Anonymous wrote:I doubt Aldean wrote this bastardized song. He’s a primping grifting hack.

Anonymous wrote: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 wrote:It's a lousy, ignorant song. And the video is dog whistling for sure. But all of the controversy and outrage has helped Aldean. It would have been much better IMO if it had been ignored outside of his fan base, hadn't been banned on CMT, etc. This type of reaction just leads to more views of his stupid video even more polarization. Before the past week I barely knew who Jason Aldean was.

Anonymous wrote:I'll bite. If I step on a flag in a small town, what's going to happen to me? Is Mr. Aldean or one of his friends going to commit a crime against me in retaliation?

Also, if they're so tough, why not be explicit about the crimes they're going to commit against me if I step on a flag?

Anonymous wrote:Didnt morgan wallens career take off after he said the N-word? (hard R if I recall)
Prob same for this a-hole.

Anonymous wrote:I enjoy country music, am from the south and was raised by parents who were from the south who listened to country music. I have never listened to Jason Aldean because I lean towards my parents’ taste which isn’t new pop Nashville country like him.

I think Aldean is basically pretty dumb and not very savvy; probably surrounded by people equally dumb, like his wife. I think someone said sing these lyrics, lip sync here on this set for the video, and done. He’s not doing any deep dives into anything. I highly doubt he ever thought to ask about the location history or meaning behind the lyrics (he doesn’t write his own songs). Believing he would is believing he’s way smarter than he is.

But I SMH at people using this as a launching pad as evidence of extreme racism or to tie in country music or people from small towns as a whole: aka stereotyping. I even read an Op-Ed in the post that was beyond ridiculous re how country music had a long history of songs about sundown towns and small town vigilante justice that had inspired Aldean via the songs Country Boy Can Survive by Hank and Okie from Muskogee by Haggard which makes zero sense. An Okie is a migrant worker who works on farms (Haggard wrote it about his father who was an Okie, he was proud to be an Okie from Muskogee); and a Country Boy Can Survive is pretty much a testament to how boys from the country can live off the land so they can survive (like in a zombie apocalypse, such as Daryl Dixon). When people make ludicrous arguments, I just stop listening.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/20/jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town-violent-fantasy/

Aldean is not real country. He also seems like a douche and a douche wife. Did people expect something brilliant from him?

Anonymous wrote: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?

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

No he is not. I personally am sick of all the lawlessness. Good for him. In your little bubble you’re appalled, in the rest of the real world we are horrified what has happened in our cities. I’m happy to see people fighting back.

Anonymous wrote:He’s a redneck racist and revels in it. He is trash.

Anonymous wrote: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.

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Anonymous wrote:
such a tough guy.

If you have post your kill, after baiting and stalking a poor defenseless animal, you're a piece of sh--.
Take that beast on in a fair fight? Ha. That's something to brag about.

He's a bigger dick by the minute.