And I felt like this was one of those songs. The biggest songs we’ve had are things that were a little left of center and things that we sort of stuck our neck out on a little bit and took some chances. “But to me, I felt like my career hasn’t become what it is by me playing it safe, ever. “They wanted something that was a little more safe,” Aldean said. One could easily argue that it draws more from today’s glossy pop and hip-hop production than from anything country, which is why some members of Aldean’s camp viewed it as risky. A simmering ballad, its rhythm track is built around a loop, and other programmed percussion mixes with drums and the traditional instrumentation of the song. The reason? “Burning It Down” is not the typical Aldean song. “That’s a song where I got a lot of sort of resistance from the label and from even from my management and a lot of people on my team,” the singer said in a recent phone interview. 2 single on that chart with sales of more than 1.4 million.īut “Burnin’ It Down,” was far from a unanimous choice to be the leadoff single from “Old Boots, New Dirt,” even though Aldean says he felt it was the obvious choice right from the start. “Burnin’ It Down,” the first single off Jason Aldean’s current album, “Old Boots, New Dirt,” quickly became one of the biggest hits of the country superstar’s career.Īfter its release last summer, the song took just two weeks to reach the top of Billboard's Hot Country Songs chart and ended 2014 as the year’s No.
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