Jason Aldean is continuous to defend his controversial monitor.
The 46-year-old singer took a second throughout his present on the Riverbend Music Center in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Friday evening to handle the controversy over his music Try That in a Small Town. After dropping a music video for the monitor, he got here below hearth over the previous week when individuals seen it contained some significantly harmful and problematic materials. Many have identified that the lyrics and accompanying video are pro-lynching, pro-guns, selling vigilante violence, and general glorifying fascism.
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During the live performance, Aldean blamed all the backlash towards his violence-inciting and threatening music to nothing greater than “cancel culture.” He instructed viewers members:
“It’s been a long-a** week. It’s been a long week. And I’ve seen a lot of stuff suggesting I’m this, suggesting I’m that. I feel, like, everybody’s entitled to their opinions. You can think something all you want to but doesn’t mean it’s true. What I am is a proud American. I’m proud to be from here. 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.”
As the group started to chant “USA” time and again, Aldean continued:
“You guys know how it is this day and age, cancel culture it’s a thing… This day and age, if people don’t like what you say, they try to make sure they can cancel you, which means try to ruin your life. Ruin everything. One thing I saw this week was a bunch of country music fans that can see through a lot of the bulls**t. I saw country music fans rally like I’ve never seen before and it was pretty bada**, I gotta say. Thank you guys so much.”
Before performing the monitor, the Dirt Road Anthem artist famous that many have requested him whether or not he’d play the music reside because of the backlash – which he clearly ended up doing so:
“I said, ‘You know, people that come to my shows, you guys know what I’m about. You know what I stand for.’ I never shied away from that at all. You have the same values, the same principles that I have, which is we we want to take our kids to a movie and not worry about some a**hole coming in there shooting up the theater, right? So when somebody asked me, ‘Hey man, do you think you’re going to play the song tonight?’ The answer is simple. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly this week.”
He says this final a part of the speech — but nonetheless had such a blatant pro-gun stance within the music? Even after being on stage in Las Vegas in 2017 amid the deadliest mass taking pictures in American historical past? Ugh. Clearly, this man refuses to take heed to the factors individuals slamming this music had and see the error of his methods.
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