The lyrics for Jason Aldean’s “Strive That in a Small City” glorify violence in opposition to protestors and its music video options him performing on the place a black teenager was lynched in 1927, edited round scenes Aldean claims are “actual information footage” of looters and rioters within the U.S. It seems, nevertheless, that there’s not a lot “actual information footage” in any respect. And now the writer of an internet debunking wjho discovered and listed all of the sources — largely inventory footage from different nations — is being focused with racist threats.
In the meantime, the controversy over the track, so blatant that the County Music Channel eliminated it from rotation, assured that it will be a large hit, storming to #2 within the Billboard Prime 100 as conservatives rush to purchase it.
In a TikTok video that is gotten no less than 1.5 million views, Stark discovered that two of the clips within the video got here from inventory footage. One confirmed a girl flipping off police at at labor day occasion in Germany and one other was a industrial inventory clip of a molotov cocktail.
“I simply suppose that individuals have a proper to know,” Stark mentioned. “Issues like this, they inform politics and it informs how we vote, how we see the world and who we work together with. And I simply suppose that if we’re consuming content material that is not even correct, that it is simply propaganda. And it is simply fueling folks, , to commit extra violence.”
NBC Information additionally discovered inventory clips of a protest in Montreal, Canada, and a protest in Kyiv, Ukraine. The Montreal clip doesn’t have a date nor does it have context for the trigger behind protest.
Stark’s debunking video is embedded beneath. Small city man Jason Aldean grew up in Macon, inhabitants 233,802, and now lives in a beachside Florida mansion with cherry flooring and “quite a lot of greenery and florals,” although in his protection the chandeliers have been chosen by an inside designer from Tennessee.