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After suffering a heat-related medical incident during a concert over the weekend, country superstar Jason Aldean is taking on more heat (albeit on the internet) for a song that seemingly takes aim at Black Lives Matter protesters—if not the entire urban population.
Last Friday, the Grammy-nominated singer released the music video for his recent single “Try That in a Small Town.” As the title suggests, the three-minute ballad is an explicit warning to demonstrators not to attempt their social justice shenanigans in the rural South.
Apparently, Aldean was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests for the police-involved murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020, as evidenced by the inflammatory new song. The track is not just a statement of Aldean’s personal politics, but a disturbing call to arms, making Toby Keith’s infamous post-9/11 anthem look rather quaint by comparison.