Jason Aldean - "Try That In A Small Town"

[diamondinmypocket]

Jul 20, 2023 17:39:09 GMT -5 HamedM1 💔 said:

They actively knew what they were all doing, these are the same type of people who have so much blind pride and patriotism to America and its history. It was all a calculated ploy to obviously help an underperforming song out. While it may not carry on to be a major hit or anything, it now gets to be an infamous song that generated a ton of controversy.

Can you prove any of what you just said? If so please include links. Thanks

[HamedM1 💔]

Jul 20, 2023 18:55:53 GMT -5 diamondinmypocket said:

Jul 20, 2023 17:39:09 GMT -5 HamedM1 💔 said:

They actively knew what they were all doing, these are the same type of people who have so much blind pride and patriotism to America and its history. It was all a calculated ploy to obviously help an underperforming song out. While it may not carry on to be a major hit or anything, it now gets to be an infamous song that generated a ton of controversy.

Can you prove any of what you just said? If so please include links. Thanks

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I happily welcome you to read the rest of the thread to see its middling chart performance. Not everything needs to be officially confirmed to make out what it really is and what the intent was.

[Darkest Hour]

#1 on US Youtube chart.

[.indulgecountry]

I have perished.

[taylor]

Jul 20, 2023 22:16:30 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

I have perished.

The more I caught up to this thread, the deeper my regret grew…and then I saw this, and can’t stop cackling. Someone should write an empowerment anthem with this title in direct response.   @ Maren Morris

In all seriousness, to put my fit of rage into something concise, now that the word I wanna use is no longer censored: fuck Jason Aldean, fuck this song, fuck country radio for having ever played it once regardless of how so-so it’s currently doing there, and fuck the bigots who have turned this into a Morgan Wallen moment. I want this man’s career finished, now. He has not contributed hardly anything of value for country music in over a decade.

[Au$tin]

Didn't this man grow up in a city of 150k people? Has he ever actually tried anything in a small town before?

[iHype.]

Absolutely nobody is watching music videos on TV in 2023 anymore.

The fact that a music video channel had to announce they pulled a music video in 2023, and for it to get large press coverage was the biggest and most obvious example of purposely crafted publicity in recent times lmao.

Imagine MTV announcing they won’t be playing a music video in 2023 because it’s controversial.

[gcizvolsfan]

Jul 20, 2023 23:38:54 GMT -5 iHype. said:

Absolutely nobody is watching music videos on TV in 2023 anymore.

The fact that a music video channel had to announce they pulled a music video in 2023, and for it to get large press coverage was the biggest and most obvious example of purposely crafted publicity in recent times lmao.

Imagine MTV announcing they won’t be playing a music video in 2023 because it’s controversial.

Yep, so obvious. CMT only shows videos during the "late late hours" when nobody is watching their channel anyway. The rest of the time it is old tv shows. What a better way to get this awful song and their channel in the news? Put out a news release that the video is being pulled.

[stormlover74]

Jason Aldean replacing Morgan Wallen at #1 on the hot 100. Crazy times

[Sugar Rush]

Jul 21, 2023 8:20:01 GMT -5 stormlover74 said:

Jason Aldean replacing Morgan Wallen at #1 on the hot 100. Crazy times

Says a lot about how backwards American Society is.

[avamaxstan]

Jul 21, 2023 8:20:01 GMT -5 stormlover74 said:

Jason Aldean replacing Morgan Wallen at #1 on the hot 100. Crazy times

Where are you hearing that? I’ve only seen one chart watcher claim it’s now challenging Morgan and Jungkook for #1 based off sales.

[stormlover74]

Jul 21, 2023 10:18:01 GMT -5 avamaxstan said:

Jul 21, 2023 8:20:01 GMT -5 stormlover74 said:

Jason Aldean replacing Morgan Wallen at #1 on the hot 100. Crazy times

Where are you hearing that? I’ve only seen one chart watcher claim it’s now challenging Morgan and Jungkook for #1 based off sales.

Also if not this week there's always next

[phil1996]

Man….just when I thought Aldean was about to be a thing of the past, people have to freak out over this terrible song. It’s a retread of 25 of his other songs. Why did this have to happen 😂

[gomichaelgo]

A country singer uses terms like equality and loving everyone for who they are, and country fans go berserk and want to cancel them for accepting lgbtq fans. Another country star says the n word or uses racist tropes of imagery to parallel their song and the fans eat it us and shoot them to #1. I just don't get it.

[diamondinmypocket]

Jul 21, 2023 11:00:10 GMT -5 gomichaelgo said:

A country singer uses terms like equality and loving everyone for who they are, and country fans go berserk and want to cancel them for accepting lgbtq fans. Another country star says the n word or uses racist tropes of imagery to parallel their song and the fans eat it us and shoot them to #1. I just don't get it.

The majority of country fans are conservative? Is this a surprise? Its why Maren has become irrelevant and Aldean and Morgan are topping the charts

[tomgsinger]

If this has two more updates like today’s, it’ll have the biggest bullet it’s had since the second week of June. Disgusting.

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Jul 21, 2023 11:22:46 GMT -5 diamondinmypocket said:

Jul 21, 2023 11:00:10 GMT -5 gomichaelgo said:

A country singer uses terms like equality and loving everyone for who they are, and country fans go berserk and want to cancel them for accepting lgbtq fans. Another country star says the n word or uses racist tropes of imagery to parallel their song and the fans eat it us and shoot them to #1. I just don't get it.

The majority of country fans are conservative? Is this a surprise? Its why Maren has become irrelevant and Aldean and Morgan are topping the charts

This 100%

Kelsea and her team saw what happened to Maren and nobody on her team or even herself thought maybe it’s not a good idea to have drag queens on stage while I perform my new single on nationwide tv. Country audiences are conservative Trump supporters. Having drag queens on stage right now when that is such a hot topic for conservatives would be like setting up a table outside of a church selling sex toys and wondering why you’re getting dirty looks and nobody buying your stuff. It would be the same if a pop artist like Dua Lipa or Megan Thee Stallion came out and publicly supported Trump their audience would think negatively of them.

I think this song is awful but Aldean and his team they knew exactly what they were doing. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they picked that court house on purpose knowing it would cause a stir.
Controversy = Cash

[.indulgecountry]

Jul 21, 2023 13:57:44 GMT -5 @jacobl18 said:

Jul 21, 2023 11:22:46 GMT -5 diamondinmypocket said:

The majority of country fans are conservative? Is this a surprise? Its why Maren has become irrelevant and Aldean and Morgan are topping the charts

This 100%

Kelsea and her team saw what happened to Maren and nobody on her team or even herself thought maybe it’s not a good idea to have drag queens on stage while I perform my new single on nationwide tv. Country audiences are conservative Trump supporters. Having drag queens on stage right now when that is such a hot topic for conservatives would be like setting up a table outside of a church selling sex toys and wondering why you’re getting dirty looks and nobody buying your stuff. It would be the same if a pop artist like Dua Lipa or Megan Thee Stallion came out and publicly supported Trump their audience would think negatively of them.

You say this like Kelsea flopped as a result of it. Her single is doing absolutely fine and looking like a future top 5/10 hit.

Maren was underperforming with her last record before she popped off on social media about the Aldeans. It may have contributed to radio being less inclined to play her follow-up to "Circles Around This Town" but the album was already a bomb.

[theoutsider]

Country Music was, is and will remain an identity before anything else. So people stop being so surprised.

[Rose "Payola" Nylund]

Jul 21, 2023 13:57:44 GMT -5 @jacobl18 said:

Jul 21, 2023 11:22:46 GMT -5 diamondinmypocket said:

The majority of country fans are conservative? Is this a surprise? Its why Maren has become irrelevant and Aldean and Morgan are topping the charts

This 100%

Kelsea and her team saw what happened to Maren and nobody on her team or even herself thought maybe it’s not a good idea to have drag queens on stage while I perform my new single on nationwide tv. Country audiences are conservative Trump supporters. Having drag queens on stage right now when that is such a hot topic for conservatives would be like setting up a table outside of a church selling sex toys and wondering why you’re getting dirty looks and nobody buying your stuff. It would be the same if a pop artist like Dua Lipa or Megan Thee Stallion came out and publicly supported Trump their audience would think negatively of them.

I think this song is awful but Aldean and his team they knew exactly what they were doing. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they picked that court house on purpose knowing it would cause a stir.
Controversy = Cash

If controversy = cash then having drag queens would mean cash too.

It’s simply about catering to an audience, but that depends on what audience you want and/or don’t want and how that aligns with your values. I’m sure Maren put plenty of thought into having drag queens as part of her performance and that’s why she did it. Saying it’s not a “good idea” would be akin to telling Betty White back in the 50s it wasn’t a “good idea” to have a Black actor on her variety show.

What you’re basically saying is that country artists should cater to and bend over for racists because they have buying power within the country music demographic.

[Deleted]

Jul 21, 2023 14:01:35 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

Jul 21, 2023 13:57:44 GMT -5 @jacobl18 said:

This 100%

Kelsea and her team saw what happened to Maren and nobody on her team or even herself thought maybe it’s not a good idea to have drag queens on stage while I perform my new single on nationwide tv. Country audiences are conservative Trump supporters. Having drag queens on stage right now when that is such a hot topic for conservatives would be like setting up a table outside of a church selling sex toys and wondering why you’re getting dirty looks and nobody buying your stuff. It would be the same if a pop artist like Dua Lipa or Megan Thee Stallion came out and publicly supported Trump their audience would think negatively of them.

You say this like Kelsea flopped as a result of it. Her single is doing absolutely fine and looking like a future top 5/10 hit.

Maren was underperforming with her last record before she popped off on social media about the Aldeans. It may have contributed to radio being less inclined to play her follow-up to "Circles Around This Town" but the album was already a bomb.

8 months since it was released and still isn’t top 20 is not exactly lighting up the world. I understand the charts are slow. My bigger point being she saw what happened to Maren and didn’t think that it might not be smart right now in this climate.

[musiclife]

Challenging Taylor Swift's Anti Hero for the biggest sales week of the decade.

[Deleted]

Jul 21, 2023 14:09:09 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Jul 21, 2023 13:57:44 GMT -5 @jacobl18 said:

This 100%

Kelsea and her team saw what happened to Maren and nobody on her team or even herself thought maybe it’s not a good idea to have drag queens on stage while I perform my new single on nationwide tv. Country audiences are conservative Trump supporters. Having drag queens on stage right now when that is such a hot topic for conservatives would be like setting up a table outside of a church selling sex toys and wondering why you’re getting dirty looks and nobody buying your stuff. It would be the same if a pop artist like Dua Lipa or Megan Thee Stallion came out and publicly supported Trump their audience would think negatively of them.

I think this song is awful but Aldean and his team they knew exactly what they were doing. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they picked that court house on purpose knowing it would cause a stir.
Controversy = Cash

If controversy = cash then having drag queens would mean cash too.

It’s simply about catering to an audience, but that depends on what audience you want and/or don’t want and how that aligns with your values. I’m sure Maren put plenty of thought into having drag queens as part of her performance and that’s why she did it. Saying it’s not a “good idea” would be akin to telling Betty White back in the 50s it wasn’t a “good idea” to have a Black actor on her variety show.

What you’re basically saying is that country artists should cater to and bend over for racists because they have buying power within the country music demographic.

There is a reason no A list actor, Rapper or Pop star that is having success would come out as a Trump supporter. It would kill their career.

Do you notice how no big country artist has commented negatively about Aldean….Because they know their audience wouldn’t like it. I guarantee you there are plenty of big name country artist that are democrats and there are plenty of A list actors that are conservative.

[.indulgecountry]

Jul 21, 2023 14:12:53 GMT -5 @jacobl18 said:

Jul 21, 2023 14:01:35 GMT -5 .indulgecountry said:

You say this like Kelsea flopped as a result of it. Her single is doing absolutely fine and looking like a future top 5/10 hit.

Maren was underperforming with her last record before she popped off on social media about the Aldeans. It may have contributed to radio being less inclined to play her follow-up to "Circles Around This Town" but the album was already a bomb.

8 months since it was released and still isn’t top 20 is not exactly lighting up the world. I understand the charts are slow. My bigger point being she saw what happened to Maren and didn’t think that it might not be smart right now in this climate.

I think it had 0 impact on the chart run tbh. It was already off to a slow start because "HEARTFIRST" bombed. There's just no correlation that her performance had any kind of negative impact on the single, especially since it's now doing much better at country radio currently than it was before she gave that awards show performance, lol. I just don't think this is a steadfast example for your case like you think it is.

[dbhmr]

Conservatives have long felt alienated from popular culture and have only just recently harnessed the power of online organization to get numbers. People aren't sending this to #1 because they identify with it as a lynching anthem--they're sending it to #1 because people they hate online are telling them it's a lynching anthem and they find that stupid and insulting. They're watching the video and listening to the song because liberals and leftists tell them not to, and when they don't find the most explicitly racist lyrics imaginable, they feel justified in finding the other side hysterical and anti-middle America. Plus the thrill of solidarity and sending "one of their own" to the top of previously perceived left-dominated charts.

As soon as I saw the first tweet decrying these garbage lyrics as being pro-lynching, I knew this was going #1. Rage, rinse, repeat.

[theoutsider]

Jul 21, 2023 14:18:53 GMT -5 @jacobl18 said:

Do you notice how no big country artist has commented negatively about Aldean….Because they know their audience wouldn’t like it. I guarantee you there are plenty of big name country artist that are democrats and there are plenty of A list actors that are conservative.

 It was the same with Dixie Chicks. No other country artist had supported them against Toby Keith too. Why it would change 20 years later.

[musiclife]

As per chart data. 227k sales

[diamondinmypocket]

Jul 21, 2023 14:09:09 GMT -5 Rose "Payola" Nylund said:

Jul 21, 2023 13:57:44 GMT -5 @jacobl18 said:

This 100%

Kelsea and her team saw what happened to Maren and nobody on her team or even herself thought maybe it’s not a good idea to have drag queens on stage while I perform my new single on nationwide tv. Country audiences are conservative Trump supporters. Having drag queens on stage right now when that is such a hot topic for conservatives would be like setting up a table outside of a church selling sex toys and wondering why you’re getting dirty looks and nobody buying your stuff. It would be the same if a pop artist like Dua Lipa or Megan Thee Stallion came out and publicly supported Trump their audience would think negatively of them.

I think this song is awful but Aldean and his team they knew exactly what they were doing. I wouldn’t even be surprised if they picked that court house on purpose knowing it would cause a stir.
Controversy = Cash

If controversy = cash then having drag queens would mean cash too.

It’s simply about catering to an audience, but that depends on what audience you want and/or don’t want and how that aligns with your values. I’m sure Maren put plenty of thought into having drag queens as part of her performance and that’s why she did it. Saying it’s not a “good idea” would be akin to telling Betty White back in the 50s it wasn’t a “good idea” to have a Black actor on her variety show.

What you’re basically saying is that country artists should cater to and bend over for racists because they have buying power within the country music demographic.

I think you’re taking the thought to an unnecessary extreme. It’s about “reading the room” and knowing who your audience is. Aldean knows who he’s singing to, Maren may too, but actively pushing their buttons and bringing drag queens on stage when you know that’s something a lot of them are morally opposed to should have her expecting the result she got. Artists should feel free to use their artistic platform to express whatever they want to imo, red or blue. But also shouldn’t be surprised when they get kickback or support from an audience that primarily leans one way

[bboat11]

I like how this debate turned into Maren Morris being cancelled for performing with drag queens, which wasn't even her

[musiclife]

Jul 22, 2023 0:40:18 GMT -5 bboat11 said:

I like how this debate turned into Maren Morris being cancelled for performing with drag queens, which wasn't even her

I was about to say the same thing. Lol Are there even country fans in this thread right now???