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Jason Aldean’s wife Brittany celebrated her hubby for his latest azygous “Try That In A Small Town” topping the Billboard charts connected Tuesday, August 1. The singer’s wife, 35, shared a bid of photos, including 1 announcing that the opus had deed fig 1 connected the Hot 100 chart. She alluded to each the backlash that Jason, 46, received from the song, with galore saying that it promoted violence.
Brittany’s remark astir the deed song. (Brittany Aldean/Instagram)
She shared photos of the “You Make It Easy” vocalist hugging his family, celebrating the song’s success. The photos included the mates embracing and different of him holding some of his kids. She besides included a video of them kissing and different of him carrying 1 of his children. “Well, yesterday was a monumental time for Jason Aldean,” she wrote with a bosom emoji. “#1 connected the Billboard Hot 100 Chart!! …A vocation first.”
After celebrating the vocation achievement, Brittany made notation to the song’s galore critics who person described the opus arsenic racist, particularly aft the archetypal euphony video included quality footage from 2020’s Black Lives Matter protests. “That definite did backfire, didn’t it?? The champion fans EVERRR,” she wrote.
As the opus began to marque waves, a wide scope of fellow musicians (including the likes of Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell), celebrities (such as Sunny Hostin), and different listeners criticized the song and euphony video, partially owed to the information that it was filmed successful beforehand of the Columbia County courthouse successful Tennessee, the show of the infamous lynching of Henry Choate, an 18-year-old Black antheral successful 1927. The euphony video was pulled from CMT rotation, and an updated mentation was uploaded, which was six seconds shorter and appeared to person removed each of the protestation footage, per The New York Times.
Jason and Brittany are seen astatine the CMA Awards. (Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock)
Following the waves of backlash, Jason released a statement denying that the opus was “pro-lynching,” and called the backlash “meritless” and “dangerous,” though helium didn’t code the filming location. “There is not a azygous lyric successful the opus that references contention oregon points to it- and determination isn’t a azygous video clip that isn’t existent quality footage -and portion I tin effort and respect others to person their ain mentation of a opus with music- this 1 goes excessively far,” helium tweeted. “My governmental views person ne'er been thing I’ve hidden from, and I cognize that a batch of america successful this Country don’t hold connected however we get backmost to a consciousness of normalcy wherever we spell astatine slightest a time without a header that keeps america up astatine night. But the tendency for it to- that’s what this opus is about.”
Jason and Brittany are nary strangers to controversy. The singer’s woman was called retired by state stars Maren Morris and Cassadee Pope, with the erstwhile referring to her arsenic “Insurrection Barbie” successful a subtweet. Following the feud, Jason was dropped by his PR firm, and Brittany aboriginal went connected to defend her comments, making an quality connected then-Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson’s show. “I’m advocating for children. I deliberation children should not beryllium allowed to marque this life-changing determination astatine specified a young age,” she said.
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