Country crooner Jason Aldean has doubled down on his “Try That in a Small Town” music amid controversy that has branded him a “racist” and “violent bigot.”
Aldean, 46, addressed the backlash Friday between songs at his packed gig in Cincinnati, Ohio.
“It’s been a protracted week, and I’ve seen plenty of stuff suggesting I’m this, suggesting I’m that,” he mentioned, eliciting boos from the gang, in keeping with a snippet posted to Twitter. “I really feel like all people’s entitled to their opinions. You can suppose one thing all you need to it doesn’t imply it’s true.”
He continued: “What I’m is a proud American. I’m proud to be from right here. I really like our nation. I need to see it restored to what it as soon as was earlier than all this bulls—t began occurring to us. I really like my nation, I really like my household, and I’ll do something to guard that, I can inform you that proper now.”
Aldean’s remarks prompted the riled-up viewers to start chanting “USA” because the singer acknowledged “cancel tradition” and the way it can “attempt to damage your life.”
He applauded nation music followers for seeing “by means of the bulls–t.”
The Post has reached out to Aldean’s reps for remark.
“Try That in a Small Town” has been met with vitriol from followers and fellow musicians alike as CMT pulled the music video, which options footage from varied protests together with Black Lives Matter and Aldean performing in entrance of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee.
The courthouse was the backdrop for the 1946 Columbia Race Riot, which almost resulted within the lynching of the primary Black Supreme Court justice, Thurgood Marshall.
The metropolis additionally noticed the lynching of Henry Choate, 18, in 1927.
The music particulars acts of violence — sucker-punching pedestrians, carjacking folks, pulling a gun on enterprise homeowners — labeling the so-called “powerful” perpetrators as “fools” and daring them to “strive that in a small city.”
He condemns them for stomping on the American flag and setting it ablaze, whereas warning that he’s geared up with a firearm gifted from his grandfather.
Variety topped the observe “essentially the most contemptible nation music of the last decade,” whereas Sheryl Crow slammed Aldean for “selling violence,” calling the tune “lame.”
Despite backlash, denied the accusations in an Instagram Story earlier this month.
“In the previous 24 hours I’ve been accused of releasing a pro-lynching music (a music that has been out since May) and was topic to the comparability that I (direct quote) was not too happy with the nationwide BLM protests,” Aldean wrote.
“These references should not solely meritless, however harmful.”
