Country Music singer Jason Aldean’s new single skyrocketed to the iTunes top spot after Country Music Television (CMT) pulled the song’s music video this week in response to media outlets critical of the three-minute clip, describing it as having racist and pro-gun lyrics.
The “Try That In a Small Town” video that portrays leftist violence and lawlessness includes real-life scenes of rioters around the country wreaking havoc in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis in May of 2020. It incorporates scenes of protesters spitting at and attacking police officers and convenience stores being ransacked.
Written by Kelly Lovelace, Neil Thrasher, Tully Kennedy, and Kurt Michael Allison, the tune is steadfast in its lyrics as it states those who “carjack an old lady at a red light” or “pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store” or “cuss out a cop spit in his face” and “stomp on the flag and light it up” to “try that in a small town” and “see how far ya make it down the road/ ‘round here, we take care of our own.”…