Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” hit Billboard’s number-one spot, as the song continues to rise, despite efforts by the woke left to cancel the conservative country music star.
Mr. Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” continues its streak of popularity, taking the top spot after being controversially removed from Country Music Television on July 17
Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” is now second on the list, and Luke Combs’s cover of the Tracy Chapman 1988 hit “Fast Car” came in for third.
“Try That in a Small Town” Continues to Rise on the Charts
The music video version of the hit single features footage from the left-wing 2020 Black Live Matter (BLM) riots, which caused billions of dollars of damage in cities across the country.Footage from the song’s music video included a U.S. flag being burnt by rioters, a left-wing militant holding a Molotov cocktail, and people breaking into stores.
“Cuss out a cop, spit in his face / Stomp on the flag and light it up / Yeah, ya think you’re tough / Well, try that in a small town / See how far ya make it down the road,” said the lyrics.
The music video triggered pro-BLM progressives over its condemnation of urban violence and anti-police sentiment, while praising small-town communities and middle-America values.
Since the initial release, six seconds of the local news footage owned by Fox 5 Atlanta was subsequently edited out last week after Fox threatened Mr. Aldean with legal action, reported TMZ
TMZ’s sources described the request as a “polite ultimatum.”
CMT, which is owned by Paramount, pulled the music video in mid-July following pressure from leftist activists who accused it of being racist.
Paramount, like many of the studios in Hollywood, supported the BLM riots, which led to the defunding of police departments nationwide and sparked the current crime wave.
Country Music Star Refuses to Bow to the Woke Left
Mr. Aldean refused to bow to the left, recently performing the hit single to an appreciative crowd at the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 21, who chanted “USA!” in response to his statements to the audience.He told the crowd that his political views “have never been something I’ve hidden from,” and that he hopes that America can return to a time “where we go at least a day without a headline that keeps us up at night.”
“What I am is a proud American,” he continued, adding, “I’m proud to be from here. I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to it.”
The country music star has strongly denied that his song was about race and that “not a single lyric” referred to the subject.
Mr. Aldean said that he had been “accused of releasing a pro-lynching song ... and was subject to the comparison that I ... was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests.”
“I was laying in bed last night, and I was thinking to myself, you guys would get this better than anybody, right?” Aldean added, which elicited boisterous cheers from Boston residents, who in 2013 stood up to defend their city with the mantra, “Boston Strong,” said Mr. Aldean.
“Because I remember a time—I think it was April of 2013—when the Boston Marathon bombing happened,” the country star continued. “What I saw when that happened was a whole, not a small town, a big-ass town coming together, no matter the color, no matter anything.”“The whole country, especially Boston, came together to find those two jerks that did that,” he said.
The music video latest triumph comes a one week after its on-demand audio and video streams skyrocketed by 999 percent from the previous week.
Viewership rose from 987,000 to 11.7 million, according to Luminate.
Sales of “Try That in a Small Town” also dramatically increased, rising from selling just 1,000 the week before being censored to 228,000 the week after, according to Hollywood Reporter.
