{"id":78356,"date":"2024-04-07T21:04:19","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T01:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/04\/07\/a-year-after-small-town-ban-jason-aldean-performs-at-2024-cmt-music-awards\/"},"modified":"2024-04-07T21:04:19","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T01:04:19","slug":"a-year-after-small-town-ban-jason-aldean-performs-at-2024-cmt-music-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/2024\/04\/07\/a-year-after-small-town-ban-jason-aldean-performs-at-2024-cmt-music-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"A Year After \u2018Small Town\u2019 Ban, Jason Aldean Performs at 2024 CMT Music\u00a0Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n\tWhile Jason Aldean<\/a>\u2019s performance at the 2024 CMT Music Awards<\/a> was fairly straightforward for the country hitmaker, his appearance on the network\u2019s signature awards show had some people raising their eyebrows.<\/p>\n

\n\tSinging \u201cLet Your Boys Be Country,\u201d a twangy rocker from his 2023 album Highway Desperado<\/em> and top 20 hit on Billboard<\/em>\u2018s Country Airplay<\/a> chart, Aldean demonstrated why he\u2019s one of the more reliable live performers in the genre. Though the show was broadcast from the Moody Center in Austin, Texas, Aldean\u2019s performance was filmed outdoors at the University of Texas at Austin. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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\n\tMore than a few people \u2013 both critics and fans of Aldean \u2013 wondered why he was included as part of the show. Not quite a year ago, CMT pulled Aldean\u2019s \u201cTry That In a Small Town\u201d music video from its airwaves, prompted by criticism<\/a> from people who said the video demonized Black Lives Matter, if not Black people in general, with some going as far as to call it a \u201cmodern day lynching song.\u201d Certainly a pro-gun, anti-protest song that places small-town America as a morally superior place to big cities, \u201cSmall Town\u201d wasn\u2019t a runaway hit for Aldean until the controversy turned it into a political lightning rod. The ensuing debate ended up propelling the song to the top of the Billboard Hot 100<\/a>, with Aldean\u2019s defenders supporting it in defiance of critics.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen Aldean tweeted about his CMT performance on April 3, comments on X demonstrated that the polarizing song continues to define public perception of Aldean. Some fans questioned why Aldean would bother with the CMTs after they pulled his video; some said they were no longer fans after \u201cSmall Town\u201d; and some subtweeted the CMT Awards for platforming him at all. Plenty of X users, however, simply expressed excitement.<\/p>\n

\n\tAldean\u2019s CMT performance, incidentally, took place under the UT Austin\u2019s main building, also known as The Tower. In 1966, The Tower was the site of a massacre when a student took a rifle and fatally shot 14 people from the observation deck. Aldean\u2019s own history, sadly, touches on another gun massacre in American history. During the 2017 Route 91 music festival in Las Vegas, a gunman opened fire<\/a> on the crowd during Aldean\u2019s closing set, killing 60 people.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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While Jason Aldean\u2019s performance at the 2024 CMT Music Awards was fairly straightforward for the country hitmaker, his appearance on the network\u2019s signature awards show had some people raising their eyebrows. Singing \u201cLet Your Boys Be Country,\u201d a twangy rocker from his 2023 album Highway Desperado and top 20 hit on Billboard\u2018s Country Airplay chart, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musique","et-doesnt-have-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cyberlego.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}