Jason Aldean's music video for controversial song pulled by CMT | CNN
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There has been more fallout regarding Jason Aldean’s controversial single, “Try That in a Small Town.”
CMT confirmed to CNN on Wednesday that the music video for the song has been pulled off the country network’s air.
Billboard was the first to report the news. CNN has reached out to reps for Aldean for comment.
The song was released in May, but according to Billboard the accompanying video wasn’t released until July 14 and had been in heavy rotation through Sunday before it was pulled on Monday.
The lyrics, critics say, are evocative of vigilantism, racism and “sundown towns” that practice a form of all white segregation in which people of color and others who were considered outsiders knew they faced violence if they were not out of an area before the sun went down.
The controversy over “Try That in a Small Town” reached a new level with the recent music video release for the song. Some viewers noticed scenes in the video were shot in front of what appears to be the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. The courthouse has been the site of several incidents of racial violence, including the 1927 lynching of a Black man named Henry Choate. It also served as a backdrop for the Columbia Race Riot in 1946.
The video also includes footage from police brutality protests and shots from surveillance cameras showing robberies.
What are your thoughts?
From the article. Part of it
There has been more fallout regarding Jason Aldean’s controversial single, “Try That in a Small Town.”
CMT confirmed to CNN on Wednesday that the music video for the song has been pulled off the country network’s air.
Billboard was the first to report the news. CNN has reached out to reps for Aldean for comment.
The song was released in May, but according to Billboard the accompanying video wasn’t released until July 14 and had been in heavy rotation through Sunday before it was pulled on Monday.
The lyrics, critics say, are evocative of vigilantism, racism and “sundown towns” that practice a form of all white segregation in which people of color and others who were considered outsiders knew they faced violence if they were not out of an area before the sun went down.
The controversy over “Try That in a Small Town” reached a new level with the recent music video release for the song. Some viewers noticed scenes in the video were shot in front of what appears to be the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee. The courthouse has been the site of several incidents of racial violence, including the 1927 lynching of a Black man named Henry Choate. It also served as a backdrop for the Columbia Race Riot in 1946.
The video also includes footage from police brutality protests and shots from surveillance cameras showing robberies.