Florida Georgia Line Calls Out Charlie Robison Over Radio Quotes
This story has been updated (see below)
Once you thought the drama over Sony Records Nashville CEO Gary Overton’s quote about country radio was starting to wind down, it has now hit overdrive. Right before the major powers of country radio convened in Nashville last week for CRS, or the Country Radio Seminar, Gary Overton said to Nate Rau of The Tennessean, “If you’re not on country radio, you don’t exist.” Nearly a week later, and the fallout continues, with now Florida Georgia Line entering the fray.
Texas country artist Aaron Watson was the first to challenge Gary Overton’s quote after his new release The Underdog drew the #1 spot on the Billboard Country albums chart last week. He told Saving Country Music, ““My name is Aaron Watson. I’m not played on country radio. And I have the #1 record in country music this week. I do exist.” Aaron Watson then had a strange exchange with iHeartMedia DJ Bobby Bones surrounding the issue, with Bobby Bones saying Aaron Watson was “Disrespectful to women” after a misunderstanding with one of Bobby Bones’ female producers who was offended by being called “sweetheart.”
Then fellow Texas country artists Kevin Fowler, and most notably, Charlie Robison gave their two cents on the matter, with Robison saying in part on Saturday:
A few words for Gary Overton. I was signed by Warner bros, and Sony during the days I had the patience to smile while ignorant pencil pushing, mullet headed expense account rapists like you ran those labels. I’m on the road right now and just finished putting on a show for the folks in Shreveport. That’s a town u call a blip on ur screen…
I spent so many years in Nashville watching you ignorant wastes of space sit behind your big desk and act like me and all the the Texas/Red dirt artists don’t exist. Well Mr. “I have a job today but as soon as Florida/Georgia line goes out of style,and believe me dumbass they will, you will not exist”. Saying that music does not exist unless it’s on the radio is like saying you don’t exist because you never got laid until you got your two week job as the head of Walmart Records…
Have fun hovering above your tombstone and listening to people say “who the fuck is that?”as they make they’re way to Townes’s grave….
***Read The Full Charlie Robison Rant***
And then on Sunday night (3-1), Florida Georgia Line decided they wanted a piece of the action, publicly rebuking Charlie Robison on Twitter.
Lost a lot of respect for a great songwriter Charlie Robison today. The country music community has always been about respect and support. May we never live in bitterness towards the ever evolving genre that’s been so good to us.
Later Florida Georgia Line also said,
The truth is, one day we probably WILL go out of style and that’s the beautiful thing about music.
As per usual, Florida Georgia Line would have probably been better served by keeping their mouth shut. First off, bringing up the tired argument that country music needs to “evolve” was not even necessary here. Charlie Robison did not say anything about their music. His comments were expressly directed at Gary Overton, and mentioned them because they’re the biggest band in country right now. This also makes the “respect and support” lines from Florida Georgia Line banal and uninformed. Gary Overton was the one clearly disrespecting an entire class of country music performers by saying “they don’t exist,” and Charlie Robison was simply responding in kind. Florida Georgia Line brought a formulaic retort to the table they use for when people criticize their music, when it has absolutely no relevancy to the current topic.
Meanwhile, another Texas country artist Jack Ingram has weighed in, saying in part,
I heard that a Nashville executive made a comment during the Country Radio Seminar last week that “if it’s not played on country radio, it doesn’t exist”. When I look at the list of artists that I just came up with off of the top of my head from music that I listen to often, I just can’t help but laugh at the short sightedness of a comment like that. Some of those artists certainly do exist and will sell 20 million records/downloads/friends/etc. and other artists on that list MOST CERTAINLY EXIST and will not sell a single record/download/friend/etc… I have had points in my career where I have been played often on the radio. In fact, I believe one of my singles was one of the most played songs on the radio for an entire year! I have also had moments of my career where my songs were not played much at all over the airwaves. My music existed at every moment! You can believe that.
READ: Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes” is the Worst Album Ever
UPDATE 3-1-15 9:15 PM CST: Charlie Robison has responded to Florida Georgia Line with, “How do you lose respect for someone who doesn’t exist?”
March 1, 2015 @ 6:58 pm
Florida Georgia Line know who Charlie Robison is? They can even write coherent sentences in response to him? I must say I’m impressed. (Sarcasm off.)
March 1, 2015 @ 7:14 pm
Or their publicist knows who he is. That statement was pretty well written.
March 1, 2015 @ 9:31 pm
yeah, there’s no way they wrote this…it’s completely devoid of ebonics and texting shorthand
December 21, 2015 @ 12:51 pm
They both have college degrees in music marketing, so there’s a good chance they did write it.
March 1, 2015 @ 7:26 pm
My first response was “FUCK Florida-Georgia Line,” but this was much better. 😀
March 1, 2015 @ 9:32 pm
They must be running low on attention.
March 1, 2015 @ 7:21 pm
When the guys of FGL finish their “evolution” into a full-blown EDM or hip-hop act, they should change their name to “Kings of Irony.” Seeing them preach about “respect and support” is rich.
March 3, 2015 @ 12:58 pm
Reminds me of a recent incident at the Grammys…..
March 1, 2015 @ 7:27 pm
Good Lord.
March 1, 2015 @ 7:46 pm
God bless the great Charlie Robison! A Texas legend, and highly influential songwriter. A man who has been praised by the likes of Shaver, Crowell, and Guy Clark. A man’s man who speaks the truth, and wears his heart on his sleeve. FGL do not have the talent to carry Charlie’s guitar. Give em hell Charlie, and thank you for standing up for all the great songwriters who are ignored by the suits.
March 1, 2015 @ 9:21 pm
It’s comments like this that make me yearn for the like button to come back.
March 1, 2015 @ 9:34 pm
Wait, was it removed on purpose?
I thought the site was experiencing heavy traffic again and caused that feature to crash again. Well that’s what I figured anyway.
You know I’d love the option to thumb down a comment also. And the ability to unlike a comment that you accidentally liked.
Oh yea, and eff FGL they don’t even make country music they suck and such and such…
March 1, 2015 @ 11:55 pm
Believe it or not, the comment “like” feature has the ability to crash the entire site at times of high traffic. It’s not the server size or capacity, it’s that this tiny little plugin can wreak havoc on the back end of the site. So if there’s concern the site may go down, it is disabled. As soon as the all clear has sounded, it will be re-enabled, and all previous “likes” will return that people have left over time.
March 2, 2015 @ 8:05 am
Triggerman, if I may ask, how many people staff this place? Are you your own tech support?
March 2, 2015 @ 9:20 am
Staff? Ha. This is a one man operation. I do have a webmaster and tech support from the hosting company, but I do most of the daily tech support as well.
March 2, 2015 @ 11:38 am
Oh ok, I thought Truth No. 2 was implying that it had been yanked permanently because of abuse or something. I read to much into that.
Lol, well I reckon those other features are just a pipe dream then if you get that much trouble from just the like feature.
March 2, 2015 @ 1:23 pm
thanks for all the hard work Trigger”¦. This is an outstanding site.
March 2, 2015 @ 9:39 pm
I second that. I really appreciate what you do here. I’ve been visiting daily here since 2012 and this is without a doubt my favorite website. I can’t explain how important I think the work you’re doing is. Even when I don’t agree with you (which is few and far between) I see that you try to be as objective as possible and I really respect that. If other people in the country music community were as dedicated as you were, I tell ya, we wouldn’t be having the issues we got now with mainstream country music.
March 2, 2015 @ 9:44 pm
Thanks for reading Joshua and Mark!
March 3, 2015 @ 4:51 am
It doesn’t sound right to me that someone used a plugin at all for a very simple comments section. We should be talking about a few lines of ajax and a single tiny SQL update statement for a comment counter. It sounds like a Mr. Scott “overtake the plumbing” situation (or the principle of KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid) has been violated). Just my 2 cents.
March 13, 2015 @ 5:24 pm
Hey guys the uhh like buttons are back in case YALL ain’t noticed
March 1, 2015 @ 7:59 pm
Florida Georgia Line need to keep their damn mouth shut and mind their own business. It’s none of their concern and business. Learn to make real music.
March 1, 2015 @ 8:04 pm
i’m sure Charlie Robison is absolutely devastated he doesn’t have country music’s Nickleback in his corner anymore.
April 15, 2015 @ 9:08 pm
Well, at least they won’t name drop him in a song in a bid for credibility
March 1, 2015 @ 8:05 pm
I need to be more respectful and be a fan. CARRY ON
March 1, 2015 @ 9:05 pm
just kidding
March 2, 2015 @ 9:50 pm
Florida Georgia Line! Thank you country music you got your limp bizkit . Florida Georgia bizkit or Nickelback country. Both bands sounds bad.
March 2, 2015 @ 9:54 pm
Thank you Trigger I have been reading your site since 2013 and you gave me a good point of view about country music. thank you very much.
March 2, 2015 @ 9:58 pm
Thanks Pete!
March 1, 2015 @ 8:39 pm
classic response from robison hahaha
March 1, 2015 @ 8:49 pm
Feels worthy of pointing out that when Sturgill Simpson was a nobody, Charlie Robison allowed Sturgill to open for him at Gruene Hall in Texas. It was before “High Top Mountain” was even officially out.
March 1, 2015 @ 8:55 pm
“The country music community has always been about respect and support.” That’s damn true, even till today it is. Maybe when FGL start making country music they’ll earn some of that respect and support, but until then they need to shut their fucking mouths and as Trigger once said, “Go roll around in their giant piles of money”. (Or something along those lines)
March 1, 2015 @ 9:08 pm
I like to listen to lesser known country singers they sound lot better than mainstream country artist today. Lesser known country singers sound more country. Florida Georgia Line need to learn how to sing country music. They need to take a class Country Music 101.
March 1, 2015 @ 9:11 pm
*Plays Charlie Robison’s Photgragh. Turns off. Plays FGL’s Cruise. Turns off and burns iTunes*
I think that says it all. Charlie writes and sings REAL MUSIC. FGL is given songs to write and things to say. Hopefully this opens up Charlie’s music to people and allows people to love real songs that tell real stories, instead of just what sells for $ .99 and a t-shirt.
March 1, 2015 @ 9:19 pm
The country music community HAS always been about respect and support. Thing is, FGL isn’t country.
March 1, 2015 @ 9:24 pm
Florida Georgia Line needs to shut up. Charlie has been in a country music business since 1994. By the way Brian and Tyler; Charlie sings country music and you two don’t have a clue. Trigger is right you 2 are not country.
March 1, 2015 @ 9:31 pm
FGL is a bunch of douche pop singers. I wish they said that to Robisons face. I have no doubt he would have stomped a mud hole in both of their faces
March 1, 2015 @ 9:35 pm
I’ve seen both play in person… FGL isn’t country, more like hip hop fag boys. Charlie has been country before country was cool. FGL needs to keep their damn mouth shut! Rock on Charlie!
March 1, 2015 @ 9:40 pm
“The country music community has always been about respect* and support.”
*Except for bro-country lyrics that disrespect women.
“All we ever wanted to do was play country music.”
https://twitter.com/FLAGALine/status/561250567549227008
March 1, 2015 @ 9:42 pm
FGL?? Is that the Band with the gay guy and the other with hair like a sissy?? WHAT THE HELL DO THEY KNOW ABOUT COUNTRY??? They and Luke Bryan are the reason I NEVER listen to “Today’s” Country Music!
March 1, 2015 @ 10:33 pm
FGL has something to say????? LOL
Like anybody cares!
I will be highly surprised if they even knew who
Charlie was…or is….
We can all hardly wait till they go out of style…
And they will 🙂
March 1, 2015 @ 10:36 pm
I have never fully listened to a FGL song and think they are obviously huge deuchebags and what they represent is white trash, I think they do have somewhat of a point…. But engaging Charlie Robison is fucking hilarious cause he dont give a fuck. I like where this feud is going, especially with Charlie being allowed to do his own facetweets now. Fire it up Charlie!
March 2, 2015 @ 9:01 am
Hey! Don’t say FGL represent white trash. That’s disrespectful to white trash.
March 1, 2015 @ 10:42 pm
GOOD TIME CHARLIE 20 points VS. DOUCHBAGS Florida Georgia Line 0 points. I bet the losers are Florida Georgia Line.
March 1, 2015 @ 11:25 pm
F.G.l. is OK but, they are not country like so many today…..thank god there are people like Arron Watson,charlie Robinson, Kevin fowler, ext. And so on. I would not go to see F.G.L. any day , but I have been to several of our texas attest bands several times and you know I never get tired of them. They get my respect. They have earned that title more than F.G.L. Their music plays all the time they exist….so go away F.G.L…..THATS NOT RESPETFUL OF YOU
March 2, 2015 @ 5:51 am
Will someone pleaase stop long enough to answer this question: “Who or what is Florida Georgia Line?
March 2, 2015 @ 10:14 am
It’s the place where Waylon and Willie would get off their bus to take a piss in the 70’s and 80’s
March 2, 2015 @ 5:54 am
So FGL is OKAY with singing music that will one day be out of style?? Yet in so many of their songs they name-check “a little hank,” “haggard,” along with jason aldean, luke bryan, etc, name checking cash, waylon, george jones, conway, etc. does that mean they sing about classics that (*I dont believe) go out of style, when they are hoping that they THEMSELVES are aspiring to have careers that dont last? what does that say about them? nothing wrong with a music career like george strait, who broke records DECADES after he started out, or even Kenny Chesney (I KNOW hes not the best example, and will get knocked for being mostly pop-country) – but when I think of his earlier stuff, I dont feel like its super-dated, or super-trendy for the time he came out with it (… if any of that makes sense… its still early and I’m still foggy!)
March 2, 2015 @ 6:00 am
Also, not that it has anything to do with anything, I could probably have a TINY bit more tolerance for FGL if they didnt dress like they just crawled out of a dumpster. Jason Aldean and Brantley Gilbert try to look like theyre tough guys that they’re NOT, and Luke Bryan might as well be wearing leggings, his pants are so tight… but at least they look like they’ve all showered within the last week.
March 2, 2015 @ 6:09 am
I haven’t seen Charlie’s show in a good while but I’ll be seeing it first chance I get now so I can buy him a beer for this.
March 2, 2015 @ 6:44 am
Oh man, that Jack Ingram cover of that awful, awful song used to throw me into a rage whenever it came on. He would do well to never mention it again.
March 2, 2015 @ 7:22 am
I’d pick a Matt Borden concert over Florida Georgia Line any day of the week.
March 2, 2015 @ 7:25 am
Almost every band worth listening too doesn’t exist.
March 2, 2015 @ 7:32 am
FGL guys are just fucktrash.
Remember children, use condoms
March 2, 2015 @ 7:32 am
I had the opportunity to meet and hangout with Charlie about this time last year in Nacogdoches after his show there at Banita Creek Hall. Very nice, humble, fun guy to be around. His band invited us on the bus to hangout. We had a very sad situation happen that week and they extended out friendship, support and genuine love to us for a couple of hours while their crew did load out. FGL I don’t think would do that. Charlie, Kelly, Bruce, Aaron, Radney and everyone else in Texas does exist! I haven’t listen to a “Nashville” artist in God knows how long. If we all just stick together, pay attention to Trigger’s insight and boycott the Nashville industry……hmmm, maybe THEY won’t exist.
March 2, 2015 @ 8:45 am
Trigger does a very good job here, has great insight…. and I don’t think he will argue this, in fact he may have other things to add to this. There are other outlets as well to find good music beyond this site. NoDepression.com, Subscribe to Texas Music Scene TV and Austin City Limits TV on youtube are just a few.
Who else has other ways to skin the cat beyond the above?
March 2, 2015 @ 7:37 am
“the truth is we probably WILL go out of style and that’s the beautiful thing about music”
abnormally profound from these two.
March 2, 2015 @ 7:46 am
May we never live in bitterness towards the ever evolving genre that”™s been so good to us.
Save your bitterness for the looming tail-end of your careers, FGL–when your bros have let their jacked-up trucks go back to the bank and moved on to the next next-big-thing, leaving your talent-less asses crawling back to your momma’s trailer to live and to wonder what your respectful label did with all that lovely money you only thought you had left.
March 2, 2015 @ 8:40 am
well said, I know from personal experience in Nashville they are nothing but chocking Hawks and the town is full of them preying on people’s dreams. I witnessed what real evil looks like out there, greed is the machine in Nashville, TN. I had a single that went #49 on music row last year. Which doesn’t mean much but I tried, I also come to realize that Texas is my home and it’s were my music belongs, I’m getting ready to release another single to Texas radio March 16th “Never too Late to Run” the other single was “Take the L Out of Lover.” I look up to guys like Charlie, tire song writers with something to say.
March 2, 2015 @ 8:42 am
”¢Chicken Hawks….damn auto-correct
March 2, 2015 @ 8:44 am
TrueӢ
March 2, 2015 @ 10:10 am
Keep up the good fight my man. Artists like you will always have respect.
Charlie (Exists, but not I’m not THAT Charlie, lol)
March 2, 2015 @ 8:11 am
Totally exists: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T41Bdwa_wPg
March 2, 2015 @ 8:46 am
Scott Eversoll – Country Music Watered Down: http://youtu.be/kR8MRSBqoPs
March 2, 2015 @ 9:19 am
Great Song !!! This song tells it like it is!
March 2, 2015 @ 9:23 am
Great Song!!! This song tells it like it is!
March 2, 2015 @ 8:55 am
Been watching this snowball get bigger and bigger. It’s kind of funny, if these people don’t exist, how can you explain this years LJT lineup? I guess for 50k plus fans to go see bands that don’t exist, they must be crazy.
LJT Lineup
http://www.larryjoetaylor.com/texas_music_festival/music_lineup.htm
March 2, 2015 @ 9:10 am
it will boost sales if a artist is on the radio, but really, come on, just because a artist is not on country radio does not mean they don’t exist. Getting on. Radio and making it onto the charts is hard and expensive. One of our groups have a Single going to Music Row Stations on March 30th, and it cost money to do that. Most artist don’t have the cash to promote that way, but they are still out there making great music and following their dream, and they most certainly exit. Keep up the great music you are putting out everyone. With out your music this would be a sad world.
http://www.heartlandrecords.net
March 2, 2015 @ 9:33 am
You know, to be completely honest, I’d never heard of Aaron Watson nor Charlie Robinson before this fracas. But as of today I’m suddenly tempted to go buy their albums outright just to show my support.
#sweethearts exist
March 2, 2015 @ 9:39 am
Robison’s “Photograph” is one of my favorite songs. Glad he threw a jab at those two Idiocracy characters.
March 2, 2015 @ 10:10 am
I agree with one thing FGL said. The fact that they’ll eventually go out of style is a beautiful thing.
March 2, 2015 @ 11:51 am
I see what you did there haha.
March 2, 2015 @ 10:58 am
charlie just comes off as a whiner, and he went out of style long ago. Florida Georgia line always takes the heat, and theres worse stuff out there and copies of a copy. What about the old farts trying to copy the style to sell more records?
March 2, 2015 @ 11:54 am
It sounds to me like your taking up for Florida Georgia Line, which should’ve kept there mouth shut instead of whining and complaining.
March 2, 2015 @ 11:18 am
I’m sure Mr. Overton would consider me horrible with money since I’ve lightened my wallet considerably in the last few years on music and artists that, according to him, don’t exist. Personally, I think Mr. Smug Sony CEO should be seriously be wondering why I, and legions of others just like me, would be willing to “throw away” our cash rather than further expand Sony’s coffers.
March 2, 2015 @ 11:40 am
2 words. KACEY MUSGRAVES. got very very little AirPlay last year. but you can’t argue with country album of the year and country song of the year Grammys. what she’s done has been with very little radio support. now the radio will HAVE to play her. too many people want to hear her music. she’s one of MANY like her that don’t write songs based on trends.
March 2, 2015 @ 2:06 pm
Hats off again to Charlie Robison of saying what we all were thinking. Charlie’s Life Of The Party album is one of my favorites. So thank you Charlie!! You are definitely on my list to see in concert!!!
March 2, 2015 @ 4:32 pm
How much does it cost to subscribe to your website Trigger?
March 2, 2015 @ 4:52 pm
$0.00
March 2, 2015 @ 4:59 pm
I hope I don’t get invited to go to Florida Georgia Line’s concert or I will write a bad report about it.
March 2, 2015 @ 7:20 pm
Just watch/listen to this. It will explain everything!
http://youtu.be/ZcCfGdKKMIU
March 3, 2015 @ 8:13 pm
Thank you
this song explains it all ecspecially Florida Georgia Line.
March 2, 2015 @ 9:09 pm
@FloridaGeorgiaLine. If you talk the talk make sure you can walk the walk. Anytime you are ready put your big boy pants on and I will be more than happy to give you a tour and a true honest to God history lesson on Real Country Music. You dont know the first thing about showmanship, fans, being a song writer. And you damn sure dont have any talent. Real Country Music is from an artist, those people with God given talent. They don’t need smokescreens and all the crap to change and enhance their voice. The music they sing is real, its a story an emotion that is felt and related to when heard. Music that carries you through the Good, the Bad and we just don’t even want to go there. To be an artist and have true fans, you gotta be real, not some fake fly by night dressed by someone in wardrobe how some record executive decided you should. If you can’t make decisions for yourself, write songs yourself and play that guitar and not use it as a prop or sing something without all the smokescreens its time to hang it up. Btw, your fan base is so awesome you cannot even be real with them. You tweet lyrics of a song someone else wrote. Do you wipe your own ass or does your record executive do that for ya too.
March 3, 2015 @ 7:15 am
To be fair, FGL write most of their own songs, and have even written songs for others like Jason Aldean. I guess this goes to show that writing one’s own songs isn’t always a good thing…
March 3, 2015 @ 12:33 am
Florida Georgia who ?? And you idiots , in the South , sweetheart is a common name.
LIVE LONG AND PLAY ON TEXAS COUNTRY MUSIC!
March 3, 2015 @ 8:10 am
I have a hard time taken anything seriously when it’s coming from the evil kid ‘Scott Farkus from ‘A Christmas Story’ and the Geico Caveman (Florida Georgia Line). I’m sorry. I try to give everything a fair chance but when there are singers and songwriters like Vince Gill and Phil Vassar that can’t get arrested by radio, and these no talent ass-clowns are every?! Something is extremely wrong.
March 3, 2015 @ 4:51 pm
UPDATE 3-1-15 9:15 PM CST: Charlie Robison has responded to Florida Georgia Line with, “How do you lose respect for someone who doesn”™t exist?”
Classic
March 3, 2015 @ 7:48 pm
Not trying to rip on you or anything Trigger because I have a shitload of respect for you, but you bash Florida Georgia Line more often than any other artist in country music. They are not the best, but they are far from the worst that is being played on country radio. The guys are young, of course they are not going to have the mentality of someone whose in their middle ages. Everyone quick to jump on all these young artists and bash them, but everyone who is young, is young and stupid even if you are smart in your young ages.
March 3, 2015 @ 8:38 pm
This was about 20% bashing and 80% just reporting what happened. I didn’t wake up Sunday morning intending to write a Florida Georgia Line article. Circumstances dictated one. I agree that bashing on an artist over and over can become quite tiresome, and more importantly, ineffective. In this instance, it was relevant to a more broad conversation around Gary Overton’s radio comments.
March 3, 2015 @ 9:50 pm
I understand and fully respect what you are saying, but to me it just seemed as if FGL is being ‘targeted’ here, rather than reporting unbiased news about this immature fiasco that these corporate bastards always start.
March 5, 2015 @ 5:43 am
Does their age or being young really have anything to do with it?? I think that they’re both about 30. Maybe a bad example because hes all pop, but Hunter Hayes is much younger and even HIS music has much more substance than FGL. It doesn’t really seem like a “theyre just young” thing to me … its just a “bad taste” thing.
March 3, 2015 @ 9:11 pm
You really open my eyes and ears Trigger about Florida Georgia Line and they are not country. They are not good as Brooks & Dunn.
March 3, 2015 @ 9:47 pm
They are more country than a good 75%-80% of the crap that is currently playing on country radio. And I hope the Brooks & Dunn comment was sarcasm….cuz no one in their right mind would compare FGL to Brooks & Dunn….there is NO comparison. However, with the terrible direction country music is headed in, FGL will be known as the Brooks & Dunn of the ’10’s era…
March 3, 2015 @ 10:01 pm
I like brooks & Dunn 100 times better. I am not comparing them to Florida Georgia Line there no way in Hell I am comparing them that’s a big HELL NO.
March 3, 2015 @ 10:12 pm
Sorry about my language Summer Jam I should not mention Brooks & Dunn with those 2. Brooks & Dunn is/was my favorite country duo’s of all time. I really miss the old country music even the 1990’s country which I like the best. I respect your opinion thank you for my understanding and you too Trigger.
March 4, 2015 @ 9:42 am
While i do enjoy alot of the newer stuff, i agree. 90’s country was the shit. The 90’s was the best decade ever for everything IMO.
March 4, 2015 @ 12:22 am
No….no they’re not. Even when considering the horrifyingly abysmal state of mainstream country music, FGL is the absolute bottom of the barrel. They are gaaarrrrbaggge. They are not country. They are some weird amalgamation of rock, rap, pop, and country. The least of those 4 being country. Let me tell ya bud, if your music contains, synths, rapping, heavy vocal modifications and pitch correction, and a pre-organized back beat created in FL Studio (or pick your software), it ain’t country.
Now my problem ain’t that they’re making that music, it’s that they’re trying to call it country.
March 4, 2015 @ 9:46 am
You do realize that many modern country artists are the combination of what you just mentioned, right? Not just Florida Georgia Line. Bottom of the barrel? No. Absolutely no. Just no. Yes, country music is terrible right now, i personally think it has gotten worse since bro-country ended and this new ballad fad happened, and Sam Hunt’s strange so-called “country” music came out. The shit that is on radio right now is mostly all so terrible that I wish bro-country would come back. But none the less, unfortunately most of the current artists in country music aren’t very country……i’m speaking about both their backgrounds and their music as well. But putting FGL as “bottom of the barrel” and saying they aren’t “country” in any way is incredibly absurd. Just because you don’t like them or their sound doesn’t mean they are the worst thing in country music right now, they are quite far from it.
March 4, 2015 @ 11:42 am
“You do realize that many modern country artists are the combination of what you just mentioned, right?”
Exactly! And none of that stuff is country! That’s the problem with modern MAINSTREAM country music, it has forsaken its roots.
It’s funny how you’ll say FGL is country because you like them, but anyone you don’t like isn’t country. As much as I don’t like Sam Hunt’s cheesy ass music, structurally his songs are more country then FGL.
If you like rap, that’s fine. If you like mixing rap and country (why you’d want to is beyond me), that’s fine too. But once you do, it ain’t country no more. It’s some Frankenstein genre. And that goes for any other genre (techno, edm, r&b) you want to try and force onto country music.
And yes, they are the bottom of the barrel. They are the unfortunate recipient in the glory hole that all other musical genre’s use to satiate their impulse to wreak havoc on a uniquely American, once proud, sacred institution that has now become the main attraction of a 1920’s era freak show.
They are the worst of the worst, because not only can they not hold a note or stay on key without the use of a computer to fix their voice, but the extent of their prowess with a musical instrument is strumming chords on a guitar and using it as prop during their performances. They are two completely average douchewads with mere mediocre talent catapulted to the forefront of American pop culture due to a talented, though tasteless, producer, highly effective marketing, having the good fortune to have the release of their music coincide with a hyper trend and evident reality that the American public doesn’t all to much care for traditional, or REAL country music anymore in which their success is evidence of that reality.
They are the worst, though there are some close to the bottom of that sespool (Chase Rice, Cole Swindell), they take the fireball whiskey flavored cake.
And don’t you even dare tell me, “Yea, but there shows arrreee gooood though, they have a ton of energy on stage.”
I don’t care if they radiate so much energy live that it causes people’s aortas to bust and brains to hemorrhage without the aid of meth, adderall, coke, or alcohol; it don’t make their music country.
So please, like what you like, enjoy what you enjoy, just don’t call it something that it ain’t just because their music is so genre confused that corporate label executives believe the only format that misinformed intruders to a culture would tolerate it to be marketed through is the country format.
March 4, 2015 @ 12:24 am
I’ll compare them. FGL ain’t good enough to shine Brooks & Dunn’s boots.
March 4, 2015 @ 8:35 pm
I do agree with you Joshua.
March 3, 2015 @ 10:54 pm
Country music is getting worse now with the crap they are playing on radio these days.
March 4, 2015 @ 12:57 am
Does anyone really give two squirts of goat piss what FGL think? Well, anyone other than the hoards of pop country sheeple who downloaded Cruise. I mean, anyone with taste and who actually listens to country music.
March 4, 2015 @ 4:49 am
Between the tattoos, makeup and hair and dancing on the top of tractor trailers how does FGL find the time to respond to Robison? What a talented bunch of shitbags.
March 4, 2015 @ 7:27 pm
I’ll drink to that.
March 7, 2015 @ 3:10 pm
I can’t believe nobody has asked this yet.
What kind of name for a band is “Florida Georgia Line” anyways? But I digress.
March 10, 2015 @ 5:18 am
When does Alabama attempt to become relevant again by doing a song with Florida Georgia Line?