Jason Aldean - Try That In a Small Town

[Anonymous]

“Try That in a Sundown Town”

[Anonymous]

won’t watch the video but i just read the lyrics. i’m not white and the lyrics are exactly why i don’t feel comfortable in rural areas.
go on, keep taking care of your own with your granddaddy’s gun. you’ve made it clear
that i’m not welcome, thanks!

[Anonymous]

"Try That In A Ball Gown."

He's a racist POS.

[Anonymous]

That a survivor of a mass shooting espouses yet more violence to solve the world’s problems is peak irony.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That a survivor of a mass shooting espouses yet more violence to solve the world’s problems is peak irony.

He’s also not from a small town.

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Anonymous wrote:You don’t think where the video was filmed + lyrics was an intentional stance?

+1

Plus, I saw the Danny Collins video trying to investigate the seemingly random newspaper clippings in the background of Aldean ‘s TikTok post for the song. So coincidental that it just so happened to be a letter to the editor of a paper that went bankrupt/threatened/ostracized after he stood up to white supremacists… what are the odds?

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Anonymous wrote:It’s laughably bad.

I’m from a small town in the Midwest that is DEEP RED and it has plenty of crime, mainly from the meth / heroin addict residents.

Aldean is a dumb puppet playing to his MAGA base.

+1
Plenty of crime, disrespect for police, etc., in small town. Also, the activities he calls out include : cussing at the cops (something white people may even be more likely to engage in), burning the flag, etc., which are protected by rhe First Amendment. The song is about how in a small town you'll get beat up of you do things people disagree with. I don't understand why these people get to claim the mantle of patriotism when they seem to hate American values so much.

[Anonymous]

That reminds of the bar fight scene in A Bronx Tale.

Sonny: "Now yous can't leave."

I think inner city people are just much tougher than small town people. Why? Well, we've had to get along in smaller spaces with people from all different walks of life. Small town people just shun and ostracize people. How do I know? My grandparents moved to a small town when my grandfather retired, and the women were NOT nice to my grandmother at all. My grandmother missed being able to walk to her Catholic church, go to the market, and visit with her neighbors.

What exactly is the country music video suggesting? More than a suggesting, it's don't come to our small town because we don't want you here. If they're so tough, why didn't they get into their pick up trucks and drive to the city where the so-called problems are, and do something about it?

We are urban and rural interconnected with each other.

[Anonymous]

I listen to the song b/c of the backlash. I can’t believe it people have problems with the lyrics. DS listens to some rap music that I won’t let him play when we are in the car or at home. Far worse.

As for the video- I can see where he might not have known anything about the history, or how others would view this. I agree with PP, why not just say that…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:That reminds of the bar fight scene in A Bronx Tale.

Sonny: "Now yous can't leave."

I think inner city people are just much tougher than small town people. Why? Well, we've had to get along in smaller spaces with people from all different walks of life. Small town people just shun and ostracize people. How do I know? My grandparents moved to a small town when my grandfather retired, and the women were NOT nice to my grandmother at all. My grandmother missed being able to walk to her Catholic church, go to the market, and visit with her neighbors.

What exactly is the country music video suggesting? More than a suggesting, it's don't come to our small town because we don't want you here. If they're so tough, why didn't they get into their pick up trucks and drive to the city where the so-called problems are, and do something about it?

We are urban and rural interconnected with each other.

Ugh. Hate it when someone this dumb agrees with me.

Your Bronx Tale analogy is abysmal. Your anecdote about women being mean to your grandmother? Nonsequitur at best (in actuality it’s a tale about a presumably urban woman moving to a rural area and getting her feelings hurt, so runs counter to your alleged point).

“Inner city people” are not remotely tougher than rural or small town people. 95% of both groups are meaningless, ineffectual drones of one type or another. More than half are fat. But the military is drawn almost entirely from the latter. And regular people in rural areas, even the obese ones, deal regularly with a lifestyle that requires a hardier makeup… physical labor, sweating outdoors, bugs and animals, using tools with your own hands. The list goes on. A far cry from ordering DoorDash after yoga.

The song remains shockingly bad and stupid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Isn't being a racist POS kinda his whole personality?

Yep

[Anonymous]

He’s about to ride all this controversy all the way to the bank. Someone posted a FB post from the local small town newspaper about the song and video and all the comments were supportive. The country music fandom is HUGE and they pretty much only or mostly listen to country and they buy a ton of music. They’re saying he’ll get a top 3 Billboard hit this week. Not top 3 country, top 3 hot 100. I agree the song is corny as all get out and not really worth defending but the country fans will absolutely eat it up.

[Anonymous]

I doubt Aldean is busy scouting locations for a video shoot. He has producers for that. The location chosen is near Nashville, and has been used by other artists for movies and TV ads.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s great, and good for those who are pointing out the incessant violence and general grossness (hello Cardi B) in the vast majority of rap songs since the beginning of time.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:That a survivor of a mass shooting espouses yet more violence to solve the world’s problems is peak irony.

He’s also not from a small town.

I guess you’ve never heard of the concept of “voice” in a song, work of fiction, etc. The person writing isn’t necessarily the “I” in the piece.