CMT pulls Jason Aldean "Try That In A Small Town" video because it's racist or something
· Jul 19, 2023 · NottheBee.com

Par for the course right here.

We showed you this Jason Aldean video yesterday. It's called "Try That In A Small Town," and it's one of the great politically motivated songs of our current time. Here are the opening lyrics, which more than likely are the ones the left is suggesting are racist and the reason they'll go ahead and cancel this song:

Sucker punch somebody on a sidewalk

Carjack an old lady at a red light

Pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store

Ya think it's cool, well, act a fool if ya like

Cuss out a cop, spit in his face

Stomp on the flag and light it up

Yeah, ya think you're tough

Well, try that in a small town

Pretty straight forward, and the only way you think this is racist, or pro-lynching is if you think black or brown people do these things more often than the other races. And that, ladies and gentlemen, would make you the racist.

Speaking of that:

Yeah, the song has been canceled by Country Music Television.

Here's CNN with some phenomenal coverage:

Multiple outlets have reported that the music video for the single - whose politically charged lyrics have resulted in a backlash - has been pulled from CMT…

The lyrics, critics say, are evocative of vigilantism, racism and "sundown towns" that practice a form of all white segregation in which people of color and others who were considered outsiders knew they faced violence if they were not out of an area before the sun went down.

One commenter called it a "modern lynching song."

A modern lynching song? Sundown towns?

So calling out violent extremists — white, black, brown, yellow, even rainbow people — who destroy cities with their little temper tantrums, is now racist? And on top of that, you'll get canceled for doing so (other platforms, I'm guessing, aren't far behind CMT here)?

Amazing times we live in folks.

Here's Aldean's response:

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.

As so many pointed out, I was present at Route 91-where so many lost their lives- and our community recently suffered another heartbreaking tragedy. NO ONE, including me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families ripped apart.

Try That In A Small Town, for me, refers to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, regardless of differences of background or belief. Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences. My political views have never been something I've hidden from, and I know that a lot of us in this Country don't agree on how we get back to a sense of normalcy where we go at least a day without a headline that keeps us up at night. But the desire for it to- that's what this song is about.

Real news footage, absolutely no racism, and a simple warning to those of all races who participate in the destruction of our cities — that's what gets you canceled these days.

Because conservatives reacted positively to the video, that's why you got canceled.

You can't be conservative anymore and survive in corporate America.

I'll be bumping this song all summer long, how about you?

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