analysis says some of the footage is from incidents in canada that happened more than a decade ago. cnn has reached out to aldean s record label, bbr music group, but has not receiv a reply. joing us to talk about it is chris willman, senior music writer and chief music critic at variety, the latest article on this is titled jason aldean already has the most contemptible country song of the decade, the video is worse. good to have you with us. let me read couple of lyrics here. the song starts out, sucker punch somebody on the sidewalk, carjacking o lady on the red gh pull the gun on the owner of a liquor store, try that in a small town and see how far you plalk it in a small town, around here, would we make it our own, and try that, i recommend you don t. what is the message of this song? well, it is a very, very much
like just in general as a writer, anytime you put art in the public space, it is going to invite questions, and i think frankly when you do questionable are it s gonna invite even more questions. and given the context that you laid out already for everybody, it is up for a reason that people want to examine why aldean is choosing this set of messages, this is set of images to put across, like, what is clearly an attack on a stick song. you know, playing devils advocate, many people have been smoking about this other side of this, it s reading through if you look at social media, and if you hear other networks talk about this, if you hear those who are true jason aldean fans and beyond, who are well versed in country music, which has its own set of sometimes controversy. is there some reason to believe that he was aware of, say, the actual location? or it s history with lynching? and is this more of a political statement than it is one based on racial vigilantism. i don t know if yo
one they praise and the other castigate. sean: watch the video, most of the people rioting are white or masked, this is not indictment on black people, there were white people rioting. number one. the second point here, this is a scapegoat, using race as scapegoat, they are angry aldean is criticizing liberal viewpoints and calling them out. life in small town is better than you offer in big city america, so, yeah, that is my take. i think the left backlash to this song is representation of how much they disdain average americans. we are all americans who value faith, community. my husband s family is from rural ohio. some lyrics are what you hear in the local bar thchl is how all americans think. one line where jason aldean says