I am going to dive in again.
Did not read last 40 or so posts.
I will suggest music and art is provative by its nature.
The 60’s frightened my parents with the overtly suggestive nature of pop music.
Hair debuted as a Rock Opera, widely panned because of genre, not message, or both, lol.
Jesus Christ Superstar came out in 1970 with top shelf talent.
Both were excoriated, but wildly popular.
Stravinsky’s, “Rite of Spring”, caused riots outside Paris concert hall, where debuted in 1913.
Jason Aldean is merely a performer trying to achieve.
This song will never stand the “Test of Time”, as my other examples do, but caused controversy, as all art may do.
Cancelling songs is like censoring your local library because there is a book you don’t agree with.
If you do not like it, and I am not impressed, don’t listen.
Part of the freedoms we enjoy.
As a 20 year dj, the song sucks, but poses questions we all need address.