but... Team BTS here.

It seems ironic to make a pro gun song when there was a mass shooting at your concert…l

[quote]I've managed to completely avoid BTS until now but... Team BTS here.

" Seven" is massive.

Country singer’s heavily criticised song Try That in a Small Town has been streamed 11.7m times while the video has boomed online

The controversy around the country singer Jason Aldean’s latest single, whose lyrics and video feature threats of violence toward police protesters, has boosted its profile.

In the week since backlash to the song brewed online and amid fellow country artists, streams of Aldean’s Try That in a Small Town have risen 999%, from 987,000 to 11.7m, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Sales of the song have also increased from 1,000 last week to 228,000, according to the music data company Luminate.

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The thought police overreaction instead made him a star. Such as calling it a "violence anthem".

r177 Why the hell would trying very publicly to shut something draw more attention to it?

Question: is there an innocent interpretation to the term 'Good 'ol boy'? Or does it basically just mean racist redneck?

Yes, if one is referring to aging Fido. No, if one means a guy; then it's "racist Redneck."

Try being the only family in a small town who doesn’t beat their kids with belts. Everyone hates you and how you “spoil your children.” We were that family.

Mellencamp's lyrics are about as bland and general as can be.

I grew up in a small town. It was virtually Edenic for a child if the 50s: gigantic public park across the street from a gigantic public pool (no hyperbole with either); plenty of churches; a Main Street (yes) with 3 stoplights and all kinds of shops and purveyors like you'd find in Europe; three elementary schools (one parochial); virtually no crime (one murder in a half-century); still plenty of fireflies to catch; sidewalk hopscotch; etc. Etc.

Woke fail.

He looks like Roseanne Barr.

"Hold my beer, Jason."

I'd love to know of one song, movie, TV show, anything who's premise is that living in a big city is in every way better than a small town.

The big problem with the town isn't the candy-ass paranoia, the hillbilly drag the pudgy singer puts on (really the song is the musical version of a super wealthy republican renting hunting clothes to appeal to the rubes while running for Senate).

No, the real sin is the cliche that it is.

This song will be mandated to be played at every NASCAR race in lieu of the National Anthem; at every Republican political rally, including the convention; and especially at the NRA convention. It will be the new " God Bless the USA," for the ignorant crowd.

Try being a family in a small town with no obesity and all you teeth. Watch them cringe when you wash your name brand clothes you can afford.

Your**

Aldean had a concert scheduled in the solid blue Northeast Ohio at the outdoor Blossom Music Center. Just before the concert, the skies opened up and 60-70 mph winds, torrential downpours, and small hail canceled the concert. God hates ignorant rednecks.

[quote] This song will be mandated to be played at every NASCAR race

If it makes people like you cry this hard, it just might

Let's compare and contrast two recent "cancellations" shall we?

Case 01: A trans person does a 15-second piece of sponsored content for a mass market beer. The Right is *still mad about it. People videotaped themselves stomping on, shooting and otherwise destroying the beer. The trans person had to go into hiding due to the avalanche of death threats. Right-wing political figures took up the "cause" and are now threatening the beer company with "investigations" and whatnot.

The Left does - not much. There's online defenses of the trans person but no elected officials get involved. The "woke corporation" folds in an instant.

Case 02: A country singer releases a song/video threatening violence against BLM protestors and vowing to murder anyone who is weird in his imagined hometown The Left tweets some things. Others write Op-eds. It's possible left-wing politicians denounce the song but don't threaten the singer's career or the singer's record company. The country singer's tour continues. There's protests but nothing violent or scary. He doesn't go into hiding. He keeps his record contract. One radio network said "no thanks" but in this era, that's not too effectual. People can access music in 1000 ways.

The Right - goes apeshit again. This time, performatively buying up copies of the song. One imagines they are sad they don't get to shoot anything and put it on TikTok.

R193 what’s your point?

The culture war is asymmetrical? Every hysterical troll on the DL who fulminates about the TRANSTAPO is full of shit? Every "free speech absolutist" who complain about the Woke Mind Virus on Campus is full of shit?

Right wingers can say whatever Nazi shit they like and be deified. Left wing figures will be hounded to suicide for existing.

R195 That’s because the conservative brain often works slower and has less of an understanding of the various shades of humanity, unless they know they’ll get a vote. It’s all performative because the only substance is enriching themselves and maintaining social order that benefits them and theirs.

[quote]I'd love to know of one song, movie, TV show, anything who's premise is that living in a big city is in every way better than a small town.

Conservatives are evil, violent people. Any accusation that the Left approaches the RIght's level of sheer terrorism is a hunk of horseshit.

The cycle of how this happens

Good thing that his fans don't know how to spell " Billboard."

I would like to live in a small town where every race is represented, people are not judgmental, everyone is kind, supportive and accepting of all lifestyles and there’s not one dominating religion. Does that exist in the US? Anyone here live somewhere like that.?

I live in a small coastal area of California that's somewhat like that, R201. All of your requirements are very difficult to find in one town, any town, in America.

R201 Maybe try a small college town, or one with industries that attract diverse people. They do exist, but like every town there are some trade offs to be had.

R186 R197

[quote] I'd love to know of one song, movie, TV show, anything who's premise is that living in a big city is in every way better than a small town.

All smart bumpkins move to the "city."

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MAGATs desperately piling on the views and downloads in order to get him to #1, but just don't try to take on the BTS Army.

R186, comin' right up. Talking Heads, "The Big Country": -----

I guess it's healthy. I guess the air is clean. I guess those people have fun with their neighbors and friends.

Look at that kitchen, and all of that food. Look at them eat it. I guess it tastes real good.

They grow it in those farmlands. Then they bring it to the store. They put it in the car trunk, and they bring it back home, and I say --

I wouldn't live there if you paid me

I wouldn't live like that, no siree

I wouldn't do the things the way those people do

I wouldn't live there if you paid me to

To R208, you can add a number of songs satirizing suburban/small town life, like "Little Boxes" and "Pleasant Valley Sunday."

Ooh, ooh, Mr. Kot-TER, R194! 🙋‍♂️ 🙋 🙋‍♂️

[quote]TN’s own @ traecrowder: “I’m from a small town—Aldean sings about being carjacked at a red light… I’m like, a RED LIGHT? What is this, Times Square? He’s from Macon, GA - the fact that you’ve heard of it means it isn’t a small town. They have a TARGET. Might as well be PARIS.”

After getting praise from Trump and DeSantis, Aldean removes scenes from his video.

Sure, there's an obscure Talking Heads song from 45 years ago that says flyover country sucks but there's also literally an entire TV network whose sole product is movies about stressed-out, high-strung city women moving to the country to find love and a real men.

R213, you know that’s not realistic. Most stressed out, high strung women probably LEAVE the country for the big city because their career goals don’t include being a farm hand or general store clerk.

My husband is *from the country and anyone with a brain gets the fuck out at age 18.

R213, the request was:

[quote] I'd love to know of one song, movie, TV show, anything who's premise is that living in a big city is in every way better than a small town.

I posted one. What's your beef?

City songs about the country: “the country is boring, the people are boring. I like the city”

Country songs about the city: “people who live in cities aren’t really people”

Not exactly equivalent. And let’s face it: complaining about “city” people is, in America anyway, usually just a coded way of complaining about black, brown, gay and “un-American” people in the city.

There’s the old country mouse/city mouse cliché that’s as old as Aesop, and then there is this song.

Incest is rampant in small towns. I’m sure it is in cities, also, but don’t act like there are zero crimes or abominations in small towns.

TizzyEnt has excellent insight into the hypocrisy of both the song and Aldean.

Country fans alerted to their losing week one.

" Stop this woke crap."

Well, yes, Mrs. George Jones; perhaps we SHOULD look at the history of any specific site before filming there. Unless you think that maybe Yusuf/Cat Stevens could make a video at the site of the WTC without you or Aldean or your fellow Bumpkins saying Word 1 of opposition.

People yapping against "Woke" are trying to bully and intimidate and bend others to their will. If they can no longer depend on community support for lynchings, they will pass laws allowing for discrimination by businesses; they will close school libraries; they will re-define Black American Studies; they will gerrymander voting precincts and defy court orders to undo them; and they will stonewall investigations into White on Black violent crime until forced to investigate.

My new slogan: "Democrats Are Woke Because Republicans Are a Nightmare."

Try that in a suburb/We drink latte we drive Audi we take our kids to soccer games/Try that in a suburb.

Someone should come put with Try That In China and have footage of the Jan 6 insurrection

Jason Aldean and modern country music just plain sucks.

The song really needed him to shout "Fuck around and find out!" at some point, to reach perfection. But he dint do that.

Thank you, R204...we need a little MTM every so often.

Still love the look of the old lady with the blue scarf over her perm at the end!!!

Jason Aldean's song reflects the serious divisions in the country between urban/suburban/rural; red state/blue state; conservative/liberal; black/white to name a few

There's controversy too about the white, straight male who did his own take on Tracy Chapman's song, and it reflects all those divisions plus gay/straight.

Somehow we need to overcome this by not reducing everything to neat categories while still recognizing the importance of those categories.

I just don't know how the fuck to do it! And that scares me.

[QUOTE] Somehow we need to overcome this by not reducing everything to neat categories while still recognizing the importance of those categories.

Well that's easy. You try to treat people as individuals but if you see a certain type of person walking on the street at night, you always cross the street to get away from them.

“No One Be Caring Or Checking if You Be Wiping In A Small Town”

This is the same guy who ran when them bullets killed his fans in Las Vegas, right?

[quote] This is the same guy who ran when them bullets killed his fans in Las Vegas, right?

What alternative course would you have suggested? Changing into his Superman suit and stopping each bullet ?

I would suggest that he not then go on to record a song glorifying guns and gun violence in any towns at all.

Yeah, maybe sit this one out, Baby Huey

Country singers aren’t known for their high IQs….

Nor are country fans...

[QUOTE] This is the same guy who ran when them bullets killed his fans in Las Vegas, right?

Well that happened in a big town, so the same mores don't apply.

R186, Will this do?

Dear Mrs. George Jones:

Now that your enabling days are over you might reflect back on how George and Tammy sang at George Wallace rallies in the sixties and seventies. Nothing racist about that, ay? Karen from the dead awakes!!

Mrs. George Jones is still recovering from the head injuries his wife-beating drunk of a husband gave her.

R231 Here’s a list of the heroes of the Las Vegas shooting.

Jason Aldean isn’t on there.

Try that in a big town. Pop a cap in yo ass.

BUMP

Why would you bump this? We've covered it.

Aldean is #1. Whalen is #2 that fat guy doing Fast Car is #3.

Conservatives freaked out at Bud Light for Dylan Mulvaney. Bud Light lost tens of millions of dollars. Conservatives freaked out about Target Oride merch. Target lost many millions of dollars. Liberals freaked out about this racist video from Jason Aldean. His shitty song that was released months ago is now number one in the country. Conservatives 3/3 wins. Liberals 0/3. This country is fucked.

r245 not really. Bud Light fucked themselves. WHo drinks beer? Rednecks. Piss them off lose business. Target didn't lose anything. Conservatives made that song #1 by buying it to push it to #1 the same way they made DON THE CON Jr.s a NY Times best seller. They bought thousands of copies to get it to #1.

I think what it means is that all the Klan Grannies mooing about the "woke mob!" and calling college students "literal Maoists!" are all full of shit.

If you want to see a mob, ask Dylan Mulvaney. Ask the Dixie Chicks. Ask the Capitol police.

[QUOTE] WHo drinks beer? Rednecks

oookay

[quote]WHo drinks beer? Rednecks

Dummkopf

Now he has paired up with Trump and will perform the song at five rallies. Logical match in (racist) heaven

Some white assholes in Montgomery tried that in a big town and got their asses handed to them.

Girls, girls! Both sides are cunts! Now let’s all get back to transitioning kindergartners and tax cuts for billionaires.

There’s no justifying racism R252

Well I know R252 was making a glib joke, but no one's transitioning kindergarteners but lots of ppl love tax cuts for billionaires.

R254 oh okay… carry on

R255, that child is not your child. You have nothing to do with that child. That child is with her parents and her doctors and not with you. Mind your own damn business. Seriously.

If you have a comment about Jason Aldean's stupid song, have at it.

Oh gawd you English trans-hating loons are like roaches.

R256 that song is not your song. You have nothing to do with that song. That song is with its singer and his fans and not with you. Mind your own damn business. Seriously.

If you have a comment about Kylie's stupid song, have at it.

Really dumb comment R258. The entire thread is about this song. Read the title.

R259 eat shit, cunt

Blocked R258/260. I don’t deal with MAGATS

R261

He's wearing the strangest-looking jeans in these photos. His legs must be like toothpicks.