"Try that here and you won't make it out alive." I think that kind of promotes violence. I mean, at least a little bit.
Try That In a Small Town
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So does Rap lyrics, but hey we live in a two tier system.
That’s a stretch.
Saying the response would be different in a small town isn’t “promoting violence”.
It’s stating truth.
I saw how Aldean reacted to the Vegas shooting. It's not truth. It's posturing.
To steal ideas from Doc, "187 on an undercover cop" doesn't promote violence; it's just stating truth.
I lasted about 90 seconds.
"My heart aches for the Victims and their families of this Senseless act. I am so sorry for the hurt and pain everyone is feeling right now and there are no words I can say to take that pain away. Just know u all are in my heart and my prayers as we all go through this together."
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Have you condemned Hip Hop songs about killing cops?
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Even those of us without political affiliation can agree with that.
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Jason Aldean Already Had the Most Contemptible Country Song of the Decade. The Video Is Worse
Jason Aldean was already trolling with the vigilante-themed song 'Try That in a Small Town.' His video will do much worse damage... to country music.
variety.com
I've defended movies, etc. from innuendo attacks or linking them to their creator's other wacky ideas, etc. but this probably needs some explaining:
"The setting, outside the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has proven upsetting for some who know or learn the history of the building. It’s where, in 1927, a white lynch mob dragged a young man named Henry Choate through the streets behind a car before finally hanging him from a second-story courthouse window. Let’s give Aldean and video director Shaun Silva the benefit of the doubt and assume they had not indulged in a history lesson when they decided the same frontage where a Black man was murdered in front of a crowd would be a good place to alternate projected footage of protesters being put down with a draped American flag. (Hard to blame anyone for thinking that this history did show up in Aldean’s or the filmmakers’ web search on the location, but imagining that they knew that and proceeded anyway, as a known dog whistle, is… just tough to contemplate.)"
Also, pretty good critique here:
But leave aside the uncomfortable connotations that may be there by accident. What do the song and the video mean to say, outrightly? Considering the single itself, first, it’s been written (not by Aldean but by Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy, Kelley Lovelace and Neil Thrasher, none having their proudest moments here) in true modern-day “making a list” songwriting style. Only, instead of being a list of what we like about small towns (water towers, corner stores, holding doors open, lack of stoplights, saying “ma’am”), it’s a list of hellishly dystopian tropes about city evils that seems half-borrowed from Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive,” half-borrowed from the Book of Revelation.
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But the most heinous thing the small towns of today have to dread, and ward off with threats, is that somebody will “stomp on the flag and light it up.” Of all the tropes from bygone days that country songwriters are nostalgic for, it’s surprising to see flag-burning join the list. Jason, 1994 called, and it wants its straw man back.
Also: “Cuss out a cop, spit in his face…” This never happens in a small town? Aldean can be excused for not knowing — he’s never lived in one himself — but if he thinks guys outside of big cities have never sworn and spit at cops as they’re getting tossed out of somewhere… has he ever been in a bar?
So I wasn't going to get all into the video. I was just going to point out that the song was shitty. But that's a pretty solid take on why the video is shitty too.Jason Aldean Already Had the Most Contemptible Country Song of the Decade. The Video Is Worse
Jason Aldean was already trolling with the vigilante-themed song 'Try That in a Small Town.' His video will do much worse damage... to country music.
I've defended movies, etc. from innuendo attacks or linking them to their creator's other wacky ideas, etc. but this probably needs some explaining:
"The setting, outside the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has proven upsetting for some who know or learn the history of the building. It’s where, in 1927, a white lynch mob dragged a young man named Henry Choate through the streets behind a car before finally hanging him from a second-story courthouse window. Let’s give Aldean and video director Shaun Silva the benefit of the doubt and assume they had not indulged in a history lesson when they decided the same frontage where a Black man was murdered in front of a crowd would be a good place to alternate projected footage of protesters being put down with a draped American flag. (Hard to blame anyone for thinking that this history did show up in Aldean’s or the filmmakers’ web search on the location, but imagining that they knew that and proceeded anyway, as a known dog whistle, is… just tough to contemplate.)"
Also, pretty good critique here:
But leave aside the uncomfortable connotations that may be there by accident. What do the song and the video mean to say, outrightly? Considering the single itself, first, it’s been written (not by Aldean but by Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy, Kelley Lovelace and Neil Thrasher, none having their proudest moments here) in true modern-day “making a list” songwriting style. Only, instead of being a list of what we like about small towns (water towers, corner stores, holding doors open, lack of stoplights, saying “ma’am”), it’s a list of hellishly dystopian tropes about city evils that seems half-borrowed from Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive,” half-borrowed from the Book of Revelation.
. . .
But the most heinous thing the small towns of today have to dread, and ward off with threats, is that somebody will “stomp on the flag and light it up.” Of all the tropes from bygone days that country songwriters are nostalgic for, it’s surprising to see flag-burning join the list. Jason, 1994 called, and it wants its straw man back.
Also: “Cuss out a cop, spit in his face…” This never happens in a small town? Aldean can be excused for not knowing — he’s never lived in one himself — but if he thinks guys outside of big cities have never sworn and spit at cops as they’re getting tossed out of somewhere… has he ever been in a bar?
Edit: Sorry, Brad, your @zeke4ahs level formatting hid most of that from me, so I didn't notice that it was also a solid critique of the song itself.
Not sure about other genres but modern Nashville country songwriting is like assembly line songwriting by committee.
I do like Jon Pardi and Parker McCollum but would have a hard time naming anyone new within the last 10 years. Absolutely trash as a genre now. Thank God I have 50 years of good options to choose from. When it comes to mainstream country anyway. You can did deeper and find tons more.
I do like Jon Pardi and Parker McCollum but would have a hard time naming anyone new within the last 10 years. Absolutely trash as a genre now. Thank God I have 50 years of good options to choose from. When it comes to mainstream country anyway. You can did deeper and find tons more.
That’s what she said.
IE, he didn’t say what Goat thought he should have.
Also, it's more likely Aldean gets his ass beat in a small town for looking like a metrosexual cowboy wannabe.
I don't know about that, but I certainly wouldn't have released a song about how hard me and mine are.
It’s pop music with belt buckles. They take good up and coming artists and crush their soul under the wheel of auto tune and formulaic song writing.
Pardi and McCollum are great examples of this. Their newest albums are entirely forgettable but I know every song off “The Limestone Lid” and “Write you a song”
Aside from being cheesy and just terrible music, it's hillbilly porn and fear mongering. Small towns have a lot of issues too. Why doesn't he sing about them? Sing about poverty and meth addiction. Sing about the one factory closing and pretty much destroying the town.
He just wants to talk shit about cities? The place where most of his fans probably live?
He just wants to talk shit about cities? The place where most of his fans probably live?
So true. And snap tracks, God I hate those.
For Pardi anything California Sunrise and before was perfect for him, didnt like his newest single. Just recently started listening to Parker, he's just not as bad as the rest. I find him a little bit believable.
Living in a small town, the only thing that would get me motivated is if someone tried to break in my house or assault me, family, or friends. They can burn down the dollar general I don't care. There's another one 7 miles away in either direction.
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Seems like just notice to me.
Just like a well published law. Ohhhhh that’s right, laws aren’t actually published this easily for public knowledge.
Ignorance of this common sense law, does not save your life, from doing stupid shit!
Although, you are free to try.
I don’t know anything about Jason Aldean or what he believes and I’ve literally listened to this song once. So I don’t really know enough to comment. Not that that’s ever stopped me before.Jason Aldean Already Had the Most Contemptible Country Song of the Decade. The Video Is Worse
Jason Aldean was already trolling with the vigilante-themed song 'Try That in a Small Town.' His video will do much worse damage... to country music.
I've defended movies, etc. from innuendo attacks or linking them to their creator's other wacky ideas, etc. but this probably needs some explaining:
"The setting, outside the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, has proven upsetting for some who know or learn the history of the building. It’s where, in 1927, a white lynch mob dragged a young man named Henry Choate through the streets behind a car before finally hanging him from a second-story courthouse window. Let’s give Aldean and video director Shaun Silva the benefit of the doubt and assume they had not indulged in a history lesson when they decided the same frontage where a Black man was murdered in front of a crowd would be a good place to alternate projected footage of protesters being put down with a draped American flag. (Hard to blame anyone for thinking that this history did show up in Aldean’s or the filmmakers’ web search on the location, but imagining that they knew that and proceeded anyway, as a known dog whistle, is… just tough to contemplate.)"
Also, pretty good critique here:
But leave aside the uncomfortable connotations that may be there by accident. What do the song and the video mean to say, outrightly? Considering the single itself, first, it’s been written (not by Aldean but by Kurt Allison, Tully Kennedy, Kelley Lovelace and Neil Thrasher, none having their proudest moments here) in true modern-day “making a list” songwriting style. Only, instead of being a list of what we like about small towns (water towers, corner stores, holding doors open, lack of stoplights, saying “ma’am”), it’s a list of hellishly dystopian tropes about city evils that seems half-borrowed from Hank Williams Jr.’s “A Country Boy Can Survive,” half-borrowed from the Book of Revelation.
. . .
But the most heinous thing the small towns of today have to dread, and ward off with threats, is that somebody will “stomp on the flag and light it up.” Of all the tropes from bygone days that country songwriters are nostalgic for, it’s surprising to see flag-burning join the list. Jason, 1994 called, and it wants its straw man back.
Also: “Cuss out a cop, spit in his face…” This never happens in a small town? Aldean can be excused for not knowing — he’s never lived in one himself — but if he thinks guys outside of big cities have never sworn and spit at cops as they’re getting tossed out of somewhere… has he ever been in a bar?
But I will say a lot of that seems like a stretch.
You’re a f$&king clown.
I don’t agree with that. There are a number of messages one can take from the song + video. Racism and vigilantism covers much of it. If that’s what you are looking for. But there is another message. People in big cities don’t give a shit about their neighbors. Thus we get senseless violence and mahem on the streets, neighborhoods, schools, and multi family housing. That’s not small town life. There people usually look out for and care for each other.
I don’t think the song is any different from this classic.
And this:
Goat would piss his cargo pants and then slip and fall in it.
Just deception...or is it? Bob Lee Swagger kept a low profile, until he didn't. Some guys just want to be left alone. 😉
Brother, we’ve talked, you should know I love you!
We want to be left alone. We go out of our way to let people be, but… THEY are poking our hornets nest, at 9am on a sunny day. There’s only one way they will learn , get stung! 100 times, .223 stinger. My brother wasp has 50 cal stinger from WAAAAY over >>>> there, that stings for… well actually they never feel it. There are 500,000 stingers within 5 mile radius of me.
There’s not enough benedryl if they “try that in a small town”.
Signed, gravy seal with 5,000 stingers to date and building.
Only if you use it in the liberal vernacular! Which is Democrats.
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