Brittany Aldean is celebrating husband Jason Aldean’s first-ever No. 1 hit after his track “Try That in a Small Town” ignited a debate throughout the trade.
“Well, yesterday was a monumental day for @jasonaldean ❤️,” she captioned an Instagram publish on Tuesday, August 1. “#1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart!! …A career first🙏🏼 That sure did backfire, didn’t it?? The best fans EVERRRR❣️❣️❣️❣️.”
In the add, Brittany included a photograph of herself hugging Jason and a snap of him holding their two kids — son Memphis, 5, and daughter Navy, 4. Her publish additionally featured movies of the couple partying at a restaurant with their family members.
Fans and pals took to the feedback part to affix in on the celebration. “Being courageous always works out in the end. So few people are willing to do it but fortune really does favor the brave,” Candace Owens wrote. “Well deserved. We love you guys❤️.”
Jason, for his half, didn’t seem to deal with his achievement through social media after hovering to his first No. 1. His controversial track is adopted by Morgan Wallen’s “Last Night” and Luke Combs’ cowl of “Fast Car,” marking the primary time in 65 years that nation songs claimed the highest three spots on the Billboard chart.
“Try That in a Small Town” was initially launched in May, but it surely solely started to make waves following the discharge of its music video final month. Some listeners questioned the track’s content material — which seemingly encourages “pull a gun on the owner of a liquor store” or “cuss out a cop” in a small city and “see how far ya make it down the road.”
Jason Aldean and Brittany Aldean Courtesy of Brittany Aldean/Instagram
Despite widespread criticism from social media customers and fellow musicians alike, Jason stood by his songwriting. “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 claimed in a July 18 Twitter assertion. (The video has since been altered to take away some photographs of violent Black Lives Matter protests from 2020.)
While on his Highway Desperado tour, Jason addressed the controversy greater than as soon as. “What I am is a proud American [and] I’m proud to be from here,” he stated on stage in Ohio on July 21. “I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bulls—t started happening to us. I love my country, I love my family and I will do anything to protect that, I can tell you that right now.”
One week later, Jason tried to attach the dots between his track’s message and the aftermath of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing throughout his live performance in Massachusetts. “What I saw when that happened was, not a small town — a big ass town — come together. … The whole country, especially Boston, came together to find these two pricks that did that,” he instructed the viewers. “Any of you guys that would’ve found those guys before the cops did, I know you guys from Boston, and you guys would’ve beat the s–t out of [them].”
The public backlash, nonetheless, hasn’t hindered Jason’s profession — and his spouse has been his most vocal supporter by means of all of it. During an Instagram Q&A uploaded on Wednesday, August 2, Brittany opened up about how she’s discovered to disregard the haters.
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“I think confidence comes with age,” she stated within the video. “I’m 36, I’ve been through a lot of crap with my relationship. … It doesn’t matter, I feel like you’re always going to have a hater. But you’ve never met a hater that’s doing better than you. So block, delete. Bye.”
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