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<p>The controversy over <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/country-singer-jason-aldean-defends-song-try-that-in-a-small-town-amid-pro-lynching-claims">Jason Aldean’s</a> <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-criticized-for-racist-pro-gun-lyrics">“Try That in a Small Town”</a> is getting bigger by the day. </p>
<p>The cable network Country Music Television (CMT) has <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/19/arts/music/jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town-cmt.html">pulled the new music video</a> to Aldean’s song as backlash mounted against both its filming location—a famous lynching site—and its lyrical content. As one might have predicted, all of our loudest conservative luminaries—your <a href="https://twitter.com/laurenboebert/status/1681673455840665600">Lauren Boeberts</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/ksorbs/status/1681670662388166656">Kevin Sorbos</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/therealroseanne/status/1681655184194248704">Roseanne Barrs</a>—have <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/right-wingers-flock-to-jason-aldeans-defense-after-pro-lynching-video-pulled">already come out of the woodwork</a> to offer their outraged two cents. Meanwhile, <a href="https://www.tmz.com/2023/07/19/jason-aldean-try-that-in-a-small-town-topping-charts-backlash/">TMZ</a> reports that “Try That in a Small Town,” released in May, recently began climbing the Amazon and iTunes charts. </p>
<p>Meanwhile, fellow country singer Sheryl Crow spoke out against Aldean’s song on Tuesday, <a href="https://twitter.com/SherylCrow/status/1681485292425867264">tweeting</a> at him, “I’m from a small town. Even people in small towns are sick of violence.”</p>
<p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/sheryl-crow-blasts-jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-for-promoting-violence">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->
The cable network Country Music Television (CMT) has pulled the new music video to Aldean’s song as backlash mounted against both its filming location—a famous lynching site—and its lyrical content. As one might have predicted, all of our loudest conservative luminaries—your Lauren Boeberts and Kevin Sorbos and Roseanne Barrs—have already come out of the woodwork to offer their outraged two cents. Meanwhile, TMZ reports that “Try That in a Small Town,” released in May, recently began climbing the Amazon and iTunes charts.
Meanwhile, fellow country singer Sheryl Crow spoke out against Aldean’s song on Tuesday, tweeting at him, “I’m from a small town. Even people in small towns are sick of violence.”
