• charles@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Is the “tried that in a small town” some new smoothmind virus? Just started seeing it like 2 days ago.

    • 👽🍻👽@lemmy.world
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      Talentless hack Jason Aldean released a song titled “Try That in a Small Town” with an accompanying music video. It’s loaded with racist dog whistles with nods to lynching; which is what got the video pulled off CMT.

      It’s basically just a poorly arranged tirade insinuating that small, white, christian towns are safe while black, lefty, cities are dangerous. The imagery in the video strongly suggests that all of the riots, dissent, protests, and problems in the US are everyone else’s fault except God-fearing white people. Typical fascist shit, blame LGBTQ people, black people, migrants, atheists, literally anyone else in order to avoid responsibility and justify killing/jailing - LYNCHING - those they seem to be causing all their woes.

      Now, I am originally from a one red light town in the South and can personally vouch for the fact that these “small towns” are pits of rape and misogyny fueled by the same old Catholic concept of illiterate congregation lead by an evil fuckface telling them what they should believe and do. Just because many of these ignorant dipshits are Baptists or some other pointless protestant denomination doesn’t change that the playbook is always the same. I mean this, I graduated high school in 2008 with people who literally couldn’t read, if you needed any reassurance that the plummetting literacy rate in the US was accurate.

      I’ll finish off my soapbox here with this. I love country music. But like all other genres, there’s what’s on the radio, and there’s everything else. I’m not gonna sit here on a pedestal and say that I never get a pop-country tune stuck in my head. A lot of them are fine; pandering and rehashed same old lyrics and chords, but they’re catchy for a reason. This Jason Aldean song isn’t even that. It’s poorly written and the music is objectively not good. It’s just loud. That’s it. It’s just talentless noise. One thing that has made me happy as a country music fan, is that the country community has largely come out against the song and it’s message. If you happen to read more about this, you’ll see plenty of country artists slamming it for being garbage. You’ll also see that most of the “celebrities and influencers” standing up for Aldean are MAGA republican politicians and washed up performers who can’t get work anywhere because of their shit ass opinions.

      /Rant

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        1 year ago

        Much appreciated rant, thanks! Since leaving reddit, I’ve been OOTL on this kinda stuff. Any suggestions for Lemmy communities where I might be able to stay up to date?

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        1 year ago

        Meanwhile ……”Why don’t they think of the trafficking children…” - Aldean’s brainwashed internalized mygonistic wife.

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        1 year ago

        So this is just more racists trying to say racist stuff without getting in trouble for it. Awesome

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        People like to forget that country spawned out of folk music (“folk” as a genre was attacked for being a hotbed of leftism under HUAC, so a lot of folk artists rebranded themselves double-quick) and a large amount of people who grew up with the country music that came from that movement, and then went on to do it themselves, actually listened to what the lyrics were saying.

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      1 year ago

      It’s poking fun at some shitty anti-protest country song that has lots of people upset rn

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      There’s a song called “Try That in a Small Town” that came out a few days ago. It’s just a goofy song that became a Facebook level meme

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        just a goofy song

        tell me, you have no empathy for minorities without telling me you have no empathy for minorities. Get the fuck out of here. this is Lemmy and we don’t tolerate dog whistles.

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          My bad. I didn’t mean it in a harmful way. what I meant was that it was a stupid song that is really set outside of reality.

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        Looked up the lyrics.

        Full of good ol’ boys, raised up right

        Wow. Jason Aldean is a racist fuck. This whole song is a violent ideation of killing people you don’t like. And all the bullshit the right wing parrots about cities being dangerous. Which is hilarious when this song is just saying that small town folks with murder you.