I got Jason Aldean’s ‘Small Town’ canceled by CMT: gun-control activist

[Kamaji]

I got Jason Aldean’s ‘Small Town’ canceled by CMT: gun-control activist

By Brooke Steinberg
July 20, 2023

A prominent gun-control activist is taking credit for getting Jason Aldean’s controversial song pulled from Country Music Television for being “racist and violent.”

Aldean, 46, has been accused of promoting violence with his latest song “Try That in a Small Town,” which includes the inflammatory lyrics: “Got a gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up / Well, that s–t might fly in the city, good luck / Try that in a small town.”

Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, brought attention to the lyrics in a tweet posted Sunday night, in which she said the song is “about how [Aldean] and his friends will shoot you if you try to take their guns.”

Watts also pointed out that Aldean “was onstage during the mass shooting at a Las Vegas concert in 2017 that killed 60 people and wounded over 400 more.”

The music video for “Try That in a Small Town” — which sees Aldean performing in front of a courthouse known for lynchings — was pulled from CMT programming following the backlash.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/07/20/i-got-jason-aldeans-small-town-canceled-by-cmt-gun-control-activist/

[Kamaji]

Now she should be cancelled.  Turn about is fair play.

[PeteS in CA]

  Aldean, his manager, his agent, and his banker owe her a Thank You card. For a boycott that normal people transmogrified into a buycott.  

[Ghost Bear]

Boycott CMT, watch the video directly on YouTube:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_RKu-ESCY

[Kamaji]

Aldean, his manager, his agent, and his banker owe her a Thank You card. For a boycott that normal people transmogrified into a buycott.  

[PeteS in CA]

On one hand, Columbia, TN has a history of several lynchings - 1933 most recently - and there was a race riot in 1946 and related prosecutions in 1946. For some reason, W'pedia's history of the town does not go beyond 1946. To give some scale, not only was I not born yet in 1946, I do not know if my parents had yet met in 1946.

Proggies want to read racism into Aldean's choice of location. Let me propose two equally or more reasonable possibilities:

1. Columbia has left its racists in the past, and Aldean wanted to create a different image for it, a town that values and aids its own, all of its own (like the song says!).

2. Columbia is convenient to Nashville, just ~35-40 miles down the Interstate, and has a building of iconic appearance.

3. Both.