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[-] charles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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

[-] Ddubz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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

[-] xstatdisk@kbin.social -1 points 1 year ago

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

[-] leapingleopard@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Morkyporky@sh.itjust.works -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Song mentions criminals.

this song is clearly about minorities

Liberal mindset in a nutshell

[-] Neato@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago
[-] ArugulaZ@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Yokels: "Jason Al Dean has the right to speak what's in his heart!"
Also yokels: "The Dixie Chicks need to shut up and sing!"

[-] PNW_Doug@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Making matters worse, Aldean was ON STAGE during the Las Vegas mass shooting, perpetrated by yet another white guy suffering from a fragile male ego.

It's beyond insulting.

[-] Rylyshar@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Commenting just on the meme, the fact that the “blue line” flag is backwards just adds to it.

FYI: when hung horizontally or vertically, the blue field of stars on the American flag must always be on the top left.

[-] pyrodorobo@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

I guess they get a pass, it's not an American flag lol

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