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Jason Aldean is not backing down from his stance on defending “Try That in a Small Town” despite the controversy around the song.
In a new interview with CBS Mornings, the country star opened up with Jan Crawford about the backlash the hit song has received.
When Crawford asked Aldean what his reaction was “when you saw people say that this had racist, undertones and you know, it was like a call to arms,” the singer asked, “How?!”
“You know, it was like a call to arms and small towns. It was a threatening kind of video for Black people, I mean, people were putting this on like, TikTok,” Crawford added.
Aldean replied saying, “But there was, there was people of all color doing stuff in the video. That’s what I don’t understand. You know, there was white people in there. There was Black people. I mean, this video did not shine light on one specific group and say, that’s the problem. So, and anybody that saw that in the video, then you weren’t looking hard enough in the video is all I can tell you.”
The music video showed footage of protests, mainly the Black Lives Matter movement as Aldean performed in front of a courthouse where a lynching took place.
Aldean says he was “excited to cut it” as he believed it was “a song that actually said something for a change” and not “just another song for radio.” The singer said he knew mentioning guns in the song would get people talking but he didn’t “expect to get the heat it got. And I think that was because of the video more so than the actual song.”
In regard to filming the video in front of the courthouse where a Black teen was lynched, he said, “For anybody that thinks we picked that building specifically for that reason because there was a lynching there, whatever….” Aldean
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Jason Aldean is not backing down from his stance on defending “Try That in a Small Town” despite the controversy around the song.
Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jason Aldean is disputing claims that his controversial music video for “Try That in a Small Town” had racist undertones. The country music star participated in an interview with “CBS Mornings” and was asked by reporter Jan Crawford about his reaction to hearing such accusations from the public, to which Aldean asked, “How?” “You know, it was like a call to arms and small towns,” Crawford said, summarizing the backlash Aldean faced. “It was a threatening kind of video for Black people, I mean, people were putting this on like, TikTok.” “But there was people of all color doing stuff in the video,” Aldean said.
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