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In his first performance since the “Try That in a Small Town” controversy, Jason Aldean hit back against critics of the song. “I’ve seen a lot of stuff suggesting I’m this, suggesting I’m that,” Aldean told the crowd in Cincinnati. “Here’s one thing I feel: I feel everybody’s entitled to their opinion.” “You can think something all you want to, it doesn’t mean it’s true. What I am is a proud American… I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bulls--t started happening to us,” he added, in the quote captured by Deadline. Aldean was referring to the backl......

Fans of country singer Jason Aldean are calling for a boycott of the Country Music Television network after it pulled his single “Try That in a Small Town.” On Tuesday, the network confirmed to Forbes that it pulled the controversial music video — which features pro-gun lyrics — causing an outcry among Aldean fans. The network’s decision to boot the song and its music video came after pushback against the lyrics, which some critics labeled as “pro-lynching” and filled with racist “dog whistles.” But there was also controversy because the video was filmed in front of a courthouse in Tennessee w......

CHICAGO — Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot and interim police Superintendent Eric Carter announced an internal investigation Friday into the unauthorized “like” by the Chicago Police Department’s Twitter account of an anti-transgender tweet. The CPD’s Twitter liked a post made Wednesday by country music singer Travis Tritt encouraging a boycott of Anheuser-Busch products after the company’s Bud Light brand collaborated on an ad with social media influencer Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender woman. Mulvaney, who has documented her yearlong transition to womanhood for her millions of social media followe......

Country music star Chris Stapleton delivered a straightforward, no-frills National Anthem to overwhelming social media praise. Kansas City fans yelled “Chiefs,” per their tradition, at the “home of the brave” anthem ending, setting off people who want them to stop doing that. But it was the first song sung during pregame festivities, “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” that riled up some NFL fans hanging out on social media, thanks in part to a certain controversial congresswoman. Even before singer and Emmy winning actress Sheryl Lee Ralph, star of TV’s “Abbott Elementary,” sang “Lift Every Voice an......

One of the biggest country music festivals has put its boot down: No more Confederate flags. The Country Music Association added “Confederate flag imagery of any kind” to the prohibited items list at the upcoming CMA Fest in Nashville, Tennessee. The four-day festival is scheduled June 9-12 after a two-year postponement during the COVID-19 pandemic, the association announced online. The association said the decision to ban Confederate flag imagery was an updated part of the policy to protect the safety of fans, according to a statement obtained by The Tennessean. “This year’s CMA Fest is our f......

Paddy Moloney, the Irish folk musician and leader of The Chieftains, has died at the age of 83. A cause of death was not disclosed. Moloney “made an enormous contribution to Irish traditional music, song and dance…Few people can lay claim to having the level of impact Paddy Moloney had on the vibrancy of traditional music throughout the world. What a wonderful musical legacy he has left us,” the Irish Traditional Music Archive said after announcing the multi-instrumentalist’s death. Moloney founded the Chieftains with Sean Potts and Michael Tubridy in 1962. They collaborated with a number of i......