If you really want to understand where Jason Aldean‘s “Try That in a Small Town” comes from, you have to go all the way back to Richard Nixon —and before that, George Wallace. Wallace, a former Alabama governor and segregationist independent candidate for president in 1968, got significant support from …
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Jason Aldean is riding the controversy behind his single “Try That in a Small Town” all the way to the top of the charts: The song is Number One on Billboard’s Hot 100, the publication announced on Monday. “Try That in a Small Town” was originally released in April with …
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Jason Aldean brought his “Try That in Small Town” to another big city Saturday — this time, Boston, Massachusetts — with the singer using a three-minute diatribe prior to the song’s performance to try and thread a needle between his controversial song and the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. “I was …
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Jason Aldean’s polarizing “Try That in a Small Town” video was recently re-uploaded to YouTube without some of the protest footage that originally helped make the music video so controversial. According to the Washington Post, two instances of Black Lives Matter protests, culled from a 2020 news clip from Fox …
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Just when you thought there couldn’t possibly be anymore dog whistles embedded in the Jason Aldean “Try That in a Small Town” saga, an intrepid, sharp-eyed TikTok user has potentially picked out one more. Amazingly, this incident doesn’t involve the song itself, or even its controversial video — part of …
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Conservatives hoping to drive Jason Aldean‘s controversial “Try That in a Small Town” to Number One on the charts following CMT’s move to pull the music video fell just short on Monday, as Jung Kook and Latto‘s “Seven” reigned victorious. But the controversy clearly stoked the flames among MAGA circles, …
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A defiant Jason Aldean addressed the backlash against his latest single “Try That in a Small Town” and pledged to continue performing the controversial track live during his Friday night concert in Cincinnati. “I gotta tell you guys, it’s been a long-ass week,” Aldean told the crowd at the Riverbend …
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When Dr. Karlos K. Hill first watched Jason Aldean’s video for “Try That in a Small Town,” he saw the current conservative American political moment flash before his eyes. “It’s the narrative of Make America Great Again, of white nationalism,” Hill, a professor of African and African American Studies at …
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All week long, a culture war has been raging around country star Jason Aldean‘s “Try That in a Small Town,” a turgid power ballad wrapped around an unsubtle warning to protesters and other outsiders: “Try that in a small town, see how far you make it down the road.” To …
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While many in the country community have tweeted criticism toward Jason Aldean in the aftermath of “Try That in a Small Town,” Knoxville-based singer-songwriter Adeem the Artist finds that satire is a better weapon against the controversial track. On Thursday, Adeem the Artist shared a spoof they titled “Sundown Town,” …
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