Try That in a Small Town features lyrics threatening violence against protesters and has been removed from Country Music Television, but Aldean says it is a celebration of community
His song literally celebrates violence and the kind of mob mentality that leads to tremendous injustice. Oh, and his music video was filmed on the site of a lynching while it threatens black protesters today. Community? Really?
It tells you exactly who he thinks his “community” is.
It’s dogwhistles all the way down with these folks.
Ah, but you see, dem black folks, them ain’t a part of tha community, dey’re notting but second-class.
What’s a more tight knit community than a Klan?
These people are stupid. If you want a gun you will get a gun regardless of law, the same way it’s been forever. Laws are just a false sense of security in America.
Try That in a Small Town
This loser isn’t even from a small town. He grew up in Macon, GA (pop 153k) and currently lives in Nashville (pop 692k).
That’s Modern Country: Artists with manicures and private jets singing about trucks and farm work. Listened to by office workers with trucks that never leave paved roads.
Relevant Bo Burnham song for those interested
As someone from an actual small town, that’s hilarious 😂
I grew up outside of Jackson MS. Like, wayyy outside. And yeah. It hits pretty close to home.
Same. Even in my area half the men that think they’re that cool country man image have soft hands and clean trucks.
I am country enough, and I know exactly what you guys are talking about. But I also want to point out rough, dry hands are weaker & the smarter blue collars try to soften their hands a little. I was working on a combine, and a bolt broke & I ripped the fuck out of my palm. 😂 My dad said, it wouldn’t have hurt nearly as bad if you lotioned your hands. Supple is strong! Advice that goes back millenia, Aesop’s Fable The Oak Tree and the Reed. Similarly…the smartest guys that really care about their trucks keep them clean. Clean trucks last so much longer, and better; dirt & salt & even bird shit can lead to corrosion.
I know plenty of country folk with a rust bucket truck & they’re happy. If it runs, whatever. Or they run vehicles around in the woods after dark & I see them posting like HAHA I broke down or got stuck!! What a CRAZY, fun adventure I’m on! No thanks, I don’t like expensive repairs or wasted time. Or horrific accidents, or premature death.
You dumb motherfuckers want a keychange?
Love that song.
Hear that subtle mandolin?
Wow I love this. I had no idea he’s the famous country singer from parks and rec!
office workers with trucks that never leave paved roads
Not true. They sometimes end up in the ditch after drunken driving.
Lol that’s a great way of putting it. Everything about it is phony. And most artists that could cross-over have been quick to do so and sever their ties to modern country.
His mind is a small town.
His mind is a ghost town.
Idk I’ve lived here for nearly 30 years and it’s absolutely news to me that promoting violence is unamerican. Especially in a small town. Motherfuckers in small towns will brag about couch guns while daring the president to come to town. Small town motherfuckers will use gallows as a decoration. These people’s issues with blm protests in a small town isn’t violence it’s black people.
Also they never minded when the ones being rounded up were the gays or the Japanese or native Americans or Latines. But sure you fucking hicks need to be afraid. Fuck off and arm a synagogue instead.
For the love of God please just say latinos. You don’t need to police our language.
Latines is better than Latinx which is a monstrous perversion, but spanish is just fine the way it is.
Ah yes, the representative of the Latinos.
Ive just been skipping all the weird stuff and been calling Latinos laddy nose.
Small town men are always the cliche bad guy in every movie/tv show for a reason
“violence” is when I’m not in absolute comfort - not when I shoot people, that’s my right.
Now do the history of other major powers. Yea. That’s just the history of civilization.
Yeah, but we’re very specially talking about America right now.
Right, but the point is this has been a hallmark of conquering nations for thousands of years, and the denialism goes hand in hand with it.
And you’re just going to ignore Mexico and Central America? Because their violence puts the USA to shame.
Their violence is also largely attributable to the USA’s history of backing fascist coups in them.
When we’re discussing an American singer talking about American issues, and reactions by other Americans pointing out American history? Yes. Because it’s not relevant to the discussion at hand. It’s whataboutism and counterproductive. Again, we’re specifically talking about America here. Stay on topic.
Oh, so that makes it okay then.
Your whataboutism doesn’t even work here. The USA was born in native American genocide, an international slave trade, and rampant settler colonial capitalism. At least the next time when you’re doing racist dogwhistles on lemmy pick a country that the US 24-hour news cycle wants you to derail about like Russia and China you absolute tool. Blaming the global south was so Cold War ago.
Most other nations don’t pretend to be non-violent while people are getting lynched my mobs…
Japan sits silently in the corner
Let’s not talk about Nanking.
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realllll fucking funny to use the words “ontological” and “real” next to each other
I’ve read the lyrics and listened to the song. What are you on about? Is it not enough to merely recognize the song (and the video’s setting and content!?) as racist? Are the dog whistles so lowkey that you have to make shit up?
I’m guessing Jason Aldean has never pronounced the word “ontological” or “entarte”, let alone sang it. Just how smart are you saying this guy is?
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Just curious, do you feel triggered by Aldean being called out because you like bigotry, or do you just have really shitty taste in music and the delusion that your favorite cuntry star must be a good person?
triggered by Aldean being called out
What in the world on you on about? Never heard his name until this shit came up. The only country I listen to is much older stuff, I have no awareness of modern country, at all.
We’re talking about an in-your-face racist song, and now suddenly it’s about trans folks?! The trans community is trod upon quite well enough with finding digs on them where it doesn’t exist.
Never heard his name until this shit came up.
Sure, that’s why you’re hell-bent on defending him.
You’re hell bent on insisting that I am. Been here 1 solid day. Have a look at my comment history. Come back and tell me I’m a racist, conservative, jack-booted thug.
Here’s a starter comment, on me, enjoy:
Watch the video. It will help connect the dots.
I did, and I’ve commented as such.
https://old.lemmy.world/comment/1644245
My point was that some people, somehow, don’t find the despicable nature of the song/video to be BROAD enough. They gotta get their little group in on the offense.
“I’m a liberal gun owner (<-true) and I feel targeted! I’m a victim too!”
Same shit here:
“transgender people is not a real ontological category”
I cannot seem to find a quote from either nazis or aldean yet you used exact and stated things quite confidently
also cannot seem to find his call for trans genocide, nor them being an an ”extremist hate group”
seems like your whole comment is fearmongering emotionally driven bullshit
Thanks for letting me know Jason Aldean is a giga chud and a transphobe
The song’s lyrics include the lines: “Cuss out a cop, spit in his face / Stomp on the flag and light it up / Yeah, you think you’re tough / Well, try that in a small town / See how far you make it down the road / Around here, we take care of our own.”
Later, Aldean alludes to a conspiracy theory that the US government intends to round up its citizens: “Got a gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up / Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck.”
Who does he think does the rounding up?
The context makes it actually sound to me like he is saying he thinks “they” are going to come round up people’s guns, not the people themselves.
That’s what I thought, too.
The lyrics are not very clear.
Who does he think gets rounded up? It’s never the plain rural majority folks.
The feds, obviously. Feds v cops is one of those city mouse country mouse dichotomies.
A “celebration of community” would have lyrics about helping each other, attending local events and supporting local businesses. It would reference knowing people’s names, watching families grow up together, pitching in to help neighbours and being able to relax & feel content.
It shouldn’t contain combative themes, othering, divisive language and threats of violence.
Country music used to have themes like that, or simply be fun. “Down on the Farm” is catchy, fun, most can relate.
Reba sang… Fuck it, I’m done. There were some greats that sang about our common experiences, with a rural twist. Hell, even Garth is getting his ass beat for being inclusive.
If you leave mainstream, radio country even just a little, it becomes apparent that progressive gays are taking over country and Americana. If there are people and places in your life that need country music, bring S.G. Goodman, Melissa Carper, Orville Peck, Iris Marlowe, and none of these people have what I would call a niche sound. (I don’t expect to convert anyone to the cult of Little Mazarn, but that’s maybe my favorite country act.) And some of them are blowing up! They’re making country music for me these days, and I fucking love it. It’s all I listen to lately. Folk, country, and Americana are for everyone.
More flags than a Nuremberg rally. Nationalism is a disease.
This racist asshole grew up in Macon Georgia, just another in a long line of racist, suburban posers.
I read he was from Georgia and had another moment of, “man, why does my home state have to keep embarrassing me like this?”
Seriously. I’ve seen to many people that avoid nice areas because of stupid shit like this. Country music is dog shit but people hear you live in Georgia and assume you’re a good ol boy
He’s a supermarket cowboy.
Ooooh I have not heard this one before, I like it. I’ve used cowbro in the past but generally just go for bro-country. Gonna throw supermarket cowboy into the mix.
Don’t assume everyone from the south is racist though, there are low life shit humans everywhere unfortunately
Sure, but also don’t assume that the amount of racists are the same everywhere.
Aw downvoted for reminding people that there are decent people on the planet. Reddit2.0 here we go
Down voted because you don’t have solid reading comprehension skills here and not because you you’re pointing out that non-racists exist in the south.
And getting upset and then whining about being the victim because you didn’t read the comment correctly, yeah, you’re definitely bringing some Reddit 2.0 vibes here with that.
The post I responded to mentioned a city in Georgia and a long line of racist in the family but some people in bad families do use their brains occasionally and make better decisions, but y’all keep down voting lol
He’s getting downvoted for misconstruing the intent of the original remark and jumping straight to the assumption of persecution, as are you. Assuming everyone is against you and whining about downvotes is possibly the most reddit thing ever.
I simply said that not all people are racist lolol
And that was a non sequitur.
I’m from New Hampshire, the Mississippi of New England.
It’s just comical watching American men get salty. I bet his hands are super soft and he has a big truck with a pristine bed.
Look at that pampered baby face of his. He probably has a fussy skin care regimen and spends more time in a spa every week than most people do in a year. But he needs to pander to the testosterone-obsessed truckbro pissbaby demographic to make his money.
piss kidney
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There are a lot of types of country and a lot of different singers. Radio USA certainly doesn’t represent all of it.
It’s like saying you have to be a punk or a lower-class African American to enjoy rap. Rap is surprisingly varied, done by basically all nations and ethnicities, and more-often-than-you’d-think political or otherwise intelligent. Linkin Park (and the spin-off project Fort Minor) is my favorite band, for example; and most of their rap is about politics, introspection, dealing with mental illness, or putting down bad relationships— and the latter can be angry, melancholy, resolved-and-hopeful, forgiving, and anything in between. But I digress.
A genre is just a genre, and any genre can be smart, skillful, and all-around good.
yes I suppose that’s true, there are a lot of generalizations used when it comes to art - in all of its many forms and flavors. country music just has these specific connotations associated with it - crooning about broken trucks, sad laments for the girl that got away (because she was your sister), limited acoustical and rhythmic harmony, etc
You’re thinking primarily country pop, and I agree with your assessment - most of it’s crap. That being said, if the only country you know is what you’ve been exposed to on the radio, you’re missing out on some amazing musicianship. Since I dig sharing music that breaks (or makes) a mold, here’s some country pieces that you might dig:
“Lee Highway Blues” - Michael Cleveland & Flamekeeper
Jolene - Dolly Parton
The Highwayman - Wayland Jennings, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Kris Kristoffersen
I liked the highwayman! and that violin solo on the highway blues was really neat.
Glad you liked! You should check out more bluegrass if you like what Cleveland was playing. If you dig the style on the Highwayman, check out more Johnny Cash - he built an amazing legacy of work, and wasn’t afraid of genre jumping - here’s him doing a cover of Nine Inch Nails’ Hurt.
I’ll check it out, thanks!
@Arotrios Going to piggyback here and also recommend an artist called Jelly Roll. Started as a rapper, but has branched into a country/rock sound recently. Vocally very strong, and is open about his issues and how he goes about trying to fix his life up for the better.
I like his older sound better, but he is still a respectable artist even with the more mainline sound. It has however gotten him radio play, for better or worse.
My go-to country song, and I’m not a big fan of country, is Juice Newton’s Queen of Hearts.
Yee, the most common versions of things aren’t the only versions of those things.
There’s something called the “animation age ghetto”. It’s a phenomenon where most people assume that animated movies and shows are for kids only; and it has held back the medium a whole lot. Animation is just a method of getting the art out there, and it can have a lot of variation and be very sophisticated. Most of all, it can be about whatever— or for whomever— you want.
Nah there’s definitely more variety to country music than that, but you have to dig for it (try Woody Guthrie for instance). Much like pop music, you have to go past whats popular to find the good stuff
Very based.
Wow, that was a really well thought out and well-constructed comment just to say you’re inbred.
- Here, have a trophy for winning at internet arguments
- With that kind of charisma, you must have a ton of friends
- I was born in the suburbs of Chicago and I don’t listen to country (except Neil Diamond, which I argue is partially country even though others disagree)— not that it should even matter. But I say it just to help drive my point home about your stupidity
- Check my profile and see how stupid I am, I dare you
- If your goal was to look cool to random strangers on the internet, you failed
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- When a person is saying “all people who like country music are inbred”, they are drawing upon the stigmas of the deep south. Duh.
- At the risk of sounding kind of lame, the fact is that you don’t know anything about me or my situation. Yeah, there are ways for me to make money. But online freelancing is really competitive, and all local businesses are too stingy to hire a proofreader/editor unless they have journalism experience. How about you go find a way to make $4000 in a single month in a small town in the US when you have cerebral palsy and sensory integration disorder? Go outside, touch some grass, and consider not insulting and alienating every random person you see on the internet.
Also, good job cherry-picking the most vulnerable thing I said even though it has nothing to do with “whether or not I’m inbred (a.k.a. ‘dumb’)”. Says a lot about what your goals are
WTF, are you poorshaming?? Gross.
yes thank you, I’m so sick of hearing “rap is crap” from people who’ve only heard a few gangsta rap songs on the radio in the 1990s and assumed that was it. That was all rap had to offer
One of my favourite Fleetwood Mac songs is “That’s Alright” which is undoubtedly a country song, but you’d never catch me listening to anything else you’d call country. Not even close. However, that proves that there are definitely some country songs out there I’d enjoy.
I used to hate hip-hop and R&B until I dug past the mounds of mainstream trash and found underground artists I really love. These genres are very broad terms with hundreds of sub-genres.
I found a little R&B I like. Some of R. Kelly, Musiq, and especially Jagged Edge. But I need to find more R&B I like. I love hip-hop too— in concept. I’m struggling to find good artists beyond just a song here and there that I like. Also, I absolutely hate modern mainstream hip-hop. I especially hate autotune.
I’m pretty white, too. Good music is good music.
Hey, cash and Nelson and Parton and the chicks are country. This is just dumbass country. It’s sorta like how folk could be pa with a banjo or it could be a communist strumming a guitar that says “this machine kills fascists” and singing about how we need to be as brave as the Soviets to free England and France.
Like. The Chicks are awesome. Their “I’m Not Ready to Make Nice” is amazing. So is “Goodbye Earl.” Some country is awesome. Just not this dude.
Y’all dumb motherfuckers ready for a key change?
theres some good modern country but most of the big names dont do anything for me. sturgill simpson is great modern country though imho.
The looming civil war continues to simmer. Shit like this is going to ramp way back up as the election gets closer.
Every article or post being made about this should include Bo Burnham’s “Pandering” at the end…he already said everything needed to say and killed it.
We poured hot tar and feather on the British when they raised taxes to pay for the war in which we were being defended. What part of our history is “non-violent”
We genocided the people that were here before us, there’s nothing more American.
To pay for the war which we started and we were defended. And continued to need defense even after the war.
I’m happy the Revolutionary War happened, but the more I read of it the more I realize we (Americans) were on the wrong side of it.
What’s sad is the controversy will make the song more popular with country fans.
Yep. You can kinda lump right wingers and country fans into the same group. Sure, there’s exceptions but this song will no doubt be a hit with these tiny pp havin’, mall cruiser truck driving’ mouth breathers.
Country music enthusiasts be like: “Yeah I listen to country music, it’s not like that rap trash that just talks about naked girls and sex”
Country music: “Little mama got those painted on blue jeans and curves like a highway I’m going to ride all night long”
My kind of country music:
“There’s a gateway in our minds That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane Where reptile aliens made of light Cut you open and pull out all your pain Tell me how you make illegal Something that we all make in our brain Some say you might go crazy But then again, it might make you go sane”
