Country singer Jason Aldean defended his controversial song “Try That in a Small Town” and its accompanying music video from critics: 'While I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far.”
defended his controversial song “Try That in a Small Town” and its accompanying music video from critics who have accused it of promoting gun violence, lashing out at the Black Lives Matter movement, and fetishizing sundown towns.
Meanwhile, CMT, a broadcast network tailored towards country music, confirmed that it had taken the music video for “Try That in a Small Town” out of its lineup amid the firestorm of criticism.Backlash against the song, which was released in May and peaked at No. 35 on Billboard’s Hot country chart, didn’t begin in earnest until the release of its music video on Friday.
Other critics took issue with the song’s use of the kind of come-and-get-‘em rhetoric that some pro-gun conservatives favor, with Aldean singing, “Got a gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up / Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck.”
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