If you’re waiting for Jason Aldean to distance himself or apologize for his controversial song “Try That In A Small Town,” you’re going to either have to give up on waiting or wait longer.
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In a recent interview, the star defended his viral song and video, which touched on gun violence and racism.
Jason Aldean – Says He Didn’t Twist Reality in His “Try That In A Small Town” Music Video
If you’ve come across the arguments and backlash that happened when Aldean released his chart-topping single “Try That in a Small Town,” you might have been tempted to check out the music video to see what all the commotion was all about.
If you did, you would have seen actual footage from the 2020 BLM unrest. Depending on how you saw it, you might be triggered or you might not be.
Aldean, while not being listed among the song’s writers, continues to stand by and defend the song’s message.
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On the Wednesday episode of the Audacy podcast “Coop’s Rockin’ Country Saturday Night,” he doubled down on his previous comments, where he refused to denounce the song, or admit it was encouraging violence.
“If you’ve got common sense, you can look at the video and see, I’m not sayin’ anything that’s not true,” Aldean said of the song’s accompanying music video, which includes a 2020 footage filmed in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee where a Black man, Henry Choate, was lynched in 1927.
“In the video, I’m showin’ you what happened — I didn’t do it, I didn’t create it — it just happened, and I saw it, and I’m not cool with it,” Aldean told host Coop.
Despite Complaints That The Song Promoted Violence And Division, Jason Aldean Insisted That He’s Only Touching On What’s Happening In The Society.
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“I don’t care which side of the political fence you want to stand on, but to me, what I was seeing was wrong, and nobody would say anything, especially in the music industry or entertainment industry,” Aldean said. “It just kind of reaches a breaking point to where you’re like, ‘Somebody needs to say something, and if nobody’s gonna do it, then I’ll be the guy.’”
The ACM winner boldly added, “Country music is blue-collar music, it’s for every man out there, and that was always my thing — it’s like, I feel like this.”
Aldean has been known to be open with his political stance, often criticizing Biden’s administration.
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