September 2015: Jason Aldean can’t tell female singers apart There’s also been some racist messaging, casual misogyny, and, most recently, a song and music video that are, at best, small-minded and, at worst, racist. Since then, he’s espoused right-wing ideologies from anti-vaccine theories to stolen election conspiracies. And the singles that followed were also mostly radio smashes, many of them pushing country music’s boundaries by incorporating elements of hard rock, like “Crazy Town,” and hip-hop, the breakout “Dirt Road Anthem.”īut as the Macon, Georgia, native inched closer and closer to Nashville superstar status, he also slowly leaned into the more odious of conservative viewpoints and right-wing politics, culminating with a Trump bromance - golf outings! New Year’s Eve parties! Mar-A-Lago visits! - that began in earnest in 2021. “Hicktown” was an overnight success, a Top 10 hit on Billboard’s Hot Country chart and a crossover pop hit on the Hot 100. Jason Aldean’s debut single, 2005’s “Hicktown,” arrived on country radio like a kick in the teeth, blending hard rock with country music and lyrics that unabashedly celebrated a certain type of rural life: “You can see the neighbor’s butt crack nailing on his shingles/and his woman’s smokin’ Pall Mall’s, watchin’ Laura Ingalls,” he sang.
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