{"id":1999317,"date":"2023-08-13T12:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-13T16:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-oppose-cmts-decision-to-pull-try-that-in-a-small-town-from-network\/"},"modified":"2023-08-13T12:40:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-13T16:40:08","slug":"majority-oppose-cmts-decision-to-pull-try-that-in-a-small-town-from-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-oppose-cmts-decision-to-pull-try-that-in-a-small-town-from-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Most people disagree with CMT&#8217;s choice to remove &#8216;Try That In A Small Town&#8217; from their network."},"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\">34<\/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%2Fmajority-oppose-cmts-decision-to-pull-try-that-in-a-small-town-from-network%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=1999317&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>A Majority\u200b Opposes CMT&#8217;s Decision \u200cto Remove &#8220;Try That In A Small Town&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>A majority of people are \u2062against Country Music Television&#8217;s\u200b decision to remove &#8220;Try That In A Small\u200c Town&#8221; from the channel&#8217;s rotation, \u200bwhich\u2064 was removed from CMT\u2064 last month.<\/p>\n<p>The song, performed by country singer Jason Aldean, a\u2064 conservative, was originally \u2064released\u2063 in May, \u200cbut\u2062 had its\u200c <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/natural-vibrations-from-janet-jacksons-rhythm-nation-video-crashed-certain-laptops-microsoft-says\/\" title=\"Natural Vibrations From Janet Jackson\u2019s \u2018Rhythm Nation\u2019 Video Crashed Certain Laptops, Microsoft Says\">music video released<\/a> on July 14, with CMT removing the song from its \u2063channel a few days later. The removal by CMT, which sparked sharp criticism from conservatives for CMT participating in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-i-got-a-covid-test-four-times-in-one-day-two-came-back-negative-two-came-back-positive-the-daily-wire\/\" title=\"Elon Musk: I Got A COVID Test Four Times In One Day. \u2018Two Came Back Negative, Two Came Back Positive.\u2019 | The Daily Wire\">cancel culture<\/a>, \u200chas \u2062been opposed by the majority of the public, with\u200d 52% of respondents disagreeing or strongly disagreeing with CMT&#8217;s decision; meanwhile, 33% supported\u200b the decision,\u200b and 15% neither agreed or were opposed to the decision, or did not know, according to the \u200dpoll conducted by Redfield &#038; Wilton Strategies.<\/p>\n<h3>Partisan Divide<\/h3>\n<p>The poll, commissioned by Newsweek, found that agreement with CMT&#8217;s decision was mostly partisan, with 70% of respondents who voted for former President Donald Trump in 2020 opposing the decision and 61% of President\u200d Joe Biden voters in the \u200dpoll agreeing with CMT&#8217;s decision. Notably, there\u200b were 24% of Biden voters among the respondents who \u2064opposed CMT&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<h3>Gender Divide<\/h3>\n<p>Additionally, a majority of both genders in the poll opposed CMT withdrawing &#8220;Try That In A Small Town&#8221; from\u200d its rotation, with 51% of men and 54% of \u200bwomen disagreeing \u200cwith CMT&#8217;s decision.<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Tennessee State Rep. Justin Jones (D) described &#8220;Try That in a Small Town&#8221; as a &#8220;heinous vile racist song that is really about harkening back to days past.&#8221; Approximately \u200c50% either disagreed or strongly disagreed with Jones&#8217;s statement, while 34% agreed or strongly agreed with his statement.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 1,500 adults were surveyed\u2063 in the poll.<\/p>\n<h2>Surge in Popularity<\/h2>\n<p>In\u2062 the wake of getting removed from CMT, &#8220;Try That In A Small Town&#8221; has\u200b skyrocketed in popularity, with \u200bthe song&#8217;s on-demand audio and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/china-censors-oscar-winner-news-over-criticism-of-regime\/\" title=\"China censors Oscar winner news over criticism of regime\">video streams<\/a> going up by 999% in July \u200cover the course of a week, going from 987,000 to 11.7 million. The \u200bsong also recently\u200c reached\u2064 the top of the \u2062Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Aldean&#8217;s Response<\/h2>\n<p>During his\u200d first public\u2062 appearance since the song&#8217;s censorship on July 21, Aldean stated he believes that \u200c&#8221;everybody\u2019s\u2062 entitled to their opinion&#8221; but that just because\u200b someone \u2063thinks something\u2062 &#8220;doesn\u2019t mean \u2064it\u2019s true.&#8221; He added that in the wake of CMT\u200b pulling his song, he &#8220;saw <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/majority-oppose-cmts-decision-to-pull-try-that-in-a-small-town-from-network\/\" title=\"Most people disagree with CMT's choice to remove 'Try That In A Small Town' from their network.\">country music fans rally<\/a>\u2063 like I\u2019ve never seen before&#8221; and that &#8220;it \u2062was pretty bad*ss.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you\u2063 guys \u2063so much,\u201d said Aldean.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A majority opposes CMT&#8217;s move to drop Jason Aldean&#8217;s &#8220;Try That In A Small Town&#8221; from their playlist. The song, released in May and accompanied by a music video on July 14, faced removal last month. Many disagree with CMT&#8217;s decision, given Aldean&#8217;s conservative background as a country singer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999318,"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-1999317","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\/1999317","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=1999317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}