CMA Fest to Air Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' Performance But Not Music Video

Brittany Aldean is celebrating husband Jason Aldean’s first-ever No. 1 hit after his song “Try That in a Small Town” ignited a debate within the industry.

Jason Aldean’s wife is gloating over his success.

Jason Aldean's wife, Brittany, is clapping back at critics after Jason's controversial track, «Try That in a Small Town» hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Songs chart.The moment is monumental, not only for Jason but for country music as a whole with country songs Jason at No.

Jason Aldean continued to double down on his defense of his song “Try That in a Small Town” with an argument tailor-made to his Boston fans.

TMZ, the video for the country singer’s track is shorter by six seconds compared to its original upload. The short missing clip is footage from a BLM rally in Georgia, which is projected on a Tennessee courthouse where a Black teenager was lynched in 1927. The original clip was shot by Fox 5 Atlanta.According to Consequence of Sound, Aldean had previously claimed that there wasn’t “a single video clip that isn’t real news footage” within the ‘Try That In A Small Town’ video.

Jason Aldean stood by the footage used in his controversial video for “Try That in a Small Town.” However, the video has since been edited to remove clips from Black Lives Matter protests in Atlanta.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic In the firestorm over Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” video, some attention has been trained on the different sources for the supposed U.S. news footage of protests that was incorporated into the video, some of which has been reported to have come from foreign countries. In the meantime, though, one clip that definitely did come from the U.S.

Jason Aldean's new music video appears to have received a subtle reedit. In the wake of controversy surrounding the country star's «Try That in a Small Town» visual, select imagery of Black Lives Matter protests has been removed.

As Jason Aldean‘s “Try That in a Small Town” continues to rise on the charts — and spark backlash — its controversial music video was subtly altered.

Jason Aldean‘s new music video appears to have received a subtle reedit. In the wake of controversy surrounding the country star’s “Try That in a Small Town” visual, select imagery of Black Lives Matter protests has been removed.

Jason Aldean's new music video appears to have received a subtle re-edit. In the wake of controversy surrounding the country star's «Try That in a Small Town» visual, select imagery of Black Lives Matter protests has been removed.

Jason Aldean’s track “Try That in a Small Town” is doing well despite the controversy surrounding it.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic The BTS Army drove Jung Kook’s first solo single, “Seven,” to No. 1 on the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart, a milestone previously reached by fellow member Jimin’s “Like Crazy” three months ago. With 21.9 million streams registered, 6.4 million airplay impressions audience and 153,000 singles sold, the track (which features rapper Latto as a guest artist) came out of the box as a certifiable monster. Country star Jason Aldean doesn’t have a similar Army bolstering him, but does sound like he might be forming a militia in “Try That in a Small Town.” The deeply polarizing song was able to ride a wave of headlines to a No. 2 entry, after it’d spent the last two months not even cracking the lower ranks of the chart, prior to the controversy erupting.

Jason Aldean has made his first public appearance since CMT pulled his music video for “Try That in a Small Town” after a backlash ensued saying the song promoted violence.

Musicians Jason Isbell and Jake Owen went head-to-head on social media over Jason Aldean’s recent song controversy.

Nearly one year after Cassadee Pope called out Brittany Aldean for her transphobic comments, she’s taking aim at her husband, Jason Aldean.

The View’s hosts aren’t holding back as they join in on the discourse about Jason Aldean’s new controversial song, “Try That in a Small Town.”

Aldean denied the song “Try That in a Small Town” has any racist intentions or undertones. The tune describes how rural America will not accept the same riotous behavior and criminality that has besieged many urban areas since 2020.“These references are not only meritless but dangerous,” Aldean said, after criticism of his use of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., as a backdrop. A white mob hanged Henry Choate there in 1927, according to one media critic of the music video, Ashton Pittman of the Mississippi Free Press.Aldean notably stood firm when he was harshly criticized from the left after his wife posted photos of their children in anti-President Biden attire in 2021.On “Jesse Watters Primetime,” Boone said country music has fallen in stature as of late.“I can’t believe it’s country music,” he said.

“racist” and “pro-lynching.”Aldean, an outspoken conservative, performed the set on June 10 at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium in honor of the Country Music Association’s 50th anniversary. Hosted by Dierks Bentley, Elle King, and Lainey Wilson, Wednesday’s CMA Fest broadcast also featured performances by Miranda Lambert, Tim McGraw, Eric Church, and Luke Combs.But none was more divisive than Aldean’s concert, which aired one day after he called the accusations that he “released a pro-lynching song … not only meritless, but dangerous.”“Oh no CMA fest gonna get cancelled for playing this Jason aldean song,” one person tweeted Wednesday.“Honestly CMA fest allowing disgusting @Jason_Aldean to still perform is g r o s s,” another wrote.