Yeah he's not fooling anybody with those lyrics. Modern country music is so garbage. Why can't they all be more like Dolly?
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CMT pulls Jason Aldean video: What to know about 'Try That In A Small Town' controversy
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View: https://open.spotify.com/track/4nRyZu1jwfqku5t5KlmLrU?si=GjfJmNfARAm1oibirBBo0g
Now this is how you sing about your home town. Just makes you feel warm and toasty all over, and I've never even been to Memphis.
I love it on the Southside
They know how to deep fry
Take it up to Orange Mound
We're representing Memphis
I like it at the Harlem House
Almost good as at my Momma's house
Make it at the Klondike
We're representing Memphis
I grew up there so don't talk about my city
From the hood to the burbs we all stay busy
From the bottom to the top we got it on lock
We're representing Memphis
That's what it sounds like to sing about home when "Home" isn't code for some bigoted macho power trip.
Listen, I agree with many of the things stated in this thread. And as a left sided person living in an EXTREMELY small and conservative town, I disagree with your post. My daughter, who's views take after my own, loves being in a small town. Hell, I moved to a small town for several reasons: we have zero stop lights, no traffic, we literally know everyone in town, taxes are 40% lower than our friends who live in larger towns/cities, and we're only 30 min from a larger town to get what we need.
However! It's also a fucking nightmare to have a conversation with someone that doesn't start with "I'm not racist but...", "Masks are for sheep..." And "try that here *with picture of a gun", "trump flags" and liberals suck".
Small Town politics suck ass, but living in a small town is great - if you don't like people lol. I keep to myself for the most part and don't really talk about my political views because I don't want to be shot by some conservative if they knew I vote left. Granted I don't think they would shoot me, but they would definitely get upset.
We are literally the only house on a street that don't put up "the thin blue line" flags and change our outdoor lightbulbs to blue when I cop is killed somewhere. This has happened twice now since I moved here 8 years ago.
For reference our town has sub 1000 people, a dollar general and a subway lol.
Note: I only disagree that kids may hate (edit) a small town, but agree (edit) as they get older may want to leave as they become more politically motivated - as long as their not brainwashed by the racist neighbors... But I have conversations with them daily about my views and what right, so hopefully that doesn't happen - I made it out of a conservative family of 6 from another small town, and sure I'm kinda the outcast to them with "wild views"... But atleast I'm not a piece of shit so I'll try hard for my kids not to be regardless
Yep.
Even the poster above who moved to a small town said they don't even talk politics with their neighbors because it could be a problem.
I stay my Black ass out of #SmallTowns for good reason.
I remember growing up in a small town, population was around 2000 with about 10,000 total in the county. I remember the queer kids, black kids, and all the other minority groups trying to ingratiate ourselves with the community and live up to the model minority stereotype so that we would be considered "one of the good ones". I know what happens when you go off script and express a radical view like "maybe there are some institutional issues that we need to address so everyone can be on a level playing field." The status quo is not to be broken, it is everything to these people because they're under the misguided delusion that somehow things will get worse for them if we try to fix things. It's not like they're already dealing with more than a century of generational poverty and lack of access to...anything.
Those darn rap lyrics keep getting away with it !!!!!!!!!
View: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1682058628692426752
View: https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1682058628692426752
I mean, if they thought for a second, they would probably realize that this is an admittance of fault because now they're turning it into a "well they do it, how come we can't do it too!" argument lol
And as with most of these whataboutisms the right throws there ARE groups on the left that take issue with rap lyrics and videos! Have been as long as I've been alive. I ain't a part of any of them, but they're there.
But the right wouldn't know that, because the right doesn't actually care. Black culture exists to cherry-pick for the purposes of consumption or criticism.
They are so fucking lazy and their base demands so little.
They exist to muddy the waters and to convince the rubes their criminality and corruption is just like everyone else's. They are abject cynics.
Here's your moment of zen. Jason Aldean was supposed to play tonight at Blossom Music Center but literally an act of God is gonna stop him lmfao
View: https://twitter.com/BlossomMusicCtr/status/1682173927286616064?t=89njxGe5hlypEXsnXKpAkg&s=19
View: https://twitter.com/BlossomMusicCtr/status/1682173927286616064?t=89njxGe5hlypEXsnXKpAkg&s=19
100%. Lived in Sandersville, Georgia for a good 2 months in the late 80's. I wanted out of there so fast being one of the few Asians in town. Couldn't even go to church without being stared at and judged.
Both he and his wife are jackasses. They can't help but act like this because they're the epitome of attention-seeking low-life fox news watchers.
Here's a newsflash for Jason Aldean: there are plenty of folks in small towns across America who would tell Jason Aldean to go fuck himself.
Never heard of this bloke but this came up on my feed today and I wondered if there was a reason...
They grow these country music fucking morons in a lab. When they get old enough to go out on their own, they're handed a goody bag containing a cowboy hat / trucker hat, shirt with sleeves cut off, $9,000 guitar with their name embroidered on the fret board and some jewelry that says 'I'm not rich, I got this at the flea market cause I'm just like you.'
Not the first and not the last time folks will buy in under pretense that it upsets "the liberals."
jesus this sounds miserable. do you live in like dellroy ohio? my parents live there and your explanation is exactly like their town
Completely unsurprised. Just like Upchurch or whatever his name is that constantly gets to #1 on the rap charts on iTunes whenever he releases a new album for like, a week to 'own the libs' or what the hell ever. 🙄
Between this and Sound of Freedom, it shows how absolutely pathetic these people truly are. Spending money for literally no reason to in their mind piss people off.
I'm still not clear on what **he** thinks is happening in small towns. If it's not about minorities or people who are different who is it about? The government taking his guns? He wrote an insurrection song?
There is no point of view that he could possibly have that would make those lyrics okay.
There is no point of view that he could possibly have that would make those lyrics okay.
So I waded in on a local news station's Facebook post and gave my 2 cents….so far I've been called a "libtard", "pussy", and "what's wrong with this country".
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The grift worked…the mouth breathers are eating it up.
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The grift worked…the mouth breathers are eating it up.
What's really funny is that the same people who loves the violent messaging in this song definitely propagate black crime statistics to paint us as inherently dangerous
⁸The "real news clips" are just stock footage from Europe.
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TikTok sleuths discover Jason Aldean's music video of protest footage features multiple clips from demonstrations outside the US
Aldean's music video for "Try That in a Small Town" features clips from protests in Ukraine and Canada and stock footage from Germany, reports say.