{"id":1985632,"date":"2023-07-29T06:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-29T10:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-reacts-to-modified-try-that-in-a-small-town-music-video\/"},"modified":"2023-07-29T06:10:22","modified_gmt":"2023-07-29T10:10:22","slug":"social-media-reacts-to-modified-try-that-in-a-small-town-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-reacts-to-modified-try-that-in-a-small-town-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"Social media buzzes over altered &#8216;Try That In A Small Town&#8217; music video."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fsocial-media-reacts-to-modified-try-that-in-a-small-town-music-video%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=1985632&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--><h2>Jason Aldean&#8217;s \u2064&#8221;Try That In A Small Town&#8221; Music Video\u2064 Sparks Controversy<\/h2>\n<p>Jason \u2063Aldean&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jason-aldean-responds-to-backlash-over-new-music-video-that-slams-leftist-policies\/\" title=\"Jason Aldean addresses criticism of music video criticizing leftist policies.\">music \u2062video<\/a> for &#8220;Try \u2063That In\u200b A Small \u2062Town&#8221; recently underwent an unexpected edit, causing quite a stir among conservatives\u200d who had\u2064 rallied behind the song after it \u200dwas initially canceled \u200dby Country Music Television.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy\u200b began\u2063 on Wednesday night when <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/movie-review-platform-letterboxd-hides-all-reviews-for-matt-walsh-documentary-what-is-a-woman\/\" title=\"Movie Review Platform Letterboxd Hides All Reviews for Matt Walsh Documentary \u201cWhat Is a Woman?\u201d\">social media users noticed<\/a> that the music video had been altered, removing \u2063footage \u2064of the Black Lives \u2062Matter riots from 2020. The original \u200dvideo had included approximately six seconds of riot footage\u200d from Fox 5 Atlanta, but\u200c now it solely features\u200b Aldean singing.<\/p>\n<h3>Unveiling the Edit<\/h3>\n<p>As \u2064of Thursday afternoon, Aldean \u200bhad not addressed the\u200d edit on his social \u200cmedia\u200d platforms.\u2064 However, it was reported in the morning that Fox 5 had reached out to the production company, urging them to \u2064remove the controversial footage to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/social-media-reacts-to-modified-try-that-in-a-small-town-music-video\/\" title=\"Social media buzzes over altered 'Try That In A Small Town' music video.\">avoid potential legal repercussions<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to \u2064this\u2062 report,\u2063 many social media \u200busers accused Aldean of succumbing to \u200bpressure from what they referred to as &#8220;the woke mob.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>Controversy Breeds Popularity<\/h3>\n<p>The discussion surrounding the \u200bedit \u2064gained\u2062 momentum after the song was pulled\u200d from CMT&#8217;s rotation on\u200c July\u200c 17. This removal unexpectedly propelled the\u2063 song,\u200c which had been released\u2062 in May, to\u2062 newfound popularity. The music video featured scenes of\u200d a U.S. flag burning, someone holding a Molotov\u200c cocktail, and individuals breaking into jewelry displays.<\/p>\n<p>Since its \u2063censorship, &#8220;Try That In \u2063A Small Town&#8221;\u2063 has experienced a significant surge in\u200b on-demand audio and video streams. According\u200d to Luminate statistics, the streams skyrocketed from 987,000 to 11.7 million in the week following its removal\u2064 from CMT. Additionally, the song&#8217;s\u200c sales dramatically increased from a \u200cmere \u20631,000 copies\u2064 per week to 228,000 copies in the week following its censorship.<\/p>\n<p>Notable\u200c conservatives, including \u2062Governor Kristi \u2062Noem (R-SD), \u200b2024 presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, and Donald Trump Jr., \u2062have also \u200dvoiced their support\u200b for Aldean\u200c amidst the controversy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">Click here<\/a> to read more from The Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>remove any references to the American flag. This sparked outrage among conservatives who saw it as a form of censorship. The controversy gained momentum as discussions spread on social media platforms. Many supporters of the song expressed their disappointment with the edit, highlighting the importance of free expression and patriotism in small-town America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1985633,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1985632","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985632","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1985632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1985632\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1985633"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1985632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1985632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1985632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}