The music video for "Try That In A Small Town" by Jason Aldean
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Country Music Television has removed the episode from the air after it received criticism for its subject matter.
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According to a Wednesday article by USA TODAY, a CMT spokeswoman has verified the change.
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Considering that Aldean personally experienced a mass shooting at a concert in 2017,
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the music video was met with criticism for its depiction of gun violence and lynching.
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Many believed that the song's lyrics might incite violence,
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which particularly damaged Aldean's rural and small-town fan base.
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A Black man called Henry Choate, 18, was cruelly lynched there in 1927.
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The Maury County Courthouse is where certain sequences in the film were filmed.
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