iTunes chart also is a country music song that has been at the center of a racial criticism. “While I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far,” he said. Aldean said in a statement posted to Twitter. There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it - and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage,” Mr. “These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. There were other charges of love for “sundown towns,” where blacks dared not enter after the sun set during the Jim Crow “lynch law” era. SEE ALSO: CMT pulls music video for Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’ “Well, try that in a small town / See how far ya make it down the road / Around here, we take care of our own … I recommend you don’t / Try that in a small town,” the song states. The video also includes images of riots and police-protester clashes. The song, backed by a video that went online last week, skewers the riots and rampant crime in America’s big cities, saying it wouldn’t happen in rural America.īut according to Vulture, the video features news footage projected on the Maury County courthouse, where a lynching took place in the 1920s.
One Twitter user responded with a GIF of Barbra Streisand and the word “oops,” referring to what’s been called “the Streisand effect,” a term used for when efforts to hide or censor information backfire by raising awareness of that information.
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