Don’t Be Jason Aldean — Be Saffiyah Khan.
Country music wankstain Jason Aldean recently aired a video for his song "Try That in a Small Town" and outed himself as yet another in a seemingly endless line of pathetic, talentless, terrified racist white dudes with stylists and record contracts out of Nashville.
The song is a paean to violence against the upstart wokes; it's a hymn about the sacred, insular, hateful "ethic" of sundown towns in rural America where "outsiders" should fear for their lives if they don't like the way we do things around here.
Aside from the artist being a garbage-soul, "Try That in a Small Town" is also just an awful song of bad writing, canned phrasing, gaudy production, and ham-fisted tropes. It's a godawful mess, and I do not suggest you bother with it for one minute more.
Instead, give THIS song a listen, as it's a perfect antidote to the white supremacy, misogyny, and hatefulness of Mr. Aldean's toilet plop into the collective consciousness.
I give you "Be Saffiyah Khan" by my bestie, Matthew Grimm.
“Be True. Be Brash. Be a Mensch. Be Anti-fasc.
Be heard. Be undaunted. Be what bad men fear.
Be Saffiyah Khan.”
All day long, brothers and sisters. All fucking day long.