Posts referencing some things happening or not happening in small towns are all over lemmy & mastodon, sometimes with a picture of some country singer (?) with a cowboy hat (but never with a name do I can’t just google what’s going on).

Apparently it has something to do with threatening violence?

  • @zeppo
    41•2 years ago

    Some dumbass made a country song with the usual horrifyingly cliched sort of lyrics, in this case lines such as

    ”Try that in a small town/ See how far ya make it down the road/ Around here, we take care of our own.”

    “Got a gun that my granddad gave me/ They say one day they’re gonna round up/ Well that shit might fly in the city/ Good luck.”

    The problem is where the video was set, and contents (many modern protests). WP sums it up as

    Accusations of racism prompted a country music channel to pull the video, which is set at the site of an infamous lynching and race riot. But Republicans are embracing Aldean.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/2023/07/20/jason-aldean-song-video-pulled-cmt-controversy/

    I had no idea btw, if it helps I searched DDG for “small town country music” and then went to the News tab.

    • @VeganSchnitzelOP
      10•2 years ago

      Thanks for the summary! My bad, didn’t think “small town country music” would’ve been specific enough to go off, but guess I underestimated the algorithm again. Should’ve at least tried according to some of these responses I guess

      • @zeppo
        6•2 years ago

        Seemed likely to me that those words would show up in news articles about the issue.