Jason Aldean's "Try That in a Small Town" has drawn much criticism over the past few days thanks to its inflammatory video.
The song's music video featured a number of different pieces of archival footage of protests with the intent of depicting them as animalistic and out-of-control. Specifically, Aldean was criticizing the United States and how its citizens would respond to tragedies and violence.
Curiously, a number of the videos aren't even from the U.S., as Rolling Stone first pointed out. The publication noted that, while some videos were recorded during protests in Georgia and New York, others came from Toronto and Montreal.
One portion of the video, at the two-minute mark, showed a car fire on fire, which Rolling Stone says was captured during the 2010 G20 Protests in Toronto. Prior to that, the video showed several cops in riot gear facing off against protestors in Montreal. The clip is believed to have been recorded during protests that erupted over tuition increases in 2012.
A minute before that, Aldean included stock footage from Montreal that's available to purchase from Pond5 for $97 CAD.
Many people took notice once Canadian media began covering Aldean's use of Canadian footage.
Aldean has since defended the video but has not acknowledged his use of Canadian stock footage from various protests that occured a decade ago.
