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Hard Men Podcast

America's Rural-Urban Divide: Why Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' Sparked Controversy

Hard Men Podcast

Eric Conn

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.41K Ratings

🗓️ 10 August 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

America is divided, but how deep does that division run? Do our small towns and cities see the world through fundamentally different lenses? Today's episode takes a deep dive into this national dichotomy, sparked by the recent release of Jason Aldean’s controversial song, Try that in a Small Town. I dissect the song and its depiction of the ongoing divide between rural areas and urban centers, particularly in the wake of 2020’s events. We also discuss the song’s resonance with the frustrated ...

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Well, welcome to this episode of the Hard Men Podcast. I'm of course I'm your host Eric Khan

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delighted that you could join us for this episode of the podcast. Want to give a quick

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That goes a long way to supporting this work of the show and New Christendom Press. Today we're going to be talking about a very exciting subject and this revolves around the controversy.

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The last couple months that has been going on because of Jason Aldine's new song, Try that in a small town.

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As we'll unpack in today's episode, there's a lot driving the small town versus

1:19.6

city divide in America and we're going to talk more about that.

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Well it's no stretch to say that America is a divided nation, perhaps more so now than ever.

1:30.0

This divide was on full display recently with the volcanic responses that came from the release of Jason Aldean's new song, as I said, called Try That in a small town.

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The song was released in May of 2023.

1:41.8

It took, I don't know, maybe about a month for it to really cause a stir in the media.

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As soon as they saw it, there was all sorts of backlash.

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