This is NOT a pro-lynching song

[BPPLEE]

Did they couple it with a song about shooting/beating people up who do things you don't like, in a video also showing imagery from protests about violence against Black Americans? Context matters.

I don't know if I would necessarily classify it as "pro-lynching", but it's definitely in extremely poor taste.

Oh so the protests were violent? I thought they were mostly peaceful.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Oh so the protests were violent? I thought they were mostly peaceful.

What does that have to do with the topic of this thread?

 

[durangodawood]

Walmart and Amazon already ruined your small town.

 

[BPPLEE]

What does that have to do with the topic of this thread?

@RocksInMyHead said “in a video also showing imagery from protests about violence against Black Americans? Context matters.”

 

[RocksInMyHead]

@RocksInMyHead said “in a video also showing imagery from protests about violence against Black Americans? Context matters.”

Yes, Aldean's music video used footage from BLM protests. I'm not sure what your point is though.

 

[Brihaha]

Cynical. But you may not be wrong…

If you recall Aldean's wife engaged in a very publicized social media spat with country singer Maren Morris. In which Maren called her the "insurrection Barbie". Brittany was railing against the LGBT+ community while Maren was standing up for the rights of the oppressed. Cynical or not, these folks love the attention. I think this song is another parry in the culture war fencing match. At a most profitable period in the nonsensical American culture war battle.

 

[BPPLEE]

Yes, Aldean's music video used footage from BLM protests. I'm not sure what your point is though.

Most mainstream artists promote drugs, gangs, violence, and sleeping around Jason says ‘hey let’s not rob old ladies and burn down cities’ and CMT bans his video

 

[durangodawood]

Most mainstream artists promote drugs, gangs, violence, and sleeping around Jason says ‘hey let’s not rob old ladies and burn down cities’ and CMT bans his video

Are the black people coming to small towns and robbing old ladies? I didnt realize this was a typical thing.

 

[BPPLEE]

Are the black people coming to small towns and robbing old ladies? I didnt realize this was a typical thing.

What does it have to do with black people?

 

[durangodawood]

What does it have to do with black people?

Someone said the video imagery was "BLM riots". But I havent confirmed that.

 

[BPPLEE]

No, it is not a pro-lynching song if you read the lyrics. Using the Maury County Courthouse as a location, however, shows an incredible lack of awareness. He and his team should have known that would take the song and associate his tough guy lyrics with the history in Columbia. Culturally blind that he did not.

Someone needs to provide Aldean a list of all the places where Democrats lynched black people so that he doesn’t make this mistake again.

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Most mainstream artists promote drugs, gangs, violence, and sleeping around Jason says ‘hey let’s not rob old ladies and burn down cities’ and CMT bans his video

I suspect if you managed to raise the same level of public outcry about those songs, they might be pulled too. I don't think the drugs, gangs, and violence are typical CMT fare though. Sleeping around, maybe - I don't listen to a ton of country music.

Someone needs to provide Aldean a list of all the places where Democrats lynched black people so that he doesn’t make this mistake again.

What do Democrats have to do with this?

 

[RocksInMyHead]

Someone said the video imagery was "BLM riots". But I havent confirmed that.

That was me - I may have misunderstood something I read though. The music video includes footage of protesters clashing with police, which I assumed was from BLM protests, but I'm not positive of that.

 

[BPPLEE]

I suspect if you managed to raise the same level of public outcry about those songs, they might be pulled too. I don't think the drugs, gangs, and violence are typical CMT fare though. Sleeping around, maybe - I don't listen to a ton of country music.

What do Democrats have to do with this?

In the old South it was Democrats who fought against giving rights to black people and were responsible for a lot of the violence . You know, George Wallace, Jim Crow laws, etc

 

[RocksInMyHead]

In the old South it was Democrats who fought against giving rights to black people and were responsible for a lot of the violence .

And what relevance does that have to the topic of this thread?

 

[BPPLEE]

And what relevance does that have to the topic of this thread?

The allegation is someone was lynched at the courthouse used in the video almost 100 years ago. It’s been used in other music videos and a Disney movie and it wasn’t an issue

 

[RocksInMyHead]

The allegation is someone was lynched at the courthouse used in the video almost 100 years ago. It’s been used in other music videos and a Disney movie and it wasn’t an issue

The issue is the juxtaposition of the imagery of the courthouse with imagery of protests and a song promoting violence against people who think differently than you. As I said, context matters.

The lyrics alone? Okay. The video alone? Also okay. The video and the lyrics together, though, sends a different message.

Doesn't explain why you brought political parties into it though.

 

[WolfGate]

Where was the concern when Disney used the courthouse in the Hannah Montana movie?

Seriously, you understand the difference.

 

[Fantine]

As a transplanted New Yorker who lives in a small southern "city," I am often told that if I don't like the way our city or state is run
I should leave. The last person who told me that said that our state only wants outsiders who are willing to "assimilate" and "adopt our ways."

I recognize that I am a square peg in this town, and if I didn't have a sizeable community of friends who are also 'square pegs,' people who care about this community and recognize the need for change, I probably would have to leave.

I am also asked why I moved there if I didn't want to open carry guns and go to a non-denominational mega church--as if the only reason why people move there is a desire to take on the conservative mantle. I say that my husband lost an executive position in his mid 50's and, after several months of job search, found a job opportunity there--a place I had never visited and never even heard of.

And no, I am not black, or Hispanic, but I have stood in solidarity with dreamers and blacks, and participate in many progressive organizations from climate change to food pantries to police/community relations groups.

I take offense with Aldean's song because it was filmed in front of a court building where there had been lynchings and other racially charged events, and because I have experienced the open hostility of close-minded southerners in my own city.

Yes, I have found warmth and welcome, but TBT, it took several years for me to develop a supportive network of friends where I could be myself--longer than it had taken anywhere else I'd lived.

America is diverse. America is getting younger--and as it is, it is getting more progressive. You can try to gerrymander and suppress progressive votes, but you will lose.

We need to compromise and become more tolerant.

BTW, I "get along" with my conservative neighbors most of the time because I know my boundaries and what pushes their buttons. I walk on eggshells here and there and solid ground most of the time.

 

[Brihaha]

The issue is the juxtaposition of the imagery of the courthouse with imagery of protests and a song promoting violence against people who think differently than you. As I said, context matters.

The lyrics alone? Okay. The video alone? Also okay. The video and the lyrics together, though, sends a different message.

Doesn't explain why you brought political parties into it though.

I agree. Lost in the brouhaha is the awareness of Jason Aldean. The BLM protests are a community that is forced into taking care of themselves also, as his song supposedly represents. Police have long taken lives of their families and neighbors without consequences. If this was truly a song about unity Mr Aldean intentionally missed the chance to acknowledge how the black community is forced into taking care of their own. Yet he juxtaposed their "caretaking" into the violence in which he rails against. Which personally offends me as I enjoyed Aldeans music prior to him showing us his bigotry and tribalism recently.