It was an overreaction, but it was Maines' fault for not knowing their audience.Originally Posted by Sloppy Joe
Small town bumpkin police are inordinately more retarded and likely to fuck up.
I don't think your country chubby earring faggot should be cancelled but marrone what an awful song.
Never has the country been more embarrassing than when triggered right wing babies lost their shit over the Dixie Chicks trashing W and the Iraq war (These same babies are now MAGAtards who agree with that sentiment btw). I remember a radio station making a huge stink over it and playing the Fleetwood Mac version of 'Landslide' on repeat for 12 hours in protest.
Anyone that gets outraged and cries over opinions expressed by entertainers should noose immediately.
Picture a successful rapper bashing BLM in 2020. It was that level of cluelessness.
Not the same as cancellation. It was a matter of expressing a controversial opinion which was bound to be unpopular with your fans, and shooting your popularity in the foot.
At the time, I did not feel sorry for Maines or the Dixie Chicks, nor did I feel outraged or that they needed to be boycotted. Had they kept on playing Dixie Chicks music on country radio, I'd have been 100% fine with it. Was never a big fan of theirs anyway.
The fight she picked with Toby Keith that same year was just as idiotic, but in a different way. She completely misunderstood the song, which is pretty amazing given that the song was very straightforward and unsophisticated. She just wanted to do an early 2000s version of virtue signaling.
Regarding "country bumpkin police", I agree they're more likely to fuck up, but Aldean is correct that towns like that are far less likely to put up with bullshit. If you tried to riot, burn buildings/cars, block roads, or commit smash-and-grab robberies in a small red town, it would likely end badly for you. The whole idiotic woke concept of "give these people space and let them get their rage out" doesn't exist in places like that. They just take care of the problem, with whatever force necessary. That's actually the correct approach. There is zero precedent in modern US society where permissiveness about crime and rioting leads to safer streets. These type of people only respond to force and consequence. It's a longtime liberal fantasy that the criminals will respect you if you respect them.
That's what Aldean was trying to say in the song. While society has changed in a lot of the US over the past 10 years -- most of it for the worse -- small town America is still the same, and won't put up with criminal bullshit.
That's actually a good message. The song itself, from a musical standpoint, isn't particularly good though.
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