Continuing with his tour despite the furor and fights over his song “Try That in a Small Town,” or perhaps doing better on tour thanks to the controversy raised by that song, Jason Aldean appeared in Mansfield, Massachusetts, for a concert.
During the concert, Aldean gave a powerful, pro-American, and anti-woke speech in which he spoke about the Boston Marathon bombing and praised the police for their role in stopping the terrorists from wreaking continued havoc in the city.
Aldean, during the speech, connected “Try That in a Small Town” to what happened in Boston during the 2013 bombings, saying, “I was laying in bed last night and I’m thinking to myself, ‘you guys would get this better than anybody, right?’ I remember a time, I think it was April of 2013, when the Boston Marathon bombings happened.”
Continuing, he noted that Bostonians came together to help the victims of the attack and find its perpetrators, saying, “What I saw when that happened was a whole – not a small town – a big-ass town come together, no matter of your color, no matter anything. The whole country and especially Boston came together to find these two pricks that did that.”
He then noted that individual Bostonians got involved in hunting down the perpetrators, saying, “Anybody, any of you guys that would have failed those guys before the cops, I’m on you guys from Boston, and you guys will repeat the shit out of that either way.”
He then connected that attitude, that acting the way Americans did in the past, to the song, telling the crowd, “And I’ve been trying to say this, this is not about race; it’s about people getting their shit together, acting right.”
Continuing, Aldean noted that his critics have no idea what they’re talking about, saying, “Everybody started telling me what I meant, ‘you meant this, you meant that.’ They don’t know what I meant. What I meant was exactly what I just told you. We are a country, the greatest one in the world.”
Aldean next tore into the claim that the song is racist, saying it’s about things all Americans want and that his disdain for rioters isn’t racial, telling the crowd, “And I know you guys want to be able to send your kids to school and not have to worry about something happening while they’re at school. [To go into the] weekend just like we all have grown up and not have to worry about are they going to come home or not, right? To me that’s not, that’s not a racial issue. I don’t give a shit what color you are. If you’re, if you’re acting, acting out, burning down buildings costing taxpayers all this money just for you to go for you to show that you’re pissde off . . . I just don’t get that.”
He then thanked his fans for now bowing down and accepting the cancel culture attack on him, telling them, “But I want to say honestly, I want to say thank you guys so much because you guys saw what I was trying to happen here the last couple of weeks. People wanted nothing more, a lot of people wanted nothing more than for this song to be something that it was it was just a turn on me and that was something that I wasn’t it. it makes me it makes me very proud, the fact that all you guys can see that and go, ‘not, not this time.'”
Ending, he said, “You guys have made this song one of the biggest things I’ve ever had in my career and from the bottom of my heart I want to say thank you guys.”
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@Jason_Aldean references the Boston Marathon bombings in his show in Mansfield MA. Try that in a small town. #damright #country #Boston #mapoli pic.twitter.com/CZbX8BD8h2
— Brian Sullivan (@briansulldog) July 30, 2023
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