Jason Aldean's controversial song "Try That in a Small Town" shot to No. 1 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart. Remy wants in on the action.
Parody of "Try That in a Small Town" written and performed by Remy
LYRICS:
Open a lemonade stand on the sidewalk
Go for a long walk in the middle of the night
Keep schools open so that kids can keep on learning
You think it's cool, well act a fool if you like
Put someone's groceries in a bag
That doesn't immediately break
Don't bake a penis cake
Well try that in a large town
See how far you make it down the road
Around here we're punishing our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a large town
Call the line for nonemergencies
'Cuz somebody's dropping trousers on your daisies
That stuff might fly in the country—good luck
Well try that in a large town
See how far you make it down the road
Around here we speed camera our own
You cross that line, it won't take long
For you to find out, I recommend you don't
Try that in a large town
- Producer: John Carter
- Producer: Meredith Bragg
- Producer: Austin Bragg
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That's one of Sarc's fear yawns.
He's pissed as hell but also anxious and doesn't know what to do.
He’s afraid of everything. Sarc is a weak, sniveling little pussy.
That’s demeaning to pussies. Pussies are actually quite amazing – they’re very resilient, and take a pounding…
I'll understand if this post is removed by the mods - but you gotta admit it's funny!
And there's no talking point to cover it...
Why live in a large town?
This should be the question.
Good restaurants with a variety of different cuisines, easy access to healthy food, easy access to reliable healthcare, educated neighbors, no agricultural pesticides, live music venues with a variety of music, closeness to a major airport, etc.
All good reasons to live in a small town near a city.
"All good reasons to live in a small town near a city."
Yes, you like hundreds of millions of Americans before you have discovered the concept of the suburb.
Anathema to the new urbanists and all their utopian friends.
I mean, don't you want to stop suburban sprawl?
No, you won’t find educated neighbors in an urban democrat shithole. Too many idiots with grievance studies degrees. But you likely aren’t capable of understanding that.
Because some people like it. And I'm happy to have them stay there. So stop giving them ideas.
I really, really, really hate this song (the original, and this parody). To me this song is to Country Music what The Last Jedi was to Star Wars- a series of (musical) buildups to a familiar refrain, only to "subvert your expectations". And not in a good way, but in a jarring, "hey that guy lost his place in the music" kind of way that hurts the brain.
Remy's parody would be great if I could listen to the song without my ears bleeding.
That's the Nashville formula, though. Bro Country, pickup trucks, blue jeans, dirt roads, etc. That type of country is basically bubblegum pop sung with a twang. It's a pop music formula.
And, yes, it's an insipid formula. Can't stand it.
I prefer the less glitzy and more eclectic ‘Tulsa sound.’
“In addition to Clapton, J.J. Cale’s influence has been cited by Mark Knopfler, among others. His songs have been recorded by many artists, including Clapton, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Deep Purple, the Allman Brothers Band, Johnny Cash, John Mayer, The Band, Kansas, Santana, Captain Beefheart, Widespread Panic, and Bryan Ferry. ”
Tulsa is not a small town, but much better in my books, a small city. A small city can spawn its own musical genre. Try that in a small town.
Hear, hear! (literally, man :))
I don’t usually fawn over jammy blues, not my cup o tea. But those late 70s sessions with JJ Cale and Leon Russell that are up on YouTube are off the chain. Even when they’re high as fuck and flubbing their cues right and left.
https://youtu.be/UFNhYyFLqNs?feature=shared
Both the original and the Remy parody are misguided. Although I live in a small town and have lived in large cities before, the problem is not "taking care of our own," it's the police mission SCOPE that's the problem here. And it's not just big cities - Kenosha, Wisconsin is, after all, a small town! The "broken windows" narrative is just another excuse to expand the mission of police departments into unnecessarily high-risk contact with civilians. Banning lemonade stands and traffic cameras are symptoms of a deeper social problem: too many people crammed together into too small a space. The cities are dying a prolonged but totally natural death long after the purpose of cities was eliminated by transportation and communication technologies.
On the other hand, small town people may take care of their own, but they also lynched innocent black people, cracked down on moonshiners, and elected and re-elected corrupt sheriffs who kept their jurisdictions in line out of fear rather than justice.
There are small towns not located in Dixieland, too.
And there are small towns not located in 1928, too. Geez. Moonshiners? Lynchings? I'd say OK Boomer, but the boomers are rolling their eyes at the century old references.
Lol
So you don't think rural deputies raiding a rapper's home for drugs and kidnapped girls is a problem ... okay, got it!
They just wanted his lemon pound cake.
Do you think nobody sees the sophistry? That they can’t see that the exact same argument could be turned around on yourself to the same or greater effect?
So, you don’t think the billions in damages and the dozens of lives in the Mostly Peaceful Summer Of Love, the city, state, and national level politicians who fomented it and cheered it on, the international news media who ran cover and printed patent lies in support of it are as important as Afroman’s front door … okay, got it!
No, dumbass, both are bad. One is/was an ongoing problem nationwide to the tune of billions of dollars, the other one is/was a problem if you’re a black man living in rural Ohio named Afroman *but not Chappelle*.
And it’s not just big cities – Kenosha, Wisconsin is, after all, a small town!
Um, for clarity, exactly how many leftist agitators would Kyle have had to dirtnap to meet (or not) your criteria of FA-in a small town-FO? Is that a hard, absolute number or more of a per capita, or per sq. mi. statistic?
I dunno ... it's not my song.
I’m pretty sure I asked for *your* criteria, not Aldean’s. He’s certainly not the one who brought up Kenosha.
""and elected and re-elected corrupt sheriffs who kept their jurisdictions in line out of fear rather than justice.""
Do forget the corrupt judge who's a family member of the sheriff.
Also, the Sheriff and the Judge are owned by the Col. Sanders-looking fella who also owns The Duke Farm, The Boar's Nest, Hazzard County Bank, Cooter's Garage, HOGGOCO Oil and Petroleum Co., The Hazzard County Gazzette, The Hazzard Phone Company, WHOGG Radio, The Hazzard County Grits Mill, High Heavenly Hill Cemetery, J.D. Hogg Log Mill, J.D. Hogg Ice House, J.D. Hogg Real Estate, J.D. Hogg Funeral Home, J.D. Hogg Gravel Company, J.D. Hogg, Painting Company, The Hazzard Coffin Works, J.D. Hogg Investment Corporation, Hazzard County Sheriffs Department, Hazzard County Volunteer Fire Department, and Hazzard County Hospital.
Do forget the corrupt judge who’s a family member of the sheriff.
That's right, pay attention to the duly elected judge who just happens to be twice removed from the Sheriff in Nowhere, USA. Disgusting, crony nepotism never happens on a national level anyway. 🙂
Cities and suburbs ebb and flow. Always have. Always will.
Just ask the Harappans of the Indus valley.
"On the other hand, small town people may take care of their own, but they also lynched innocent black people, cracked down on moonshiners, and elected and re-elected corrupt sheriffs who kept their jurisdictions in line out of fear rather than justice."
"EVERY TOWN OUTSIDE MY METROPOLIS IS EXACTLY LIKE THE SOLID SOUTH IN THE 1930s.
Looking at you Minot, North Dakota and Harmony, Maine."
Today's hicks live in downtown cores.
Yes, big cities may have all these issues today, but a hundred years ago bad stuff happened in small towns!
True, neither song is fully accurate about either big cities or small towns, on issues like crime, racism, social attitudes, decay, even on anti-business bureaucracy.
I lived in a small town once where the authorities shut down a man's mini-flea market because they said he didn't have a license for it...and there wasn't even an ordinance on the Town law books requiring a license!
Both elected officials and fundtionaries of both big cities and small towns have memberships in urban, regional, and State Government associations.
From there, they get their Statist ideas and model legislation for various social engineering schemes. And one such idea is: "That which is not mandatory is prohibited."
Also, small towns mimic big cities by giving Public-Private Sweetheart Deals of subsidies, special infrastructure, and utility discounts to sports teams and other favored businesses.
And, of course, anyone who pins racism exclusively on the South should read up on racism in places like Boston, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and other Northern and Midwestern cities.
As John Cafferty and The Beaver Brown Band put it:
"Things Are Tough All Over."
https://youtu.be/MwKNSymIiKI
Gay
Soooo...Do you say this with some kind of authority?
Either way, you wouldn't be a type I'd like at the swing party.
This is the first Remy video I don't really understand.
🙂
Remy has been getting less and less funny over the years. This was just terrible.
Yes, I get angry too when my sacred cows are gored.
Try singing a song that doesn’t rhyme in a small town.
It's rare for me to agree with mtrueman.
Side note - Small Town (John Mellencamp) is one of the stupidest songs ever written and he should be executed for it.
in defense, someone who'll thrill me, and then go away is one of the better lines ever
Yes. And sounds better when performed by Pat Benatar
what doesn't?
As far as country music goes, I recall a musician in Eastern WA by the name of Mike Nuen who wrote perhaps the best country song of all time. The title is: "I would have had a #1 hit single but you never done me wrong!"
Realistically, small towns are perceived to have less crime because conformity is usually required. In fact, while the big cities are perceived as higher crime, the truth is, if you consider crime per capita, you are generally safer in a city. 433 people murdered in 2022 in NYC may sound bad but when you consider that NYC has ~8.5 million people, that's the equivalent of a town/county of 1 murder a year in a town of 20,000. In actuality, rural areas have a higher murder rate. Perhaps not in your town but taken nationally, it is a fact.
I’ll never understand why people insist on demonstrating their stupidity like this. Do you think people can’t find the murder rates of their local town, the next town over, the nearest big cities, or the average of them? Are you here trying to attract the absolutely stupidest and laziest people to your cause?
At a certain level, you're utterly incoherent. I can watch a video and read the police report of a group of kids trying to steal a ride share bike from a hospital worker. My village doesn't even have rideshare bikes to precipitate the crime. If we're talking about public transportation and people jumping fares, it's two crimes (taxation and turnstile-hopping are both theft).
" In actuality, rural areas have a higher murder rate. "
That may be true, but it's also true that in rural areas you're more likely to be killed by family or neighbor. In the cities, it's being killed, at random, by weird strangers. That's scarier for most people.
"My village doesn’t even have rideshare bikes to precipitate the crime."
On the other hand, horse thievery in the countryside is rampant, especially compared to horse thievery in the cities.
Try renaming your social media platform X in a small town.
I’m not sure if I understand the parody????
“ Call the line for nonemergencies
'Cuz somebody's dropping trousers on your daisies
That stuff might fly in the country—good luck
Well try that in a large town.”
They do it all the time in large towns.
True, but in one place the cops will show up and drag the hobo shitting on your lawn away and in the other some social workers will show up and lecture you about your privilege.
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Did the parody hit the top of the charts? I didn't think so.