Posted on 08/25/2023 7:54:33 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Country music often expresses the heart of America. The left hates the heart of America ("the fruited plain," as Rush Limbaugh used to call it), so the left hates most country music. The woke mob's attacks against Jason Aldean and his hit song "Try That in a Small Town," as country superstar Lee Greenwood has noted, have "struck directly through the heart of country music." Greenwood added: "Cancel culture mob attacked Jason Aldean. They came for 'God Bless the USA.' But they can't cancel all of us."
Jason's song has been denounced as "racist" by the progressive elites. The New York Times (promoter of the "1619 Project," which views America's beginnings as the story of a "slaveocracy") claims that "critics" of the song have denounced it as an alleged "call to racist vigilantism." But the song and accompanying video are nothing of the kind. Even Joe Rogan — who survived his own attempted takedown by the left's cancel mob — has remarked on the ridiculous outrage against the song.
"Try That in a Small Town" is clearly about self-defense and protecting rural and small-town America from the violence sweeping so many of our major cities run by liberal politicians. Aldean's defense of his song and video as not being in any way racist falls on deaf ears. That is because the left's actual "offense" at the song has nothing to do with race at all; instead, it's a smokescreen intended to make small-town and rural America doubt itself, to put it on the defensive, and to try to project liberal guilt about liberals' own racism upon Middle America. White liberals, after all, are the ones who contend that many blacks are incapable of getting IDs and can't find the DMV. They are the ultimate racists.
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Speaking of country music, Zach Bryan just released a new album this morning that is pretty darn good. I just listened to it twice on the way to work.
Not sure where Zach stands politically and don't want to know, as I like his music.
A lot of those so called country artists nowdays are as leftist as their hollyweird peers.
I have often thought what they'd be singin' NOW, if they hadn't been cut down.
I believe they'd be on a par with The Nuge.
Mr. Jason and that redbearded gentleman’s 1st, wnd, and 3rd songs have already been downloaded and shared all across America, and, very possibly among all of our G.I.’s wherever they may be!
The cancel culture knows it is losing, and that scares them.
Whiney tissuepaperbutt folks becoming ignored is a wondrous thing.
Nashville music elite are overwhelmingly woke
And not from here
CMT are mostly New York Brooklyn and upper west side media degree grads
Third or fourth Gen leftist mostly Jewish
They detest their market
Like Disney does or Bud Light did
I was privvy to observing some of their first meetings by chance
I told my wife this is not good
What did they do?
Immediately start doing programming that purloined their audience
Funny that the commie libs haven’t laid a finger on Aaron Lewis. He’s the best of all these pro-American singers. Not a peep about “Am I The Only One”. Because it scared the piss out of the far-left, Bidenskyyyy supporting morons.
Modern country music is ear acid. Americana, however, is glorious and under appreciated
“Try That in a Small Town” is clearly about self-defense and protecting rural and small-town America because everyone in those small towns has something to protect. Their businesses, their friends and family and their town’s history.
Big city types don’t understand that.
Rural America is foreign to them.
I don’t think ideology affects music taste all that much.
I dislike most country music; the style just does not “speak” to me.
I also dislike rap and hiphop. I once engaged in a conversation with someone who believed that the only reason people hate rap or hiphop is because they are racist. I said no, the reason I hate rap or hiphop is because it is jarring and discordant, very unpleasant to hear.
People might dislike individual songs because of their ideology, but not whole categories of music.
A singer needs to write the Ballad of Donald Trump. Maybe call it the Old Lion. A song of rebellion and freedom. a song to inspire the nation.
Give me 70's and some early 80's country western any day.
Any CW male singer with earrings is an impostor.
Right you are.
There is very little true country music out there. Most of them posing as singers are leftist, can’t sing and one song after another is about: partying, getting drunk, screwing and their pickup truck. Worse still its all the same tune and very little singing is involved. Hick hop...
I totally agree. I have a very huge dislike of modern country music.
The same moronic far-left maggots who see a "RACIAL SLUR" in "C_NGRATS." Too many recreational workouts on crack, fentanyl and OPIUM causes this. The morons are seeing things everywhere and hearing President Trump's voice echoing around inside their skulls. Hopefully, first responders will run out of Narcan and we'll see more overdoses.
I cannot stand modern country music. Mostly suburban, white trash, herp-derps playing over produced, sentimentalist pop music... that sounds like utter $**t.
Am I bad too? Do I need to give my medals back?
I like Johnny Cash, Bela Fleck, Reba etc. - but they can actually do American country.
Modern country music sounds just like modern pop music, but with a twang.
***Big city types don’t understand that. Rural America is foreign to them.***
Yeah, the thing they really don’t understand is we are better shots. A weekend in Chicago, New York, or Atlanta May have 47 shot, 7 dead. They try that in a small town it would be 47 shot, 47 dead, all on their side.
Absolutely. Aldean’s song is somewhat of a departure from the tepid, pasty gray bro country that dominates top 40 country.
Americana and Red Dirt is truer to country music than modern country music ever will be.
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