黒人／ボイコット Forbes 30 under 30 マスコミ commentator Coleman Hughes 激突するs Jason Aldean critics for hypocrisy and says his 'Try That in a Small Town' song has プロの／賛成の-gun lyrics - but 収容する／認めるs Hip Hop lyrics are worse

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黒人／ボイコット political commentator?Coleman Hughes slammed critics of Jason Aldean's new song as hypocrites, 説 calling Aldean 'プロの／賛成の-lynching' is dishonest and 非難する lyrics are 一般に much worse.

Aldean, 46, has 直面するd days of （激しい）反発 over his song 'Try That in a Small Town,' the ビデオ for which features news （映画の）フィート数 from a handful of 暴動s, many of them violent, that took place across the country over the last few years.

All the while, Aldean and his 禁止（する）d play and sing the song in 前線 of the Maury 郡 Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee.

But Hughes, a member of the Forbes 30 under 30 class of 2021, 機動力のある a 弁護 of Aldean in The 解放する／自由な 圧力（をかける）?in which he argued that the song's lyrics are inoffensive compared with lyrics from the likes of chart-toppers Lil Baby and 21 Savage.?

'While it is true that Aldean’s lyrics are プロの／賛成の-gun and 含む／封じ込める a brand of machismo that might be off-putting to some, they are 穏やかな compared to the lyrics routinely heard in mainstream 非難する songs.'?

In a piece for The 解放する／自由な 圧力（をかける）, Coleman Hughes 反映するd on the hypocrisy of Jason Aldean's detractors who also support mainstream 非難する music, にもかかわらず the lyrics 存在 一般に more gun and 暴力／激しさ 激しい than the country 星／主役にする's new song

A ビデオ for Aldean's son Try That in a Small Town 誘発するd a wave of 批評 both from the online 暴徒 and some of his 産業 同僚s?

Hughes 特に identifies Grammy-winning rapper 21 Savage as someone whose lyrics are much more explicitly about 暴力／激しさ than Aldean's.

'I pull up with the stick [gun] and let this bitch 誘発する. 断言する I would’ve 発射 that cracker if I was Rosa Parks,' is an example of a 21 Savage lyric.

Lil Baby, also a Grammy-勝利者, is another rapper Hughes calls out for 令状ing lyrics about guns and gun 暴力／激しさ.

'My homie got the stick, I got the glizzy / We don’t 恐れる them / These n****s don’t wanna play with us / I 断言する that we gon’ kill them.'

Aldean's '議論の的になる' lyric about guns is: 'Got a gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna 一連の会議、交渉／完成する up / 井戸／弁護士席, that shit might 飛行機で行く in the city, good luck / Try that in a small town.'

Hughes argues that progressi ves are 明確に not inherently bothered by lyrics about guns, as they've long been 支持者s and defenders of rappers who run into trouble because they've written lyrics 表明するing 憎悪 toward 法律 施行.

Lil Baby earlier this month in Las Vegas. The 極端に popular rapper was referred to by Hughes as an example of someone whose lyrics are more explicitly violent and gun-oriented than Aldean's

British rapper 21 Savage 成し遂げるs at Hard 激しく揺する stadium this week in Miami Gardens. His lyrics often discuss 暴力／激しさ and the use of 小火器, often in more graphic and explicit 条件 than Aldean's lyric did

'What 乱すs 進歩／革新的なs is not the fact that Aldean’s song 含む／封じ込めるs macho, プロの／賛成の-gun lyrics - which are ubiquitous in 非難する.?

'What 乱すs them is the fact that Aldean is a straight, white, 保守的な male, and therefore must play by a different 始める，決める of 支配するs than 黒人／ボイコット, left-leaning artists,' he 令状s.

He also explains that the 主張 that Aldean or the song are 'プロの／賛成の-lynching' is 'baseless' and predicated 単独で on the fact that, in 1926, an 18-year-old 黒人／ボイコット man 指名するd Henry Choate was lynched in 前線 of the same courthouse featured in the ビデオ.

Aldean did not choose the 場所 of the shoot, によれば the 生産／産物 company. But even if he did, wrote Hughes, 'that would hardly 暗示する that the singer chose the 場所 because he knew about - much いっそう少なく 手配中の，お尋ね者 to evoke the memory of- a lynching that occurred nearly one hundred years ago.'

The piece points out that the same courthouse was used in Hannah Montana: The Movie, but no one would, or should 示唆する that Miley Cyrus is 'プロの／賛成の-lynching.'?

Tacklebox, the ビデオ's 生産／産物 company 公式文書，認めるd that the 場所 has been featured many times by artists filming in Nashville.

It 特記する／引用するd the Hannah Montana Movie as one of them, in 新規加入 to a 2022 最高位の holiday film 'A Nashville Christmas,' and the 2022 Lifetime 初めの television movie 'Steppin’ into the Holiday' starring Mario Lopez and Jana Kramer?

'What’s happening here is not based on 原則, but on politics. Those who hate Aldean’s politics are using the ビデオ as an excuse to 廃虚 his 評判 and 傷つける his career,' 令状s Hughes.?

Aldean has been in the country music 産業 for more than 20 years and until recently made few if any allusions to his personal politics.

He became more 明確に 右翼 when, around the time of the last 大統領の 選挙, he 表明するd his support for Donald Trump.

His wife, Brittany Aldean, is also outspoken about her beliefs?and has 獲得するd attention in the past for 存在 批判的な of いわゆる gender-断言するing care for minors.?

Hughes' piece points out that the same courthouse Aldean is 存在 非難するd for standing in 前線 of was used in Hannah Montana: The Movie, but no one would, or should 示唆する that Miley Cyrus is 'プロの／賛成の-lynching'

Coleman explained that the 主張 that Aldean or the song are 'プロの／賛成の-lynching' is 'baseless' and predicated 単独で on the fact that, in 1926, an 18-year-old 黒人／ボイコット man 指名するd Henry Choate was lynched in 前線 of the same courthouse featured in the ビデオ

The country music 星／主役にする used （映画の）フィート数 from 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 暴動s for the 意見の不一致を生じる song

Aldean 演説（する）／住所d his detractors in an Instagram story last Tuesday, in which he 否定するd any anti-黒人／ボイコット or プロの／賛成の-lynching 感情 and pointed out that people have only discovered it now, two months after it was 解放（する）d.

'In the past 24 hours I have been （刑事）被告 of 解放（する）ing a プロの／賛成の-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was 支配する to the comparison that I (direct 引用する) was not too pleased with the 全国的な BLM 抗議するs,' he wrote. 'These 言及／関連s are not only meritless, but dangerous.'?

'There is not a 選び出す／独身 lyric in the song that 言及／関連s race or points to it - and there isn't a 選び出す／独身 ビデオ clip that isn't real news （映画の）フィート数 - and while I can try and 尊敬（する）・点 others to have their own 解釈／通訳 of a song with music - this one goes too far.

'NO ONE, 含むing me, wants to continue to see senseless headlines or families ripped apart,' 公式文書，認めるing that he was at the 大勝する 91 Las Vegas 収穫 Festival, where 61 people were killed in the deadliest 集まり 狙撃 in US history.?

'Try That In A Small Town', for me, 言及するs to the feeling of a community that I had growing up, where we took care of our neighbors, 関わりなく differences of background or belief. Because they were our neighbors, and that was above any differences.

'My political 見解（をとる）s have never been something I've hidden from, and I know that a lot of us in this Country don't agree on how we get 支援する to a sense of normalcy where we go at least a day without a headline that keeps us up at night. But the 願望（する） for it to- that's what this song is about,' he 結論するd.

The （激しい）反発 led to Aldean's ビデオ 存在 pulled from the Country Music Television channel.

Since dropping 11 days ago, the music ビデオ has accrued 18million 見解（をとる）s on YouTube.?