It is the frothing, reactionary opinion of a groupthink lynch mob who will continue to ratchet up the rhetoric against Aldean until he’s forevermore extricated from popular society, which is never going to happen.įurthermore, these excessive and distorted characterizations are only fueling a counter backlash that will take a mild, late career pseudo radio hit for Aldean to a Song of the Summer-level smash. The idea that the song is actively condoning or encouraging the lynching of Black people is beyond ludicrous and based in absolutely no factual information. If you want to read more of country music’s detailed opinions on the song itself, CLICK HERE.īut the seething contempt and hyperbole associated with the backlash to this song based on patently incorrect assertions is dangerous in the way it attempts to impinge on the creative expressions of an artist (albeit, bad ones), as well as setting up a “boy that cried wolf” scenario if a song that actually does what the press is accusing this one of doing ever materializes. “Try That In A Small Town” is an embarrassment to Jason Aldean, an embarrassment to country music, and deserves to be admonished both as a work of art, and as a poorly-attempted cultural statement that has clearly proven itself as counter-productive to its mission already, aside from making Aldean, the song’s four writers, and his label Broken Bow Records lots of money.Īlso, due to Jason Aldean’s careless calculations and the oversight of his production crew by staging the video at the The Maury County Courthouse where a lynch mob strung up and murdered an 18-year-old Black man Henry Choate on November 13, 1927, he’s not only opened himself up to scrutiny, but all of country music by proxy. Before anyone misunderstands the motivations of this, let’s establish that in the opinion of Saving Country Music, Jason Aldean’s song and video for “Try That In A Small Town” is a clownish, poorly-written, trite and reactionary piece of audio refuse that can’t even claim to be “country” since it’s outside of the genre’s established sonic parameters.
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