Every once in a while, a popular song comes around that crosses over into other genres and resonates with the public. Among those songs, very few become anthems that break into the stratosphere and capture the zeitgeist of the silent majority. Jason Aldean’s Try That In a Small Town is one such tune.
As a musician by trade, I have studied music for decades. I know this much: music is a powerful gift from God that can penetrate the human heart. I can honestly say, no song has made an impact on me more than Try That In a Small Town. The sentiment contained within this tune is cathartic and sublime. This is a simple, common-sense song about the love of family and neighbor that captures the moment and speaks for millions. Although I’ve watched the video many times, it continues to choke me up.
Small towns are the heart and soul of America. The hard-working people who live in them are closer to God and nature, and kinder and more decent than people who congregate in big cities.
The forgotten people, the silent majority, the lonely among us, those with no voice, the decent folk, and everyone that wakes up every day and makes America function has endured years of unprecedented social upheaval. We’ve seen people murdered for no reason. We’ve seen non-stop riots and cities burning. We’ve seen once-trusted governments and institutions chronically lie to us. We’ve seen careers ruined by cancel culture. We’ve seen our loved ones die because of a man-made virus. We see a series of endless wars that are seemingly powerless to stop. We see a war on reality itself.
Modern man is standing in cultural quicksand. This cannot continue indefinitely.
All of this change is extremely painful. The average hard-working American keeps it bottled up inside, puts on a brave face, gets in their car, and drives to work. My wife and I watch the news and shake our heads in disgust every day and wonder, can it get any worse? And yes, it keeps getting worse. But we have to keep going because we have families to feed and elderly parents to look after.
Loneliness is perhaps the most undiagnosed ailment of the human condition. Modernity has outpaced our ability to cope and has left us feeling atomized. We stumble through life never really knowing what to expect and who to trust or what to believe. In the end, all we have is each other.
The comments on the YouTube channel for this video are inspiring and prove that we share more in common than not. There are more good people than evil people. I see people of all races coming out of the woodwork and expressing deep appreciation for the song and the gut-wrenching feeling that it communicates. This kind of reaction is unheard of for a country song. This is why I believe that Try That In a Small Town is a unifying anthem for our time.
As of the publication of this article and despite the best efforts of progressive busybodies that want to cancel this song, Try That In a Small Town is #1 in America on all streaming platforms and the YouTube video has 12 million views since it was released a week ago. That is nothing short of a modern miracle.
Jason Aldean’s song reminds us all that we are not alone. Just knowing that gives me a small ray of hope in a world gone mad. Family and friends are all we’ve got. Take care of them.
–Wolfshead
I read some comments to the YouTube video. This guy from Brooklyn and others. Men need strong leaders. Particularly if they are without hope and losing faith.
There are studies and theories, also employed by the far left with great success, how a few people can start a revolution.
The hope many put in Trump didn’t get rewarded. The current president is weak and in office for little other reason than not being Trump.
America and the world deserve better.
One can see the community and spirit of small towns also as a synonym for civilization itself that is at stake. Faith is a cornerstone of small towns, almost gone in larger communities.
This struggle must be won. Opposition to this destructive rising tide of hate and perversion is growing.
Well said!
I’m so proud of everyone that’s standing up the globalists and the neo-Marxists. The Dutch farmers especially.
In a way this song makes me angry because I’ve listed to music all my life and rarely had any artist had the guts to tell the truth or deviate from the “narrative.”
All these tough-guy metal bands are in fact faggots, cowards, and losers who don’t have the stones to talk about real issues and instead use metaphors and allegory to disguise the truth. They LARP around and pretend their badass Vikings. They are children.
To my knowledge, not one lousy Canadian rock group has made a song about the Trucker Convoy yet. To me that was a shining moment in Canadian history were the people stood up to Justin Castro the woke cuck tyrant.
Extremism of every kind is the death of democracy as a whole.
The far right is the death of freedom.
The far left is the death of responsibility.
This is not unique to the USA. Unfortunately, many European countries are also pending to one side or the other of the spectrum, due to incompetent and corrupt politicians.
The rise of social media exacerbated this to new levels, this isn’t new.
However, there have been signs in recent years that things are changing. Podcasters such as Joe Rogan, Jordan Peterson, Lex Friedman, and others from the left or the right have shown genuine concern, intelligence, and courage by giving voice to the voiceless in the internet space, and promoting fair conversations and discussions in a long-form, avoiding reductionist sound bytes that the CNNs and FOXs of the legacy media around the world ram down our throats on a daily basis.
This gives me hope. But hoping is not enough.
The Buddhists say that hope is just fear in disguise.
What have I done besides clicking the like button on Lex Friedman’s videos?
Good post!
The left-to-right spectrum is dated and meaningless. Instead, we have a freedom-to-tyranny spectrum. If we lose our freedom to tyrants (globalists, big tech, big pharma, big govt) both left and right will not matter.
Here in America, the Republican party is useless. Conservatives have not conserved anything. The left keeps winning battles in the culture war. The left wants to censor everyone that disagrees with them and labels it as malformation, disinformation, and misinformation. We have a two-tiered justice system: one for the rich woke globalists and their accomplices and one for everyone else.
Language is the battleground of our time.
I think the tide is changing. People are realizing that our freedoms are being slowly eroded.