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Jason Aldean’s Unpopular Opinion on Social Media: ‘Get Rid of It, It Drives Me Crazy’

Jason Aldean has seen his share of controversy over the years. As an artist who isn’t afraid to share his opinion on hot-button issues, sparks fly sometimes — more than once over social media.

But if it were up to him, he’d get rid of social media entirely.

“Get rid of it, it drives me crazy,” Aldean says in a conversation with Taste of Country Nights On Demand.

Aldean was asked what he’d get rid of in country music specifically, and he held no punches, expanding his answer to, well, everyone.

“Social media, across the board, get rid of it. That’s going to be a very unpopular answer,” he says.

“I just think social media — when used in the right way — is great, but like anything, ya know, people take advantage of stuff and they turn it into something that it wasn’t intended to be.”

Perhaps Aldean is recalling his most recent scuffle with the web — the controversy surrounding his 2023 “Try That in a Small Town” video, which featured some controversial shooting locations (it was later edited).

The five-time Grammy nominee just sees social media as divisive and negative, so he’d scrap it in a perfect world.

“It’s just, to me, it’s done … you see people, they can’t get out of their phones now, and they’re so oblivious to what’s going on in the outside world. It drives me crazy.”

That’s his explanation to fans who ask him why he doesn’t post more on social media — he refuses to live there because of all of the negativity.

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