He does, however, regret filming in front of a former lynching site: “Knowing that that was gonna be a thing, you know, maybe you look at doing it somewhere else.”
on the podcast Coop’s Rockin’ Country Saturday Night, accusing online critics of making the video “into something it’s not.” And in his first televised interview about the track on“There was people of all color doing stuff in the video,” Aldean said in the interview, which aired Wednesday morning. “That’s what I don’t understand. There was white people in there. There was Black people. I mean, this video did not shine light on one specific group and say, ‘that’s the problem.
When the video went viral back in July, Twitter users also noted that Aldean and his band were singing in front of the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tenn., where a Black teenager was lynched in 1927. Regarding the filming location, Aldean initially told CBS he “ feel bad” about performing the song in front of a former lynching site, citing his intentions in shooting there.
Still, Aldean conceded that he would have picked a different filming location if he’d known about the site’s history. Prior to “Try That in a Small Town” blowing up on social media and CMT subsequently pulling the video, Aldean said he thought the lyrics about guns would cause the most controversy. He was partially right—one of the song’s initial critics was“I thought what was gonna be the biggest issue with the song was that it said ‘gun,’” Aldean said, referring to the line, “Got a gun that my grandad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up.
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