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.

Anonymous wrote:I love country music, too. I think the fact that you sort have to squint and say, “ehhh, this isn’t the worst thing ever…” means it’s pretty freaking bad. At best, it’s a dogwhistle.

+1

Well I do agree with him that we need to get a handle on crime and obviously robbing people, etc. is unacceptable! Not sure about the rest.

Anonymous wrote:I was all geared up to pretend to be a MAGA dork and defend this song because I can’t stand this newfound idea that art, music, film, comedy, etc must reflect a certain set of values. Make all the racist videos you want.

But then I listened to the song. It’s just so irredeemably f$cking bad. And not the racial stuff. Just as a song. Not caping for this idiot.

It's so corny I laughed and couldn't believe it wasn't parody. But Aldean is free to make a song about crime in Democrat-controlled big cities, and even make it about blacks if he wanted to. But he didn't make it about blacks.

Love it!

It's sexist against men because most of the wankers in the protest/crime footage are men.

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

I was all geared up to pretend to be a MAGA dork and defend this song because I can’t stand this newfound idea that art, music, film, comedy, etc must reflect a certain set of values. Make all the racist videos you want.

But then I listened to the song. It’s just so irredeemably f$cking bad. And not the racial stuff. Just as a song. Not caping for this idiot.

It's not racist against blacks. I watched the video because of all the twitter-outrage and suprise, surprise, not a single black person is shown in the crime footage. Of the people whose race/ethnicity is apparent, they are all greasy white "portland" types. The rest of the criminals are masked and their race/enthnicity is not known.

I love country music, too. I think the fact that you sort have to squint and say, “ehhh, this isn’t the worst thing ever…” means it’s pretty freaking bad. At best, it’s a dogwhistle.

It looks super racist to me as a southern white person. I'm sure it looks even more racist to black people.

Although I’d love to know what y’all are talking about, I’m not about to suffer through 3 minutes of a Jason Aldean song to find out - the internet.

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

If it wasn’t intended to be racist, why not just admit it was a mistake to film where he filmed instead of doubling down?

Disclaimer: I'm fully aware Jason Aldean / his wife have espoused problematic views in certain areas prior.

Anyways, I'm a big country music fan and I'm going back and forth over whether this song and the associated video are racist as many people claim. I think the biggest issue is that the music video was shot in front of a building in which a lynching took place, but the lyrics themselves don't seem racist...mostly about respecting the country and the flag, respecting your neighbors, wanting to keep your guns, etc. (which I realize is controversial, but not really racist).

Here's the video...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY

Thoughts?