As we’ve reported, country singer Jason Aldean’s song “Try That in a Small Town” has risen to the top of the charts and has caused liberal heads to explode, with many of them crying racism and claiming the tune is pro-lynching.
Despite the Left’s outrage, the song, as of this writing, is #1 on the iTunes “Top Songs” chart. Ha!
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Country Music Television (CMT) doesn’t care about the song’s popularity, though, and has decided to pull the song from its rotation. Meaning, they’re censoring it.
Radio host Clay Travis called the move “pathetic”:
CMT canceled @Jason_Aldean’s new video. Pathetic. I teed off with @JesseBWatters tonight. The city of Nashville, my hometown, should embrace all songs, @taylorswift13 or @Jason_Aldean. Enjoy: pic.twitter.com/KLBFT50B5G
— Clay Travis (@ClayTravis) July 19, 2023
The song features blazing guitars, while the video shows Aldean’s band playing against a montage of news footage regarding the George Floyd-BLM protests.
Aldean vehemently denies the tune is racist or a call to lynching, tweeting Tuesday:
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. 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.
Read his full statement here.
One reason the song is so popular, in my opinion, is that it exposes the hypocrisy of our leaders during the summer 2020 riots, where they told us to stay inside to stay safe from COVID—unless, of course, you were rioting and destroying property; then you could go whatever you want.
Since then, we’ve seen a two-and-a-half-year liberal meltdown over the Jan. 6 “insurrection,” with hundreds of participants jailed, while it seems virtually no one has faced legal consequences for the summer 2020 outbursts.
The truth is, the 2020 riots went on far longer than the Jan. 6, 2021, capitol attack, there were more deaths and injuries, and they caused at least $2 billion in damage. So yeah, people are still upset.
One thing that the outrage mob is latching onto is the location of the video, in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, which is the site of the awful 1927 lynching of Henry Choate. However, TackleBox, the production company behind the video, said that the location is a “popular filming location outside of Nashville” and that Aldean did not choose it.
The song has definitely stirred up the culture wars, and celebrities, politicians, and just about everyone else is sharing their opinions. (NSFW language ahead.) Here’s comedienne Roseanne Barr duking it out with singer Sheryl Crow:
@Jason_Aldean’s Next song should be about virtue signaling white women freaking out over a country song while blasting gangster rap in their luxury SUV’s as they drop their kids off at schools where furry children shit in litter boxes. https://t.co/DWzG9AunID
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) July 19, 2023
Aldean’s wife Brittany chimed in with support for her husband on Instagram:
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Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders said what a lot of us were thinking, namely that the Left seems to always have their priorities mixed up:
The Left is now more concerned about @Jason_Aldean’s song calling out looters and criminals than they are about stopping looters and criminals.
That tells you everything you need to know about the priorities of Democrats and woke companies like CMT that cave to the liberal mob. https://t.co/ctYP7FRxrv— Sarah Huckabee Sanders (@SarahHuckabee) July 19, 2023
CMT is not Big Tech, Big Corporate, or the federal government—but it is Big Media. The truth is, don’t they all seem to be one behemoth at this point, telling us what to look at and what to think?
Although this story doesn’t involve transgenderism, CMT is learning, as Bud Light and Target did, that people are sick of being told to deny reality and march in lockstep with the progressive narrative. We’re going to listen to that song whether they like it or not.
In fact, crank it up right now:
Jason Aldean just released an absolutely epic music video for the song "Try That In a Small Town" that rips into the left-wing riots, soft on crime governance in cities, gun control, and other leftist degradation. pic.twitter.com/dUYzGbnvc6
— Greg Price (@greg_price11) July 17, 2023
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