Posted on Jul 26, 2023
TikToker who debunked Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' video receives racist hate mail
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A graphic designer and activist who made TikTok content debunking the claim by Jason Aldean that his controversial music video only uses "real news footage" has been facing a wave of racist and violent hate mail by defenders of his song.
Destinee Stark is among the first who publicly criticized Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" for the song's lyrics and for featuring a Tennessee courthouse where a Black teenager was lynched in 1927. A former fan of the country star, Stark first heard the song about two weeks ago and then saw the music video.
The more she thought about the words and images, the angrier she became, Stark told NBC News on Monday.
"I get online all the time and I share my, like, opinions online all the time. It's, you know, something that I do," Stark said. "And that first video that I made, I posted it at like ... 11:30 p.m. ... I didn't think it would go anywhere. And I woke up to like thousands of messages about it."
Destinee Stark is among the first who publicly criticized Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" for the song's lyrics and for featuring a Tennessee courthouse where a Black teenager was lynched in 1927. A former fan of the country star, Stark first heard the song about two weeks ago and then saw the music video.
The more she thought about the words and images, the angrier she became, Stark told NBC News on Monday.
"I get online all the time and I share my, like, opinions online all the time. It's, you know, something that I do," Stark said. "And that first video that I made, I posted it at like ... 11:30 p.m. ... I didn't think it would go anywhere. And I woke up to like thousands of messages about it."
TikToker who debunked Jason Aldean's 'Try That in a Small Town' video receives racist hate mail
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I understand the use of the courthouse...BUT it has been used in many and I mean many movies up till now (the location was featured in a Runaway June music video for their 2019 song "We Were Rich," the 2022 Paramount holiday film "A Nashville Country Christmas" with Tanya Tucker, and Miley Cyrus' 2009 film "Hannah Montana: The Movie.) and all of the sudden it is racist because of something that happened there in 1927? If it is racist now then it was racist every time those movies were filmed and played. Just because the left doesn't like a song they are trying to censor it. Guess what I don't like songs about killing cops and raping women and killing white folks or using drugs or better yet the song "WAP" (if you don't understand look up the lyrics to WAP by Cardie B..warning very graphic content) and I didn't like the GarthBrooks song the thunder rolls about abuse and murder or the Dixie Chick song Earls gotta die, but they are artistic freedoms. Don't like the song then change the channel. But don't call it racist because you don't like the meaning of protecting each other in a small town..just remember, in a small town, if you don't want none, don't bring none because we protect our own...ALL OF OUR OWN. We may fight among each other but don't bring that big city crap and mess with one of ours...you will not leave happy!
“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 — and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music, this one goes too far,” Aldean wrote.
“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 — and while I can try and respect others to have their own interpretation of a song with music, this one goes too far,” Aldean wrote.
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