Country music songs are in the top three spots on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time ever.
, and Wallen and Combs made history of their own in June when their songs held the top two positions, the first time both spots were taken up by country songs since 1981.chart—until July when its music video, which includes footage of people protesting police alongside lyrics about gun ownership, was pulled from CMT.
The song explores the patriotic sentiments of rural areas and implies gun owners in small towns will take it upon themselves to retaliate against people who “cuss out a cop, spit in his face” or “stomp on the flag." The song has been criticized by reviewers, fellow musicians and a few politicians—Tennessee state Rep. Justin Jones, a Democrat, called it “a shameful vision of gun extremism and vigilantism” that calls “for racist violence.”... [+]Key Background
The sentiments in “Try That In A Small Town” have drawn criticism from gun control advocates—including Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action For Gun Sense In America—who arethat it was Aldean who was playing a concert in Las Vegas when one of the country's deadliest mass shootings killed 60 people and wounded at least 400 more.
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