Jason Aldean hasn’t backed off from defending his new hit song “Try That in a Small Town,” which has faced tremendous backlash for its charged lyrics and controversial music video.
— were removed for legal reasons. Indeed, Aldean’s record label, BBR Music Group, said in a statement to The Post that “the video footage was edited due to third party copyright clearance issues,” but did not elaborate.
“Everybody can look at it from a different angle,” Aldean told the Pennsylvania crowd on Friday. “But just because six seconds were taken out, doesn’t change what I was trying to say in the video.”“Try That in a Small Town” has attracted widespread criticism for overlaying images and video footage of violent protests and riots with charged lyrics, such as “Try that in a small town/See how far ya make it down the road/Around here, we take care of our own.
But the song has continued to be popular, earning the No. 2 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 last week. The video, which has been removed from rotation on CMT, has recorded more than 22 million views on YouTube as of Sunday.“I feel like everybody’s entitled to their opinion. You can think, you can think something all you want to, it doesn’t mean it’s true, right?,” Aldean told fans during a“Somebody asked me, ‘Hey man, do you think you’re going to play this song tonight?’” he said to the crowd.
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