‘The View’ Hosts Take Swipe At Jason Aldean Amid ‘Try That In A Small Town’ Backlash: ‘You’ve Gone Too Far’

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“The View” hosts are the latest to speak out about Jason Aldean’s controversial song “Try That in a Small Town”. Whoopi Goldberg criticized the singer’s lyrics and use of imagery in the music video.

The vid is interlaced with clips of protestors vandalizing cities in the wake of police brutality and racial unrest during the height of the pandemic. “He talks about life in a small town, and it’s different, and he chose these images,” Goldberg insisted. “He’s got folks from the Black Lives Matter movement, and he’s talking about people taking care of each other, and I find it so interesting that it never occurred to Jason or the writers that that’s what these folks were doing: They were taking care of the people in their town because they didn’t like what they saw.” READ MORE: Blanco Brown Defends Jason Aldean Against Racism Accusations Amid ‘Try That in a Small Town’ Backlash The actress added, “You just have to realize that when you make it about Black Lives Matter, people kind of say, ‘Well, are you talking about Black people?

What are you talking about here?’” insisting people in big towns take care of each other, as well. She also told Aldean “you’ve gone too far” after his statement was later read out.

Sunny Hostin added that the track reminded her of her parents living in South Carolina. “My mother and father, because they were an interracial couple, were run out of South Carolina by the KKK,” she told her fellow panellists. “My father is still scarred from that experience … so don’t tell me that not only was he aware of what he was doing by using that imagery, he embraces that imagery.” Hostin added, “Unfortunately, this became [the] No.