Jason Aldean, who famously railed against crime in his song “Try That in a Small Town,” joined convicted felon Donald Trump in the former president’s box at the Republican National Convention on Thursday night. Aldean, in a gray T-shirt and white hat adorned with an American flag logo, was seated …
Read More »Jason Aldean Desperate to Know What Donald Trump's Felony Convictions 'Mean for the Rest of Us'
Noted respecter of the rule of law, Jason Aldean, expressed his displeasure with the rule of law after Donald Trump was convicted on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records. Doing his best impression of the flagpole outside Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s home, Aldean posted an upside down American …
Read More »The Culture Wars Are Tearing the Close-Knit Country Music Community Apart
Over the last few years, the Gulf Coast Jam, a multi-day concert blowout held every spring in Panama City Beach, Florida, has become one of country music’s leading festivals, pulling in headliners like Miranda Lambert, Luke Bryan, Florida Georgia Line, Kane Brown, and Kenny Chesney. But recently, festival producer Rendy …
Read More »A Timeline of Jason Aldean's Controversies: Blackface and Confederate Flags
Jason Aldean‘s debut single, 2005’s “Hicktown,” arrived on country radio like a kick in the teeth, blending hard rock with country music and lyrics that unabashedly celebrated a certain type of rural life: “You can see the neighbor’s butt crack nailing on his shingles/and his woman’s smokin’ Pall Mall’s, watchin’ …
Read More »Brittany Aldean's Response to Getting Called Out for Transphobic Comments? T-Shirts With Barbie Fonts and Right-Wing Slogans
Brittany Aldean, the wife of country singer Jason Aldean, has turned the controversy over her recent transphobic remarks into new t-shirts that incorporate references to Barbie and some favored right-wing slogans. On Instagram Wednesday, Aug. 31, Aldean and her sister-in-law, Kasi Wicks — the sister of Jason Aldean and the …
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