Jason Aldean accused of promoting LYNCHING and RACISM in a song with ZERO race-related lyrics
CMT removed Jason Aldean’s recent release “Try That in a Small Town” after the song sparked mass controversy because of its alleged promotion of lynching and racism.
Granted the lyrics have zero mention of race and the music video focuses almost exclusively on white people committing crimes, how are the wokeists justifying their accusations?
“Apparently the video was filmed in front of a courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee, where a white mob lynched a young black man, Henry Choate, from the building in 1927,” Sara Gonzales explains.
Aldean “must be a history expert,” she adds sarcastically.
A closer analysis of the lyrics and music video will reveal that the song actually speaks out against left-wing rioting, violence against law enforcement, gun control, and soft-on-crime approaches.
“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 – and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music – this one goes too far,” Aldean said in a statement following the scrutiny.
While Sara thinks Aldean’s defense of his song is certainly justified, Jason Buttrill thinks that the only thing the country star owes to the people vilifying his song is a big “suck it.”
“They want you to capitulate in front of the entire world stage” Jason says, “and it doesn’t matter if you do, because they won’t accept your capitulation” anyway.
Regardless, it appears that millions of non-woke fans are rallying to support Aldean and his song. Despite being pulled by CMT, “Try That in a Small Town” has hit #1 on the iTunes charts, surpassing Taylor Swift and K-pop stars alike.
Perhaps Aldean owes a thank you to all his critics, then?
“The appropriate response [is] ‘thanks for making me a ton of money and making me #1 on the charts,'” Rob Eno says.
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Blake Shelton sees 6-year-old boy in crowd holding a sign. Turns out kid needs heart transplant — and Shelton invites him on stage to sing 'God's Country.'
Country music superstar Blake Shelton spotted a little boy in the audience Saturday night in Durant, Oklahoma, who was holding up a sign.
It read, "Your smallest biggest fan from Lake Texoma" — and added that he's 6 years old and is waiting for a heart transplant.
What happened next?
With that, Shelton invited Wyatt McKee on stage in front of the cheering crowd and read Wyatt's note. When the singer got to the heart transplant part, he paused for a moment and reminded the audience, "If you think y'all are havin' a bad day, put that in perspective right there, man!"
The was another note from Wyatt, too, Shelton told the crowd — a request that Shelton would sing the rousing anthem, "God's Country."
But that wasn't all.
Shelton kept Wyatt on stage, got down to the boy's height, put his microphone between them, and kicked in to the tune as Wyatt did the best he could to sing along.
What else?
TMZ reported that Wyatt's mother, Harley, said he was born with hypoplastic left heart syndrome, in which the left side of the heart does not grow. She noted to the outlet that Wyatt already has undergone two open heart surgeries.
Harley added to TMZ that Wyatt is indeed a big Shelton fan, and they brought the signs to the show hoping the singer would notice them and say hi.
There's a GoFundMe page for Wyatt, too.
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Crowder's first LIVE show of 2022 aired on Tuesday, and he pulled no punches
If you think 2021 was a challenging year, you might want to brace yourself for 2022.
Steven Crowder and the crew returned on Tuesday with the first episode of "Louder with Crowder" in 2022. Of the many topics covered, a couple of standouts included a man who raised vaccine awareness with sheep and a "Back in America" parody, an ode to rural America in the style of the end credits for "National Lampoon's European Vacation."
In the first clip, Crowder discussed what a German man, Hanspeter Etzold, told Reuters about his campaign to increase the vaccination rate. "Sheep are popular with people and carry positive emotional connotations. So perhaps they can reach many people emotionally when logic and scientific reasoning doesn't do the job," Etzold told Reuters.
Etzold arranged the sheep in the shape of a syringe to raise vaccine awareness. But Crowder, in rare form, challenged Etzold's premise that sheep are "very popular among the people."
In the second clip, Crowder parodied the credit song for "National Lampoon's European Vacation." In "Red America," an ode to rural America, Crowder rewrote the lyrics from "Back in America." Here is a sample of the Crowder's lyrics:
"In red America,
I'm back with reckless abandon.
In red America,
Where the bumpers read Let's Go, Brandon.
In red America,
I can save up to retire.
In red America,
Where Walgreens is never on fire."
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