Anti BLM? You decide.

[just-me]

Jason Aldean, country singer, has released a new song that some are saying is anti BLM and refuse to give play time.
"The video, released in May, was shot in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., a site known for the 1927 mob lynching of Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black man, and is interspersed with violent news footage, including protests." ( At the 2:00 mark, Toronto.)
I think it's just typical red-neck, but you decide.

 

[TwistedKestrel]

Given the context of the song, the video would be depicting these protests as examples of what's wrong with the world today, instead of symptoms of the problems. And the lyrics of the song are definitely promoting frontier justice, sung over a comically generic country tune.

Maybe the inclusion of the courthouse is some secret racist dogwhistle ********, but the song doesn't have much going for it to begin with.

 

[Soulcatcher668]

Really? We are going down the music lyric road again?

Can we wheel out Tipper Gore.

*edit - Just watched the video. Generic C&W song. People are really stretching to call this Anti BLM and the "something bad happened here" 100 years ago argument is pretty weak.

Seems like the usual looking to be offended type stuff.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

There is only one C&W song worth listening to. Jesus Built My Hotrod.

 

[jc100]

Hate farmed commerce is big these days. Identify your audience, pander to their fever dreams, stoke the divide, get the free publicity and reap the profits. Works for politics, works for a bunch of other crap, why not country music.

 

[ToSlow]

Is this really what our world is coming to

 

[SnazzyBalkan]

100% Hatebait. Go Ride.

 

[Wingboy]

Morgan Freeman said it best.

 

[FullMotoJacket]

Morgan Freeman said it best.

 

[LBV]

I see the video as a statement against all the hate in the world and the disrespect for laws and authority. I'm far from a redneck but I like the message it's saying and I see absolutely nothing racist about it.

 

[Jampy00]

New Country - Barf.

 

[LBV]

New Country - Barf.

The stuff from the 80's & 90's was good.

 

[Soulcatcher668]

The stuff from the 80's & 90's was good.

There is some gold if you are willing to dig. I am not a country person, but check this out.

 

[LBV]

This is more my style:

 

[Wind Shear]

New Country - Barf.

I'll stick with my Glen Campbell, Conway Twitty, Jerry Reed, etc

 

[jc100]

Can country music drive you to suicide?

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

 

[ToSlow]

 

[sburns]

Is this really what our world is coming to

Couldn't have said it better. Just more stupider and stupider.... why escaping on a motorcycle gets better and better.

 

[nobbie48]

I'll stick with my Glen Campbell, Conway Twitty, Jerry Reed, etc

Marty Robbins, Jim Reeves, Eddy Arnold etc.

As far as the original video goes it can be taken many ways, just like race based statistics.

Show stats that make it look like a particular race is disproportionately involved and you can:

A) Say they're basically bad or

B) They need a disproportionate amount of the right type of social assistance.

IMO the imagery in the video is worse than the lyrics. The imagery instills fear and paranoia. That will be followed by hate. The powder keg has been assembled. Got a match?

 

[sburns]

100% Hatebait. Go Ride.

exactly!