Jessica A. Johnson in dailyherald:
Jason Aldean's controversial country hit"Try That in a Small Town" climbed to No. 1 on Billboard's all-genre singles chart last week. If you've been following the headlines of what many critics and academics have said about the lyrics, you know that Aldean has been in the middle of a heated culture wars debate since mid-July.
The music video of"Try That in a Small Town" is still available to view on YouTube, as well as one with lyrics only. I was actually surprised that comments on both videos had not been turned off, which is sometimes the case for what is considered overly contentious material.
Singing about"good ol' boys," however, was not what drew the most intense criticism for Aldean. It was displaying the Columbia, Tennessee, Maury County Courthouse in the original video where an 18-year-old Black male named Henry Choate was lynched in 1927. Choate was gruesomely murdered in a similar manner to James Byrd Jr., who was killed decades later in 1998 in Jasper, Texas.
by signing up you agree to our terms of service "Try That in a Small Town" just shed additional light on the fierce political and cultural polarization in our nation. Our constant"us versus them" narrative is the primary obstacle to unity, which I think is particularly sad since we are a few weeks away from the 60th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s"I Have a Dream" speech that he gave during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.
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