I did listen to it although I didn't really find it offensive. I feel like people nowadays are so sensitive and get offended over just about anything.

Ugh, sensitive socks here cries up a storm whenever someone disagrees with him, but then he wants to wade in and put a stake in the ground about a "controversial" performer someone told him was racist. 🙄

Are you going to make another post about how someone disagreed with you here and they should be shamed?

I've listened to the song several times and read the lyrics...there's not one word that would suggest any racism. Because some feel it points to events that was allowed to happen in their cities, they're now "offended"

Your question, in itself, is racist

Hell NO He's not racist and that sing is NOT racist either !!

He's a fake-ass racist and idiot.

I don’t think there is one thing racist in that song.

No nothing in that song was racist at all.

Kill whitie ✊🏿

He and his wife are far right republicans so considering that and his song I would bet money that he is racist. Cheers and happy weekend!

He's number 2 on the Hot 100 as of yesterday......so.... I'll keep listening.

It's hard to say because the lyrics aren't explicitly racist, but they allude to the false narrative that right-wing media made about BLM. But it could just as easily be about Antifa.

Racist and/or an idiot. Take your pick.

He very likely is a racist, he’s obviously a generic Republican which often is associated with Racism. Keep in mind he did not write the song that is controversial, he’s an insignificant young commercial country singer. The song was written by staff writers with one goal, to generate sales to a target market audience.

😂😂😂Meanwhile in South Africa….

Picking the court house for his music video might not have been the best choice, given its dark past. Edit: Plus the "American BLM protests" shown in the MV are actually from a German music festival, the Toronto G20 Summit protests, and some Hungarian stock footage. The intensions for the mv wasn’t good. So is he? Probably.

If you really want to know, you can tell by who supports him.
[quote] But much of the criticism around the video has less to do with these clips than its setting: The Maury County Courthouse building in Columbia, Tenn., which serves as an American-flag-draped backdrop for Aldean and his band.

The landmark was the site of race riots in 1946 as well as a 1927 lynching in which a white mob pulled an 18-year-old black man, Henry Choate, from jail and dragged him through the city by car, according to several media reports, including one detailed account from The Washington Post.

Choate had allegedly confessed to attacking a 16-year-old white girl "to protect his life," even though the girl "could not positively identify him as the assailant," the Post reported.

On Tuesday, Aldean pushed back hard against accusations he was "pro-lynching," saying such an interpretation "goes too far" and is "dangerous."

"There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it," he wrote on Twitter. "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."

"NO ONE, including me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families ripped apart," he wrote.

The production company behind the videos, TackleBox, also defended the video's location as a popular filming spot, telling Entertainment Tonight that any "alternative narrative" about the reasons it was chosen were false.

Aldean has received five Grammy Award nominations (including two for Best Country Album) for his two decades of music depicting rural, blue-collar life. And throughout that success, he's rarely shied away from sharing his right-leaning political views.

His wife, Brittany Aldean, and his sister, Kasi Rosa Wicks, launched a conservative clothing line dedicated to trolling liberals. Aldean defended dressing his children in anti-Joe-Biden attire and himself for wearing blackface as part of a 2015 Halloween costume. He was spotted golfing alongside Donald Trump and delivered an impromptu performance at the former president's Mar-a-Lago resort.

Aldean was performing on stage as the night's closing act when the shooting began. Six months later, he tiptoed through the refreshed gun control debate, saying in an interview that tragedies shouldn't be used as fodder for political arguments, but ultimately agreed that it was "too easy to get guns" in the U.S..

Gun control advocates are among the song's loudest critics, saying "Try That in a Small Town" glorifies a dangerous eye-for-an eye ethos.

Shannon Watts, founder of the group Moms Demand Action, called it an "ode to a sundown town" that suggested "people be beaten or shot for expressing free speech."

Others said the song's hints at violence were clearly racial dog whistles, zeroing in on the song's portrayal of protests like flag-burning. Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, a Democrat, summed it as a "heinous song calling for racist violence."

Sheryl Crow and Margo Price are among the musicians who've spoke out against the song. But others, like Travis Tritt and Blanco Brown described the reaction as unfair social commentary.

Political commentators on the right have have held up the country music canon, and Aldean in particular, as a loudspeaker for under-appreciated conservative values.

2024 GOP primary contenders like Trump, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis all defended the artist, with DeSantis saying: "When the media attacks you, you're doing something right."

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I have no idea. I don't know him.

But I do know how easy it is to write a speech or a song or a post that plucks the ugly chords without actually saying the words.

Could this song be interpreted as racist? Definitely. Will it appeal to racists in both large and small towns? Without question.

This will be hailed as an apology for bullies who positively HATE it when they get bullied back.

The ultimate message is: This is our town. You don't belong here because we say so.

No, how could he be?

I don’t believe he’s racist. I believe he and the songwriters are taking advantage of an angry, politically divided country by creating a cash cow to line their pockets. Racist? No. Unethical and greedy as hell? You betcha.

I bet this person is regretting posting this LOL I think people just need to be respectful of eveyones viewpoints. Let's all be adults now

Not even close. 🙄

The small towns he sings about suck anyway.

Depends what color he is. Is he white? Then yes. Minorities can't be racist no matter what they say or do. 🙄

Probably, whether he is or not the message he’s putting out there is that he is

No, his music just sucks. It's not against the law to make bad music, we can't convict him 😔

Racist and/or ignorant about relatively recent history. Racists certainly like his current song.

https://nypost.com/2023/07/26/joe-rogan-mocks-outrage-over-jason-aldeans-small-town-hit-hundreds-of-rap-songs-out-there-that-are-infinitely-worse/

I have no idea who he is or what he's about, therefore, I do not know.

What makes you think its racist?

Don't know him

Hell no

Yes and especially after watching the music video

Thankfully I don't even know who that is

I Don't know who that is nor do I care