Jason Aldean’s controversial song Try That in a Small Town has topped the iTunes chart – after Sheryl Crow branded it ‘lame’ and slammed its lyrics.
The song rose by four places Wednesday, and toppled Jung Kook & Latto’s Seven from the top spot.
It’s unclear if music megastar Crow’s attack on Aldean helped propel his song up the charts.
Attacking the tune, Crow – who is pro-gun control singer – said: ‘Even people in small towns are sick of violence’ and Aldean ‘should know that better than anyone’ after surviving a mass shooting.
The song came out two months ago, but Aldean, 46, released a gun-toting, anti-woke music video for it on Friday, which slams left-wing antagonists for antics that he claims wouldn’t fly in the South.
Both the lyrics and the video, which interlaced clips of BLM protestors vandalizing cities with lines endorsing traditional values and ‘taking care of our own’ – implying that he’d do so with guns, if necessary – have caused outrage online.
Now, Missouri-born Crow has weighed in against the song, citing herself as a small-towner after she grew up in Kennett, Dunklin County.
Sheryl Crow is the latest star to slam Jason Aldean’s controversial song Try That in a Small Town over its bloodthirsty lyrics, calling it ‘lame’ in an incendiary Twitter post
Crow, 61, shared some of the offending lyrics and said Aldean ‘should know better’ after surviving the 2017 Las Vegas festival shooting which killed 58 people
In a fiery Twitter post, the 61-year-old Soak Up The Sun songbird said: ‘I’m from a small town.
‘Even people in small towns are sick of violence. There’s nothing small-town or American about promoting violence.
‘You should know that better than anyone having survived a mass shooting. This is not American or small town-like. It’s just lame.’
Crow re-tweeted a photograph showing some of the offending lyrics, including the lines: ‘Got a gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up / Well, that s— might fly in the city, good luck / Try that in a small town’.
The country singer-songwriter is known for her liberal political standpoints, including supporting gun control measures.
Earlier this year, she joined fellow music artist Amy Grant to lead a group of performers to the Tennessee Capitol to lobby the legislature’s GOP supermajority for new gun restrictions.
It followed the March 27 school shooting at a private Christian elementary in Nashville which killed six people, including three nine-year-old children.
Aldean has also survived a mass shooting – on October 1, 2017, he was performing at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas when a gunman opened fire, killing 58 people.
Off stage, country singer-songwriter Crow is known for her liberal political standpoints, including supporting gun control measures
He cancelled his upcoming shows out of respect for the victims and their families, and opened up about his devastation after a deadly mass shooting at the Borderline Bar & Grill in Thousand Oaks, California, the following year.
Aldean released his latest, controversial song last week just days before he suffered a severe heatstroke on stage in Hartford, Connecticut, and had to cut his set mid-performance.
The song was met with mixed reviews, with liberal listeners feeling Aldean’s touting of Southern norms and anti-rioting were far-right affronts, while fans found it hard to disagree with its traditional values.
Taking to Twitter after the music video for it was released Friday, Aldean said the hit was inspired by the ‘unspoken rule’ of small towns of ‘we all have each other’s backs and we look out for each other.’
‘It feels like somewhere along the way, that sense of community and respect has gotten lost. Deep down we are all ready to get back to that,’ he added.
‘I hope my new music video helps y’all know that u are not alone in feeling that way.’
CMT pulled it from airwaves Tuesday after the backlash from liberals.
The song came out two months ago, but Aldean, 46, released a gun-toting, anti-woke music video for it on Friday, which slams left-wing antagonists for antics that wouldn’t fly in the South
Defending his song on Twitter after the music video for it was released Friday, Aldean said the hit was inspired by the ‘unspoken rule’ of small towns of ‘we all have each other’s backs and we look out for each other’
Aldean addressed his detractors in an Instagram story Tuesday where he denied any anti-black or pro-lynching sentiment and pointed out that people have only discovered it now, two months after it was released.
‘In the past 24 hours I have been accused of releasing a pro-lynching song (a song that has been out since May) and was subject to the comparison that I (direct quote) was not too pleased with the nationwide BLM protests,’ he wrote. ‘These references are not only meritless, but dangerous.’
‘There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it – and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage – and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music – this one goes too far,’ he added.
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