Nearly a year later, the singer offered a qualified apology to anyone who found it “disrespectful” in a Billboardinterview. His costume included a red bandana, a wig of braided hair, and blackface. Jason Aldean had already logged two Number One and several multi-platinum albums by 2015, the year he decided to dress as Lil Wayne for Halloween, according to The Guardian.

And then you have some that come out like a Carrie or Miranda or somebody like that, that really has a different, distinctive sound to their voice, then it’s like, oh, OK, you can tell them apart all of a sudden.” October 2015: Aldean wears blackface for Halloween “A lot of times they just sound really similar to me.

“I feel like a lot of times female singers, to me, when they’re singing – and I’ll probably kick myself for saying this – a lot of times, it just seems like I can’t distinguish one from the other sometimes if I just listen to them, you know?” Aldean told the newspaper. While he didn’t posit to know why that is the case, he ventured to theorize that a lot of women sound the same. In an interview with Washington Post in September 2015, Aldean was asked about the lack of female singers on country radio gender parity has continued to be a struggle in the ensuing years. September 2015: Jason Aldean can’t tell female singers apart There’s also been some racist messaging, casual misogyny, and, most recently, a song and music video that are, at best, small-minded and, at worst, racist. Since then, he’s espoused right-wing ideologies from anti-vaccine theories to stolen election conspiracies. And the singles that followed were also mostly radio smashes, many of them pushing country music’s boundaries by incorporating elements of hard rock, like “Crazy Town,” and hip-hop, the breakout “Dirt Road Anthem.”īut as the Macon, Georgia, native inched closer and closer to Nashville superstar status, he also slowly leaned into the more odious of conservative viewpoints and right-wing politics, culminating with a Trump bromance - golf outings! New Year’s Eve parties! Mar-A-Lago visits! - that began in earnest in 2021. “Hicktown” was an overnight success, a Top 10 hit on Billboard’s Hot Country chart and a crossover pop hit on the Hot 100. Jason Aldean’s debut single, 2005’s “Hicktown,” arrived on country radio like a kick in the teeth, blending hard rock with country music and lyrics that unabashedly celebrated a certain type of rural life: “You can see the neighbor’s butt crack nailing on his shingles/and his woman’s smokin’ Pall Mall’s, watchin’ Laura Ingalls,” he sang.

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