Jason Aldean Is Facing Backlash Over His Song “Try That In A Small Town”
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🗓️ 20 July 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The Burt Show, time to get buzzed on the hot goss from Hollywood up with Abby. |
| 0:05.7 | It's the Burt Show's entertainment bus. |
| 0:08.3 | Country music television is no longer airing Jason Aldean's music video. |
| 0:12.2 | Try that in a small town. |
| 0:14.2 | So the song and video are facing a ton of backlash right now. |
| 0:17.6 | A lot of people are perceiving it as being in favor of gun violence and lynching. |
| 0:23.5 | So the music video features Jason Aldean and his band and a city city called Columbia |
| 0:28.5 | at Tennessee and they're singing alongside the track with some news footage. |
| 0:32.1 | Some of the footage includes a woman spitting in a cop space. |
| 0:35.4 | The American flag being burned, police pushing against crowds at protests and a man walking |
| 0:40.7 | into what looks like a gas station and then getting decked by another man, he like falls |
| 0:44.8 | to the floor. |
| 0:46.4 | Not long after the video's release, online critics started highlighting some of the song |
| 0:50.0 | lyrics as heightening gun violence and basically being like, it's okay to get people right |
| 0:55.8 | riled up. |
| 0:56.8 | So some of the lyrics are sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk, card jack and old lady |
| 1:02.4 | at a red light, pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store. |
| 1:05.7 | You think it's cool. |
| 1:06.7 | Well, act a fool if you like, cuz out of cop, spitting his face, stomp on the flag and |
| 1:11.7 | light it up. |
| 1:12.7 | Yeah, you think you're tough. |
| 1:13.7 | We'll try that in a small town. |
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