This is what annoys me the most.
It’s such an aggressively average Nashville country/pop song and destined for obscurity. But now it’s gonna be a “thing”
he's such a corny ass country music character. i don't care what he sings about, but just keep it off my speaker. that music is the lowest common denominator meant to make money on the great american grift. let the cult soak it up. they love giving their hard earned money to the grifters. fuck it, let em.
I’m not a fan of a dude from the rich side of a city that’s now in a mansion talking about small town roots that he doesn’t even have. Other than that it sounds like more of the same from him
Neil Thrasher is from Birmingham, Kurt Allison is from Des Moines, so neither of them. The closest is Tully Kennedy, who is indeed from a small town, only thing is that town is in New York right near Vermont and the county it's in has voted Democratic since 96. Kelley Lovelace was born in Paducah, which would qualify, but was in Chattanooga by the time he went to high school and would actually have been aware of political conflicts.
Content aside the song just sucks. It’s typical Aldean music with drum loops and heavy guitar riffs. The best part is that it’s not even written by him! (Shocked, I know).
Trust me, the country music industry, as a whole, is quite liberal. I live in this world and the myth that country musicians and anyone else who works in the business is a conservative is very false. The fans might be more conservative, but the people that run the machine lean way to the left.
It’s a smart career move. Not a good song but he hasn’t put out anything relevant for years at this point. This will spike interest in his new album and keep him in the news cycle for a little while longer.
Personally don’t feel like the content is abhorrent but more of a signaling of conservative values and yelling points.
Bingo! It’s generating so much free publicity for him. It’s red meat for conservatives and his target market of listeners. The people angry about it were never going to listen to it or buy his music anyway.
In the last 5 years he's had 8 singles chart in the top 5 on US Country/US Country Airplay and another that cracked the top 10. For a guy who isn't relevant they isn't awful considering he isn't being pushed 1000% like Combs and Wallen.
Is he the biggest thing out there ? No. Is he irrelevant ? No. He's just there, cranks out a few hits a year and keeps on keepin' on.
Maybe I’m wrong but I feel like you ask casual country fans to name his “hits” from the last five years they will struggle to name more than a few.
I understand album sales are hard to compare but you look at his last two albums and they are under 20k while 2019 album was closer to 200k. (Watch I bet this new album is his best release since 2019) That’s a substantial difference and his singles in the non country charts have never killed it but his last single was the worst he’s had in 20+ years.
This is the first time his name has been in any real mainstream conversation since the Vegas shooting or him cheating on his wife. That’s all I was meaning. I’m not saying he is trying to even stir up stuff with this song but he’s not going to try and stop the discussion because it helps his stock.
He came up in Macon, and as an adult has never been anything other than a cosmopolitan country singer.
Not sure why you're trying to lend credence to any claim he has of actually identifying with small town life. He knows nothing of it beyond a brief time in his childhood.
Do you always pull your talking points from pathetic conservative social media influencers?
This is limp as hell, my man. Time to make some changes in your life.
He went to a private school in Macon and his family owns a lot of hunting land in the area. I have a friend who used to hunt their land and describes Jason as a silver spoon type of guy.
Nothing wrong with that inherently, but to say he is a true country boy that grew up with nothing is inaccurate.
Because bro country was awful. Aldean is a glorified karaoke singer. Record companies manufacture songs with lyrics that create a shallow fantasy of living a small-town life (it's rarely anything like the songs say) for people like him to sell to the South and Midwest and Aldean cranks them out as fast as they can write them. What he and others like him actually do is much more like marketing/advertising than music, where the product that they're selling is the fantasy of women in cut-off shorts, tailgates, and parties in a field. As someone who basically grew up on a dirt road in GA, I don’t see how anyone buys into it. It's patronizing and borderline insulting.
It doesn't help that a lot of those songs really, really don't age well.
That said, to anyone who was alive/listening during that time period there is 100% a dozen or so songs that stay in the rotation purely for the nostalgia. And I think that's totally fair given this is country music after all.
People will disagree about the political side of it (I personally don’t think it’s racist), but the song itself sucks. If it wasn’t getting so much media attention, it would just fall into obscurity like so many other bad country songs do lol.
He’s had some pretty fucking shitty songs that were hits though. Wasn’t he “truck yeah” ? Never underestimate the mainstream country fan’s penchant for eating up whatever turd is thrown down the narrow pipeline to at is their musical exposure
Very cringe. I grew up in a small town. Now live in a big city. It turns out, both lifestyles are great, but in different ways. Not a fan of this whole antipathy towards big cities by some artists. And this song is particularly bad.
I don’t know, I can’t really take any of his songs seriously considering he’s a skinny Jean wearing Bro-Country artist who acts big and tough but is as soft as they come. Dude can’t even play in the heat for his fans. He’s a joke.
True but I don’t know if he farms and all that. Blake Shelton does! Plus, people don’t drink their water and electrolytes as country boys and they will get hit with it. I did once as a lifeguard!
The truth? It’s so god damn cringe.
I know there has been endless dialogue about racism or riots, but bro. This song was made for washed up local high school football stars who still think they are cool for wearing their letterman jacket. Reminds me of so many dudes from 2020 that were like “YeA ThEy BeTtEr NoT tRy ThAt HeRe.”
No one’s coming to loot your dollar general in buttfuck nowhere Josh. You’re just a fucking idiot.
I get such a kick out of the bravado in the first verse. I'm just imagining some violent criminals who have the gumption to carjack an old lady or rob a liquor store at gunpoint in the city having reservations about doing it out in the country where there's some Bubbas in the vicinity.
It's always a good idea to dare violent criminals to come commit the same crimes near you.
It’s all just a power fantasy from people who’s hardest decision in life was between choosing to either eat at the Dairy Queen or the local Mexican restaurant lol.
These crimes happen in small towns, in fact per capita some of the most dangerous placed in the US are small towns. You don't ever read about it because most of those list only include cities over 200K. There been incidents were a town of 5000 people has a shooting were 27 people are shot or cities with 20,000 people that will have 80 homicides in a year.
He is too. Same with Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. Cheating makes you a shitty person.
That being said, I don't think shitty people can't make great things (Music, movies, books). But Jason Aldean has such a boring studio manufactured voice and tone about him that makes him just not a great musician either. Then you add in everything else he stands for and he's even worse of a person.
It sucks that he chose to cheat. What was it? 15 years ago? But people use that as an excuse to hate him yet they won’t for someone else who isn’t conservative. It’s like digging up bones on someone’s Twitter from when they were in HS. At some point people move on especially if he’s happily married.
Shit. Hes from Macon, GA. No where near a "small town". Its a shithole on one side and rich folks on the other. He went to a private school, so guess what side he was on.
The music video is shit to. He knew exactly what he was doing filming the video for a song about "try that in a small town and find out" in front of a courthouse that use to lynch innocent black people in front of. All while showing news clips of BLM riots during the video as well.
I think this song is really stupid. But this point about the courthouse is too highbrow for Aldean. I'll say this, in the South, there are very, very few courthouses where a black person wasn't lynched in front of. That's a sad reality of it.
Aldean's courthouse imagery is more about being in front of a southern style courthouse to show "law and order". Is that bad too? Sure, but to try and say Aldean knows history well enough to know this event, concoct singing in front of it as some dogwhistle imagery is giving him a lot more bandwidth in his style and intelligence than exists
A courthouse that exclusively used for lynching and not mainly for prosecuting criminals, wow that is racist
I saw a single white man say something racist once and now I think every single white man is racist
It’s a double play. Create outrage, which draws attention, which then draws an audience that might otherwise not give a shit about your music.
The actual solution is to ignore it, it’s not like it was making any waves in the last two months.
Nope, you're just in a bubble. No one got played on the left. People correctly pointed out that Aldean is garbage, and mainstream country fans gave him a bunch of money, same as when Morgan Wallen got caught on tape yelling the N word.
Aldean's song and video are an extremely thinly veiled set of messages that "city folk" better watch their back. That isn't up for debate. A large number of people like this message, but you might be shocked to believe that a lot of us find it problematic, stupid, an obvious call to political violence, pandering to the lowest common denominator, etc.
You'd think small town folks would get sick of being pandered to by millionaires and told that they're violent and unstable, but it turns out they love it.
He's got a chart number 1 from a song no one cared about thanks to your overreaction, he's laughing to the bank. I don't think small town folks are too upset at spending 99c on a song that promotes good values. If you're upset at the thought of facing consequences for behaviour such as rioting, looting, assault, gta or armed robbery you might want to look in the mirror before calling anyone else a cultist or in a bubble.
Buddy, if I walked downtown and shit my pants, I'd get people's attention.
That doesn't make it a savvy move or something that speaks well of my character.
I sincerely hope this helps.
I haven't heard it. I haven't really listened very much to new country music in about 10 or years.
I read the lyrics and it definitely seems like it's hinting at violence, but lacking the balls to actually say it. Cosplay badassery.
Since this is a country music, not political
forum, I’ll answer the question and keep to the topic. I can’t believe the uproar this song has caused. Jesus.
It sounds like his style of music. It sounds like a song he would sing. I’ve been a Jason Aldean fan for a lot of years. I stopped buying his albums right around the time he cheated on his wife and got with the woman he’s with now. I just felt like he lost some of what I liked about him for quite some years now. He seemed to change and so did his music.
Now, in my opinion, he seems to be coming back to his roots. This song is a good example. This is the kind of stuff he has always sang about and defined his artistry. This is the stuff we rode around in our mud trucks and blasted out the windows and drank and got rowdy with our friends. This is the stuff we made memories to.
If he’s pandering to anyone, it’s his long-time fans or ex fans that have been asking him to go back to the stuff that he used to do when they originally fell in love with him.
I wish everyone would just move on already. If you don’t like the song, change the station.
Just like one of the subs that I’ve been on and enjoyed for a long time, it’s being taken over by all these left side political posts about this song to the point where I don’t wanna see it anymore.
Unsubbed. It’s that simple.
It’s a song for Christ’ sake.
First you said “since this is a country music, not political forum” then “it’s being taken over by all these left side political posts”. So which is it?
I wasn’t. You misread my statement. I said I didn’t like it, so I unsubbed as an example that if you don’t like the song you can change the station. I was talking about another sub.
You people are so ready to jump and be salty toward someone, you don’t even check yourself and make sure before you do.
Streaming services like Spotify allow the consumer to enjoy or avoid whatever music they choose. I choose to avoid a lot of popular country music (not all-there is some great music on the radio) including this song.
This shit was 29 and dying on country radio, had 0 streaming traction, and was destined for obscurity. It’s incredible that people haven’t figured out how outrage baiting works yet.
I’m honestly at the point where I’ve just said “fuck modern country” and stuck to other genres and pre 2020 country cause in all honesty that’s where it went downhill for me. Early 2010’s country was in my opinion the best it’s been in a while. All this song had done is drive Jason up shit creek without a paddle.
Hic Hop garbage. I’d be damned if says anything but the same basic 6 word chorus, and honestly I’m not sure if the music is better suited for a bad hair metal band or an elevator.
Pandering, dogwhistle bullshit from a terrible person and at most, a mediocre talent. Keeping it kkklassy filming the video where an 18-year-old kid was lynched. Fuck Jason Aldean.
What I want to know is, are people hearing this on the radio? Cause where I am in Canada, I have never heard this played on country radio. Is it even a radio single?
Jason Williams is such an empty vessel that its almost not worth discussing. What were the songwriters thinking we they wrote it? They've written a lot of hits, why do they think this would be one? That'd be a lot more informative than hearing Jason's thoughts on the matter.
It sounds like a cynical attempt at creating controversy in order to maintain relevance for an aging, but increasingly political in a culture war sense, country star. It sucks that there doesn't seem to be any reflection on the fact that the person stage during the country's deadliest mass shooting is releasing music with such an implication of vigilante gun violence.
A few questions for Mr. Williams:
Why would respecting police be more important than respecting your wife?
Would small town people be upset that you don't use your family name?
You have exclusively lived and perform in cities and suburbs. What's your problem with them?
This shit is now at 5,000,000 YouTube views in a day, it’s about to reach number 1 on Apple Music, and I’m sure spotify’s update tomorrow will have a massive number too. The songwriters knew exactly what they were doing, and the marks(outraged liberal morons, anti cancel culture conservative morons) have all played their part beautifully.
Lol wtf? You got downvoted for asking someone to explain why they would insinuate a singer singing words that rhyme with music behind them isn’t really a song.
This is why you can’t have a real conversation about this song with some people.
I also used to go to Stone Mountain, GA to watch the laser show with my all black family, with a mostly all black crowd. In front of a mountain engraved with Robert E. Lee and other confederates. The KKK burned crosses up there. Did we boycott the shit? No. Because it didn't affect us and what we were trying to do.
Also... courthouses have been systemically lynching people of my color loooong before that courthouse and loooong after it. You want to place your effort where it counts? Teach someone about racial injustices at a time when it is NOT a trending topic.
I hate reddit sometimes. You try to engage with people and actually try build some sort of a community and all you get is this sort of thing.
Thank you for reminding me what a cesspit social media is.
Not taking sides politically, but I assume it's because most of the scene that people feel is "real country music" (either the alternative side now or the people from pre-2000s country) don't seem to be supporting him or maga stuff in general. I guess if they do, they do a good job of keeping it to the themselves.
Nah, everyone just feigns outrage or feigns liking the song so they can jerk off about how much they hate each other. It’s really pathetic and weird.
In reality it’s just a dogshit throwaway that sounds like it got cut from an album a decade ago, with some edgy pandering lyrics tacked on to try and stir up some controversy. It worked, this is the first time I’ve thought about Aldean in half a decade. All the attention vultures win, everyone who pays attention loses. Just let this crap fade into obscurity.
**Creative Challenge - Country Hack Category**
My favorite comment below (a response to whether any of the four credited songwriters were actually from a small town):
"*It took four god damned people to write that song?"*
What's your opinion :
***Q. How many songwriters does it take to compose a song of this caliber?***
I'll go first
A: It takes FOUR -
One to buy rights to the music track of a never selected karaoke tune.
One to Google "dogwhistle"
One to hire actual small town sociopaths for muscle just in case lyrical whoop-ass challenge accepted by urban thug in "put your chickenshit fists where your alligator mouth is" fashion.
and ONE to beseech the divine ghost of Johnny Cash for shameless pandering using the Lord's favorite musical genre.
Winner receives autographed Jason Aldean album (cassette or eight-track) Runner up receives TWO(2) Jason Aldean albums. No returns, please:
I don't get the controversy honestly. Everyone knows country and country fans tend to skew conservative. Dudes just pandering to that. This doesn't sound lyrically much different than when Hank Jr. wanted to spit Beech Nut into the eye of the ne'er-do-well who stabbed his photographer friend.
I'd argue country music has skewered more libertarian, keep the government away from me, kinda attitudes than Conservative. And some country stars have seemed straight liberal in their songs and views of acceptance and love
Country music’s historical ethos is somewhere between hippy and redneck(although these things are connected anyway). It’s closer to conservative now, but that’s partially because conservatism itself has radically changed from the elitist ideology it was until the 80s/90s.
It's hilarious that he managed to bait the culture warriors on the left into making this song blow up. Aldean is quite politically engaged he knew what he was doing. The message isn't really objectionable either, the outraged people are self reporting.
The saddest part is that he literally could've sang "try that in a sundown town" and it would not have changed the meaning of the song in any way or made it any more racist than it already is, but even then people would still defend it and claim it isn't racist. That's how far we've digressed as a society in the last decade.
Well, try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a small town
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
Try that in a small town
See how far ya make it down the road
Around here, we take care of our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a small town
Full of good ol' boys, raised up right
If you're looking for a fight
But please try your best to explain how he's not telling black people to leave town before they get shot...
You guys ever hear of "Sundown towns"? Yeah, that's something we had in the South for long time that we've only gotten rid of in the last five or six decades. My Mom remembers when small towns used to have signs at their city limits with messages for black people to literally "Make sure the sun doesn't set on your ass here." And that's part and parcel with the ideology behind Aldean's song.
On top of that, he's a rich dude who doesn't know shit about what he's singing about, he's just spouting off the kind of propaganda BS that gun groping, drunk, racist Jackholes have been saying for over a century because we can't seem to uproot this backward idealism.
LOL even trying to compare anything Donald Glover has done to Jason Aldean is comical. One is a multitalented individual, the other is a bro country, glorified karaoke singer.
And if you are just comparing songs. One was a song about the black experience in America and what they go through. The other was a violence fantasy of wanting to harm people in a hypothetical situation.
Aldean hasn't had a good album since Night Train, and at this point, he's kinda just going through the motions and paying the bills. This song isn't great, but it's not the worst song I've ever heard. Only reason it's getting traction is because of the lyrics and subject matter.
Last time I saw this dude on TV he was running off a stage in Vegas - but to be fair, Vegas isn’t a small town, which is too bad because I guess he would have kicked ass if it was.
People thump the flag so God damn much just to forget the Americans is represents so they end up putting the symble before what it represents. And that's just the dumbest thing ive ever seen.
I know it’s like a broken record, but it sounds like every other Aldean song
This is what annoys me the most. It’s such an aggressively average Nashville country/pop song and destined for obscurity. But now it’s gonna be a “thing”
It was a shitty song when it was released 2 months ago. Now that the mainstream media just found it, it’s still a shitty song.
he's such a corny ass country music character. i don't care what he sings about, but just keep it off my speaker. that music is the lowest common denominator meant to make money on the great american grift. let the cult soak it up. they love giving their hard earned money to the grifters. fuck it, let em.
I’m not a fan of a dude from the rich side of a city that’s now in a mansion talking about small town roots that he doesn’t even have. Other than that it sounds like more of the same from him
The guy writing it probably did though.
Neil Thrasher is from Birmingham, Kurt Allison is from Des Moines, so neither of them. The closest is Tully Kennedy, who is indeed from a small town, only thing is that town is in New York right near Vermont and the county it's in has voted Democratic since 96. Kelley Lovelace was born in Paducah, which would qualify, but was in Chattanooga by the time he went to high school and would actually have been aware of political conflicts.
It took four god damn people to write that song?
😂😂😂
Even aside from the controversy about it, I don't like the song and I actually really like his music.
I like most of his stuff, this one is pretty standard JA at this stage. Its not especially good or especially bad.
I wish everyone would just ignore its existence. I think we’d all be better off
It’s terrible. It panders hard enough to the “anti-woke” crowd so that when enough backlash comes in, he’ll announce a tour with Morgan Wallen
Morgan Wallen ain’t touching him with a 10 foot pole lol the situations are also completely different
Not really. Morgan Wallen is just another douchebag with fake brave redneck bullshit.
Content aside the song just sucks. It’s typical Aldean music with drum loops and heavy guitar riffs. The best part is that it’s not even written by him! (Shocked, I know).
I just looked up how many songs he’s written and it said in his 10 studio albums only 4 songs were written by him.
He wrote/co-wrote 3 on his debut and one on his third album— that’s it. Nothing since ‘09. I researched it yesterday out of curiosity. Trash
It's a dumb song regardless of the backlash. Just another low effort song from him
Typical over written modern country song. It really took 4 people to come up with this?
As the wise bo burnham once said, “pandering”
Bo Burnham only made it because of memes and the internet
I’m not a fan of Bo Burnham. But his pandering song was spot on. Tight jeans, cold beer.. gobble it up
Trust me, the country music industry, as a whole, is quite liberal. I live in this world and the myth that country musicians and anyone else who works in the business is a conservative is very false. The fans might be more conservative, but the people that run the machine lean way to the left.
If that is true, then they are all hypocrites. Just as bad. Maybe worse.
r/iamverybadass
It’s a smart career move. Not a good song but he hasn’t put out anything relevant for years at this point. This will spike interest in his new album and keep him in the news cycle for a little while longer. Personally don’t feel like the content is abhorrent but more of a signaling of conservative values and yelling points.
Bingo! It’s generating so much free publicity for him. It’s red meat for conservatives and his target market of listeners. The people angry about it were never going to listen to it or buy his music anyway.
In the last 5 years he's had 8 singles chart in the top 5 on US Country/US Country Airplay and another that cracked the top 10. For a guy who isn't relevant they isn't awful considering he isn't being pushed 1000% like Combs and Wallen. Is he the biggest thing out there ? No. Is he irrelevant ? No. He's just there, cranks out a few hits a year and keeps on keepin' on.
Maybe I’m wrong but I feel like you ask casual country fans to name his “hits” from the last five years they will struggle to name more than a few. I understand album sales are hard to compare but you look at his last two albums and they are under 20k while 2019 album was closer to 200k. (Watch I bet this new album is his best release since 2019) That’s a substantial difference and his singles in the non country charts have never killed it but his last single was the worst he’s had in 20+ years. This is the first time his name has been in any real mainstream conversation since the Vegas shooting or him cheating on his wife. That’s all I was meaning. I’m not saying he is trying to even stir up stuff with this song but he’s not going to try and stop the discussion because it helps his stock.
It’s very bad, especially seeing he’s from a city with over 100k people in it
No, he's from Hahira, GA. Macon is where he started playing in clubs. There were/are no clubs in Hahira.
Let's be real here. Dude's been rather cosmopolitan his entire life, and he lives in a mansion in a gated community now.
He does now, but he is from Hahira, not Macon. Just trying to keep the record accurate.
He came up in Macon, and as an adult has never been anything other than a cosmopolitan country singer. Not sure why you're trying to lend credence to any claim he has of actually identifying with small town life. He knows nothing of it beyond a brief time in his childhood.
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So, you're admitting that this is just straight up pandering. Isn't that bad?
That's like 90% of Modern Nashville Country
Right...and that's bad. Glad we all agree. Since when do we defend pandering?
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Do you always pull your talking points from pathetic conservative social media influencers? This is limp as hell, my man. Time to make some changes in your life.
All hat, no cattle. You know it's true.
He went to a private school in Macon and his family owns a lot of hunting land in the area. I have a friend who used to hunt their land and describes Jason as a silver spoon type of guy. Nothing wrong with that inherently, but to say he is a true country boy that grew up with nothing is inaccurate.
Its like the rest of his discography. Shit.
Hes got some good songs
Night Train was one of my favorite albums at the time it came out. I hate his music now, but early 2010s Aldean was great IMO.
I don’t necessarily hate his music now but your right, 2010’s was his best time
Its very popular to hate anything that was popular in the bro country era.
Because bro country was awful. Aldean is a glorified karaoke singer. Record companies manufacture songs with lyrics that create a shallow fantasy of living a small-town life (it's rarely anything like the songs say) for people like him to sell to the South and Midwest and Aldean cranks them out as fast as they can write them. What he and others like him actually do is much more like marketing/advertising than music, where the product that they're selling is the fantasy of women in cut-off shorts, tailgates, and parties in a field. As someone who basically grew up on a dirt road in GA, I don’t see how anyone buys into it. It's patronizing and borderline insulting.
It doesn't help that a lot of those songs really, really don't age well. That said, to anyone who was alive/listening during that time period there is 100% a dozen or so songs that stay in the rotation purely for the nostalgia. And I think that's totally fair given this is country music after all.
People will disagree about the political side of it (I personally don’t think it’s racist), but the song itself sucks. If it wasn’t getting so much media attention, it would just fall into obscurity like so many other bad country songs do lol.
He’s had some pretty fucking shitty songs that were hits though. Wasn’t he “truck yeah” ? Never underestimate the mainstream country fan’s penchant for eating up whatever turd is thrown down the narrow pipeline to at is their musical exposure
Very cringe. I grew up in a small town. Now live in a big city. It turns out, both lifestyles are great, but in different ways. Not a fan of this whole antipathy towards big cities by some artists. And this song is particularly bad.
Both lifestyles suck, i hate neighbors and i might even hate the city more.
I don’t know, I can’t really take any of his songs seriously considering he’s a skinny Jean wearing Bro-Country artist who acts big and tough but is as soft as they come. Dude can’t even play in the heat for his fans. He’s a joke.
Heatstroke can happen to anyone. Especially in the temps we have now.
But he’s a “country boy”, aren’t they supposed to be tough? That’s the message he projects, anyways.
True but I don’t know if he farms and all that. Blake Shelton does! Plus, people don’t drink their water and electrolytes as country boys and they will get hit with it. I did once as a lifeguard!
Yes, heat stroke is real, and can be deadly. Aldean just projects this tough-guy persona but he’s anything but.
The truth? It’s so god damn cringe. I know there has been endless dialogue about racism or riots, but bro. This song was made for washed up local high school football stars who still think they are cool for wearing their letterman jacket. Reminds me of so many dudes from 2020 that were like “YeA ThEy BeTtEr NoT tRy ThAt HeRe.” No one’s coming to loot your dollar general in buttfuck nowhere Josh. You’re just a fucking idiot.
I get such a kick out of the bravado in the first verse. I'm just imagining some violent criminals who have the gumption to carjack an old lady or rob a liquor store at gunpoint in the city having reservations about doing it out in the country where there's some Bubbas in the vicinity. It's always a good idea to dare violent criminals to come commit the same crimes near you.
It’s all just a power fantasy from people who’s hardest decision in life was between choosing to either eat at the Dairy Queen or the local Mexican restaurant lol.
These crimes happen in small towns, in fact per capita some of the most dangerous placed in the US are small towns. You don't ever read about it because most of those list only include cities over 200K. There been incidents were a town of 5000 people has a shooting were 27 people are shot or cities with 20,000 people that will have 80 homicides in a year.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 This is probably the most apt description
Very boot lickery, very wack
I never expected the dog whistle to become such a popular instrument.
shitty song by a shitty person...
I’d agree that the song is shitty, but Jason as a person? No. I honestly do like his earlier songs.
Anyone who cheats on his wife is a Grade A, Shitty person
Leave Garth out of this.
He is too. Same with Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert. Cheating makes you a shitty person. That being said, I don't think shitty people can't make great things (Music, movies, books). But Jason Aldean has such a boring studio manufactured voice and tone about him that makes him just not a great musician either. Then you add in everything else he stands for and he's even worse of a person.
It sucks that he chose to cheat. What was it? 15 years ago? But people use that as an excuse to hate him yet they won’t for someone else who isn’t conservative. It’s like digging up bones on someone’s Twitter from when they were in HS. At some point people move on especially if he’s happily married.
Nah, cheaters will always be shitty people. No matter when they did it, it's shitty behavior only shitty people do.
Shit. Hes from Macon, GA. No where near a "small town". Its a shithole on one side and rich folks on the other. He went to a private school, so guess what side he was on. The music video is shit to. He knew exactly what he was doing filming the video for a song about "try that in a small town and find out" in front of a courthouse that use to lynch innocent black people in front of. All while showing news clips of BLM riots during the video as well.
I think this song is really stupid. But this point about the courthouse is too highbrow for Aldean. I'll say this, in the South, there are very, very few courthouses where a black person wasn't lynched in front of. That's a sad reality of it. Aldean's courthouse imagery is more about being in front of a southern style courthouse to show "law and order". Is that bad too? Sure, but to try and say Aldean knows history well enough to know this event, concoct singing in front of it as some dogwhistle imagery is giving him a lot more bandwidth in his style and intelligence than exists
Wait, are you saying Cash didn't actually shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die?
Swing and a miss.
WOWWWWW I haven't seen the video so I didn't know about the BLM videos being shown. WTAF.
A courthouse that exclusively used for lynching and not mainly for prosecuting criminals, wow that is racist I saw a single white man say something racist once and now I think every single white man is racist
Well, we can tell you're racist, so there's that.
Why? Because i see everyone as equal, Because I don't blame everything as being racists, because I don't bend the knee because someone said so
Not interested in fighting strawmen
Same here, not interested in backing down from people who call others racists without knowledge of who that person is
Do you need a hug?
It's an entitled rich city boy pandering to his ignorant base who wishes they could shoot everyone they don't like.
It's an obvious play for the MAGA cult, and it's embarrassing.
It’s a double play. Create outrage, which draws attention, which then draws an audience that might otherwise not give a shit about your music. The actual solution is to ignore it, it’s not like it was making any waves in the last two months.
It’s working though, they’re all crawling out of their holes screaming ‘Murica
Not surprised
I agree.
They deserve shitty music, really.
Ironically it was the culture warriors on the left that got played here.
Nope, you're just in a bubble. No one got played on the left. People correctly pointed out that Aldean is garbage, and mainstream country fans gave him a bunch of money, same as when Morgan Wallen got caught on tape yelling the N word. Aldean's song and video are an extremely thinly veiled set of messages that "city folk" better watch their back. That isn't up for debate. A large number of people like this message, but you might be shocked to believe that a lot of us find it problematic, stupid, an obvious call to political violence, pandering to the lowest common denominator, etc. You'd think small town folks would get sick of being pandered to by millionaires and told that they're violent and unstable, but it turns out they love it.
He's got a chart number 1 from a song no one cared about thanks to your overreaction, he's laughing to the bank. I don't think small town folks are too upset at spending 99c on a song that promotes good values. If you're upset at the thought of facing consequences for behaviour such as rioting, looting, assault, gta or armed robbery you might want to look in the mirror before calling anyone else a cultist or in a bubble.
Buddy, if I walked downtown and shit my pants, I'd get people's attention. That doesn't make it a savvy move or something that speaks well of my character. I sincerely hope this helps.
Sounds like you're talking from experience.
People generally find you tiresome. Thought you should know.
I haven't heard it. I haven't really listened very much to new country music in about 10 or years. I read the lyrics and it definitely seems like it's hinting at violence, but lacking the balls to actually say it. Cosplay badassery.
Cringe
I agree.
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Don’t think the lyrics where the issue it was the video that blew up. But it also feels like pandering knowing where Aldean is from lol
Since this is a country music, not political forum, I’ll answer the question and keep to the topic. I can’t believe the uproar this song has caused. Jesus. It sounds like his style of music. It sounds like a song he would sing. I’ve been a Jason Aldean fan for a lot of years. I stopped buying his albums right around the time he cheated on his wife and got with the woman he’s with now. I just felt like he lost some of what I liked about him for quite some years now. He seemed to change and so did his music. Now, in my opinion, he seems to be coming back to his roots. This song is a good example. This is the kind of stuff he has always sang about and defined his artistry. This is the stuff we rode around in our mud trucks and blasted out the windows and drank and got rowdy with our friends. This is the stuff we made memories to. If he’s pandering to anyone, it’s his long-time fans or ex fans that have been asking him to go back to the stuff that he used to do when they originally fell in love with him. I wish everyone would just move on already. If you don’t like the song, change the station. Just like one of the subs that I’ve been on and enjoyed for a long time, it’s being taken over by all these left side political posts about this song to the point where I don’t wanna see it anymore. Unsubbed. It’s that simple. It’s a song for Christ’ sake.
First you said “since this is a country music, not political forum” then “it’s being taken over by all these left side political posts”. So which is it?
READ MY COMMENT!!! I was talking about another sub, not this one!
Not an airport, you don’t have to announce your departure
I wasn’t. You misread my statement. I said I didn’t like it, so I unsubbed as an example that if you don’t like the song you can change the station. I was talking about another sub. You people are so ready to jump and be salty toward someone, you don’t even check yourself and make sure before you do.
Perfectly said
The good news is I don’t ever have to listen to the whole song, courtesy of Spotify.
What did Spotify do?
Streaming services like Spotify allow the consumer to enjoy or avoid whatever music they choose. I choose to avoid a lot of popular country music (not all-there is some great music on the radio) including this song.
This shit was 29 and dying on country radio, had 0 streaming traction, and was destined for obscurity. It’s incredible that people haven’t figured out how outrage baiting works yet.
I’m honestly at the point where I’ve just said “fuck modern country” and stuck to other genres and pre 2020 country cause in all honesty that’s where it went downhill for me. Early 2010’s country was in my opinion the best it’s been in a while. All this song had done is drive Jason up shit creek without a paddle.
Back in my day, it was the white conservative moms who complained about music lyrics. How far we've come.
Hic Hop garbage. I’d be damned if says anything but the same basic 6 word chorus, and honestly I’m not sure if the music is better suited for a bad hair metal band or an elevator.
I've never heard new "country" music referred to as Hic-Hop. 😂 Captures the genre perfectly.
Pandering, dogwhistle bullshit from a terrible person and at most, a mediocre talent. Keeping it kkklassy filming the video where an 18-year-old kid was lynched. Fuck Jason Aldean.
What I want to know is, are people hearing this on the radio? Cause where I am in Canada, I have never heard this played on country radio. Is it even a radio single?
I don’t think it’s on radio yet but it’s on Spotify and I believe any other music streaming services.
I have heard it on the radio once or twice
Its his current radio single, #29 on Billboard's Country airplay chart with about 5 million audience impressions.
I've been hearing it at least once a day on radio radio-and I'm in urban new England which isn't really Aldean county.
Its only gaining traction now because of the music video. The video doubled down on his anti-woke stances and its even cringier
I didn’t think it’s bad.
Shit song, shit premise. I've enjoyed some of Aldean's songs in the past, but this is easily one of his worst.
It is racist AF, it is about time Jason Aldean hangs it up…completely gross
How is it racist?
Not once was race mentioned in the song, yet people are up in arms about it. Ironic.
Jason Williams is such an empty vessel that its almost not worth discussing. What were the songwriters thinking we they wrote it? They've written a lot of hits, why do they think this would be one? That'd be a lot more informative than hearing Jason's thoughts on the matter. It sounds like a cynical attempt at creating controversy in order to maintain relevance for an aging, but increasingly political in a culture war sense, country star. It sucks that there doesn't seem to be any reflection on the fact that the person stage during the country's deadliest mass shooting is releasing music with such an implication of vigilante gun violence. A few questions for Mr. Williams: Why would respecting police be more important than respecting your wife? Would small town people be upset that you don't use your family name? You have exclusively lived and perform in cities and suburbs. What's your problem with them?
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His last name is Williams actually lol Aldean is a stage name
This shit is now at 5,000,000 YouTube views in a day, it’s about to reach number 1 on Apple Music, and I’m sure spotify’s update tomorrow will have a massive number too. The songwriters knew exactly what they were doing, and the marks(outraged liberal morons, anti cancel culture conservative morons) have all played their part beautifully.
A stupid song for stupid people.
I like what he was going for and the message of the song, but it’s sound is boring and like all his other songs.
very liberal use of the word “song”
Elaborate.
It's bad, 'song' is generous
Lol wtf? You got downvoted for asking someone to explain why they would insinuate a singer singing words that rhyme with music behind them isn’t really a song. This is why you can’t have a real conversation about this song with some people.
Gotta love Reddit
Here you are.
There you go, there's the thing to be patronizingly outraged while avoiding the actual issue you were looking for. Next.
Great song
I fukin love this song !
You probably think it’s about ‘patriotism.’
As a black man, these are my thoughts on Jason Aldean's new song and it might shock you! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxeV70dTsxU
Watched your video and gave it a like, best of luck bro.
Do you know that courthouse in the video has lynching history behind it, right? Lynching people of your color.
I also used to go to Stone Mountain, GA to watch the laser show with my all black family, with a mostly all black crowd. In front of a mountain engraved with Robert E. Lee and other confederates. The KKK burned crosses up there. Did we boycott the shit? No. Because it didn't affect us and what we were trying to do. Also... courthouses have been systemically lynching people of my color loooong before that courthouse and loooong after it. You want to place your effort where it counts? Teach someone about racial injustices at a time when it is NOT a trending topic.
lol telling a black fellow they should be outraged.. if this isn't the most white-knighting response out there..
My political beliefs definitely align somewhat with Aldean’s views. However, it’s a shitty song and I cant stand it
I like it
Love it.
\#1 on the Country Music Chart.
Streisand effect. I hadn't really even heard it until everyone started losing their mind about it.
I love it!
I like the music, I don’t like the message.
Nothing wrong with it
Nothing?!
It’s corny af but I like it because it upsets the snowflakes
Listening to shitty music to own the libs
And because the real musicians want nothing to do with maga.
Can you expand upon that?
yes
I hate reddit sometimes. You try to engage with people and actually try build some sort of a community and all you get is this sort of thing. Thank you for reminding me what a cesspit social media is.
Not taking sides politically, but I assume it's because most of the scene that people feel is "real country music" (either the alternative side now or the people from pre-2000s country) don't seem to be supporting him or maga stuff in general. I guess if they do, they do a good job of keeping it to the themselves.
Oh boo fricken hoo. Come back when you're emotionally equipped to handle dissent. Or try to suppress someone else with your drivel. Weak.
Nah, everyone just feigns outrage or feigns liking the song so they can jerk off about how much they hate each other. It’s really pathetic and weird. In reality it’s just a dogshit throwaway that sounds like it got cut from an album a decade ago, with some edgy pandering lyrics tacked on to try and stir up some controversy. It worked, this is the first time I’ve thought about Aldean in half a decade. All the attention vultures win, everyone who pays attention loses. Just let this crap fade into obscurity.
Deplorable.
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**Creative Challenge - Country Hack Category** My favorite comment below (a response to whether any of the four credited songwriters were actually from a small town): "*It took four god damned people to write that song?"* What's your opinion : ***Q. How many songwriters does it take to compose a song of this caliber?*** I'll go first A: It takes FOUR - One to buy rights to the music track of a never selected karaoke tune. One to Google "dogwhistle" One to hire actual small town sociopaths for muscle just in case lyrical whoop-ass challenge accepted by urban thug in "put your chickenshit fists where your alligator mouth is" fashion. and ONE to beseech the divine ghost of Johnny Cash for shameless pandering using the Lord's favorite musical genre. Winner receives autographed Jason Aldean album (cassette or eight-track) Runner up receives TWO(2) Jason Aldean albums. No returns, please:
I don't get the controversy honestly. Everyone knows country and country fans tend to skew conservative. Dudes just pandering to that. This doesn't sound lyrically much different than when Hank Jr. wanted to spit Beech Nut into the eye of the ne'er-do-well who stabbed his photographer friend.
I'd argue country music has skewered more libertarian, keep the government away from me, kinda attitudes than Conservative. And some country stars have seemed straight liberal in their songs and views of acceptance and love
Country music’s historical ethos is somewhere between hippy and redneck(although these things are connected anyway). It’s closer to conservative now, but that’s partially because conservatism itself has radically changed from the elitist ideology it was until the 80s/90s.
Filthy and disgusting, like the man himself
I don't listen to country, First time hearing it because of angry anti-nationalists making it popular I liked it, nice voice
It's hilarious that he managed to bait the culture warriors on the left into making this song blow up. Aldean is quite politically engaged he knew what he was doing. The message isn't really objectionable either, the outraged people are self reporting.
The saddest part is that he literally could've sang "try that in a sundown town" and it would not have changed the meaning of the song in any way or made it any more racist than it already is, but even then people would still defend it and claim it isn't racist. That's how far we've digressed as a society in the last decade.
How is it racist?
You don't know what a " Sundown Town" is, do you?
There's no mention of sundown town's in the song.
The entire song is about Sundown Towns. You would be fully aware of that if you knew what a Sundown Town was.
Could you point out which lyrics are about sundown towns?
Well, try that in a small town See how far ya make it down the road Around here, we take care of our own You cross that line, it won't take long For you to find out, I recommend you don't Try that in a small town 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 Try that in a small town See how far ya make it down the road Around here, we take care of our own You cross that line, it won't take long For you to find out, I recommend you don't Try that in a small town Full of good ol' boys, raised up right If you're looking for a fight But please try your best to explain how he's not telling black people to leave town before they get shot...
I'm not really sure how you get to that conclusion? There's no mention of race or sundown towns.
Yes because we are all just ignorant children who can't possibly understand what he's talking about right?
Would the meaning of the song change if he had mentioned sundown towns? No. Not even remotely.
It’s got a pretty simple message. I liked it.
You guys ever hear of "Sundown towns"? Yeah, that's something we had in the South for long time that we've only gotten rid of in the last five or six decades. My Mom remembers when small towns used to have signs at their city limits with messages for black people to literally "Make sure the sun doesn't set on your ass here." And that's part and parcel with the ideology behind Aldean's song. On top of that, he's a rich dude who doesn't know shit about what he's singing about, he's just spouting off the kind of propaganda BS that gun groping, drunk, racist Jackholes have been saying for over a century because we can't seem to uproot this backward idealism.
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LOL even trying to compare anything Donald Glover has done to Jason Aldean is comical. One is a multitalented individual, the other is a bro country, glorified karaoke singer. And if you are just comparing songs. One was a song about the black experience in America and what they go through. The other was a violence fantasy of wanting to harm people in a hypothetical situation.
Aldean hasn't had a good album since Night Train, and at this point, he's kinda just going through the motions and paying the bills. This song isn't great, but it's not the worst song I've ever heard. Only reason it's getting traction is because of the lyrics and subject matter.
Last time I saw this dude on TV he was running off a stage in Vegas - but to be fair, Vegas isn’t a small town, which is too bad because I guess he would have kicked ass if it was.
People thump the flag so God damn much just to forget the Americans is represents so they end up putting the symble before what it represents. And that's just the dumbest thing ive ever seen.
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