Jason Aldean has edited the video of his anti-woke hit “Try That in a Small Town,” which has been the thing of greater than every week of livid denunciation as supposedly selling racism and vigilantism.

Multiple information retailers reported Wednesday that the video on Mr. Aldean’s official YouTube channel is about seven seconds shorter than earlier than and lacking a few essentially the most extensively criticized photos.

NBC News reported that one of many lacking photographs includes the Atlanta Fox-TV station’s footage of a Black Lives Matter protest being projected onto a Tennessee courthouse the place, practically a century in the past, a Black man was lynched.

Liberal commentators have cited using that Columbia, Tennessee, courthouse as racist.

However, in keeping with a Newsweek article that comprehensively particulars the adjustments, it seems extra possible that rights points from Fox 5 in Atlanta had been the problem, not a political cave-in.

“Fox 5 footage featuring protesters and a chyron reading ‘State of Emergency Declared in Georgia’ also appeared at the 1:21 mark in the original video. The new version replaces the footage with additional images of Aldean and his band performing outside the courthouse,” Newsweek wrote.

The tune, backed by a video that went on-line earlier this month, skewers the riots and rampant crime in America’s large cities, saying it wouldn’t occur in rural America.

“Well, try that in a small town / See how far ya make it down the road / Around here, we take care of our own … I recommend you don’t / Try that in a small town,” the tune states.

Neither Mr. Aldean, his label or Fox-5 had any official remark or clarification Wednesday afternoon.

But Mr. Aldean has furiously denied the lyrics to “Try That in a Small Town” are racist and his defenders have famous that the courthouse has been used as a setting for quite a few pop-culture merchandise within the final century, together with the Lifetime film “Steppin’ Into the Holiday” and Disney’s “Hannah Montana: The Movie.”

“These references are not only meritless, but dangerous. There is not a single lyric in the song that references race or points to it - and there isn’t a single video clip that isn’t real news footage,” Mr. Aldean mentioned final week in a press release posted to Twitter.

“While I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music- this one goes too far,” he mentioned.

The anti-woke backlash in favor of the tune, which started in earnest when CMT pulled the video, has made it one of many 12 months’s largest hits although, rocketing it to No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 1 on the U.S. iTunes chart.

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