Cody Johnson’s shows can get downright patriotic.
In fact, back in April, the country music star stopped one of his performances to go on a patriotic rant that took on division and praised the military. But he was forced to stop his show during another patriotic moment over the weekend for a much different reason.
According to reports
, the 38-year-old singer was in the middle of performing “God Bless America” when a fight broke out in the crowd.
Johnson stopped singing and addressed his fans.
“I mean this is not a Travis Scott concert,” he said, referencing the famed rapper’s disastrous 2021 Astroworld concert in which 10 people were killed. “There’s kids in the crowd. There’s all kind of things that don’t need to happen.
“There we go, there are the police officers.”
Johnson had reportedly given the crowd a speech about unity and not being divided before he began to sing the song.
“Well, so much for my speech on not being divided,” he reportedly said after.
Back in April he told his fans he believes in being able to disagree, and he doesn’t agree with division. He stopped his performance then to ask military veterans, first responders and emergency personnel to raise their hands.
“Now, if you don’t have your hand in the air right now, I’m gonna ask a simple favor,” the country star told the fans at his show in Nashville. “I’m gonna ask you to stand up and I’m gonna ask you to make some noise for these men and women who keep us free.”
He was just getting started.
“Four years ago the word was division — I guess it was five years ago now,” he said. “All there was was division. There was divisions about masks. Are you kidding me? There was divisions about vaccines. There was divisions about race. There was divisions about religion. There was divisions about politics because if you voted for this person or that person that means we gotta hate each other.
“Well, I got news for ya,” he continued. “Every bit of that was just a bunch of lies. I do not believe in division. I don’t believe in hate. Three things that we can all agree on, that we can all believe in are just like this: red, white and blue.”
Then Johnson turned his attention back to the service members in the crowd.
“Do you know why it’s OK to disagree?” he said. “They try to tell us it’s because you believe different than I do, or I believe different than you do, or you believe different than her or him that we should hate each other. You know why it’s OK that we disagree?
“Because before most of us were born there was an American solider that sacrificed their lives for us to have the right to disagree and still be united as one country under God.”
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