Edits Made To Jason Aldean's 'Try That..' Video

Jason Aldean in concert

In response to the massive wave of criticism against the music video for Jason Aldean's May-released and now top-5 charting Billboard all-genre Hot 100 single "Try That In A Small Town," The Washington Post has reported that the 12-day-old clip, with Black Lives Matter protest footage removed, is now six seconds shorter.

A news clip from Atlanta's Fox 5 showing the city's violent 2020 and 2021 Black Lives Matter protest confrontations is no longer visible in the video. Moreover, adds Aldean's representatives, a spoken-word clip of a wheelchair-bound elderly man appealing to rural values and another man in a baseball cap and sunglasses staring into the sun are not present in the video's re-uploaded version.

The Tennessean reports TackleBox -- the production company behind the music video -- nor YouTube have yet to make official statements in regards to the newly-edited version of the video.

About the removal of both moments, Aldean's label, Broken Bow Records, adds that "third party copyright clearance issues" are to blame for the removal of the footage -- not online criticism perceiving the song's lyrical content to invoke pro-gun violence and lynching sentiments.

Previously, TackleBox, the production company for the video, said the Maury County Courthouse in Columbia, Tennessee -- where the video was shot -- is, alongside being the site of a lynching and race riot seven decades ago, a popular filming location outside of Nashville and cited several music videos and films that have been filmed there. They include the Lifetime Original movie "Steppin' into the Holiday" with Mario Lopez and Jana Kramer, a music video from Runaway June "We Were Rich" a Paramount holiday film "A Nashville Country Christmas" with Tanya Tucker -- as well the Hannah Montana film.

The company added that Aldean did not pick the location.