By Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone / Yahoo | The devoted culture warriors dedicated to taking Jason Aldean’s “Try That in a Small Town” to the top of the charts appear to have already grown bored of the song as it plummeted from Number One to Number 21 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week.
Last week, the song topped the Hot 100, several months after its initial release in April, and following the arrival of a controversial music video that critics — from the country music world to academia — said promoted white nationalism and painted protests against racial injustice as lawless and violent. CMT even pulled the video from its airwaves, and portions of the video featuring protests in Atlanta were later edited out (the footage from Canada, however, remains intact).
As these things tend to go, the backlash to “Try That in a Small Town” inspired a backlash of its own, with conservatives and Aldean fans streaming and buying the song in droves in a time-honored effort to juice the track’s chart position.
The first attempt at this fell short, with “Try That in a Small Town” landing at Number Two behind Jung Kook and Latto’s “Seven.” Nevertheless, they persisted. And the following week “Try That in a Small Town” did manage to top the Hot 100.
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Everyone’s Already Lost Interest in Jason Aldean’s ‘Try That in a Small Town’
