![]() ![]() “I know a lot of you guys grew up like I did,” Aldean said. The targets of the song’s vigilante threats seem to be scattershot, so to speak.īut the only example that Aldean offered in his defense of the song at the Cincinnati concert was something that doesn’t come up in either the lyrics or the music video: mass shootings. The music video goes further, though, mostly showing footage of demonstrators - some of it stock footage of Canadian protests - along with brief shots of violent crime. Some of the criticism over the song and video have had to do with the long list of things that the lyrics maintains will be subject to swift retributive action, should big city types bring them to a small town - some involving violent crime (carjackings, liquor store holdups), some having to do with hooliganism that would be common even in small towns (“cussing” at cops), some involving exercising legal, First Amendment-protected rights (flag burning, the only reference to protests in the song itself), some bogeymen (would-be government gun confiscators). ![]() I saw country music fans rally like I’ve never seen before and it was pretty badass, I gotta say. One thing I saw this week was a bunch of country music fans that can see through a lot of the bullshit. ![]() He continued, “You guys know how it is this day and age, cancel culture… This day and age, if people don’t like what you say, they try to make sure they can cancel you, which means try to ruin your life. ![]()
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