'There is a wide, wide, enormous amount of interest around this song now that didn’t exist two months ago when it was released. And now it’s the second biggest song in the country,' Jason Lipshutz, Billboard's executive director of music, said on TODAY.
The track was originally released in May to little fanfare, but interest in the song came to a peak after the music video was released earlier this month.
The music video has provoked outrage because it prominently features a Tennessee courthouse where Black teenager Henry Choate was lynched in 1927, and where a race riot took place in 1946. "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.
CMT pulled the music video from its rotation last week. The network confirmed to NBC News it still is not being aired."I've seen a lot of stuff suggesting I’m this, suggesting I’m that," Aldean told the audience."I feel everybody’s entitled to their opinion. You can think something all you want to, it doesn’t mean it’s true."
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