I had friends in Inglewood They moved out when some neighbor threatened to shoot her boyfriend in the street but now they got that nice stadium for the rams etc so who knows
Not clicking any "show ignored content" but I'll be disappointed if nobody has posted the John Cougar Mellonhead song yet. Poor guy is probably rolling over in his late irrelevance right now. Back when nobody said the quiet part out loud.
Actually, i thought about that song and googled up the lyrics. It is also a small town pride song, but Try That in a Small Town uses the evils of the Big City as a foil for the supposed virtues of the small town, whereas Mellencamp's Small Town isn't combative at all ("Got nothing against a big town / Still hayseed enough to say / Look who's in the big town / But my bed is in a small town / Oh, and that's good enough for me"). Nobody is going to have beef with that song.
This is small town living now: https://www.wsj.com/story/murder-rates-soar-in-rural-america-bb431022 https://www.scientificamerican.com/...ie-at-higher-rates-than-those-in-urban-areas/ Instead of personal responsibility, these folks blame everyone else. The entitlement among rural conservatives is just astounding.
I agree with you and was mainly just making a joke reference. It's totally benign... Spoiler unlike hurts so good!
But some low information middle manager in this very thread just assured us all that small town cops don't have anything to do. It's as if he tells bald faced lies based on his ingrained bigotry.
2 or 3 white liberals get upset and push this outrage. This song has been out for months. OP is super soft.
Exactly. The beauty of music is you can interpret it many ways. Soft liberals chose outrage months after the release. Why didn't they choose to get mad when Miley filmed in front of that courthouse?
Couldn’t tell you. Are you suggesting this is whole affair was manufactured for the purpose of getting more record sales? Preposterous!! Bet you’re right though. What is "Try That in a Small Town" about? Aldean, a 46-year-old country singer from Macon, Ga., first released the song in May, but it wasn't until the release of the video on July 14— as promotion for his 11th upcoming album — that the discourse ratcheted up. There ya go.
Got Dam Librelz From NPR Why is the video so divisive? Interspersed between shots of Aldean singing are clips of vandalizing, riots and police encounters, much of which is evocative of racial injustice protests. Some of the scenes bear a Fox News chyron, but others, as some TikTok sleuths have pointed out, appear to be stock footage, in some cases of gatherings from other countries. But much of the criticism around the video has less to do with these clips than its setting: The Maury County Courthouse building in Columbia, Tenn., which serves as an American-flag-draped backdrop for Aldean and his band. The landmark was the site of race riots in 1946as well as a 1927 lynching in which a white mob pulled an 18-year-old black man, Henry Choate, from jail and dragged him through the city by car, according to several media reports, including one detailed account from The Washington Post. Choate had allegedly confessed to attacking a 16-year-old white girl "to protect his life," even though the girl "could not positively identify him as the assailant," the Post reported.
Political commentators on the right have have held up the country music canon, and Aldean in particular, as a loudspeaker for under-appreciated conservative values. 2024 GOP primary contenders like Trump, entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis all defended the artist, with DeSantis saying: "When the media attacks you, you're doing something right." If attention was his goal, then Aldean might agree: As of midday Thursday, "Try That in a Small Town" was ranked No. 1 in the U.S. on iTunes and was holding the No. 2 spot on YouTube's trending music videos.
