Wow! I hadn't paid attention to all the fuss over Jason Aldean's song. Now I know.

[Ohioboy]

I did not know the video was actually shot in front of a courthouse famous for being the site of a terrible lynching. That location was no accident.

Who shoots videos in front of random courthouses?

Someone behind the making of that video knew the awful significance of that specific location. If Aldean himself didn't know, then he's the dumbest man alive. If he did know, then he's the asshole people are saying he is.

[Phoenix61]

1. Or he's both.... I think I'm going with that. nt

[Joe Cool]

2. He is a TERRIBLE singer.

His voice is atrocious. I don't understand how anyone would pay for that garbage voice let alone willingly listen to it.

[Ohioboy]

4. People who use electronic vocal correction annoy the hell out of me

If you can't sing, step aside and let someone who can.

[murielm99]

23. I found someone who agrees with me on this!

Finally!

I just can't listen to that!

[Ohioboy]

27. Don't they know you can hear it?

At first it was used as an effect, but the whole thing got out of control.

[Pacifist Patriot]

38. I am firmly in this camp.

Vocal effects once in awhile as an artistic choice? Ok, sure I guess.

To fix a crap voice that can't hit the notes?

[Pacifist Patriot]

37. Yes!!!!

[ProfessorGAC]

44. On Top Of That...

...we can HEAR the pitch correction! If one is 5 or 10 cents flat, the correction is so fast & subtle we won't hear it.
To repeatedly hear it, he has to be a lot off true pitch.

[Ohioboy]

15. I don't need Jason faults to make me feel better

That doesn't mean I can't hear the electronic tone correction going on in his productions.

[masmdu]

3. Here he is in blackface...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/10/jason-aldean-wore-blackface-for-halloween-costume

[dalton99a]

7. +1. "Hard-partying tailgate tunes sung by man-children in muscle shirts"

[Wonder Why]

25. Instead of allowing google to steal all your personal info, you could provide

the direct link to the real Guardian which is an employee owned company and an excellent source of news.

[link:https://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/nov/10/jason-aldean-wore-blackface-for-halloween-costume|]

All I did was to cut the google part out of your link

[Think. Again.]

5. Yeah...

...that song and video are basically a tribute to and celebration of kyle rittenhouse.

[czarjak]

6. God just made him that way. Of course.

[KentuckyWoman]

8. He gets a by from me on the courthouse.

My very humble opinion is people don't keep track of sites lynchings occurred. There are just so many. What I do expect, is if someone steps in it like he has, to go out of his way to shine the light. Help put a stop to what is happening now.

I am not a fan of his music, but he's lucky enough to have a mic in his face. Use it for good or shut up.

[radical noodle]

16. I'm not so sure this wasn't purposeful

He's using it for a campaign for vigilantism that appeals to all the magats out there. People are buying his music because they want to support that "we're white and we can do what we want" attitude. It's all over Facebook right now with specially-made memes and even make-believe stories about people who are supposedly supporting him.

[Blues Heron]

19. A song about vigilantism just happens to accidently be shot there?

[sheshe2]

24. Also:

PolitiFact dissected the video and found that although many of the clips we were able to verify do come from news footage of real events, many of the scenes depicting crowd violence are from outside the U.S., including Ukraine, Germany and Canada, with one dating as far back as 2010.

We also found clips available on stock footage websites, including one from what appears to be a real event and also appeared in the 2021 Netflix movie "Don’t Look Up."

This is not the first time Aldean has come under controversy. In 2015, a photo surfaced showing Aldean, who is white, dressed for Halloween in blackface as Black rapper Lil Wayne. He later told Billboard that he had "zero malicious intent."
https://www.politifact.com/article/2023/jul/20/jason-aldeans-try-that-in-a-small-town-video-inclu/

Much more at the link.

[Ohioboy]

20. You're right too many people with mics and platforms don't use them for good

It's like with Trump- he has a following and a huge platform from which he could do good, but instead he does everything to divide the nation.

[JanMichael]

21. He and his wife are both huge maggots. They love Trump.

I sincerely doubt that the intent of this was somehow honorable or just good old boy fun.

If so he's dumber than a stump which he is but he's also a white supremacist. Someone can be both.

He isn't going to use his microphone to do good for anybody other than himself and scumbag pieces of s*** Trump types.

[LizBeth]

29. I would suggest if you are a supremacist there has to be a huge element of dumb.

They go hand in hand

[Skittles]

40. he is a racist POS

just reading the police log of any small town lets you know how full of shit they are

[Lonestarblue]

9. The song lyrics may not overtly say racist things, but both the lyrics and video are emblematic

of right-wing, Trump-loving MAGAs. The lyrics call for vigilante violence against people they don’t want in their small towns, just as the KKK in the Jim Crow era threatened any black person who looked at or spoke to a white woman or didn’t get off the sidewalk for white people. The video amplified the message by filming in front of a famous courthouse and showing clips of black protesters and looting. Both lyrics and film clearly say that outsiders who are liberals or minorities are not welcome in MAGA small towns and vigilantes will be ready to kill them for any infraction against MAGA beliefs.

[MartyTheGreek]

11. Correct! And, he didn't write it...

Four others wrote it and they have been involved in this before apparently. Add, the song came out first, then they made the video at the lynching site with much thought I'm sure. I've been following Aldean since I learned to sing a few of his songs while out for karaoke during Covey when it was frowned upon.

I first learned that he was a Maskahole and there's some controversy about his wife saying something racist, I can't recall maybe a year to two ago. Someone needs to put this all together with the timeline and review the other songs. I live in maga country but the signs are coming down and not as much this summer in the venues. That said, I know how some of these magas think and they'll take that song and make it another anthem to appease their base while creating controversy for sales. I read that the song broke an iTunes record?

It will be interesting to read a story on this going back the past few years and really dig into this. Lastly, I read that Aldean's heat exhaustion and run off the stage the other day was from playing golf and likely drinking all day. His face has been a bit puffy lately and so is his beer belly! Story pic ads are using his pics from when he was thinner and no so puffy looking.

[617Blue]

12. He wants this attention

it's good for business. It has the feel of a planned stunt. I'll do this, those libs will get upset., I'll say some blah blah about America and the rubes will give me their money.

[Diamond_Dog]

17. That's my take on it too, 617Blue. Publicity. Get his name in the headlines to sell more recordings

[Generic Brad]

18. Yep. There's no such thing as bad publicity to some people

I had read that the song shot up to number one on iTunes once the controversy blew up.

[oldsoftie]

30. Yep. This song came out a few months ago & nobody noticed it.

NOW they noticed it

[Hieronymus Phact]

34. It's an old simple saying:

There is no Bad Press.

[Qutzupalotl]

35. I would never have heard of him or the song if not for all the threads here.

A few I can understand, but there have been more than a dozen in the last few days.

I think we're giving him more attention than he deserves. Asshole records asshole song is not big news.

[twodogsbarking]

13. He is a piece of shit with a hat.

[kacekwl]

14. All this song is good for is another

anthem for Maga nuts to play at trump Klan gatherings. It could just as easily have been about crime and injustice in small towns.

[hlthe2b]

22. Dogs Against Jason Aldean...

(Never question the assessment of the dogs. They always know)

[no_hypocrisy]

26. As obvious as Reagan starting his 1980 campaign

In Philadelphia, MS where the three Civil Rights volunteers were murdered (and he touted states’ rights).

[ananda]

28. Both dumb and an asshole, as far as I can tell.

I never heard of him till now.

[Prairie_Seagull]

31. How long before tfg starts playing it at his rallies.

Scum sucking pigs. (apologies to swine)

[BradBo]

32. He knew. He's dumb and an asshole, so is his wife. Read about that lovely woman.

[Hortensis]

33. He did know and knew everyone else would also. Hatemongers and

dog-whistlers WANT everyone to "get" it and react, the more outrage the more satisfying.

[Ohioboy]

36. Yeah, at the same time he can act like a victim of "cancel culture"

It's part of the division going on.

[Hortensis]

39. Rabblerouser of a radicalized minority of the right, though. If those

who strongly disapprove of this stuff (they do!) and imagine they're better acted it, instead of going along, the MAGAs would never have amounted to anything. Not even to themselves. Conformity's very important to them.

A golden age for social scientists.

[Tickle]

41. Others have done videos at the same

Court house. Like Hanna Montana movie with Miley Cyrus. I am not one of the 12 million people who has watched his video so I'll assume there's hate in the song

[Ohioboy]

42. I got that "Hanna Montana" from a rightie

The scene from Hanna Montana doesn't doesn't show the building as a feature. And it doesn't have some brocountry guy singing about "see how far ya make it down the road" if you do something wrong in a "small town".