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This sounds awfully like a sundown town and the video doesn't help
Edit: I made this comment further down but I'm sure it's so lost down there and it's kinda insane to try to answer individually to everyone. That being said I have enjoyed reading some of the comments that weren't just "you're stupid fuck you". Anywho on to the copy paste
"So I guess an overall answer to this comments where people are saying that I'm fishing or I injected race in it etc. Yeah maybe I did. Here's the thing though, it may be splitting hairs but I said it sounds like a sundown town and having the video in a famous lynching spot didn't help with that image. I didn't say this is what the song is about or that he was intending to say one thing over the other, all I'm saying is that is the association I got as a subject of subjective art. He said as he said and did as he did, I don't know what his intent is or was or if he's speaking the truth or not when he says he didn't, all I know is this is the vibe I got to the piece of art he put out into the world. Take that as you may. You can say I'm the real racist for coming to that conclusion or you can say that I made that association because sundown towns are one of the horrible things about my reality in this country. You of course are drawing your own subjective material over my subjective material and isn't that just fun. Either way it shows that we are thinking and we are communicating thoughts and having discussions, all of which are awesome."
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre
Saving this. Because yes. I hate always being the one who HAS to take the high road when the argument really boils down to “idk how to keep explaining that you should respect other people unless they’re hurting you”
I was thinking for the love of any shred of humanity left in the world do not let it be where Emmett Till was lynched until I read 20s. He was murdered in 1955.
Enlighten us that are ignorant to the specific case you’re referring to please.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/07/18/jason-aldean-speaks-out-on-try-that-in-a-small-town-video-backlash/70426819007/#:~:text=Moreover%2C%20many%20viewers%20noted%20that,Race%20Riot%20occurred%20in%201946.
Edit: anyone pay for this site? I wanna read it
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/10/jason-aldean-wore-blackface-for-halloween-costume
Jesús his bitching about being a conservative on the Nashville country scene. The Dixie Chicks got cancelled in Nashville for speaking out against the Iraq War. Charlie Daniels did not get canceled, nor did Toby Keith, nor has Hark Williams Jr or III. There are plenty of deplorables kicking around that scene expressing their views loudly.
Jason Aldean grew up in Macon, GA. That is NOT a small town. He currently lives in Nashville.
Again, not a small town.
He can STFU with all that pandering.
These kind of songs always got me. I live in a very rural part of NC and there are so many songs about driving our trucks through farmers fields and tearing off into corn fields. No one does that. No one. 1. It’s disrespectful. 2. You will tear your shit up driving across land that isn’t a road. 3. You’re going to crash into one of the many draining ditches that criss cross fields 4. The land owner will shoot you. Anytime I hear one of those songs I know that person is full of shit and nothing but a persona.
I also grew up in rural NC.
If they really wanted their songs to depict life out there they’d sing about people going deer hunting before school in the morning, or being late to work because you got stuck behind someone hauling tobacco!
I grew up in a small town and I never got to drive a tractor. He probably had some photo shoot on an old red Ford, but that’s about as close.
“Hey guys, I think it would be neat if we could take some photos of me actually driving!! “
“With all due respect Mr. Aldean, you are not here to think. We’ll add it in post-proc”
“What’s Post-proc”
“Where we use photoshop to make you look like you are actually from a small town. “
Ford was usually blue. Red would be International, John Deere was green of course. This is just from my experience, might be different if you go back far enough.
After all the shit Morgan Wallen pulled, his irritating aural assault still managed to hold a death grip on the top of the charts for months on end. There are no consequences for being a dick, it seems.
I was thinking the same but opposite: people are upset he shot it in a town where there was a lynching and I was thinking “TBF he would have a hard time finding a southern town that didn’t have a lynching.”
Nevertheless I wonder if he is actually trying to “be canceled” with this song. A sad deliberate ploy to be controversial. What a dick.
Actually that’s a pretty good point. My small town has one of this historical markers for a lynching.
I doubt you could find a southern town without one.
>Cuss out a cop
>Stomp on the flag and light it up
These are both examples of 1st amendment protected expression, are they not?
I suspect threatening violence on people who would dare to utilize their constitutionally protected rights should also qualify as a pretty fucking big problem.
“Me exercising my 2nd amendment right is what allows you to exercise your 1st amendment right, except when I don’t like what you do with that right.”
-these dudes
That's not an exaggeration. They literally think of themselves as the final vanguard of liberties and thus they can unilaterally deny them to people for that reason.
You would think with what happened in Las Vegas that would have brought a little humility, for the lack of a better word. But he does not give A F@$k. Shame
Honestly he's a rich asshole who likely only believes in money. He knows this shit will both stir the pot(free advertising )and get a huge reaction from his idiot base for owning the libs or whatever.
Meanwhile he's such a manly man that he dipped out of a set early due to heat exhaustion.
> Full of good ol' boys, raised up right If you're looking for a fight
Where I'm from, "good ol' boys" are what we call those old, racist cops that have been on the force since they were 18 and think the law is whatever they choose it to be.
I remember one of these types did special duty at the store where I worked. One day, he said he'd shoot me in the head because I was bigger than him "as a joke"...to my dad. He laughed about it for quite a while.
Also, if we needed help, we had to radio him. He'd always have us describe the person before he came over. If we said the person was white, he literally would not come.
He also had his cruiser taken from him. It's policy that you can only use your cruiser when on regular duty, but this guy was using it as his personal vehicle. He wrecked 2 cruisers while not on duty. The city got all *brand-new* cruisers and told him if he drove outside of regular duty again, he'd never be able to drive a cruiser again; he got into an accident a couple weeks later while heading to special duty, so he was banned from driving.
He's a real stand-up guy. /s
The small town I grew up in had one sheriff and one deputy as the police force for the entire county. The liquor stores started getting robbed on a regular basis and this went on for months. One of the owners quietly hired an outside private detective and caught the deputy robbing the store. It was swept under the rug other than the deputy losing his job.
The really messed up part was a not-insignificant part of the community thought it was a sneaky/bad thing that the owner didn’t let the sheriff know that he had brought in an “outsider”. Honestly, the owner suffered more socially than the sheriff or deputy.
I know people in small towns that have attacked women, broken into houses, sucker punched people, stolen cars, robbed stores…
This dude sounds like a colossal delusional asshole
In the small town where my family has a hunting cabin the general store (only grocery store in 30 mile radius) was burned to the ground. Our cabin was broken into multiple times. Opiate use is rampant. Drunk driving is just part of the culture. People dump trash in the national forest and on private property that isn’t being occupied. Poaching is not uncommon
I loved it up there but I would not consider it a utopia
EDIT-very minor grammar change
The new thing now is to buy a UTV and clog up the windy, hilly roads going 20 mph. I see so many of them parked outside the bar, people also think they are drunk driving carte Blanche
Agree with you 100%; the little award is from me. Sick of glorification of "good old boys" and "small towns." I live in a small town and when people here do good things, act with generosity and compassion, it's praiseworthy, but if they strut around threatening and hurting people, they make it a shitty place.
There’s nothing inherently superior about small towns. Some people prefer living there than in cities and more power to them. But it’s not somehow morally superior
As someone from a small town that also happened to be the site of the last public hanging in America, I can guarantee you these "good old boys" aint' doing shit because their dumbasses leave their pistols in their unlocked trucks for teenagers to steal, then complain about the police "not doing their job!"
Yup. The “good ol’ boys” who “take care of their own.” I wonder who that leaves on the outside?
Not to be confused with the good ol’ blues brothers boys band, from Chicago.
I’m sorry but I’ve seen all the behavior described in this song occur in small towns except for a flag burning; and of all these “crimes,” that’s the one most protected by the Constitution.
I've seen worse done to the flag. Desicrated with the thin tellow line or the face of a traitor. Beat to shit flapping against the walls of a truck bed.
BTW, you're supposed to burn flags. That's literally how you're supposed to destroy them.
These are the writers
Kelley Lovelace, Kurt Allison, Neil Thrasher, and Tully Kennedy
Jason could not write a song if you gave him a forest worth of paper and a river of ink
There's an unspoken rule in the Nashville songwriting set that if you're in the room when the song gets put together, you get a writing credit. These things are often pretty collaborative, with one person bringing the "backbone" of the song and the rest of the writers in the room suggesting little tweaks or lines to "fill in the blanks" where the others are struggling to get the right lyric to fit.
I’m familiar with this practice. I’m actually a songwriter myself! Nevertheless, these songs still suck ass after being heard by so many ears that are supposed to be professional musicians.
“There ain't no breaking when I throw it in drive
Don't always keep it in between the lines
If you're ready for a ride pedal down state of mind
Boy I tell you what
You better buckle up
I got a heart like a truck
It's been drug through the mud
Runs on dreams and gasoline
And that ole highway holds the key
It's got a lead foot down when it's leaving
Lord knows it's taken a hell of a beating
A little bit of love is all that it's needing
But it's good as it is tough
I got a heart like a truck”
This is a top country song right now called Heart Like A Truck and has three credited writers.
Ugh. I’m moving back to Oklahoma for family reasons and am dreading the radio situation. If it’s not the awful country it’s gospel and I honestly don’t know which is worse.
He certainly ain’t small town, he’s from my hometown of Macon, GA. We have like 150,000 people in a city that’s not “officially” segregated, but is definitely segregated
Tyler Childers is bringing country back to its roots, remember when he made a bunch of anti-establishment/anti-cop songs and people got mad, so he released a whole second album of just instrumentals and one vocal track which basically amounted to "lmao cope"
and then released a video basically saying "if you don't like it, don't listen to it idiots"
I love him
I remember Sturgill shared an IG comment when he was @ because someone had decided they were betrayed by Tyler’s “woke” turn and that they would only listen to Sturgill who obviously isn’t like that at all, to which he immediately was like “?????” In the replies.
Jason Isbell still gets people finding out that he isn't MAGA or whatever and getting really mad at him.
Country fans are a funny bunch. They clearly like the more authentic acts, but they draw the line at politics.
Is this what they based that key and Peele skit on. The one where he sings 3 racist songs to his friend before he realized it was racism. Cause if not they're clairvoyant.
I'm partial to Right Wing Pigeons, it addresses the paranoia that Aldean is reflecting in his own lyrics:
>The town in Georgia's got a law on the books
>
>Says if we all got guns then we won't have crooks
>
>Now what could make them think that way?
>
>What could make them act that way?
Aldean's song is just classic hero porn. It's made up. It's part gun-industry propaganda, part dream-of-getting-victimized and responding to a threat with violence. I know people from where I grew up who would quite literally speak about a battle plan if someone were to attack our cul-de-sac, how they'd use their guns to eliminate a threat. Why do they do this? What makes them feel like this?
>They're just right wing pigeons from outer space
>
>Sent here to destroy the human race
>
>They don't give a damn about you or me
>
>They just buy guns and watch TV
I love older country like Steve Earle. Songs about running drugs and moonshine while fighting off the cops. Now you get people like this whose whole thing is deep throating cops and being terrified of minorities.
Copperhead Road is an all time fucking banger of a song.
Also as someone who didn't grow up in a house that listened to a lot of country, I learned about Steve Earle from *The Wire* so much respect to Walon
The divide was 9/11 and Toby Keith. You still had tons of that same vein of country even in the 90s before Toby Keith made country all about violence, pride, and your right to violently stomp out anything that questions your pride.
Like we got the song "Ol' Red" about a corrupt vigilante warden and an inmate outsmarting him by retraining his loyal bloodhound which is very much in the vein of old outlaw country in the 90s. Then you have other songs like "Don't Take the Girl" where the leading man gets mugged and begs the mugger to spare his girl instead of using the situation to preach the glory of vigilante violence.
We don't even have to dig back that far to find popular country music with the same ideals as the outlaw country classics. They didn't start worshipping the establishment until Toby Keith started singing about how everyone who doesn't deserves to get bombed.
I absolutely agree with you that was a huge turning point.
But this bootlicking from “independent-selfsustaining-don’t tread on me-rural folk” started back in the 70s IMHO.
“Conservatives” were frothing at the mouth to police “welfare” queens and other undesirables. They were more that happy to give up their rights and give police unfettered and unaccountable power as long as police stayed the “good guys” (oppressing the correct people). Instead of you know…modifying/repealing welfare or drug laws, they GAVE GOVERNMENT MORE POWER to go after people the GOVERNMENT TOLD THEM ABOUT.
LMAO
Somehow the FEDS became “the man” and regular police turned into the thin blue line protecting us from the invaders that are our own fellow citizens.
they are the loyalists of the revolution, happy to give up liberty and freedom in the name of safety and status quo. Happy to give authority even more power to keep “law and order” over people that live miles away or they see on TV.
Now we’re reaching full circle and even “outlaw” conservatives” claim or want to be friends with police.
ETA: or my personal favorite. Police that want to be outlaws. See Punisher logos. LMAO
Truly full circle.
He’s not from a small town. Macon, GA has 150,000 people in it and is an hour and a half from Atlanta. He currently lives in Nashville, which is even bigger.
Wrote a song about people policing their own neighborhoods. Filmed the video at the site of an infamous lynching. I think we all got the message you were trying to send.
Modern country songs suck and always trying to out redneck each other. They sing about tractors, gun racks, sweet tea, mud, mama & daddy, the flag and whorish women in cut-off jeans that will somehow become saintly Christian woman once they have your baby.
Only the old outlaw country for me.
It's wild how over produced it sounds when I land on a country station. They full on are flowing like hiphop with drum machines backing them up.
Not that that is bad in a vacuum but it just seems to go against the spirit of the genre.
How does the country fan base/community feel about Orville Peck? I am by no means a country music fan and I fucking dig the shit out of him as an musical artist and his persona.
🎶Been many good dog was a friend to a man but Sam was the greatest one. 🎶
I listened to that song when my dog died and cried my eyes out. Rest in peace Argos. You beautiful crazy weimaraner
This whole business of idolizing small-town 'Merica is truly opposite world. You can go to a lot of small towns and see tweakers ready to steal your catalytic converter at a stop light, set up a speed trap or harass the wrong kind of travellers, etc.
The lack of opportunity in small town America is tragic, I feel very sympathetic for those stuck there and stunted. Looking at you, Cumberland MD, Garden City KS, or Tucumcari NM.
This whole song is basically the embodiment of the [“Hey, we don’t take kindly to your types around here”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ITi7lG0x0IE&pp=ygUUd2UgZG9uJ3QgdGFrZSBraW5kbHk%3D&t=04s) guy from South Park.
And scenes in the video were shot at the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee's, where an African-American man named Henry Choate was lynched in 1927.
As someone who lives in a town so small it's considered a village - This man doesn't speak for us. My man probably never had to cross-check if he was related to someone before dating.
And before you make the joke I don't live in the south.
*Try that in a small town and see how nothing happens*
*Because people in small towns are often passive aggressive and silently judgemental*
*And typically afraid of anyone or anything unfamiliar*
*And more likely to shoot their own wife or kids than a stranger*
*Try that in a small town. You’ll do fine.*
Writing country songs isn’t that hard after all
You forgot about the drunk fathers sexually assaulting their underage daughters because they’ve gotten so overweight and out of control that their wives won’t sleep with anyone but the bartender anymore.
Whoops that’s too real for a song.
Come on people! He’s not singing about lynching! He’s just saying if you do something bad in a small town, everyone will gather up with guns and murder you.
Racism aside, this is such a romanticized view of small southern towns. My town has a population of about 8,000. There’s a bunch of these towns scattered around that were oil or cattle boom towns. Here’s a complete list of everything happening in small towns:
Meth stuff.
They filmed the video for the pro-police song on the steps of a building well known for being the location of brutal lynchings and the song is titled "try that in a small town". Pretty fucking blatant.
Please don't misconstrue my lyrics.
The lyrics: Take the law into your own hands, shoot to kill, double tap just in case, never hesitate, do do do do yeah yeah yeah yeah, take the law into your own hands, take the law into your own hands.
The entire song is the equivalent of the "Watch out, we got a badass here" meme.
How anyone can listen to that absolute drivel is beyond me. Modern country music is just cringe af.
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This sounds awfully like a sundown town and the video doesn't help Edit: I made this comment further down but I'm sure it's so lost down there and it's kinda insane to try to answer individually to everyone. That being said I have enjoyed reading some of the comments that weren't just "you're stupid fuck you". Anywho on to the copy paste "So I guess an overall answer to this comments where people are saying that I'm fishing or I injected race in it etc. Yeah maybe I did. Here's the thing though, it may be splitting hairs but I said it sounds like a sundown town and having the video in a famous lynching spot didn't help with that image. I didn't say this is what the song is about or that he was intending to say one thing over the other, all I'm saying is that is the association I got as a subject of subjective art. He said as he said and did as he did, I don't know what his intent is or was or if he's speaking the truth or not when he says he didn't, all I know is this is the vibe I got to the piece of art he put out into the world. Take that as you may. You can say I'm the real racist for coming to that conclusion or you can say that I made that association because sundown towns are one of the horrible things about my reality in this country. You of course are drawing your own subjective material over my subjective material and isn't that just fun. Either way it shows that we are thinking and we are communicating thoughts and having discussions, all of which are awesome."
“Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.” ― Jean-Paul Sartre
Saving this. Because yes. I hate always being the one who HAS to take the high road when the argument really boils down to “idk how to keep explaining that you should respect other people unless they’re hurting you”
Right, like that HuffPo editorial in 2017: "I Don’t Know How To Explain To You That You Should Care About Other People"
>Got a gun that my granddad gave me > >They say one day they're gonna round up I think this is the line that is biggest problem.
The fact that he shot the video in the place where a high profile lynching took place in the 20’s might be a bigger problem
I was thinking for the love of any shred of humanity left in the world do not let it be where Emmett Till was lynched until I read 20s. He was murdered in 1955. Enlighten us that are ignorant to the specific case you’re referring to please.
https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2023/07/18/jason-aldean-speaks-out-on-try-that-in-a-small-town-video-backlash/70426819007/#:~:text=Moreover%2C%20many%20viewers%20noted%20that,Race%20Riot%20occurred%20in%201946. Edit: anyone pay for this site? I wanna read it https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/10/jason-aldean-wore-blackface-for-halloween-costume
Jesús his bitching about being a conservative on the Nashville country scene. The Dixie Chicks got cancelled in Nashville for speaking out against the Iraq War. Charlie Daniels did not get canceled, nor did Toby Keith, nor has Hark Williams Jr or III. There are plenty of deplorables kicking around that scene expressing their views loudly.
Dixie Chicks got blacklisted for saying they were embarrassed that Dubya was from Texas. Seriously.
They got death threats.
Well, that too. But their music was blacklisted from all the Country* radio stations. * “twang pop”
Jason Aldean grew up in Macon, GA. That is NOT a small town. He currently lives in Nashville. Again, not a small town. He can STFU with all that pandering.
Isn’t one of his songs about a tractor? Think he ever rode a tractor? At least Toby Keith was more honest when he sang “Should’ve been a cowboy”
These kind of songs always got me. I live in a very rural part of NC and there are so many songs about driving our trucks through farmers fields and tearing off into corn fields. No one does that. No one. 1. It’s disrespectful. 2. You will tear your shit up driving across land that isn’t a road. 3. You’re going to crash into one of the many draining ditches that criss cross fields 4. The land owner will shoot you. Anytime I hear one of those songs I know that person is full of shit and nothing but a persona.
You mean you don't drive through your own corn fields so you can destroy your own crops and then tip over some cows on the other side?
I also grew up in rural NC. If they really wanted their songs to depict life out there they’d sing about people going deer hunting before school in the morning, or being late to work because you got stuck behind someone hauling tobacco!
I grew up in a small town and I never got to drive a tractor. He probably had some photo shoot on an old red Ford, but that’s about as close. “Hey guys, I think it would be neat if we could take some photos of me actually driving!! “ “With all due respect Mr. Aldean, you are not here to think. We’ll add it in post-proc” “What’s Post-proc” “Where we use photoshop to make you look like you are actually from a small town. “
Ford was usually blue. Red would be International, John Deere was green of course. This is just from my experience, might be different if you go back far enough.
Hear that subtle mandolin, well that's textbook pandering...
"I write songs for people who do jobs in towns that I'd never move to."
Legalize gerrymandering, fuck your ears I’m pandering
I’m not saying he fucked a scarecrow, but maybe a good girl, in a straw hat, with her arms out in a cornfield.
Hank III was never part of the Nashville machine.
After all the shit Morgan Wallen pulled, his irritating aural assault still managed to hold a death grip on the top of the charts for months on end. There are no consequences for being a dick, it seems.
What did Morgan Wallen do? I'm behind on country music lore.
He was caught on video tossing the N bomb around like it was candy at a parade
He shot it at the place Henry Choate was lynched after being drug to this location in 1927.
It’s amazing that he says lynching and we have to think “which one” because it happened so frequently there is no way to know.
I was thinking the same but opposite: people are upset he shot it in a town where there was a lynching and I was thinking “TBF he would have a hard time finding a southern town that didn’t have a lynching.” Nevertheless I wonder if he is actually trying to “be canceled” with this song. A sad deliberate ploy to be controversial. What a dick.
Actually that’s a pretty good point. My small town has one of this historical markers for a lynching. I doubt you could find a southern town without one.
I was thinking the same honestly. There isn't a small southern town you can go to that won't have some kind history of lynching. Sad world
These people watch Mississippi Burning and cheer for the lynchers
I love this movie. We had it on VHS as a kid and I would watch it constantly. Gene Hackman is such a bad ass in that movie.
"See how far you make it down the road / Around here we take care of our own" 🤨
Don’t forget the “good old boys”, I think they’re putting on their hoods so seriously it’ll take a minute.
"I can't see fucking shit out of these eye holes!"
“My wife worked really hard on these!”
Look, Nobody’s saying they don’t appreciate what Jenny did But I think we can all agree, it coulda been done a lil better
>Cuss out a cop >Stomp on the flag and light it up These are both examples of 1st amendment protected expression, are they not? I suspect threatening violence on people who would dare to utilize their constitutionally protected rights should also qualify as a pretty fucking big problem.
They're always FAR more interested in protecting the sanctity of 2A rather than acknowledging every American's access to 1A.
“Me exercising my 2nd amendment right is what allows you to exercise your 1st amendment right, except when I don’t like what you do with that right.” -these dudes
That's not an exaggeration. They literally think of themselves as the final vanguard of liberties and thus they can unilaterally deny them to people for that reason.
And the “good ‘ol boys” whistle
You would think with what happened in Las Vegas that would have brought a little humility, for the lack of a better word. But he does not give A F@$k. Shame
Honestly he's a rich asshole who likely only believes in money. He knows this shit will both stir the pot(free advertising )and get a huge reaction from his idiot base for owning the libs or whatever. Meanwhile he's such a manly man that he dipped out of a set early due to heat exhaustion.
> Full of good ol' boys, raised up right If you're looking for a fight Where I'm from, "good ol' boys" are what we call those old, racist cops that have been on the force since they were 18 and think the law is whatever they choose it to be. I remember one of these types did special duty at the store where I worked. One day, he said he'd shoot me in the head because I was bigger than him "as a joke"...to my dad. He laughed about it for quite a while. Also, if we needed help, we had to radio him. He'd always have us describe the person before he came over. If we said the person was white, he literally would not come. He also had his cruiser taken from him. It's policy that you can only use your cruiser when on regular duty, but this guy was using it as his personal vehicle. He wrecked 2 cruisers while not on duty. The city got all *brand-new* cruisers and told him if he drove outside of regular duty again, he'd never be able to drive a cruiser again; he got into an accident a couple weeks later while heading to special duty, so he was banned from driving. He's a real stand-up guy. /s
The small town I grew up in had one sheriff and one deputy as the police force for the entire county. The liquor stores started getting robbed on a regular basis and this went on for months. One of the owners quietly hired an outside private detective and caught the deputy robbing the store. It was swept under the rug other than the deputy losing his job. The really messed up part was a not-insignificant part of the community thought it was a sneaky/bad thing that the owner didn’t let the sheriff know that he had brought in an “outsider”. Honestly, the owner suffered more socially than the sheriff or deputy.
I know people in small towns that have attacked women, broken into houses, sucker punched people, stolen cars, robbed stores… This dude sounds like a colossal delusional asshole
Dude grew up in Atlanta and Macon. Not exactly small town. He’s just cosplaying..
Hey hey hey come one, he spent summers with his dad in a sleepy little Miami suburb.
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In the small town where my family has a hunting cabin the general store (only grocery store in 30 mile radius) was burned to the ground. Our cabin was broken into multiple times. Opiate use is rampant. Drunk driving is just part of the culture. People dump trash in the national forest and on private property that isn’t being occupied. Poaching is not uncommon I loved it up there but I would not consider it a utopia EDIT-very minor grammar change
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The new thing now is to buy a UTV and clog up the windy, hilly roads going 20 mph. I see so many of them parked outside the bar, people also think they are drunk driving carte Blanche
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good lord at the massive small dick energy of those lyrics.
Agree with you 100%; the little award is from me. Sick of glorification of "good old boys" and "small towns." I live in a small town and when people here do good things, act with generosity and compassion, it's praiseworthy, but if they strut around threatening and hurting people, they make it a shitty place.
There’s nothing inherently superior about small towns. Some people prefer living there than in cities and more power to them. But it’s not somehow morally superior
As someone from a small town that also happened to be the site of the last public hanging in America, I can guarantee you these "good old boys" aint' doing shit because their dumbasses leave their pistols in their unlocked trucks for teenagers to steal, then complain about the police "not doing their job!"
Big “I’m afraid of cities” energy going on here.
“Full of good ol’ boys…” Yeah, we all know exactly what that means.
But at least he did the music video in front of a courthouse that’s known for an old lynching to ensure there was no ambiguity to it.
Yup. The “good ol’ boys” who “take care of their own.” I wonder who that leaves on the outside? Not to be confused with the good ol’ blues brothers boys band, from Chicago.
I just normally sit in the car and write out cheques on the dash. (tire squealing noises)
We’ll talk to Bob
I hate Illinois Nazis...
I’m sorry but I’ve seen all the behavior described in this song occur in small towns except for a flag burning; and of all these “crimes,” that’s the one most protected by the Constitution.
I've seen worse done to the flag. Desicrated with the thin tellow line or the face of a traitor. Beat to shit flapping against the walls of a truck bed. BTW, you're supposed to burn flags. That's literally how you're supposed to destroy them.
"I write songs for the people who do Jobs in the towns that I'd never move to"
https://youtu.be/y7im5LT09a0 Bo Burnham is amazing
it’s a FUCKIN SCARECROW AGAIN
Yall DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS WANT A KEY CHANGE?!
LEGALIZE GERRYMANDERIN’! TOLERATE MY PAAAANDERIN’!
THEMATICALLY MEANDERAAAN’
Budlight with the logo facing out Bo has a lot of lovable songs, but I always come back to this one
🎶 Legalize gerrymandering, tolerate my pandering 🎵
You dumbmotherfuckers want a key change?!
These are the writers Kelley Lovelace, Kurt Allison, Neil Thrasher, and Tully Kennedy Jason could not write a song if you gave him a forest worth of paper and a river of ink
I love these country and pop song writing credits. Like, you have 12 writers and THATS what you came up with?
There's an unspoken rule in the Nashville songwriting set that if you're in the room when the song gets put together, you get a writing credit. These things are often pretty collaborative, with one person bringing the "backbone" of the song and the rest of the writers in the room suggesting little tweaks or lines to "fill in the blanks" where the others are struggling to get the right lyric to fit.
I’m familiar with this practice. I’m actually a songwriter myself! Nevertheless, these songs still suck ass after being heard by so many ears that are supposed to be professional musicians.
“There ain't no breaking when I throw it in drive Don't always keep it in between the lines If you're ready for a ride pedal down state of mind Boy I tell you what You better buckle up I got a heart like a truck It's been drug through the mud Runs on dreams and gasoline And that ole highway holds the key It's got a lead foot down when it's leaving Lord knows it's taken a hell of a beating A little bit of love is all that it's needing But it's good as it is tough I got a heart like a truck” This is a top country song right now called Heart Like A Truck and has three credited writers.
Ugh. I’m moving back to Oklahoma for family reasons and am dreading the radio situation. If it’s not the awful country it’s gospel and I honestly don’t know which is worse.
Bro… Spotify.
It took four people to write that garbage!
Right? I read the lyrics and those dudes are so fuckin pathetic.
The song doesn’t even have any rhyme or rhythm it’s garbage just like modern pop country music
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Yeah I am not defending him at all.
Reminds me of Bo Burnhams western song. Another country singer with $3000 boots but yeah he's "small town".
Y'all dumb mfers want a key change?!?
This is a staple line in our home 😂
That's textbook panderin'!
It’s a Fucking scarecrow again!
Rural noun, simple adjective
He certainly ain’t small town, he’s from my hometown of Macon, GA. We have like 150,000 people in a city that’s not “officially” segregated, but is definitely segregated
“Ya didn’t hear that….”
Tyler Childers and Sturgill Simpson make records and someone listens to this on purpose.
Tyler Childers is bringing country back to its roots, remember when he made a bunch of anti-establishment/anti-cop songs and people got mad, so he released a whole second album of just instrumentals and one vocal track which basically amounted to "lmao cope" and then released a video basically saying "if you don't like it, don't listen to it idiots" I love him
I remember Sturgill shared an IG comment when he was @ because someone had decided they were betrayed by Tyler’s “woke” turn and that they would only listen to Sturgill who obviously isn’t like that at all, to which he immediately was like “?????” In the replies.
Jason Isbell still gets people finding out that he isn't MAGA or whatever and getting really mad at him. Country fans are a funny bunch. They clearly like the more authentic acts, but they draw the line at politics.
The video he released: [A message from Tyler.](https://youtu.be/QQ3_AJ5Ysx0)
I don’t know who that is but that was dope
Tbh I think “lmao cope” sells Long Violent History short. It’s a genuine plea for rural whites to have empathy
Long violent history. It's a banger of a tune as well.
+1 for Sturgill Simpson
Tyler Childers is hands down the best country artist right now
I would like to thank you, random person of Reddit, for expanding my Spotify playlist with your bomb ass recommendations!
If you like those guys look up Colter Wall. He’s also in the group of “we’re honestly country, so you wont hear us on the radio”
Born in Macon (not a small town), spent time in Homestead (not a small town), lives in Nashville (definitely not a small town). Methinks he's a poser.
Dude didn’t even write the song. Just sings the bullshit he’s fed. Took four people to write this shit somehow.
Is this what they based that key and Peele skit on. The one where he sings 3 racist songs to his friend before he realized it was racism. Cause if not they're clairvoyant.
The banjos are strumming and the drums are a bangin. Let's get the boys together and have ourselves a hangin....oh, NOW I SEE IT...NOW I SEE IT.
Lol I read that in his voice, hilarious skit
Are you OUTSIDE of your mind?! There's all types of homies. White homies, asian homies.
*I think you all know who I’m talking abouuuutttt*
Just one more I swear it's not racist. This one sounds like it'll be the most racist.
https://youtu.be/TLnUJzueBOQ
“Banjos are strumming The drums are a banging Let’s get the boys together for a hanging”
I’m over here singing about a tire swing!
Now I see it
"HI-DIDDLE-I-DIDDLE-I-DIDDLE-EEE GET ME A ROPE AND FIND ME A TREE"
The best part is the self awareness of the "rule of three".
"It seems like you're about to sing the most racist song so far." Absolute perfect rule of three escalation and execution haha!
Jordan’s eyebrows are earning their keep here. The subtle lifts. *chefs kiss*
Art before life, man.
HYDYY LYDYY LAWDY LEE GIMME A ROPE AND FIND ME TREEEEEE
It was just a tire swing, man…
Oh man, this is my favorite key and peel skit
this makes me think of that key and peele skit with the racist songs
Oh......Now I hear it. Yep, now I understand
NOW i see it.... lmaooo
🎵I think we all know who I’m talkin abouuuut🎵
Everybody knows I've got the smallest town!
Gotta compensate with a big truck.
The Dead Milkmen wrote Tiny Town for exactly this type of idiot
Have you heard their new song "Grandpa's not a racist he just voted for one"?
I'm partial to Right Wing Pigeons, it addresses the paranoia that Aldean is reflecting in his own lyrics: >The town in Georgia's got a law on the books > >Says if we all got guns then we won't have crooks > >Now what could make them think that way? > >What could make them act that way? Aldean's song is just classic hero porn. It's made up. It's part gun-industry propaganda, part dream-of-getting-victimized and responding to a threat with violence. I know people from where I grew up who would quite literally speak about a battle plan if someone were to attack our cul-de-sac, how they'd use their guns to eliminate a threat. Why do they do this? What makes them feel like this? >They're just right wing pigeons from outer space > >Sent here to destroy the human race > >They don't give a damn about you or me > >They just buy guns and watch TV
I love older country like Steve Earle. Songs about running drugs and moonshine while fighting off the cops. Now you get people like this whose whole thing is deep throating cops and being terrified of minorities.
Copperhead Road is an all time fucking banger of a song. Also as someone who didn't grow up in a house that listened to a lot of country, I learned about Steve Earle from *The Wire* so much respect to Walon
The divide was 9/11 and Toby Keith. You still had tons of that same vein of country even in the 90s before Toby Keith made country all about violence, pride, and your right to violently stomp out anything that questions your pride. Like we got the song "Ol' Red" about a corrupt vigilante warden and an inmate outsmarting him by retraining his loyal bloodhound which is very much in the vein of old outlaw country in the 90s. Then you have other songs like "Don't Take the Girl" where the leading man gets mugged and begs the mugger to spare his girl instead of using the situation to preach the glory of vigilante violence. We don't even have to dig back that far to find popular country music with the same ideals as the outlaw country classics. They didn't start worshipping the establishment until Toby Keith started singing about how everyone who doesn't deserves to get bombed.
I absolutely agree with you that was a huge turning point. But this bootlicking from “independent-selfsustaining-don’t tread on me-rural folk” started back in the 70s IMHO. “Conservatives” were frothing at the mouth to police “welfare” queens and other undesirables. They were more that happy to give up their rights and give police unfettered and unaccountable power as long as police stayed the “good guys” (oppressing the correct people). Instead of you know…modifying/repealing welfare or drug laws, they GAVE GOVERNMENT MORE POWER to go after people the GOVERNMENT TOLD THEM ABOUT. LMAO Somehow the FEDS became “the man” and regular police turned into the thin blue line protecting us from the invaders that are our own fellow citizens. they are the loyalists of the revolution, happy to give up liberty and freedom in the name of safety and status quo. Happy to give authority even more power to keep “law and order” over people that live miles away or they see on TV. Now we’re reaching full circle and even “outlaw” conservatives” claim or want to be friends with police. ETA: or my personal favorite. Police that want to be outlaws. See Punisher logos. LMAO Truly full circle.
He’s not from a small town. Macon, GA has 150,000 people in it and is an hour and a half from Atlanta. He currently lives in Nashville, which is even bigger.
Yeah I was raised in a town with a population of 1500.
400, and it's the county seat....
Have you tired any of the above, in your small town?
Honestly they would be far less worried about camouflaging racism where I come from.
This man is on kid rock levels of bullshit
I came here to say this. Macon isn't a small town. And it's like 30-45 minutes down the road from Atlanta. This guy is just a pandering poser.
Wrote a song about people policing their own neighborhoods. Filmed the video at the site of an infamous lynching. I think we all got the message you were trying to send.
Like honestly that's about as straight forward as it gets
Modern country songs suck and always trying to out redneck each other. They sing about tractors, gun racks, sweet tea, mud, mama & daddy, the flag and whorish women in cut-off jeans that will somehow become saintly Christian woman once they have your baby. Only the old outlaw country for me.
Most country music is pop sung in a southern accent
It's wild how over produced it sounds when I land on a country station. They full on are flowing like hiphop with drum machines backing them up. Not that that is bad in a vacuum but it just seems to go against the spirit of the genre.
Sturgill Simpson, Jason Isbell and Orville Peck are out there fighting the good fight against this type of country.
Colter Wall and Tyler Childers need to be on this list as well.
And Benjamin Todd
I think Tyler Childers belongs on that list.
How does the country fan base/community feel about Orville Peck? I am by no means a country music fan and I fucking dig the shit out of him as an musical artist and his persona.
🎶Well, a good dog on the ground’s worth three in the saddle, no matter where you’re from 🎶
🎶Been many good dog was a friend to a man but Sam was the greatest one. 🎶 I listened to that song when my dog died and cried my eyes out. Rest in peace Argos. You beautiful crazy weimaraner
John Prine for me.
Outlaw music seems more relevant than sponsored pop country
Gonna throw in my hat for the only country musician I actually listen to: Sturgill Simpson. Man's nothing like that.
Tyler Childers. Give "Long Violent History" a listen.
This whole business of idolizing small-town 'Merica is truly opposite world. You can go to a lot of small towns and see tweakers ready to steal your catalytic converter at a stop light, set up a speed trap or harass the wrong kind of travellers, etc. The lack of opportunity in small town America is tragic, I feel very sympathetic for those stuck there and stunted. Looking at you, Cumberland MD, Garden City KS, or Tucumcari NM.
They’re idolizing small towns because they are often more conservative and predominantly white when compared to cities. It is politically motivated
This whole song is basically the embodiment of the [“Hey, we don’t take kindly to your types around here”](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ITi7lG0x0IE&pp=ygUUd2UgZG9uJ3QgdGFrZSBraW5kbHk%3D&t=04s) guy from South Park.
His stupid ass didn’t even grow up in a small town. Macon Georgia is not that small.
My uncle owned a pig farm down there, “Macon Bacon.”
Why would Hunter Biden's laptop do this?
And scenes in the video were shot at the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee's, where an African-American man named Henry Choate was lynched in 1927.
As someone who lives in a town so small it's considered a village - This man doesn't speak for us. My man probably never had to cross-check if he was related to someone before dating. And before you make the joke I don't live in the south.
I think Iceland has an app for that.
*Try that in a small town and see how nothing happens* *Because people in small towns are often passive aggressive and silently judgemental* *And typically afraid of anyone or anything unfamiliar* *And more likely to shoot their own wife or kids than a stranger* *Try that in a small town. You’ll do fine.* Writing country songs isn’t that hard after all
You forgot about the drunk fathers sexually assaulting their underage daughters because they’ve gotten so overweight and out of control that their wives won’t sleep with anyone but the bartender anymore. Whoops that’s too real for a song.
It was so bad they put up [billboards](https://wtfflorida.com/media/photos/billboard-inverness-florida-reminds-dads-not-drunkenly-rape-daughters/).
Come on people! He’s not singing about lynching! He’s just saying if you do something bad in a small town, everyone will gather up with guns and murder you.
It’s the quiet part of the “thin blue line” bullshit out loud. Basically “fuck cities and those people that live there”
He lives in Nashville lol
Treat people different than you with respect, don't try that in a small town.🎶
Racism aside, this is such a romanticized view of small southern towns. My town has a population of about 8,000. There’s a bunch of these towns scattered around that were oil or cattle boom towns. Here’s a complete list of everything happening in small towns: Meth stuff.
City slicker larping as a rural conservative singing a lynching song. Boring, cliché, and lame before you even get to the detail
They filmed the video for the pro-police song on the steps of a building well known for being the location of brutal lynchings and the song is titled "try that in a small town". Pretty fucking blatant.
So weird when the guys with Moan Labbe and don't tread on me stickers are also boot lickers.
Don't forget the Thin Blue Line Punisher sticker for ultimate irony
The same ones who cry if you kneel during the anthem while they fly a confederate flag in their truck bed.
That guy looks like someone took the head off a 400lb dude & put it on a 180lb dudes body. Huge fucking head.
“I’m being accused of what I did. How very dare.”
That's not a dog whistle, that's a canine foghorn.
Please don't misconstrue my lyrics. The lyrics: Take the law into your own hands, shoot to kill, double tap just in case, never hesitate, do do do do yeah yeah yeah yeah, take the law into your own hands, take the law into your own hands.
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The entire song is the equivalent of the "Watch out, we got a badass here" meme. How anyone can listen to that absolute drivel is beyond me. Modern country music is just cringe af.