Jason Aldean Wasn’t Thinking Big At First
Jason Aldean has had a long and successful career in country music, winning many Entertainer of the Year awards along the way and even winning an Artist of the Decade…
Jason Aldean has had a long and successful career in country music, winning many Entertainer of the Year awards along the way and even winning an Artist of the Decade honor from the ACMs. While he may sell out his summer tours and continue to go to number one on the country charts with his songs, it wasn't all roses for him in country music as he was climbing his way to the top.
Jason said he had some big early stumbles along the way to fame. He said in a recent interview, "I wasn't thinking long-term. It was like, 'I need to get this song going just so I can generate some money to, like, keep from losing my house and to be able to buy diapers.' Those kind of things."
Aldean admits he never saw his career getting this big or "turning into what it has." He added, "Maybe I was just kind of naïve," to the point of thinking that it could ever become what it is.
He started in Nashville in 2005 with Broken Bow Records; he wasn't thinking in big terms when he released his first album. He explained, "I was very much small potatoes, going, 'I need to make five grand, so I need to make five grand today somehow; how does this happen?' It was more like survival."
Jason sold his recorded music catalog for 100 million dollars last year.
Aldean is one country superstar who has never shied away from controversy. He has always openly expressed his political views at his concerts and on social media. That fact has got him in hot water a time or two with fans and even fellow country stars.
So, it's no surprise that when asked in a recent interview about social media, he expressed he wasn't a fan. Jason said, "Social media, across the board, get rid of it. That's going to be a very unpopular answer."
He added, "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."
Aldean concluded that when "used in the right way," he thinks social media can be great. He does believe that people take "advantage of stuff" and they turn it into something that it wasn't intended to be.
