{"id":1031345,"date":"2021-11-19T09:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031345"},"modified":"2021-11-19T09:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-19T14:43:41","slug":"jason-aldean-says-fear-of-backlash-keeps-country-stars-silent-i-dont-have-a-choice-but-to-speak-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jason-aldean-says-fear-of-backlash-keeps-country-stars-silent-i-dont-have-a-choice-but-to-speak-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Jason Aldean Says &#039;Fear of Backlash&#039; Keeps Country Stars Silent: &#039;I Don&#039;t Have a Choice but to Speak Up&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjason-aldean-says-fear-of-backlash-keeps-country-stars-silent-i-dont-have-a-choice-but-to-speak-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1031345&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/jasonaldean4-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;The&nbsp;\u201cDirt Road Anthem\u201d singer said he has \u201ca lot of friends in this business\u201d who think the way he does, however they self-censor because they \u201care really scared to stand up and say anything for fear of backlash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking up is better than being silenced, Aldean said:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"9\">\n<p>There\u2019s times where I feel like I don\u2019t have a choice but to speak up or say something because I feel nobody else in the industry, or not a lot of people in our industry do that for fear. I just feel like somebody\u2019s got to be that guy and if it\u2019s me, then it\u2019s fine.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The four-time Grammy nominee said he wouldn\u2019t be able to sleep if he held his tongue and refused to speak out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo me, it\u2019s hard for [me] to go lay my head down at night with a clear conscience, feeling like I\u2019m a coward for not saying the things that I want to say or I feel like need to be said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks come after his wife, Brittany Aldean, came under fire for sharing photos of herself and their kids sporting anti-Joe Biden shirts, as Breitbart News&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2021\/09\/30\/jason-aldean-wife-promotes-anti-biden-gear-hidin-from-biden\/\">reported.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another photo, Brittany is wearing a shirt reading, \u201cAnti-Biden Social Club.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CURE-k2FoO9\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.26923076923077\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The country singer approved of the photo, commenting, \u201cMy boy!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CURJhWYFtFz\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" readability=\"-0.26923076923077\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Aldean maintained in his appearance on \u201cRob + Holly\u201d universal acclamation for his views is never expected \u2014 he\u2019s simply offering his opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople are going to have their opinion about whatever I say or think or whatever and that\u2019s completely fine,\u201d he said. \u201cYou don\u2019t have to agree with me, I don\u2019t expect everybody to agree with me, but I also have a voice and opinion just like everybody else.\u201d<\/p>\n<h5><em><span>Follow Simon Kent on Twitter:<\/span> <a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SunSimonKent\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @SunSimonKent<\/a> <span>or e-mail to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/cdn-cgi\/l\/email-protection\" class=\"__cf_email__\" data-cfemail=\"f38098969d87b39181969a8791928187dd909c9e\">[email&nbsp;protected]<\/a><\/span><br \/><\/em><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0The\u00a0\u201cDirt Road Anthem\u201d singer said he has \u201ca lot of friends in this business\u201d who think the way he does, however they self-censor because they \u201care really scared to stand &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031345","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031345\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}