Some critics have said that, by projecting footage of demonstrators onto a courthouse where a Black man was famously hung from a second-story window in the 1920s, the music video means to impart that modern-day protesters are deserving of the same. (vid courtesy Karli Bonne) /T77P0MAwod- SweetPeaBelle July 22, 2023 Jason Aldean speech before performing “Try That in a Small Town” in Cincinnati yesterday. The people have spoken and you guys spoke very, very loudly this week.” So somebody asked me, ‘Hey man, you think you’re going to play this song tonight?’ The answer was simple. “You kind of have the same values, the same principles that I have, which is we want to take our kids to a movie and not worry about some asshole coming in there shooting up the theater. “I know a lot of you guys grew up like I did,” Aldean said. The targets of the song’s vigilante threats seem to be scattershot, so to speak.īut the only example that Aldean offered in his defense of the song at the Cincinnati concert was something that doesn’t come up in either the lyrics or the music video: mass shootings. ![]() The music video goes further, though, mostly showing footage of demonstrators - some of it stock footage of Canadian protests - along with brief shots of violent crime. Some of the criticism over the song and video have had to do with the long list of things that the lyrics maintains will be subject to swift retributive action, should big city types bring them to a small town - some involving violent crime (carjackings, liquor store holdups), some having to do with hooliganism that would be common even in small towns (“cussing” at cops), some involving exercising legal, First Amendment-protected rights (flag burning, the only reference to protests in the song itself), some bogeymen (would-be government gun confiscators). I saw country music fans rally like I’ve never seen before and it was pretty badass, I gotta say. ![]() One thing I saw this week was a bunch of country music fans that can see through a lot of the bullshit. I get to catch all her secrets / Sequins bouncing off flashing lights / If she wants it than we’re leaving / Getting me home, park the truck, cut the tires / I get to be where she goes when she’s lonely / The last door of the night that she’s closing / I know she could have anything but …”Īnd I don’t know how I got to be the only thing she needs right now.He continued, “You guys know how it is this day and age, cancel culture… This day and age, if people don’t like what you say, they try to make sure they can cancel you, which means try to ruin your life. She wants my hands on her body / She wants to burn like she’s made of fire / She ain’t going home ‘till we, drink every drop of Kentucky dry / Don’t even know what she’ll do but she does it / Palm of her hand I’m hers in a blink of an eye / She don’t take no and I love / She gets what she wants and I get to be what she wants tonight / I get to be what she wants tonight. She walks up, velvet rope unhooks / She snaps her fingers and a drink comes / She locks you down with just one look / She’s got this whole club undone / If she’s on a rebound you ain’t gonna know it / Coming off a heartbreak she ain’t gonna show it / She’s eyes caught, red dot, locked on me, yeah. ![]() Luke Bryan's "What She Wants Tonight" Lyrics
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