Jason Aldean defends his 'Try That In A Small Town' song at Boston show and （人命などを）奪う，主張するs it's 'not about race' - and that fans can relate to it after the 2013 マラソン 爆破s
- ?The song has 直面するd a 抱擁する （激しい）反発 over its 議論の的になる music ビデオ and lyrics
Country singer Jason Aldean has defended his 議論の的になる 'Try That In A Small Town' song at a Boston show, （人命などを）奪う，主張するing that it's not about race.
Aldean, 46, also told the audience at the Mansfield Xfinity 中心 on Saturday night that they can relate to the song because of the 2013 Boston マラソン 爆破s, a テロリスト attack that resulted in three deaths and left more than 260 負傷させるd.
The song has 直面するd a 抱擁する （激しい）反発 over its 議論の的になる music ビデオ and lyrics that critics say glorify 暴力／激しさ and 燃料 人種差別主義.
Aldean said the 'Boston Strong' mentality - a 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 used to 述べる the まとまり around the city after the 爆破s - is in sync with the song's message.
'You guys get this better than anybody, 権利?' he asked the （人が）群がる, in ビデオ （映画の）フィート数 株d on Twitter.?
Aldean said the 'Boston Strong' mentality - a 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 used to 述べる the まとまり around the city after the 爆破s - is in sync with the message of Try That in a Small Town (とじ込み／提出する Photo)
In ビデオ （映画の）フィート数 株d on Twitter, he told the （人が）群がる:?'What happened was a whole ― not a small town ― a big a** town coming together, no 事柄 your color, no 事柄 nothing.' (とじ込み／提出する Photo)
'What happened was a whole - not a small town - a big a** town coming together, no 事柄 your color, no 事柄 nothing.'
He 追加するd: 'This is not about race.
'It's about people getting their s*** together and 事実上の／代理 権利.'
The previous night at Hersheypark Stadium in Hershey, Pennsylvania, Aldean defended the song by arguing that critics want to turn it into 'something that it wasn't,' によれば PennLive.
He referred to the six seconds of （映画の）フィート数, 含むing 黒人／ボイコット Lives 事柄 抗議する scenes, that he said was 除去するd for 合法的な 推論する／理由s from the ビデオ.
'Everybody can look at it from a different angle,' Aldean told the （人が）群がる on Friday.?
'But just because six seconds were taken out, doesn't change what I was trying to say in the ビデオ.'
'I don't give a damn what color you are, or who you are,' he 追加するd.?
The song's lyrics open with descriptions of さまざまな violent 行為／法令／行動するs.?
Jason Aldean 成し遂げるs onstage at Country 雷鳴 Wisconsin on July 22, 2023
Aldean sings: 'Cuss out a 警官，（賞などを）獲得する, spit in his 直面する. Stomp on the 旗 and light it up. Yeah, ya think you're 堅い? Try that in a small town.'?
The country 星／主役にする then 警告するs: 'Think you're 堅い? 井戸／弁護士席 try that in a small town,' and proceeds to remind listeners that he's 'got a gun that my granddad gave me'.?
The ビデオ shows Aldean, guitar in 手渡す, standing before a courthouse in a Tennessee town - the 場所／位置 of the lynching of a 黒人／ボイコット teen by a 暴徒 in 1927, and a municipality in which race 暴動s occurred in 1946.
The on-scene （映画の）フィート数 is interspersed with scenes of violent street 抗議するs and other culture-war hot-button imagery.
The music ビデオ was met with a （激しい）反発 の中で some who felt the lyrics were dog-whistles ーするつもりであるd to 感情を害する／違反する, while others saw it as a commentary on America's sharp divides.
The 攻撃する，衝突する takes 目的（とする） at 'woke' 行動主義者s for 事実上の／代理 'a fool', 特に 非難するing the 一連の BLM 抗議するs that sprang up across America に引き続いて the police 殺人，大当り of George Floyd in 2020.
The 暴動s resulted in billions of dollars in 損失 and led to questions over why such a large number of people were willing to break the 法律, with Aldean feeling the 不安 was 予定 to people not 存在 'raised 権利'.
The song was met with mixed reviews, with 自由主義の listeners feeling Aldean's touting of Southern norms and anti-暴動ing were far-権利 affronts, while fans 設立する it hard to 同意しない with its 伝統的な values.
Taking to Twitter earlier this month, Aldean said the 攻撃する，衝突する was 奮起させるd by the 'unspoken 支配する' of small towns where 'we all have each other's 支援するs and we look out for each other'.?
'It feels like somewhere along the way, that sense of community and 尊敬（する）・点 has gotten lost. 深い 負かす／撃墜する we are all ready to get 支援する to that,' he 追加するd.
'I hope my new music ビデオ helps y'all know that u are not alone in feeling that way.'
Since then, fellow country singers 含むing the 伝説の Pat Boone have come 今後 in support of Aldean.
Speaking to Fox News, Boone 述べるd the country music 産業 as 存在 'sick' over its 試みる／企てるs to shun Aldean.
During the Fox interview, he also held up a Colt-44 given to him by his grandfather Pritchard, telling host 足緒 Watters it is 正確に／まさに the type of 武器 families used to defend themselves.
Boone continued: 'For anybody, country music or not, to take a stand against us taking a stand for our own 権利s is just sick.
'It's just moral sickness, I can't believe anybody is 非難するing Jason.'
The 粉砕する 攻撃する，衝突する was 解放（する）d in late May and went 比較して unnoticed at the time.
However, the 解放（する） of the song's music ビデオ two months later saw a 抱擁する 殺到する in attention and 誘発するd a major （激しい）反発, with left-wing 選挙運動者s slamming him and those on the 権利 coming to his defence.
Country Music Television, a major US 駅／配置する that showcases country music in America, has pulled Aldean's ビデオ まっただ中に the 論争.
Aldean says the lyrics have been 貧しく 解釈する／通訳するd and 主張するs his song 言及するs to 'the feeling of community,' where 'we take care of our own'.?
In the music ビデオ, Aldean sings before a large white 所有物／資産／財産 and an American 旗 interlaced with clips of BLM 抗議するs
The setting for Aldean's ビデオ was みなすd 挑発的な: Aldean's team said they were unaware of the history
Jason Aldean's ビデオ for 'Try That in a Small Town' shows a 旗 存在 burnt during BLM 抗議するs
The 公式の／役人 ビデオ for Jason Aldean's song, 'Try That In A Small Town' shows 抗議するs and BLM 暴動s
Aldean 地位，任命するd on Twitter to celebrate 解放（する）ing his new song to the public on July 14
The song has 殺到するd to the No. 2 位置／汚点／見つけ出す on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, with more than 19 million 見解（をとる）s on YouTube.?
In an 編集（者）の for CNN, historian Nicole Hemmer argued that the lyrics 代表する a '祝賀 of vigilantism,' and an '主張 of who is 許すd to make and 施行する the 支配するs'.?
Others 一方／合間 defended Aldean, with podcaster Joe Rogan arguing that many 非難する lyrics are overtly more violent and vulgar than those of the country music 星／主役にする.
On Wednesday's episode of The Joe Rogan Experience with evolutionary biologist and author Gad Saad, Rogan said: 'The level of 乱暴／暴力を加える, now I'm not 説 that that's the greatest song in the world's ever known, you know.?
'But the level of 乱暴／暴力を加える coming from people that are upset about that song is so strange when there are hundreds of 非難する songs out there that are infinitely worse and also enjoyable.'
Political commentator Coleman Hughes also pointed out that Aldean's lyrics are いっそう少なく violent and gun-oriented than most mainstream rappers and that 乱暴／暴力を加える by critics is disingenuous and hypocritical, 特に from 進歩／革新的なs who defend 非難する music.
Aldean defends himself against any 人種差別主義者 言及／関連 or 陳謝 for 暴力／激しさ, and was on 行う／開催する／段階 at a music festival in Las Vegas in 2017 when a 孤独な gunmen in a high-rise 解雇する／砲火／射撃d 負かす／撃墜する on fans, 殺人，大当り 60 people and 負傷させるing more than 400 others, one of the worst 行為／法令／行動するs of gun 暴力／激しさ in modern US history.
Jason Aldean ahead of the 54th Country Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden 円形競技場 in Las Vegas in April 2019
He considers that the 解釈／通訳 of his song's lyrics 'goes too far'.?
The 論争 over Aldean and his song is part of the 'culture wars' in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs, in which social 問題／発行するs - from the 権利s of LGBTQ people to the content of school textbooks - have become heated topics.
And country music, which the public 一般に 見解（をとる）s as leaning 保守的な, is far from 免疫の to the 審議s.
As 早期に as the 1920s, 確かな 主題s were making their way into country song lyrics, 顕著に 'an evangelical Christian 視野 on life,' Jocelyn Neal, a professor of music at the University of North Carolina, told AFP.
The 産業 in the 1950s brought country music 'in line with 肉親，親類d of middle class, white, 穏健な to 保守的な value systems' and in 好意 of 軍の service for 'marketing 目的s,' Neal said.
But country music 'is not a monolithic thing,' Neal 追加するd, pointing to an '増加するd 多様制' of artists in 最近の years, such as African American singer Rissi Palmer.
Aldean, who says he has 'never... hidden' his 保守的な positions, enjoyed the support of several 右翼 人物／姿／数字s in the 早期に days of the 論争, 含むing Donald Trump.
The 共和国の／共和党の ex-大統領，／社長 took to Truth Social on July 19 to 賞賛する Aldean's 選び出す／独身.
'Jason Aldean is a fantastic guy who just （機の）カム out with a 広大な／多数の／重要な new song. Support Jason all the way. MAGA!!!' Trump 地位，任命するd.
Former US 大統領，／社長 Donald Trump, pictured on July 15, 2023, has 述べるd country music singer Jason Aldean as a 'fantastic guy' with 'a 広大な／多数の／重要な new song'
However, singer Sheryl Crow 公然と bashed Aldean's message.
'I'm from a small town,' she 公式文書，認めるd.?
'Even people in small towns are sick of 暴力／激しさ. There's nothing small-town or American about 促進するing 暴力／激しさ.
'You should know that better than anyone having 生き残るd a 集まり 狙撃. This is not American or small town-like. It's just lame.'
Tennessee 明言する／公表する Rep. Justin Jones, who was 簡潔に expelled from the 団体／死体 by his 共和国の／共和党の 同僚s over 抗議するing on に代わって of 厳格な人 gun 法律s in the 影響 of 集まり 狙撃 at the Covenant School in Nashville, said: 'As Tennessee 国会議員s, we have an 義務 to 非難する Jason Aldean's heinous song calling for 人種差別主義者 暴力／激しさ.'
'What a shameful 見通し of gun extremism and vigilantism. We will continue to call for ありふれた sense gun 法律s, that 保護する ALL our children and communities,' Jones 追加するd.?
