https://www.billboard.com/charts/hot-100/ Currently #2 on billboard. No one liked the summer of love 2020. Be peaceful.
It's a dumb song with a dumb message, and I'm completely unsurprised that the the dude-bro/broette Nashville pop music crowd absolutely loves it.
Cuss out a cop, spit in his face Stomp on the flag and light it up Yeah, ya think you're tough Well, try that in a small town
These folks rely on veiled threats much like how Islamists imply violence when you call them out with their backwardness.
I want to ask someone like @Astrodome who pretends a song like this is apolitical. Sincerely ask yourself if Aldean includes clips from the Jan 6rh riots if the same people defending and praising him for this song and video would still praise him?
Also those lyrics directly promote violence for expressing speech. "Try that in a small town" implies they'd be shot in a small town. He is saying people who stomp on a flag should be shot. Dude is pandering to abject fascists.
Hey @Astrodome how would small town white folks treat the Jan 6th rioters? Would there be vieled threats about "trying that in a small town"?
Ask yourself if Aldean has the same "try this in a small town" energy for Jan 6th rioters. His music video had footage that almost all was related to the fallout of police brutality on the black community. It's very clear that there is a specific type of activist/rioter that small towns won't tolerate and it ain't the Jan 6th type
None of that would fly. Do you support the summer of deadly violent protesting? It sounds like you do.
What does support mean? I have an understanding and sympathy for the conditions those communities face that eventually lead to civil unrest. Go back to any other point in history before a time you didn't exist, most civil unrest stories in American civilization history were not mustache twirling villains just rampaging. There were real causes. Real issues. At the end of the day am I more sympathetic towards aftermath from people being angry about police brutality on minority neighborhoods than aftermath of a spray tanned orange dude wanting to stay in power for pure selfish reasons? And you are kidding yourself if you think some random town in west Virginia wouldn't embrace Jan 6th rioters. So ya Aldean wouldn't include Jan 6th riots in his montage of civil unrest in his video because it wouldn't make sense with the title "Try that in a small town" because again, most deeply red small towns in rural America would embrace and cheer the Jan 6th rioters.
What does support mean? I have an understanding and sympathy for the conditions those communities face that eventually lead to civil unrest. Go back to any other point in history before a time you didn't exist, most civil unrest stories in American civilization history were not mustache twirling villains just rampaging. There were real causes. Real issues. At the end of the day am I more sympathetic towards aftermath from people being angry about police brutality on minority neighborhoods than aftermath of a spray tanned orange dude wanting to stay in power for pure selfish reasons. Do I believe there needs to be a basic level of civil stability where if you break property or loot, you should be arrested? Yes of that id your question. I don't really know what you mean by "support" exactly. And you are kidding yourself if you think some random town in west Virginia wouldn't embrace Jan 6th rioters.
