Some background on Jason... he was the artist on stage during the Vegas mas shooting. He is unfortunately no stranger to violence and it's effect on the innocent. I am in a small town in Texas and my neighbors are black, white, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, Asian and Middle Eastern. We all have one another's phone numbers and know one another's names. We all speak often and are always ready to lend a hand with home or yard improvements or car or truck repairs. I dare say that if anyone brought trouble to our little corner of the world we would take care of one another... without thought of race, religion. gender, age or beliefs. That is how it should be. God bless you and keep up the great work! =)
❤ that's why he wants to 🛑 STOP THE VIOLENCE. HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH Vegas VIOLENCE. HE WAS ON The STAGE. He can't control criminals state of mind. He's a innocent person so we all know violence seeing the criminals doing their acts of violence.
@@jacksmith-vs4ct hes not, paid troll boy. Antifa drives the violence. They did 2 billion in destruction to lives and livelihoods not to mention took the lives of people like David Dorn, a retired police officer honored among his community. Antifa threatened to bring that violence to small town America. This is the response. Funny things happen on the way to riots. Antifa has been met on a few occasions and handed their butts. And they slink off under the rocks the crawled out from under.
I live in a small town (600) outside the county seat in Texas. Word got out that some people were coming to protest the Confederate monument outside the courthouse. They were met with a larger group daring them to try. The protesters left without doing anything. This is what this song is about. Keep on keepin' on Cliff!
The Cultural Marxist Revolution does not tolerate anyone opposing their terrorist tactics and that is exactly what this song does. The Revolution is about destroying Patriot values and replacing them with Minority/Marxist ones. Standing up to the Revolution will cause it to smack-down. CMT pulled the song because it (probably) follows the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, or Division, Exclusion, and Indoctrination) policy. The song also defies their thought control because the Revolution tells you what to value and what is right and this is extreme right wing racism because they say so. No facts required because they promote 'Power over Truth'. I thought country music was a bit too emotional, this is more rock and certainly we need some grit in the music industry to counter the woke.
Lol yeah I'm like 15 minutes away from a smaller city that had issues, no one had the balls to come out here lol bunch of rednecks and blacknecks all looking out for eachother that are skilled hunters and don't GAF if you want to cross that line
The big uproar came when a few said, THE COURTHOUSE he shot the video in front of had a lynching back in 1927 so it is completely racist. Which is ironic considering there have been over 35 movies, including Hanna Montana that have all been shot in that Same Town, with that courthouse in them. No one has had an issue until NOW, CRAZY!
The reasons the left hates this song and wants it cancelled are primarily 2 things. One, Jason was photographed with President Trump, so his music is somehow tied to the former (an possibly next) President. Two, the song is about the harsh reality of being masculine and responsible for your actions. Think of it like this...if you grew up in a two parent household, if Dad ever said, "try it and find out", or if you crossed the "oh-oh barrier" with him. You knew there was an immediate and possibly painful result to your actions. The left wants Masculine men cancelled. When all men have been broken of their natural urge for order, then they can control ultimate power over society. Make no mistake, that is why they hate this song and this man.
@@G_Demolishedyou must be one of the few hearing it then. I live in a small town, and my immediate neighbors are black, white and Latino. We’re in a poor area, but we all watch out for each other, at the end of the day. Nothing racist about that. No dog whistles needed or heeded.
I'm pretty left wing so I can disagree with him about the gun shit (but he has the right to his views) but antisocial thugs come in all races and no one likes them. Nothing wrong with the song at all in fact it sounds pretty good. Acting like "criminals=black people" shows that the people complaining are projecting their own racism.
@@Iridescence93food for thought. The 2nd amendment isn't for hunting, or self defense against an intruder. The 2nd amendment secures all the others. If the government ever one day gets to the point they want to take our rights away the 2nd is what gives us the ability to fight back and secure them. This country was bought and paid for with the blood of patriots and in the beginning, their very own rifles. The government should be afraid of us. They serve us, not the other way around. Violence should be a last resort always, but sometimes it's the only answer.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this song. This isn’t “too U.S.A.” We need to come together as a nation and support each other as Americans. Drop the politicians, drop the media, embrace your neighbors. It’s the only way we pull out of this mess. ♥️ Thanks for the reactions Cliff!
Literally every aspect of your everyday life is governed by politics. Who do you help by not engaging and participating? Civic and civil engagement is the only way to ensure a democracy.
Lol he’s a Ga boy. Georgia boys are mostly incredible people. Jason is very much “God, family, and America.” I grew up near him and we had a great childhood, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to think of if racism was common around me and it wasn’t. My best friend through elementary school was black, still love him today. But I realized I never even had a thought in my head “my best friend is black”….. I loved that my best friend was a BOY. (I was a tomboy). Then I thought about what it was like for him. I can’t put myself in his shoes though, BUT I did talk to him about it! He didn’t think anything about it either. It wasn’t until people POINTED IT OUT that we were “different” from each other. So there’s a lot of lies about the south and this song has NOTHING to do with race. It’s literally what you said, this is not about race. But it is a “distraction”. Notice what people AREN’T talking about because they decided to make this a target. It’s getting more press coverage than Coke in the White House 🤷🏼♀️. It’s just all messed up.
Country music isn't really something I listen to, but I love this song. The music is chill and the lyrics are fire. I was waiting for you to react to this, you help me understand music better. Thank you for that ✌💜🤘
Just an opinion from an old Woman...Those that are offended by this song are what is wrong with this country! We are all Americans and that used to mean something, for the last several years I have watched our government divide us and it makes me sick!
My two cents worth from ENGLAND.... Not a racist song. It's a message about communities sticking together and not wanting criminals in your small town. ( No one ones Crime and criminals.)
The real "problem" with the song, which no one talks about is the building in the back is a place where several black ppl were lynched, so that's the real issue ppl have
I'd bet most buildings that old, especially in the south has some form of racist things happen at one time or another in the past. Not saying that's ok, but how come nobody cared when the very same building was in the Hannah Montana movie? Could it be people are over reaching just to fit their agenda?
@@charliegross144n 1927. There have since been dozens of movies and TV shows that featured that same courthouse in the intervening 96 years, and no one has complained until now.
@@charliegross144 Miley Cyrus to the movie called Hannah Montana and no one had an uproar about it and yes there were seems that that was actually in please show me actual things of people being outraged because of Hannah Montana being filmed there
It's about standing up for each other. There are larger cities that have a small town feel because crime is just not tolerated and people who are having hard times are assisted to get back on there feet...
Perfect reaction. Thank you for your time making this video. I was in the same boat as you going in blind, and I agree with everything you said after watching too. Keep promoting mental health and positivity and everything else you do!
All they seemed to have done by "cancelling" this song is blowing it up even bigger. In my opinion this song is for people who are tired of other people in this country trying to destroy it. Yes he talks about being in a small town but anyone who is tired of all the b.s. going on in this great country can relate to it. There are so many people around this great nation who are tired of the people who are trying to destroy what makes our country the greatest country in the world.
Hi from the UK 🇬🇧 😊. The people who are saying that the song is racist should check their own racism by drawing the parallel to black people is the real racism
@Chris12987 unfortunately we are being accused every day. We apparently should have to give all the artifacts we preserved over the life of the empire. They are trying to use history to push their racist hustle on our nation as they are doing in the USA 🇺🇸. Undermining our countries is the goal for the Marxist woke ideology
I'm from the Southside of Chicago too. Marquette Park. Been robbed at gun point twice. Lived in a gun free building in a gun free zone because there were schools right there on the block. I escaped! Now I'm in a small town in Florida and I can go outside for a walk on the beach at 3am without a care in the world. (Oh and I have an arsenal!)
Cliff, I’m from the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Town is a lot bigger now but my graduating class was 62 kids. I live out in Cali now but will be back at the beginning of June, we should get together. I will show you small town love. You will enjoy it out by where I grew up. Love your reactions brother!
CLIFF, I LOVE THIS SONG AND IT'S MESSAGE. I BELIVE WHAT HE SAID WAS SMALL TOWN PEOPLE DON'T WANT THAT CRIME AND THE VIOLENCE IN THEIR TOWN AND YES THEY SAY THEY WILL BAND TOGETHER AND TAKE CARE THEIR PEOPLE. I GREW UP IN A SMALL TOWN, PEOPLE KNEW YOU NAME (AND BUSINESS) BUT IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM OR NEED THE PEOPLE WILL HELP. I HEARD NO RACIEST WORDS, ALL THE CRIME GOING ON IN THOSE CLIPS INCLUDED ALL RACES.
Actually he said in an interview that he didn't write this particular song..he said someone sent it to him and asked him to do it, he liked it and agreed so he did it.
That's wild man, I grew up in KC but I've have a apartment in Springfield MO the last 10yrs!! Good ol Republic haha, I played ball at your community center all the time
I live in the state of Virginia, which is made up mainly by small towns of all ethnic backgrounds. You have some small towns of just a particular race, not bc no other race wants or is allowed to live there, but specifically where it's located and the ppl who lived there before. I'm a hospice nurse, and I travel to these areas, NOBODY in any town wants this crazy stuff going on but rather raise their kids and grow old, not worring someone's gonna shoot up everyone. A lot of these areas still in 2023 don't have cell service, so guns make them feel safe sooo you can try and take them but it won't be easy hahaha like Jason said THAT ISH MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE CITY, WELL GOOD LUCK!!
I am not a country fan. I have heard of Aldean but this is the first I’ve heard from him. I am born and bred a Southerner, and have lived other places (IL, MI). To the point: what I heard was a man saying that the violence and crime that is rampant in our megapolis cities would not fly in a small semi-rural town. I heard nothing about race or gender. The unallayed screech of apparatchiks needs to be ignored, if not silenced. I was born in TN; my dad bred country right out of our home but here to say I’m ashamed…of Woke Nashville.
problem is there is more violence in small towns per person than there is in any big city people get shot all the time in my small town just like there is plenty of theft leave a construction site open for a weekend ain't gonna have any of the material there when you get back monday this song is just bullshit made to be divisive dude isn't even from a small town he grew up in the one of the bigger cities in georgia lol
"let's see what all the fuss is about" that was my attitude about it since I don't listen to country. Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Personally, I had no issues with the lyrics 😅🤷
The lyrics aren't the issue. The issue is the video, being set with the scenes of protests while suggesting violence as the solution if you "try that in a small town," all while standing in front of the courthouse in Columbia, TN where there was a lynching in 1927 and race-riots in 1946. It's the context of the whole package. And as another point, this song was released in May, and no one said a word (or cared). Then the video is made and the internet is lighting up over it, on both sides. Which tells me that the people creating it knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they made it.
Well it was really one side lighting up and the otherside reacting to that. I would never deny that there are political undertones to the song but racial is ridiculous when considering yes that court had a lynching 96 years ago but also happens to just be a famous courthouse that many and I mean many movies have used for the location of their films. No one complained until Jason's video. Yes there were blm riots in his video but all the images he was showing was violence. Not a single regular blm protestor not rioter unlike the media I'm not gonna combine the 2 because a BLM protestor is way better than a BLM rioter. He only references the rioting and looting in the images.
@@Bad_Wolf_Mediait doesnt suggest violence as a solution. It condemns the violence and reinforces that the violence wont be tolerated. They shot a Christmas special of hannah Montana there so the issue is fake outrage over history.
@@jamrodgers121 so silly question: if they were to record in front of Auschwitz it won't matter about anything because that was like 90 something years ago?
@@Bad_Wolf_Media when he said try that in a small town that wasn't a threat of violence that was just saying if you come to my town you're not a going to get let off easy we take care our own and the lynching at that courthouse that was almost a hundred years come on now
CMT took this off their channel citing it encouraged violence and racism.......but every clip shown was on National News across the country! Was it racist and encouraging violence then? I think it's a great song about how small communities stand together and help one another! I think it's a great song!
The controversy is that the song is Patriotic and Pro American. There is nothing remotely Patriotic about Liberals, Wokes, the far Left or the current Democratic hierarchy.
I live in a small town of 1,200 people, and that fuck around, and find out attitude is a real thing! No one gets away with shit here! There's not 1 racist thing about this song or video, and anyone who thinks otherwise, needs to crawl back under the rock they came from, and stay there!
It’s also different in a city of 9-12 million people. There is also that mentality here. It’s just lyrics in a song though. People are taking it to heart and need to work on fixing the issues not escalating them 🙏 ❤️
Thank you! :) intelligent and fair reaction. Good people are everywhere, for me, he was simply calling out criminals and encouraging all to be good people. :)
My grandfather called my husband City Boy because he was from NJ and we were from WV. Of course the town he was from was no bigger than the one we were in.
My grandfather did the same to my father because he didn't grow up on a farm. He just grew up hunting and fishing in the backwoods of Maine. Different kinds of country.
@@ruthsaunders9507my grandfather came from Russia by himself at age 9. Worked on a ship before arriving in NYC in the early 1900s and later getting his citizenship. I guess his idea of NJ was across the river from NY so he saw it as a big city. My husband was from a small town Beachwood near Seaside.
People have made comments about the things that many, not all, many artists where lyrics talk about killing cops, violence towards women, all kinds of crazy shit...people just need to calm down right? You've done a great review, love it 😍😅😝👏👍🫶🩷💜🩵💙💚💯
Back in the day communities in the big cities were like small town. People in neighborhoods would look out for each other and their neighborhoods, back each other up. They need that sense of community and unity back.
I used to spend a lot of time when i went to college in Kansas in small farm towns with friends I had made at school. Im from back east near New York city so while everyone was really nice to me, I think some of them thought I would be trouble because of where I came from. Its different environment and different thinking. So I get this song. People in small towns know each other, take care of each other and they don't want the big city troubles. That is what I think of the song. They won't tolerate it there.
Eh, people get offended by everything, and they look for things to get offended about. I see nothing really wrong with this song. Thanks for reacting Cliff! Love your stuff man.
I’ve met Jason before and he is if nothing else, a small town, good guy. And having grown up in one myself, I think the message, we take one or two incidents (that are horrible, don’t misconstrue it) and paint that on everyone that is working as a social worker. Whether that police, firefighters, EMTs, all social workers. Our skin is so thin, it makes me sad
I am from a small town, I agree with what he is saying in the song, don't try it. What is interesting to me is his take on guns, especially with him being the one on stage didn't the Vegas shooting. I still don't understand the uproar and why this was pulled though.
nah its not thats BS its about being divisive to drive sales from people in small towns like mine even though the artist never even lived in a small town and the song is utter trash even compared to most modern country
@@jacksmith-vs4ct only if you have money on the brain and you dont know he lives in spring hill. Right up the road from that court house..."a small town" yall dont think before you propagandize do you. 🤣 even if that were true, the song still speaks to the soul of country . If you have a soul..
Bluff City IL here!!! My family is Korean, one of my neighbors is Filipino, good friend of mine lives 4 miles south of me who is black!!!! My youngest coached football at Vandalia High School!! So all those that talk shit about rural areas!!! Try That in a Small Town!!!!
This song and Rich Men North of Richmond are my new favorites. Just a reminder...most of us have a "small town" that is in need of support and protection. It might be your neighborhood, your place of worship, your family and friends. Whatever your "small town" looks like, stand up for it...defend it and take care of your own.
I'm a city boy who was raised up right, and the only other one I know is a transplant from New York, I'm not friends with anyone I grew up with, and I left the metro. I'm still a hippy-ass liberal from Berkeley, but I'm still proud that it was the home of the Free Speech Movement, and my pride flag is still yellow. Cities don't make people worldly and cultured, they make people ignorant and narcissistic.
Thanks for covering the song. I think the people who like the song think the song is about them. And they can't hear how those lyrics sound to someone who listens to it and thinks this is someone threatening me. Because they assume I'm a threat to their town instead of just trying to live in it. Trae Crowder does a good job of explaining how the lyrics hit different based on life experience.
The fact that people are upset about this song says so much about society nowadays. It's sad. Ya don't like it, don't listen. That should be the end of it, just like it's always been. People are just looking for reasons to divide and hate one another at this point. Grow up and quit stressing folks, it's not that big of deal lol. Cliff, love the content man! Keep it up!
I think people getting their panties in a bunch over this song is hilarious. 😂 He's from Georgia, he sings country music, and people are pissed he sings about things like this 😂😂😂. These people would stay mad if they went down the country music rabbit hole 💀😂
I moved from South Minneapolis to a small midwest town. I find the song to be pretty accurate - small towns, by the nature of being small, where people know each other, don't have anonymity to commit some of those crimes depicted. And it is super easy to see when people outside the community come to try and start ish. Our law enforcement is part of our community - we see each other at kids events, shopping, church etc, so our dynamics with that are very different. I'm also mixed race and I find the outrage about this song utterly ridiculous. I find it frankly offensive that "we don't tolerant violent crime in our town" has been taken to mean "we don't tolerant black people in our town." Uh, excuse me??? WTF does that say? I also am bugged that the offended ones seem to think only white people live in small towns. Newsflash, people of all colors live in small towns, and we take care of our own.
I love this song ever since it came out. I play it everyday when I go to the gym, it gets my blood pumping.. I believe what he is saying is that all WOKE stuff that was happening in the news during the time and in the clips in the music video he is saying come try that shit it a small town, that shit isn't going to fly around here cause we take care of our own.. I 100p support Jason Aldean..
a great reaction dude, the agenda promoting media and government is whats causing this division, ive watched 40+ reaction videos to this song tonight and none have seen any racism in this song, well done to the whole youtube reaction community as each one of you has a voice and i think together you are managing to push back against the agenda thats trying to be pushed here when there are other things that need fixed in USA and YOU THE PEOPLE.. TOGETHER are the only ones who can make it happen!!!
I lived in a large city once, oh heck no, never again, i noticed no one spoke to anyone else and no one was friendly, what a miserable year that was, people simply did not give a hang about God country of family, not for me, i grew up in the south and i could NOT wait to get back home where it was sane, I thank God i live in a small town, not a chance i would ever leave, and hes right, that crap wouldnt go over here, you dont rob your neighbor, or burn a police station, not a chance, aint happening!!!!!!!!!!
I’m from a tiny town and been raised across the country because dad was in the military. I have family who live in Chicago and I think you’re making excuses for the garbage occurring in the city. Mind you I’m good regardless of where I’m at period but I 💯 in support of this song. You genuinely make some legit points though brutha from another mutha 🤘🏻💥🔥🙏🏻💯
He wrote this song for America as well!!! We needed this song!! it absolutely blew up and resonated with every color of humans!! This song has United is in so many ways Cliff!! I'm from the South, born and raised! Louisiana to be exact! I've been to New Orleans more times than I can count and Love it ❤!!! However like you said the population is staggering and their is lots of crime!! Go to Houma,Thibodaux, etc... small towns and try to commit those crimes ,I can tell you first hand you are NOT going to "get far"!!! This song is Patriotic and should never have been banned by CMT!!! We have sooo much crime in Our Country and it's only getting worse because of all this "WOKE" nonsense happening! Now no bail for criminals in some states!!! really? more crime no consequences!! God help us all!!🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I'm not a country music fan, but then I found Upchurch. This song is an American anthem. Amazing that this song is going viral while American Flag is as well. Amazing times
Anyone who sees this comment I very much recommend watching sound of freedom everyone should see it and thank you cliff for reacting to this video and I very much agree with you burning the flag and robbing people and stuff like that is not ok
I don't know if you saw the guy in New Jersey that was stealing all those cigarettes and putting them into a garbage can. Somebody put Jason Aldean's try that in a small town on that video fantastic reaction brother
I was born and raised in a small town in Texas, population 658. Guns are Very commonplace, youd be hard pressed to find a household that Doesn't have multiple firearms. I have been in this world for 47 years, and have Never seen or heard of Any gun related incidents here, it doesnt happen. Back in high school, half or more students had shotguns in their truck on the rack in the back winshield. Never had a school shooting. We simply just went quail hunting in the morning before school. Violent crime is, pretty much, non-existent. The local Sheriffs Dept. Gets bored alot with nothing to do, except for rounding up drunk teenagers and getting them home. Huge Veteran percentage, including myself. So I take flag burning Very Serious. Alot of my Brothers/Sisters came back Stateside in flag draped caskets. Semper Fi!
I work at a small country store, a little more than a mile off the highway, in Northern NH. We all know each other here. I know my regulars, their kids, their pets, their farm animals. And they all know me. You get off that highway, and try some b.s., I guarantee you won't make it back to the highway. It's got zero to do with race.
Some background on Jason... he was the artist on stage during the Vegas mas shooting. He is unfortunately no stranger to violence and it's effect on the innocent. I am in a small town in Texas and my neighbors are black, white, Puerto Rican, Hispanic, Asian and Middle Eastern. We all have one another's phone numbers and know one another's names. We all speak often and are always ready to lend a hand with home or yard improvements or car or truck repairs. I dare say that if anyone brought trouble to our little corner of the world we would take care of one another... without thought of race, religion. gender, age or beliefs. That is how it should be. God bless you and keep up the great work! =)
PREACH. You speak the truth. Well said.👏👍🫶💯💙
❤ that's why he wants to 🛑 STOP THE VIOLENCE. HE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH Vegas VIOLENCE. HE WAS ON The STAGE. He can't control criminals state of mind. He's a innocent person so we all know violence seeing the criminals doing their acts of violence.
Most murders are committed by a person who they knew
yeah shame he keep driving for violence though
@@jacksmith-vs4ct hes not, paid troll boy. Antifa drives the violence. They did 2 billion in destruction to lives and livelihoods not to mention took the lives of people like David Dorn, a retired police officer honored among his community. Antifa threatened to bring that violence to small town America. This is the response. Funny things happen on the way to riots. Antifa has been met on a few occasions and handed their butts. And they slink off under the rocks the crawled out from under.
“We need to raise the flag up higher”
THAT’S A BAR!!!!! Well done bro!!
Facts!!!!
He's showing how things have happened in real life ! Even burning the flag . A close knit community won't allow that !!!
I live in a small town (600) outside the county seat in Texas. Word got out that some people were coming to protest the Confederate monument outside the courthouse. They were met with a larger group daring them to try. The protesters left without doing anything. This is what this song is about.
Keep on keepin' on Cliff!
The Cultural Marxist Revolution does not tolerate anyone opposing their terrorist tactics and that is exactly what this song does. The Revolution is about destroying Patriot values and replacing them with Minority/Marxist ones. Standing up to the Revolution will cause it to smack-down. CMT pulled the song because it (probably) follows the DEI (Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, or Division, Exclusion, and Indoctrination) policy.
The song also defies their thought control because the Revolution tells you what to value and what is right and this is extreme right wing racism because they say so. No facts required because they promote 'Power over Truth'.
I thought country music was a bit too emotional, this is more rock and certainly we need some grit in the music industry to counter the woke.
Isn’t Uvalde a small town?
Lol yeah I'm like 15 minutes away from a smaller city that had issues, no one had the balls to come out here lol bunch of rednecks and blacknecks all looking out for eachother that are skilled hunters and don't GAF if you want to cross that line
cool keeping racist statues is what small towns are about got it made by a guy who is picking your pockets since he never lived in a small town lol
@@jacksmith-vs4ct Are you a bot account?
The big uproar came when a few said, THE COURTHOUSE he shot the video in front of had a lynching back in 1927 so it is completely racist. Which is ironic considering there have been over 35 movies, including Hanna Montana that have all been shot in that Same Town, with that courthouse in them. No one has had an issue until NOW, CRAZY!
Exactly. How ridiculous are people really getting these days... 🙄😒
Exactly...and again 96 years have gone by since then. A large pct of the population who is alive today wasn't even alive when that happened.
The reasons the left hates this song and wants it cancelled are primarily 2 things. One, Jason was photographed with President Trump, so his music is somehow tied to the former (an possibly next) President. Two, the song is about the harsh reality of being masculine and responsible for your actions. Think of it like this...if you grew up in a two parent household, if Dad ever said, "try it and find out", or if you crossed the "oh-oh barrier" with him. You knew there was an immediate and possibly painful result to your actions. The left wants Masculine men cancelled. When all men have been broken of their natural urge for order, then they can control ultimate power over society. Make no mistake, that is why they hate this song and this man.
hell if that is the case then dam near every courthouse in the eastern part of the US built before the 1920s would be off-limits.
@@dangertrebor very well said! 👏 👏 👏 👏
I love this song there nothing wrong with this song at all people need to grow up
The song is fine until you pair it with the video. Then the dog whistles start blowing.
@@G_Demolishedyou must be one of the few hearing it then. I live in a small town, and my immediate neighbors are black, white and Latino. We’re in a poor area, but we all watch out for each other, at the end of the day. Nothing racist about that. No dog whistles needed or heeded.
@@G_Demolished Angry defense mob over an angry attack mob any day.
@@G_Demolishedthe video showing clips of people from all walks of life committing crimes? What am I missing?
@@G_Demolished Serious question are you a rhaysist or a criminal?
Anyone that has a problem with this song has either never been to a small town, or is a criminal
Or someone who desperately seeks to bash and be outraged over anything which is not extremist left..
@@betsybabf748 very true
I hate the far left and far right. I live in the middle.
Exactly!!
@@tjh5716most of us do. They just make it seem like you have to be one extreme or the other.
This song needed to be said. Needed to be made. This country has gone nuts and is being helped off the ledge from the top down
They don't like the message, they don't want people to know there's other ways of living life in the country.
I'm pretty left wing so I can disagree with him about the gun shit (but he has the right to his views) but antisocial thugs come in all races and no one likes them. Nothing wrong with the song at all in fact it sounds pretty good. Acting like "criminals=black people" shows that the people complaining are projecting their own racism.
@@Iridescence93food for thought. The 2nd amendment isn't for hunting, or self defense against an intruder. The 2nd amendment secures all the others. If the government ever one day gets to the point they want to take our rights away the 2nd is what gives us the ability to fight back and secure them. This country was bought and paid for with the blood of patriots and in the beginning, their very own rifles. The government should be afraid of us. They serve us, not the other way around. Violence should be a last resort always, but sometimes it's the only answer.
I grew up in Chicago born and raised, moved to a small town in Alabama, love, love it..and that is the way it is
Funny that black Americans don't find it racist or offensive. Only the ignorant white left see racism in everything!!
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with this song. This isn’t “too U.S.A.” We need to come together as a nation and support each other as Americans. Drop the politicians, drop the media, embrace your neighbors. It’s the only way we pull out of this mess. ♥️ Thanks for the reactions Cliff!
Literally every aspect of your everyday life is governed by politics. Who do you help by not engaging and participating? Civic and civil engagement is the only way to ensure a democracy.
Literally the only people upset about this song are the communist revolutionaries to whom the song is warning.
@@poledra1980 I LITERALLY said politicians not politics, there’s a difference. Thanks though! 😎✌🏼
This song is stuck in my head since they tried to cancel him 😂
Lol he’s a Ga boy. Georgia boys are mostly incredible people. Jason is very much “God, family, and America.” I grew up near him and we had a great childhood, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to think of if racism was common around me and it wasn’t. My best friend through elementary school was black, still love him today. But I realized I never even had a thought in my head “my best friend is black”….. I loved that my best friend was a BOY. (I was a tomboy). Then I thought about what it was like for him. I can’t put myself in his shoes though, BUT I did talk to him about it! He didn’t think anything about it either. It wasn’t until people POINTED IT OUT that we were “different” from each other. So there’s a lot of lies about the south and this song has NOTHING to do with race. It’s literally what you said, this is not about race. But it is a “distraction”. Notice what people AREN’T talking about because they decided to make this a target. It’s getting more press coverage than Coke in the White House 🤷🏼♀️. It’s just all messed up.
Country music isn't really something I listen to, but I love this song. The music is chill and the lyrics are fire. I was waiting for you to react to this, you help me understand music better. Thank you for that ✌💜🤘
lol so you like fake country music written by people from the suburbs XD got it guess thats why it appeals to you
Just an opinion from an old Woman...Those that are offended by this song are what is wrong with this country! We are all Americans and that used to mean something, for the last several years I have watched our government divide us and it makes me sick!
This is nothing but a fuck around and find out song, a warning
My two cents worth from ENGLAND.... Not a racist song. It's a message about communities sticking together and not wanting criminals in your small town. ( No one ones Crime and criminals.)
The real "problem" with the song, which no one talks about is the building in the back is a place where several black ppl were lynched, so that's the real issue ppl have
I'd bet most buildings that old, especially in the south has some form of racist things happen at one time or another in the past. Not saying that's ok, but how come nobody cared when the very same building was in the Hannah Montana movie? Could it be people are over reaching just to fit their agenda?
@@charliegross144n 1927.
There have since been dozens of movies and TV shows that featured that same courthouse in the intervening 96 years, and no one has complained until now.
@@charliegross144 Miley Cyrus to the movie called Hannah Montana and no one had an uproar about it and yes there were seems that that was actually in please show me actual things of people being outraged because of Hannah Montana being filmed there
Your assessment is spot on. Most of us love our homes and the communities we live within.
It's about standing up for each other. There are larger cities that have a small town feel because crime is just not tolerated and people who are having hard times are assisted to get back on there feet...
Perfect reaction. Thank you for your time making this video. I was in the same boat as you going in blind, and I agree with everything you said after watching too. Keep promoting mental health and positivity and everything else you do!
Good old boys are men who act like real men. They are strong, respectful and stand for what's right.❤🇺🇲💪
thank you. there is nothing rong with this video
All they seemed to have done by "cancelling" this song is blowing it up even bigger. In my opinion this song is for people who are tired of other people in this country trying to destroy it. Yes he talks about being in a small town but anyone who is tired of all the b.s. going on in this great country can relate to it. There are so many people around this great nation who are tired of the people who are trying to destroy what makes our country the greatest country in the world.
What’s up my guy I was waiting for u to do this. I knew u would do it with all the buss around it. AOD for life 🔥💯
Hi from the UK 🇬🇧 😊. The people who are saying that the song is racist should check their own racism by drawing the parallel to black people is the real racism
Do you have to deal with constant race bullshit in the UK? I’m genuinely curious.
@Chris12987 unfortunately we are being accused every day. We apparently should have to give all the artifacts we preserved over the life of the empire. They are trying to use history to push their racist hustle on our nation as they are doing in the USA 🇺🇸. Undermining our countries is the goal for the Marxist woke ideology
Cliff- as always , great honest reaction. Love your channel.
I'm from the Southside of Chicago too. Marquette Park. Been robbed at gun point twice. Lived in a gun free building in a gun free zone because there were schools right there on the block.
I escaped! Now I'm in a small town in Florida and I can go outside for a walk on the beach at 3am without a care in the world. (Oh and I have an arsenal!)
Cliff, I’m from the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Town is a lot bigger now but my graduating class was 62 kids. I live out in Cali now but will be back at the beginning of June, we should get together. I will show you small town love. You will enjoy it out by where I grew up. Love your reactions brother!
CLIFF, I LOVE THIS SONG AND IT'S MESSAGE. I BELIVE WHAT HE SAID WAS SMALL TOWN PEOPLE DON'T WANT THAT CRIME AND THE VIOLENCE IN THEIR TOWN AND YES THEY SAY THEY WILL BAND TOGETHER AND TAKE CARE THEIR PEOPLE. I GREW UP IN A SMALL TOWN, PEOPLE KNEW YOU NAME (AND BUSINESS) BUT IF THERE WAS A PROBLEM OR NEED THE PEOPLE WILL HELP. I HEARD NO RACIEST WORDS, ALL THE CRIME GOING ON IN THOSE CLIPS INCLUDED ALL RACES.
Lol. Uvalde was a small town. They let children be slaughtered because they were cowards.
You don't know the history of the courthouse if that is what you think.
Actually he said in an interview that he didn't write this particular song..he said someone sent it to him and asked him to do it, he liked it and agreed so he did it.
That's wild man, I grew up in KC but I've have a apartment in Springfield MO the last 10yrs!! Good ol Republic haha, I played ball at your community center all the time
This is a fuck around and find out in a small town. There is nothing wrong with this song. And you nailed it!
I like when he said you can't be doing that shit, raise that flag raise it up right.❤😂
I live in the state of Virginia, which is made up mainly by small towns of all ethnic backgrounds. You have some small towns of just a particular race, not bc no other race wants or is allowed to live there, but specifically where it's located and the ppl who lived there before. I'm a hospice nurse, and I travel to these areas, NOBODY in any town wants this crazy stuff going on but rather raise their kids and grow old, not worring someone's gonna shoot up everyone. A lot of these areas still in 2023 don't have cell service, so guns make them feel safe sooo you can try and take them but it won't be easy hahaha like Jason said THAT ISH MIGHT HAPPEN IN THE CITY, WELL GOOD LUCK!!
I'm residing in wv & we are full of small towns & it makes me upset that people are complaining 😊
Facts!! I lived in Grafton just outside Morgantown until I was 9yrs old!
I am not a country fan.
I have heard of Aldean but this is the first I’ve heard from him.
I am born and bred a Southerner, and have lived other places (IL, MI).
To the point: what I heard was a man saying that the violence and crime that is rampant in our megapolis cities would not fly in a small semi-rural town.
I heard nothing about race or gender.
The unallayed screech of apparatchiks needs to be ignored, if not silenced.
I was born in TN; my dad bred country right out of our home but here to say I’m ashamed…of Woke Nashville.
problem is there is more violence in small towns per person than there is in any big city people get shot all the time in my small town just like there is plenty of theft leave a construction site open for a weekend ain't gonna have any of the material there when you get back monday this song is just bullshit made to be divisive dude isn't even from a small town he grew up in the one of the bigger cities in georgia lol
"let's see what all the fuss is about" that was my attitude about it since I don't listen to country. Talk about making a mountain out of a mole hill. Personally, I had no issues with the lyrics 😅🤷
The lyrics aren't the issue. The issue is the video, being set with the scenes of protests while suggesting violence as the solution if you "try that in a small town," all while standing in front of the courthouse in Columbia, TN where there was a lynching in 1927 and race-riots in 1946.
It's the context of the whole package. And as another point, this song was released in May, and no one said a word (or cared). Then the video is made and the internet is lighting up over it, on both sides. Which tells me that the people creating it knew EXACTLY what they were doing when they made it.
Well it was really one side lighting up and the otherside reacting to that. I would never deny that there are political undertones to the song but racial is ridiculous when considering yes that court had a lynching 96 years ago but also happens to just be a famous courthouse that many and I mean many movies have used for the location of their films. No one complained until Jason's video. Yes there were blm riots in his video but all the images he was showing was violence. Not a single regular blm protestor not rioter unlike the media I'm not gonna combine the 2 because a BLM protestor is way better than a BLM rioter. He only references the rioting and looting in the images.
@@Bad_Wolf_Mediait doesnt suggest violence as a solution. It condemns the violence and reinforces that the violence wont be tolerated. They shot a Christmas special of hannah Montana there so the issue is fake outrage over history.
@@jamrodgers121 so silly question: if they were to record in front of Auschwitz it won't matter about anything because that was like 90 something years ago?
@@Bad_Wolf_Media when he said try that in a small town that wasn't a threat of violence that was just saying if you come to my town you're not a going to get let off easy we take care our own and the lynching at that courthouse that was almost a hundred years come on now
No matter his message, the way you support it, agree or not, RESPECT! You're supporting all artists, creating art!
😉🎶l love me some Jason aldean music is life ! 🎶✌🏽
CMT took this off their channel citing it encouraged violence and racism.......but every clip shown was on National News across the country! Was it racist and encouraging violence then? I think it's a great song about how small communities stand together and help one another! I think it's a great song!
For the life of me, I can't see anything controversial about this song...
The controversy is that the song is Patriotic and Pro American. There is nothing remotely Patriotic about Liberals, Wokes, the far Left or the current Democratic hierarchy.
I live in a small town of 1,200 people, and that fuck around, and find out attitude is a real thing! No one gets away with shit here! There's not 1 racist thing about this song or video, and anyone who thinks otherwise, needs to crawl back under the rock they came from, and stay there!
It’s also different in a city of 9-12 million people. There is also that mentality here. It’s just lyrics in a song though. People are taking it to heart and need to work on fixing the issues not escalating them 🙏 ❤️
@@CliffBeatsOfficial 💯 agree! We all need to come together!! ❤️
Thank you! :) intelligent and fair reaction.
Good people are everywhere, for me, he was simply calling out criminals and encouraging all to be good people. :)
His granddad's gun is a family heirloom regardless of whether anyone thinks that line is a threat or not.
My grandfather called my husband City Boy because he was from NJ and we were from WV. Of course the town he was from was no bigger than the one we were in.
My grandfather did the same to my father because he didn't grow up on a farm. He just grew up hunting and fishing in the backwoods of Maine. Different kinds of country.
@@ruthsaunders9507my grandfather came from Russia by himself at age 9. Worked on a ship before arriving in NYC in the early 1900s and later getting his citizenship. I guess his idea of NJ was across the river from NY so he saw it as a big city. My husband was from a small town Beachwood near Seaside.
People have made comments about the things that many, not all, many artists where lyrics talk about killing cops, violence towards women, all kinds of crazy shit...people just need to calm down right? You've done a great review, love it 😍😅😝👏👍🫶🩷💜🩵💙💚💯
Back in the day communities in the big cities were like small town. People in neighborhoods would look out for each other and their neighborhoods, back each other up. They need that sense of community and unity back.
I used to spend a lot of time when i went to college in Kansas in small farm towns with friends I had made at school. Im from back east near New York city so while everyone was really nice to me, I think some of them thought I would be trouble because of where I came from. Its different environment and different thinking. So I get this song. People in small towns know each other, take care of each other and they don't want the big city troubles. That is what I think of the song. They won't tolerate it there.
thank you. love your reactions. big fan from norway. this is how small towns work.
Eh, people get offended by everything, and they look for things to get offended about. I see nothing really wrong with this song. Thanks for reacting Cliff! Love your stuff man.
Because people are stupid and it's getting worse.
I’ve met Jason before and he is if nothing else, a small town, good guy. And having grown up in one myself, I think the message, we take one or two incidents (that are horrible, don’t misconstrue it) and paint that on everyone that is working as a social worker. Whether that police, firefighters, EMTs, all social workers. Our skin is so thin, it makes me sad
I am from a small town, I agree with what he is saying in the song, don't try it. What is interesting to me is his take on guns, especially with him being the one on stage didn't the Vegas shooting. I still don't understand the uproar and why this was pulled though.
Why would he want the gov't to take our guns? After that situation I'd sure want to be able to protect myself.
@@ruthsaunders9507 YES!!!
@@tchev1528 He couldn't protect himself and wouldn't be allowed to have his own protection. You really don't want to just stand there and be a target.
I absolutely love this song I live in a small town and everyone around me and me around them I have thier back and they have my back with anything
Cant get mad at an honest opinion. I grew up in both environments. This vid is about the grass roots strength of community. 🤝
nah its not thats BS its about being divisive to drive sales from people in small towns like mine even though the artist never even lived in a small town and the song is utter trash even compared to most modern country
@@jacksmith-vs4ct only if you have money on the brain and you dont know he lives in spring hill. Right up the road from that court house..."a small town" yall dont think before you propagandize do you. 🤣 even if that were true, the song still speaks to the soul of country . If you have a soul..
@@jacksmith-vs4ct I'm sorry you have your opinion but mine is this song is the s***
Bluff City IL here!!! My family is Korean, one of my neighbors is Filipino, good friend of mine lives 4 miles south of me who is black!!!! My youngest coached football at Vandalia High School!! So all those that talk shit about rural areas!!! Try That in a Small Town!!!!
This song and Rich Men North of Richmond are my new favorites.
Just a reminder...most of us have a "small town" that is in need of support and protection. It might be your neighborhood, your place of worship, your family and friends. Whatever your "small town" looks like, stand up for it...defend it and take care of your own.
Thank you I love your Channel keep telling the truth
I like this guy he speaks the truth
Been watching you channel for a while now… from Republic, MO much love
To me Good Ol Boys are men who protect homes, family, and community.
The fake outrage boosted the song to no 1 on iTunes. Gotta love that.
I live in Springfield! Cool to know you used to spend time around here.
Yup! Right down 60 and Main Street 😊
Awesome! I live about 10 mins from Republic!
And no, he doesn't write songs. However, people write songs specifically for him after he tells them ideas he has for songs.
It doesn't matter. It's a great song.
yeah he ain't even from a small town but he can pretend so you will by his shitty music lol
@@deborahvretis3195 thats why it never even topped the top 50 of the country music boards lol
Yoooooo I lived in Springfield for most of my life!!!! VERY familiar with that entire region!!
You make me proud to be American brother !!!!
I'm a city boy who was raised up right, and the only other one I know is a transplant from New York, I'm not friends with anyone I grew up with, and I left the metro. I'm still a hippy-ass liberal from Berkeley, but I'm still proud that it was the home of the Free Speech Movement, and my pride flag is still yellow. Cities don't make people worldly and cultured, they make people ignorant and narcissistic.
Thanks for covering the song. I think the people who like the song think the song is about them. And they can't hear how those lyrics sound to someone who listens to it and thinks this is someone threatening me. Because they assume I'm a threat to their town instead of just trying to live in it.
Trae Crowder does a good job of explaining how the lyrics hit different based on life experience.
The fact that people are upset about this song says so much about society nowadays. It's sad. Ya don't like it, don't listen. That should be the end of it, just like it's always been. People are just looking for reasons to divide and hate one another at this point. Grow up and quit stressing folks, it's not that big of deal lol. Cliff, love the content man! Keep it up!
I think people getting their panties in a bunch over this song is hilarious. 😂 He's from Georgia, he sings country music, and people are pissed he sings about things like this 😂😂😂. These people would stay mad if they went down the country music rabbit hole 💀😂
People getting their panties in a bunch over a beer is equally hilarious.
@@jd3037 Both are equally insane. The far 25% on either sides are nuts.
@@Loki_Trickster you're spitting facts...
Amazing song! Keep it going around the world. In a small town community, they take care if their own.
the confuse look on reactors face gets me every time 😂 there is absolutely no racism in this song! 🇺🇸🦅❤
I moved from South Minneapolis to a small midwest town. I find the song to be pretty accurate - small towns, by the nature of being small, where people know each other, don't have anonymity to commit some of those crimes depicted. And it is super easy to see when people outside the community come to try and start ish. Our law enforcement is part of our community - we see each other at kids events, shopping, church etc, so our dynamics with that are very different. I'm also mixed race and I find the outrage about this song utterly ridiculous. I find it frankly offensive that "we don't tolerant violent crime in our town" has been taken to mean "we don't tolerant black people in our town." Uh, excuse me??? WTF does that say? I also am bugged that the offended ones seem to think only white people live in small towns. Newsflash, people of all colors live in small towns, and we take care of our own.
One of the best comments I have heard about this! Totaly agree.😊
@4:25, And he was knocking the robber guy still holding his milk!!😂🎉❤
I love this song ever since it came out. I play it everyday when I go to the gym, it gets my blood pumping.. I believe what he is saying is that all WOKE stuff that was happening in the news during the time and in the clips in the music video he is saying come try that shit it a small town, that shit isn't going to fly around here cause we take care of our own.. I 100p support Jason Aldean..
Nothing but love for you
a great reaction dude, the agenda promoting media and government is whats causing this division, ive watched 40+ reaction videos to this song tonight and none have seen any racism in this song, well done to the whole youtube reaction community as each one of you has a voice and i think together you are managing to push back against the agenda thats trying to be pushed here when there are other things that need fixed in USA and YOU THE PEOPLE.. TOGETHER are the only ones who can make it happen!!!
its crazy you mention Springfield Missouri, Im Like 40 Minutes Away From There LMAO
You are right on, even in a big, you have small communities, why would you riot a small business in your own hometown,
My favorite scene is when the dude takes out the guy with the gun using a quart of milk !
I lived in a large city once, oh heck no, never again, i noticed no one spoke to anyone else and no one was friendly, what a miserable year that was, people simply did not give a hang about God country of family, not for me, i grew up in the south and i could NOT wait to get back home where it was sane, I thank God i live in a small town, not a chance i would ever leave, and hes right, that crap wouldnt go over here, you dont rob your neighbor, or burn a police station, not a chance, aint happening!!!!!!!!!!
First time seeing one of your videos and I subscribed.
Love the song makes a lot of since to me
Great reaction brother
Go Jason you are a hero
I’m from a tiny town and been raised across the country because dad was in the military. I have family who live in Chicago and I think you’re making excuses for the garbage occurring in the city. Mind you I’m good regardless of where I’m at period but I 💯 in support of this song. You genuinely make some legit points though brutha from another mutha 🤘🏻💥🔥🙏🏻💯
Amen
You spent time in Republic, MO I live in Billings, Mo
He wrote this song for America as well!!! We needed this song!! it absolutely blew up and resonated with every color of humans!!
This song has United is in so many ways Cliff!!
I'm from the South, born and raised! Louisiana to be exact!
I've been to New Orleans more times than I can count and Love it ❤!!!
However like you said the population is staggering and their is lots of crime!!
Go to Houma,Thibodaux, etc... small towns and try to commit those crimes ,I can tell you first hand you are NOT going to "get far"!!!
This song is Patriotic and should never have been banned by CMT!!! We have sooo much crime in Our Country and it's only getting worse because of all this "WOKE" nonsense happening!
Now no bail for criminals in some states!!! really? more crime no consequences!!
God help us all!!🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It's about community!
I'm not a country music fan, but then I found Upchurch. This song is an American anthem. Amazing that this song is going viral while American Flag is as well. Amazing times
I thought of the mass shooting in la during his concert when he made the song
David Lucas did a great rant/speech about this song and the outrage.
Anyone who sees this comment I very much recommend watching sound of freedom everyone should see it and thank you cliff for reacting to this video and I very much agree with you burning the flag and robbing people and stuff like that is not ok
I went into this expecting something outrageous.
I found nothing ANYWHERE near that.
I liked it.
Both the song and the mrssage.
I'm glad he wrote the song the roundup project 2025
I come from a town of around 10k and we so stuoid we turned Wal-Mart down twice because they think antique stores are more important
I don't know if you saw the guy in New Jersey that was stealing all those cigarettes and putting them into a garbage can. Somebody put Jason Aldean's try that in a small town on that video fantastic reaction brother
Jason is saying small towns still have Alpha Males that won't allow one of their friends or neighbors
Great reaction!
I was born and raised in a small town in Texas, population 658. Guns are Very commonplace, youd be hard pressed to find a household that Doesn't have multiple firearms. I have been in this world for 47 years, and have Never seen or heard of Any gun related incidents here, it doesnt happen. Back in high school, half or more students had shotguns in their truck on the rack in the back winshield. Never had a school shooting. We simply just went quail hunting in the morning before school. Violent crime is, pretty much, non-existent. The local Sheriffs Dept. Gets bored alot with nothing to do, except for rounding up drunk teenagers and getting them home.
Huge Veteran percentage, including myself. So I take flag burning Very Serious. Alot of my Brothers/Sisters came back Stateside in flag draped caskets.
Semper Fi!
Jumper war is that Nashville courthouse 150 years ago the last lynching was a black man in front of that courthouse.
I work at a small country store, a little more than a mile off the highway, in Northern NH.
We all know each other here.
I know my regulars, their kids, their pets, their farm animals.
And they all know me.
You get off that highway, and try some b.s., I guarantee you won't make it back to the highway.
It's got zero to do with race.