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‘There’s nothing American about promoting violence’: country star Jason Aldean criticised for anti-protest song (www.theguardian.com)
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Try That in a Small Town features lyrics threatening violence against protesters and has been removed from Country Music Television, but Aldean says it is a celebration of community

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[–] 24 points 3 years ago

Music video was filmed at a site known for a lynching… while showing BLM footage and talking about vigilante justice …

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    [–] 12 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    This song written by a guy not from a small town... What a cunt

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    You give him too much credit, he didn't write the song. In fact, he only wrote four songs from his ten albums, most recently in 2009. Like most of his country contemporaries he's not an artist, just a pandering performer.

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    • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    Promoting violence is the most American thing.

    You guys ran out of people to go to war with and it was like "ok, shirts and skins"

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    [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    His history class probably didn't even teach the American Revolution

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    • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    The Cletuses have a new rally song. Fantastic. Surely no one will die as a result of this.

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    isn't the whole point of the song to insinuate small towns will kick your ass if they don't like you

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    [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    90's rap got banned for lyrics and it just made it bigger. All the OMG's on social media are free advertising. Good marketing strategy.

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