Florida Georgia Line’s “Anything Goes” is the Worst Album Ever
Congratulations Justin Moore and Outlaws Like Me, you’re officially off the hot seat. Because right here, right now, I am unilaterally declaring that Florida Georgia Line’s new album Anything Goes is the worst album ever released in the history of country music. Ever. Including Florida Georgia Line’s first album Here’s To The Good Times, including anything else you can muster from the mainstream, including a 4-track recording made by a head trauma victim in a walk-in closet with a Casiotone keyboard and an out-of-tune banjo. Anything Goes can slay all comers when it comes to its heretofore unattainable degree of peerless suckitude.
In a word, this album is bullshit. Never before has such a refined collection of strident clichés been concentrated in one insidious mass. Never before have the lyrics to an album evidenced such narrowcasted pseudo-mindless incoherent drivel. Never before have such disparate and diseased influences been married so haphazardly in a profound vacuum of taste, and never have all of these atrocities been platooned together to be proffered to the public without someone, anyone with any bit of conscience and in a position of power putting a stop to this poisoning of the listening public.
Not to get all old man on your ass, but most of the time I don’t even understand what the hell these dudes are saying. Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard have their own language, partial to the most grammatically-challenged and stupefying vocabulary lurking in the dankest sewers of the English dialect, but not residing firmly in any specific one of them so no truly proper translation can be obtained. It’s like Pig Latin for douchewads—understood by them and them only. And only with the perfect deficiency of brain cells will their concoction of Ebonics, metrosexual douche speak, and stagnant gene pool rural jargon become anything resembling coherent to the human ear.
Forget the already ultra-concentrated and extremely-narrow breadth of modern mainstream country music’s laundry list songwriting legacy, Florida Georgia Line has devised a way to inexplicably make it even more attenuated and terrible. “Girl, alcoholic beverage, truck, river or lake”— that’s pretty much the alpha and omega of the Anything Goes building blocks. Most of these songs have more songwriters than they do basic lyrical themes, with an average of four cooks per diarrhetic serving, and one song that boasts five songwriters and still struggles to pen anything that comes close to a complete sentence or a comprehensible thought.
Shiny objects and fire also seem to excite and distract Florida Georgia Line and fill them with a profound sense of wonder, and so soliloquies to these things also show up occasionally, as does the word “good.” They really like that word.
“Got on my smell good. Got a bottle of feel good. Shined up my wheels good. You’re looking real good.”That verse pretty much sums up this entire album. And no, these are not lyrics to the song that is actually titled “Good Good.” Needless to say, any moments involving depth, sorrow, self-reflection, doubt, or evolved thinking in any capacity have been unceremoniously scrubbed from this project entirely, save for one song, “Dirt,” which only works to anger the blood even more because it proves that these morons are capable of so much more. A song like “Sippin’ On Fire” tries to cobble together some semblance of a love story, but bogs down like all these songs do in focusing on the material objects and consumables inadvertently on hand in situations instead of the honest sentiments being felt between two people. Women and “love” are compared to alcoholic beverages and other material objects, and vice versa more times than I care to count on this album, as if they are interchangeable in stature in the human experience.
Another song that would have been decent if only Florida Georgia Line didn’t figure out how to screw it up is “Bumpin’ The Night.” Despite the title alluding to the listener being in store for yet another demonstration of shallowness, the song displays a compositional depth that is both surprising and enriching, even though what passes for steel guitar is so transmogrified by the EDM production, it’s hardly noticeable. There’s nothing wrong with fun, feel good songs themselves. But in such a void of anything striking even close to variety, an otherwise decent song like “Bumpin’ The Night” suffers demonstrably amongst its peers.
And talk about going to the cliché well too many times, there’s a song on this album called “Angel” that I kid you not is built around the often sarcastically-used pick up line “Did it hurt when you fell from the sky?” Any woman who hears this line coming from any man has my personal blessing to immediately spray them in the face with mace and knee them in the nuts. The idea that these knuckleheads think that this line is “sweet” just speaks to the depravity of self-awareness they suffer from in an irrevocable degree.
There really is a toxic concentration of bad songs on Anything Goes, and it is all punctuated on the final track “Every Night” where the hyper-everything that riddles this album somehow gets heightened even more as Florida Georgia Line explain they don’t need the weekend because every night for them is a wild, raging good time. This personifies the diabolical sameness of this album, where it’s just a contiguous string of carefree party references and virtually nothing else, almost throwing caution to the wind and daring fate to make a mockery of this project over the long perspective of time, if they’re not openly cashing out on the franchise in the face of the obvious dying of a trend.
I would call it country rap, but even that would give this album more definition than it truly carries. I would call it pop, but even that world would not stand for such vacuousness. And once again the listener is left steadfastly perplexed at what Brian Kelley (the short-haired one) actually does in this band beyond singing one verse of “Dirt” and a few random backup lines so heavily Auto-tuned you can’t tell for sure it’s him.
Everybody knows where Florida Georgia Line is going to lead. Scott Borchetta must know it. Their producer Joey Moi, formerly of Nickelback must know it. Their manager Kevin Zaruk, also formerly of Nickelback, apparently knows it, and admitted as much in a recent Billboard interview. “It’s bizarre because I know so many people who say they can’t stand them but listen to Nickelback and go to their shows. This is a band that sold hundreds of thousands of dollars in merchandise, and to this day, I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a person with a Nickelback T-shirt on walking the streets anywhere in the world. I don’t know what it is, but for whatever reason it became cool to hate Nickelback, and once that trend took off, it exploded. What I’ve definitely talked to [FGL’s] Brian [Kelley] and Tyler [Hubbard] about is that whenever anybody becomes successful in any business, there’s people that get jealous.”
This is the problem. Florida Georgia Line and their fans will read a review like this, and truly believe that jealousy and nothing else is at the heart of the criticism, and will point to their “success” as proof of this. But Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, George Strait, and so many more were wildly successful in their time too, and also faced criticism, but never to the degree of criticism Florida Georgia Line is faced with. The music of these legends withstood the test of time, while artists like Nickelback, Billy Ray Cyrus, New Kids On The Block, and MC Hammer were also wildly successful in their time, but now their music is nowhere to be seen besides as a novelty, or listened to as irony or nostalgia.
READ: Florida Georgia Line’s “Sun Daze” (a semi-rant)
It is Florida Georgia Line’s destiny to go down as a laughing stock, to be the next Nickelback, where their fans hide their T-shirts and shun them, tearing them down just as vehemently and quickly as they artificially propped them up. Their sophomore album and a song like “Dirt” was their one opportunity to change that destiny and be known for something more. But instead they super concentrated what makes them bad as either a last cash-grabbing hurrah, or as a misguided miscalculation that their polarizing nature is due to the insecurities of others instead of a true concern about substance and sustainability. Point to current attendance numbers and call the haters jealous all you want. All one has to do is point to Nickelback as an example of why this doesn’t work in the long term.
Florida Georgia Line and Anything Goes are an embarrassment to country music.
Two Guns Way Down!
October 20, 2014 @ 8:22 am
Have you ever known ANYBODY who referred to an alcoholic beverage as a “feel good” (or, as on “This Is How We Roll,” a “feel right”)? I have no words to describe how much I hate that lyrical trope . . . but based on this rant, I bet Trigger could think of some.
October 21, 2014 @ 8:00 am
I normally do not read these articles, however after reading all of them
My comment is this… I’ve been a tour manager and have been out with many of the
Top country artist…it’s all about $.. It starts with record labels and who they
Decide to drop $ on for promoting and publishing is determined by you buying albums
Buying concert tickets and airtime… You want to make a difference?… Start talking about their label head, send him email… FGL are just his puppets…
October 21, 2014 @ 10:01 am
Florida Georgia Line’s label head, Scott Borchetta, has received more coverage here on Saving Country Music than probably anywhere, and I regularly run stories about his influence and impact on the industry. I have a nickname for him, “The Country Music Anti-Christ.” Feel free to navigate to the search window and read more, but here’s a good starting point:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/scott-borchetta-the-rise-of-the-country-music-anti-christ
October 23, 2014 @ 2:32 pm
You mean it’s like the tail wagging the dog?????? I’ll be damned …..what a concept!!
October 23, 2014 @ 7:59 am
It’s pretty sad to judge FL/GA Line like the person who wrote this article.
They took a risk years ago to make it in Nashville, and you know what, they knew they had a different style of music that would change country music.
You need to drink some real moonshine and turn FGL music up loud as hell!!!
Maybe you could get lucky and get laid for the 1st time ever.
FGL keep the music going with “Good Times and Great Oldies”
October 23, 2014 @ 10:42 am
Well, there you have it! This comment-er is representative of the FGL fan base. Guys who drink moonshine, crank up bad music and try to get lucky!!!
October 23, 2014 @ 3:03 pm
Hey L.T.
If you worked your A$$ off for 10 years to make in the music industry, and you signed your 1st record deal and it was a hit, would you quit making millions and go back to writing about my comment?
I doubt you would.
You shouldn’t judge FGL’s style of music because everybody has a special gift in any genre of music.
Old country will always be great, but guess what, we don’t live for yesterday, we live for today and what’s to come.
Whoever created this website is not a true American, the reason why, we LIVE IN THE LAND OF THE FREE…IF YOU DO NOT LIKE FGL’s MUSIC THEN DO NOT LISTEN TO IT.
Who in their right mind is cut someone down for having their freedom to create any style of music. Just go on and move to a 3rd world country and see what’s thats like. Bet you would listen to FGL everyday if you had a chance to come back to the greatest country in the world that loves all styles of country music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
FLORDIA GEORGIA LINE, LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL AND KEEP RECORDING AND MAKING SOME OF THE BEST COUNTRY MUSIC EVER TILL I DIE!!!!!!!!!!!!
COME ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 23, 2014 @ 3:37 pm
Blaze,
I have a feeling that you will outlive FGL’s career.
October 23, 2014 @ 3:38 pm
Whoever created this website is not a true American
Ha! I’m the 1st Amendment incarnate, and have provided YOU a public forum for you to share your dissenting viewpoint. Now what could be more American than that?
Never said anything about Florida Georgia not having the freedom to make music. I’d take up arms against anyone who said Florida Georgia didn’t have the right to release “Anything Goes,” regardless of how I personally feel about it. Because it is a form of expression.
Mutating the founding principles of the United States into a rebuttal against a stupid album review just because you disagree with it is pretty un-American if you ask me.
October 24, 2014 @ 7:37 am
Hey Trigger This Is For You,
This is my reason I stated that whoever created this website is not a true American.
I know what the constitution stands for, even though you had to inform me of that.
Our country has MEN and WOMEN serving in the military stationed everywhere in the world. Some soldiers are stationed are in some of the worse places we could have every imagine, and they see things that they will never speak of for the rest of their lives. They are fighting to keep our freedom and families safe from ever thinking that we will be under attack from some crazy country.
With that said, and without any doubt I am sure that any soldier that makes it thru a day of fighting gets back and turns up, “Cruise,” “Dirt,” “Shine,” hell any song by FGL and it helps them for just a few minutes a day to thank God they didn’t die today.
They sit back and I think about just think about riding down a dirt road with the person they love and listening to FGL.
So when you Google, “FGL,” and see this website of savingcountrymusic.com come up and this article you wrote, I hope you sit back and realize what I meant because we have soldiers dying for you, me and everybody else. And some days they need FGL for just 5 minutes to help them get thru the day of what they have to witness.
If you respected all genres of music you never would have wasted your time to create this website. You need to seriously look in the mirror and think about that.
October 24, 2014 @ 7:53 am
Yes, of course, reading a bad review of music you like is just as stressful as getting shot at or stepping on an IED. And Trigger is just like the Taliban for writing this, amirite?
Words fail me. At least words that wouldn’t get me banned from the Internet forever.
October 24, 2014 @ 7:57 am
Easy now, hoss.
Are you Brian? Or are you Tyler?
Cool story, bro’ ;-o
October 25, 2014 @ 10:30 pm
I love how the Constituition just gets thrown around as a buzzword, but 95% of ppl have never read it nor understand it. Anyhow…if I had to listen to this crap while deployed I’d sooner just shot myself in the face to end the pain. Or just stayed in those countries. These guys possess talent but it obviously gets left in the parking lot prior to them walking into the studio.
November 2, 2014 @ 9:00 pm
Never have I ever come back from a patrol or stint at the OP and decided to “crank” anything by these abominations. I would sooner hang myself or suck start a 240 to the classic stylings of Pantera before I let this shit enter my music library. “I’ll never get out of this world alive.”… Sing by a real legend.
November 2, 2014 @ 9:53 pm
BlazeGaige, its hard NOT to listen to it when I have roommates blasting this steaming pile of rabbit turds every chance they get or when its not on constant rotation on a radio station, TV, out of someone’s vehicle or in your local supermarket. Its more like I cannot GET AWAY from it. So I subscribe to Rhapsody and I’ll be listening to Turnpike Troubadours and Cross Canadian Ragweed instead. At least they have talent and write songs with musical/lyrical depth and complexity.
Realcountrysoldier, thank you for serving our country. There isn’t a day that goes by when I realize than our freedom comes at a price. And Pantera is all sorts of kick ass man! “Yesterday Dont Mean Shit” and “Domination” are personal favorites.
November 5, 2014 @ 8:35 pm
After 18 years (so far) of serving this country, this duo of douchitude is the LAST thing I want to listen to, after my duty day is done or otherwise. I can’t get to the two day enough to change the station before I start vomiting….. That is all.
April 26, 2015 @ 2:37 pm
I love how you went off on the whole “support the troops” tangent that people like Cole Swindell use to try and sell extra records. That is extremely insulting to those of us that have ACTUALLY SERVED!!!
March 3, 2015 @ 10:54 am
“Get laid for the first time ever”? You are as predictable and uncreative and plagiaristic as the no-talent tools you defend. That quote came directly from Charilie Robeson’s comment to Gary Overton, as reported right here on this exact forum.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:30 am
Somebody said I was too harsh on my review of this album and your review makes mine look like tiddlywinks. Great job! This album deserves to be destroyed and never heard again. These guys are truly the Nickelback of country music and I can’t wait until everyone else hates them too. I will say though “Angel” provided comic relief in this nauseatingly bad album. I couldn’t stop laughing after listening to it and realizing a cheesy pickup line is the basis of the song. 🙂
October 20, 2014 @ 7:42 pm
I hate them a lot! I turn the station EVERY TIME one of their songs comes on the radio!! They better live it up and take all the $$$ they can because they won’t be around for a 3rd album. And get over the tattoos for the love of GOD.
October 22, 2014 @ 7:52 pm
The tattoos look freshly inked. On both of them. Maybe Scott Borchetta told em “you need a tougher d-bag image. So go get a couple of tattoos–NOW.”
October 21, 2014 @ 6:15 am
15 to 20 years from now, only a very few peoples will know who Florida Georgia Lines was, however people will still know who Conway Twitty, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Brooks and Dunn, Merrill Haggard, Chet Adkins, Elvis, and other great Classic Country Music singers are. 90% of today’s so called country music has to do with screwing your tractor, humping you truck, down by the water (river/pond/creek). Most of the singers sound alike and hard to tell who is who. A few years back an up coming artist was looking for a recording contract and was told by the recording companies, we already have a Jason Aldean.
October 21, 2014 @ 7:48 am
Now your talkin bout REAL country music ‘Leonard’ Conway, George … not this tattooed up screeching crap they make today ! thanks for saying what I was about to !
October 21, 2014 @ 10:28 am
It is possible to make a good song/performance from a pick-up line, as Big Bill Broonzy proved with “When Did You Leave Heaven?”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuM_wimHj6c
October 23, 2014 @ 6:50 am
checked out your site… will be reading more of it later.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:37 am
I’m not much for listening to contemporary/pop-country in the first place, but just reading through this review my very first thought was, “Damn, these guys sound like the Nickelback of country music.”
I can’t even really process that thought right now. But I know enough to know that’s gotta be pretty damn bad, and I’ll leave it at that.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:02 pm
JRam,
They’re not the Nickel back of country music. They’re the 2nd Coming of Nickelback! Down to the same producer and manager. The sad part about this is that Nickelback actually had decent songs before they started writing about girls, trucks, drugs and alcohol.
As for FGL, I see their album on Rhapsody and bypassed it. There is no way in HELL I’m going to listen to ratchet R&B/EDM posing as country music. Anything that they make sounds screechy and sounds like dying cat synth. No thanks! I’ll go listen to Drive By Truckers.
Trigger, as you know, most of (if not all) award shows are a complete . Watch these guys win a Grammy or an ACM. Ughhhhhhh…..
October 20, 2014 @ 3:05 pm
Oops. I meant to say that most of these award shows are a complete joke and watch FGL win awards that they don’t deserve to win to begin with. I don’t people thinking that I’m illiterate like those asswipes. LOL
October 20, 2014 @ 4:20 pm
November 5, 2014 48th CMA Awards Vocal Duo of the Year
October 20, 2014 @ 4:28 pm
Liza,
That scares me. Tyler Hubbard aka the main as swipe does the majority of the vocals while Brian Kelley aka the 2nd asswipe, stands around and acts like he’s in a T-Pain video. These two illiterate hyenas don’t deserve to be in the same category that Brooks and Dunn were in during their heyday. Trying to pass off ratchet R&B/EDM mixed in with some steel, fiddle, dobro, or banjo does NOT make it country. Its an insult to fans.
October 21, 2014 @ 8:46 am
I really don’t understand why all the bashing is going on? I personally like some of FGL songs. I really do and that does not mean I forgot what real country music is. I grew up on Conway, Loretta, George, all the good ones that help make country music. We have to remember it is a different time now and things change. I know a lot of country singers that got way off track and they were not bashed like this. I think some of Carrie Underwood stuff was not real country nor Taylor Swift. I just think before we go and start waving the iron stick at FGL we may wont to choose to keep comments to ourselves and just choose not to listen or buy their things,,,,,,
October 21, 2014 @ 9:42 am
Hmmm, perhaps to warn others of the crap that FGL puts out? You are correct in that times change, but as far as country music goes, the changes haven’t been for the better. It all really started sliding downhill in the 90s, & sadly has done nothing more than go faster down that greased slide. Thank goodness for CD’s, Spotify, MP3 players & the ipod, as they all allow me to avoid all radio stations & the garbage that passes for country, R&B or rock these days like the plague.
October 21, 2014 @ 6:31 pm
In my opinion, I’d say the slide started in the late 90s at best. mid 200s onward or even early 2000s onward is definitively pure crap and I’ll be the first to agree! The first half of the 90s had a TON of amazing songwriting and artistry, some new while others carried over from the late 80s. Sawyer Brown, Diamond Rio, Restless Heart, Brooks and Dunn, Shenandoah, Bellamy Brothers, The Judds, Alabama, Reba, Garth, George Strait, Ronnie Milsap, Randy Travis, Dan Seals, Travis Tritt, Dwight Yoakum, Mark Chestnutt, Collin Raye, Tracy Lawrence, Sammy Kershaw, Earl Thomas Conley, John Michael Montgomery, Toby Keith (love his early stuff, hate his new stuff), Joe Diffie, Patty Loveless, Tanya Tucker, Lorrie Morgan, Trisha Yearwood, Martina McBride, Pam Tillis, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Carlene Carter, Roseanne Cash… and that’s just off the top of my head from someone who grew up in the 80s and 90s and isn’t even a big fan of country music!
October 21, 2014 @ 6:12 pm
On behalf of my home and native land, I sincerely apologize for Nickelback.
And that little shit from Stradford.
Now please make it stop.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:02 am
I would love to be a fly on the wall during one of their “writing” sessions. That would be entertainment!
October 21, 2014 @ 3:44 pm
You wouldn’t be there but a total of 2 min!! Well gotta run get in my pick up truck and go down to the river and drink an ice cold beer… oh wait…
October 20, 2014 @ 9:03 am
I didn’t think Outlaws Like Me was all that bad. it wasn’t great, it wasn’t as good as Kenny Price’s “Happy Tracks” (a personal favorite vintage country album) but I didn’t see why it was so bad.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:10 pm
The reason I mentioned Justin Moore’s “Outlaws Like Me” is because when I reviewed it years ago I declared at that time it was the worst album ever. Of course over time, country music has devolved so dramatically I could probably pick 10 albums to call the “worst ever” before “Outlaws Like Me.” And for the record, I had a much more favorable take on Justin’s latest record “Off The Beaten Path.”
https://savingcountrymusic.com/album-review-justin-moores-off-the-beaten-path
October 20, 2014 @ 9:09 am
hate to double comment but I tried to turn off the “notify me of follow-up comments via e-mail tag and accidentally posted. Not too good with technology
anyway what I was saying is that, like Trig says, these guys are capable of better. to see these guys in interviews they seem like humble and honest guys who just want to make music for people, and unlike Blake Shelton, they don’t care if we don’t like it. I think the problem isn’t “Cruise” and the problem isn’t Cole Swindell or these guys, it’s just an issue of tradition. the issue is not that it isn’t country, Glen Campbell “wasn’t country” and Patsy Cline was very different than Hawkshaw Hawkins. But each of them recorded a wide variety of material, and a few classic tunes to boot (Patsy’s cover of “Faded Love” which I maintain is not one of her better songs, immediately comes to mind) I think we could all let go of our respective “beefs” with these contemporary artists if every now and then they would record a Louvin Brothers cover or something, as opposed to half a dozen songs rhyming “party” with “Bacardi”
October 20, 2014 @ 1:56 pm
I completely agree with this! The thing is those of us who, still value the subject matter of a song, are musicians, or were serious music fans, are looking to like new music. We want the new artists to give us a reason to become fans, as well as the culture of instant gratification, and care less about anything other than dancing, money, and bed hopping crowd. They are taking up space on country music airwaves, so give us an excuse to lend name to music, that is decidedly not country, but southern rap,or a top 40 R&B, bubblegum, frankenmusic ….give me a bit of depth, just a bit, please give me a reason to like you….and nothing. A vast void of mindless drivel set to urban beats.
October 22, 2014 @ 12:59 pm
The problem with your argument is that no one died and made you God of all that is loved and accepted. For the record, it’s not a power bestowed upon myself either. Nor anyone else here, for that matter. Here we have an entire website that is, from what I’ve read, predominately dedicated to the abolishment of “pop country”. The likes of Luke Bryan, FGL, and the rest of their ilk are routinely lambasted. And, for what it’s worth, that is entirely your right. You have absolute discretion to hate FGL and their music. You do not, however, get to tell someone else that they shouldn’t like it. The beauty of music is that we are each free to love whatever tunes we choose to love for whatever reason we choose to do so. You claim to value lyrical substance. But perhaps someone else loves music with a good beat that they can dance to. Or perhaps they gravitate towards music that they (and their peers) relate to. Or perhaps songs that remind them of their youth. Or maybe they just like anything that gets their loose-moraled girlfriends dancing on the tailgate. Regardless, there are a thousand reasons to love or hate a song, and none of them are wrong. They are just different.
More importantly, how one can blame FGL (or anyone else) for producing a profitable product is beyond me. Simply put, if people didn’t buy their music, FGL wouldn’t exist today. If you want to look for the fault in our culture, it’s the listeners, not those producing the music. Nashville is simply filling a demand. When the masses decide this music is crap not worth listening to, the (perceived) problem will take care of itself.
Personally, I think the biggest problem that music faces is your intolerance for variety. There’s lots of music I don’t like, including FGL, but I simply choose not to listen to it. I don’t rail for its demise. I appreciate that others don’t share the same values as I, and may actually enjoy the “offending” tunes. They have as much right to listen as I have not to.
October 22, 2014 @ 8:13 pm
This is the best comment ever written. Not just about this review but in everything in the whole world. We all have are own likes & dislikes. We are all unique just like everyone else. So why do we all have cram down our opinions of what ever (music, movies, culture, religion, politics & whatever else) to anybody who cares to listen. Be different, it’s none of your business what other people think of you. Do what you love & don’t let other tell you that you are wrong for liking or disliking anything.
October 23, 2014 @ 6:58 am
“Personally, I think the biggest problem that music faces is your intolerance for variety”… oh, the irony. Laughing inside at the epic fail.
October 23, 2014 @ 2:03 pm
Nate, what variety?
The majority of bro-country songs (FGL’s in particular) consists of these tropes: drinking, drugging, trucking and fucking with “Dirt” being the sole exception. We don’t know if they were forced to make this album a replica of Here’s To The Good Times by Scott Borchetta or if they were just too lazy to write something substantial and offer something with both lyrical & musical depth and complexity. It may a combination of both. However, there isn’t any variety to their music.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:17 am
They would probably read this review, but it’s hard to use a dictionary when you’ve got a bottle in one hand and a restraining order in the other…
October 20, 2014 @ 9:19 am
Honestly, that sounds way dumber than even Nickelback, if such a thing could be conceived.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:23 am
Hahahahahaha I just sat down for my lunch break and I cannot stop laughing at this review. These two guys are like the backstreet boys of country music, makes me want to vomit up the corn chowder I am eating. I agree trigger, TWO GUNS WAYYYYYY DOWNNNNNN!!!!
October 20, 2014 @ 11:28 am
Hell, comparing these guys to the backstreet boys is an insult to the backstreet boys.
October 21, 2014 @ 1:33 pm
who are the Backseat Boys?
October 20, 2014 @ 9:25 am
You have to feel very good that every bit of hard work you’ve ever put into this Web site pays off today as Google (hopefully) keeps this blog post at the top of Florida Georgia Line search returns for the rest of eternity : )
October 20, 2014 @ 9:28 am
And once again the listener is left steadfastly perplexed at what Brian Kelley (the short-haired one) actually does in this band- My fiance asked him this question a few years ago after they opened for Corey Smith in Urbana, IL one night. He responded by whining for 10 minutes and calling for security, needless to say we were not asked to leave but to stop making him cry.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:26 pm
Thank you. I always wonder which one is Brian and which one is the other… and now at this moment in time, I know.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:47 pm
Last time I checked, I’m pretty sure all he has to do is stand there and, as a result, make hundreds of thousands more in cold hard cash than any of the people posting on this comment board. That being said, are you sure those were tears of sadness? He may have been crying at how much he pities relatively destitute, self-righteous fools like your fiancee.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:18 pm
There it is again, the money comeback. Man, I miss the days when it was cool for the hot bands to be poor.
October 21, 2014 @ 9:12 am
Which band was that again? The ideal impoverished bands of which you speak are either sitting on golden thrones or dead from drug overdoses. I think we all know which outcome we’d choose.
I can’t tell if everyone posting on this board who seem so consumed with the tragedy of what country music has “become” are trolling or not.
Country music never has been, currently is not, and never will be some holistic genre of lyrical or instrumental purity. It’s always been songs played by someone trying to make a buck or “be known” (which is a whole different kind of greed unto itself). There’s a reason they call it “music BUSINESS.” The whole “we make music for the people” saying is a bullshit PR line used by any starving artist who wants gold and glory like the rest of us. This may come as a surprise, but Santa Claus isn’t real.
Nonetheless, just because these people are all self-interested, money hungry ladies and gentlemen doesn’t mean we should begin to despise them or withhold our support; in fact, we should respect their genius capabilities to take some noises and turn them into money. They’re just like the rest of us, only they have found out a way to do less and make more. Hell of a thing, isn’t it?
October 21, 2014 @ 9:48 am
“Country music never has been, currently is not, and never will be some holistic genre of lyrical or instrumental purity.”
Nobody is saying that it is. This is a classic example of framing people with a different perspective as only being interested in absolutes. Nobody is saying country can only sound like one thing, that it cannot sound any different than it did back in the 50’s, etc. etc. There is room for pop, variety, and evolution in country music. What there’s not room for is pap that doesn’t adhere to even the most basic of standards aside from commercial impact.
October 21, 2014 @ 9:58 am
here i was thinking people went to the trouble of making music because they loved music, rather than because they loved money. if music is just another profit-making endeavor, what’s the point of listening to it?
October 22, 2014 @ 4:28 pm
Well then, it will be interesting to see how long it takes for the dude with the long hair to get sick and tired of his back up singer getting equal billing. Dump him and he’ll not only make a lot more money, but people will know his name.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:53 pm
I remember when I thought a couple of hit singles on the radio made you rich too. These guys probably are so far in debt they will never see the black again. Look behind the curtain of OZ and you’ll see…
October 21, 2014 @ 6:26 pm
“Last time I checked, I”™m pretty sure all he has to do is stand there and, as a result, make hundreds of thousands more in cold hard cash than any of the people posting on this comment board.”
Keep in mind, you are commenting this board. Furthermore, I am guessing that you don’t have any more cash than the rest of us. Self righteousness. It is such an ugly thing!
October 20, 2014 @ 9:30 am
It’s funny, just to see how bad this album was last week I listened to just the iTunes preview clips and that was more than enough to subject myself to.
I can’t even hear a modern country radio station anymore which is a shame. Another drinking/party song and I might end up in a bathrobe staring out the window at a mental institution.
When does this madness end? Do any of us live 24/7 on the flatbed of a pickup with a keg surrounded by girls in short jean shorts? Who is relating to this stuff?
It is a severe case of 3(to 5) writers and not the truth!
Please let there be some depth and more of a spectrum of topics and creativity again soon. Let these guys go back to their Beavis and Butthead job’s at Burger World.
March 3, 2015 @ 6:52 pm
SenorBB – it’s all around you – you just have to look harder. Turn off mainstream radio and try to find an Americana station. At least you will get your fill of honest and great lyrics. Go check out Adam Hood or Hayes Carll or the Turnpike Troubadours (especially if you like fiddle). I could go on and on with artists you haven’t heard of but are absolutely fantastic!
FWIW – I haven’t listened to mainstream radio since about 2001. Suffice to say, I haven’t heard any of FGL but I love reading Trigger’s reviews…especially on bad albums! :
October 20, 2014 @ 9:34 am
I would of thought their music would’ve matured a little bit as the young women they’ve been pandering to started growing up. I guess I wrong. This album seems like a bad career move. You’re 30 years old now guys, time to start growing up.
October 20, 2014 @ 10:03 am
25 years old and Florida Georgia Line and other dipshits that are male and dominating Country music radio are the big reason why I’m here.
October 20, 2014 @ 10:09 am
I’ve been saying the same thing for years, so I may as well say it again. For those who think huge sales equals great country music, let me remind you that McDonalds has sold billions of burgers, but they sure aren’t the best place in town for dinner. I might like some of this new “music” if only it were written better. All I hear sounds as if it were written by a kid in the 9th grade, that doesn’t really understand how to write bad poems. Would someone give me a call when Merle’s next album comes out?
October 20, 2014 @ 9:27 pm
Amen!! Actually, less sales equates to great country music. Those are the people who are in it for the love of good music, not money and fame. Have you heard of Charlie Worsham? There are some great albums that have come out recently.. Leeann Womack, Marty Stewart.. less recently, Kellie Pickler, Ashley Monroe. 🙂
October 21, 2014 @ 10:15 pm
Actually, there is a new Merle project in the works. It’s a collaboration with the great Mac Wiseman. I believe Mac said it might be out after the first of the year.
October 20, 2014 @ 10:14 am
Perhaps I’m jumping to conclusions, but I’m getting the feeling that you wouldn’t recommend this one, Trigger. 😉
October 20, 2014 @ 11:44 am
Yeah Trigger mate – why don’t you get off the fence and tell us if you think it’s any good?
October 20, 2014 @ 10:31 am
Listening to this album was migraine-inducing. I hated every insipid second of it. I literally couldn’t tell one song from the next because every single song sounded like the last. I agree, Trigger, I don’t think there will ever be an album worse than this one.
October 21, 2014 @ 8:30 am
Sshhh. Don’t say that out loud. Nash Vegas will see it as a challenge to come out with a worse album….
October 20, 2014 @ 10:37 am
It is uterrly inexcusable that a band that can make a song as good as “Dirt” makes an album this bad.
October 20, 2014 @ 10:47 am
“Florida Georgia Line explains they don”™t need the weekend because every night for them is a wild, raging good time”
That right there sums up why current mainstream “country” and especially FGL sucks so hard. Country music used to be for the everyman and woman, and the “feel good” songs RESONATED because they were usually about blowing off steam on the weekend after a long work week. Joe Diffie sang “Friday night, get right, honky tonk attitude,” for example. That song works because it’s a relatable theme.
These party all the time songs make no sense to me. It’s like going to the circus every day. Who does that? Who relates to that? I guess it’s just pure escapism, but I want something a little deeper, or at least something with a POINT, from country music.
I thought “Dirt” was a real statement from these guys. Guess not.
October 20, 2014 @ 10:50 am
I find all the praise for “Dirt” kind of funny in a way too – not because it’s not a good song, it is. But pretty much every song in the 90s was like that, and now it’s like this rare gem. 😛 How far we have fallen.
October 20, 2014 @ 12:38 pm
Its about time someone mentioned that,Melissa!! Amen
October 20, 2014 @ 5:30 pm
And “Dirt” wasn’t even written by them, so I don’t understand why critics praise them for it.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:32 pm
Yep, Dirt was written by Rodney Clawson and Chris Tompkins, a rare sighting on this album because those aren’t the “bro country” writers you see elsewhere on this album or others, like Dallas Davidson or Ashley Gorley.
October 20, 2014 @ 11:03 am
Just thought of one more good one, David Lee Murphy’s “Party Crowd.” He sings “TONIGHT I’m lookin’ for a party crowd, slammin’ ’em back and laughing out loud,
where the smoke’s so thick the blues can’t hang around.” From the “tonight” you can gather that something went wrong in his life, and that’s why he wants mindless partying. To forget about the girl that broke his heart. That means something, it’s not just PARTYYYYY DERP. That’s what country was like when I was growing up, and I miss it so much.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:59 pm
David Lee’s had a hand in writing some pretty bad songs for other artists. But I still love his albums Out With a Bang & Gettin’ Out the Good Stuff. Good mix of country and rock with songs that actually have some memorable lines. That’s my main problem with most of this garbage today. The songs are indistinguishable. By the way, Trigger, I look forward to your rant on Darius Rucker’s “Homegrown Honey” So embarrassing, especially from someone who’s actually sung about traditional country themes and is one of the best singers around.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:14 pm
Well I guess if you’re a millionaire pop country star, partying every day of the week is easy to relate to. If you’re a normal person who works most of the days of the week then not so much.
Then again that’s part of the problem with country music today isn’t it? Party all the time, no consequences, no bad days, no thought beyond the next drink by the river or dirt road or whatever. On the subject of dirt roads, growing up in south Alabama, the only reason we partied on dirt roads was because we were kids who were too young to party anywhere else. Men closer to 40 than 30 really should be able to find better places to have a drink in my opinion.
October 20, 2014 @ 10:51 am
It really makes me wonder why they peddle this stuff off on people. What has happened to make this terrible stuff acceptable? Are teens that dumb? I’m 19 years old and I really fail to see any redeeming qualities in their music. It lacks the human element that a lot of music used to have. None of this music is about anything. Jacked up trucks and drinking aren’t the only things to life. Seems like all these songs are about having a good time. Life ain’t always a good time. Hopefully people will eventually realize that.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:35 pm
It lacks the “human element” because a ton of it is VERY heavy auto tune and synthesizers, and even oscillators. The production sounds like it lacks a lot of human elements. Sounds like a lot of programming. (I went to school for audio engineering 🙂 )
And that’s just the production side. Don’t even get started on the lyrical side haha
October 21, 2014 @ 12:37 pm
Jacob,
In your coming years, you will learn that about 7 out of 10 people are pretty dumb. That’s the going rate these days, so when you ask are “teens really that dumb”, well, yes, 70% are. It is probably more 8-9 out of 10 for teens.
This is a across the board. Start paying attention to some political races and the banter there and you will shit at what you hear and say “nobody is going to buy that B.S.” but people go vote for that B.S. and only B.S’ers are in politics. Why? Cause they have 7 out of 10 people they can sway their way, and the 30% of reasonable folks can’t out vote the 70% of dumbasses.
Seriously, start paying attention, 7 out of 10 girls (or guys) you date will be shitheads.
7 out of 10 bosses you have will be idiots.
7 out of 10 teachers your kids have will be dumber than a 5th grader.
You can probably look at 10 of your friends right now and say “I wouldn’t let 7 of them handle my money or watch my baby cousin”.
FGL makes their money off 7 out of 10.
October 20, 2014 @ 11:14 am
I can see these guys high-fiving each other over your review: “Hey man, did you see that? He loved “Dirt.”
October 20, 2014 @ 11:28 am
I haven’t heard any part of this album, but I’m pretty sure this review is the best thing about it.
October 20, 2014 @ 11:45 am
I haven’t heard any of this album outside of “Dirt” — nice to know I’m not missing anything. 😀
The 5th paragraph (about FGL’s overuse of “good”) especially tickled me, as I was reminded of the scene in ’24 Hour Party People’ where Happy Mondays’ Shaun Ryder is asked for an example of his lyrics: “Good good good, good good double good.”
October 20, 2014 @ 11:54 am
I wonder how much of Nickelback’s decline can be attributed to a dislike of the band specifically, and how much is simply a result of bad timing, in that Nickelback peaked at a time when popular rock was dying.
October 20, 2014 @ 2:01 pm
None! 😛
October 20, 2014 @ 12:54 pm
Wait… So all the goodwill surrounding the single “Dirt” has been spent? We are back to trashing these guys? I really don’t care. I give you credit, Trig, for actually listening to a FGL album. I was thinking of the dollar amount it would take for me to actually sit and listen to this album from the 1st track to the last – I wouldn’t do it for anything less than $100. No joke.
October 20, 2014 @ 12:56 pm
I get the feeling that these guys (and others) are just so incredibly shallow that their songs actually are “meaningful” to them. Having said that, I like a lot of things Trigger hates. My biggest problem with FGL is not their material because I simply can’t listen to them at all – so can’t comment on their songs. Tyler’s voice makes my ears bleed. I just cannot stand to hear him sing a note. When they come on the radio I turn the sound down or change the channel. My idea of hell would be having to listen to Tyler sing.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:54 pm
I feel the same way, but add the auto-tune, electronic mess on top of his voice and it drives me and my dog insane.
October 20, 2014 @ 2:13 pm
I know that when I was alive, I sure would never have sold this in Helvete, my record store!!!
October 20, 2014 @ 2:27 pm
The sooner yall realize that the crowd they are playing too are partying, mud riding and cruising around people, the sooner you will be better off. When I’m out on the weekend with friends, I don’t care what they have to say. I just want to sing-along and nod my head. It’s “pop country” through and through. We know that. It’s gotten a lot of people who would have never thought of listening to country at least give it a small shot, even if it’s not “official” country. They have sold millions and as long as that keeps happening they will write these same songs. I don’t expect, nor want anymore from FGL. Now, stop sounding like a bunch of “get off my lawns” and go listen to whatever the hell works for you.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:45 pm
The problem I and many other fans have with this kind of “country” is that it’s pushed the more traditional-sounding music off the radio and charts. I wouldn’t mind this stuff so much if there was more balance and variety.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:02 pm
Tyler Hubbard’s dad was killed in a helicopter crash. Hate the album or band if you wish but have some damn respect.
You are all acting like a bunch of junior high girls just seeing who can come up with the best dig. If you don’t like them, don’t listen to them!! It’s not complicated. But to insult those who do is not right. Not all their fans are alcoholic, partying, cruisers. I love Florida Geoigia Line and I don’t even drink! Let people be entitled to their opinion and grow up.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:37 pm
Uh, you ARE entitled to your opinion.
Even though it’s wrong as syrup on steak.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:49 pm
Don’t go expecting logic as this thread is quickly resembling a YouTube comments section.
It’s even gone to Godwin’s Law.
Farce The Music may be able to use this thread at the rate it’s going.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:48 pm
Lord, save us from google search.
October 20, 2014 @ 6:42 pm
I know 🙂
October 20, 2014 @ 7:19 pm
Ok, what does his dad dying in an unfortunate accident have to do with the fact that FGL is a one trick pony? Was he the only person on planet Earth to have ever been killed in a helicopter crash?
October 20, 2014 @ 7:38 pm
I just think it was disrespectful to post as “Tyler Hubbard’s Dad” and leave a comment like that. I fully understand that people do not like FGL and they are welcome to feel that way. Just don’t insult them or their families if you don’t know their stories. It’s disrespectful
October 20, 2014 @ 8:27 pm
Those comments have been deleted (and that’s why your comment ended up at the end of this thread). I apologize to anyone who was offended by them.
October 21, 2014 @ 12:27 pm
Very disrespectful. I agree.
But seriously, which one is Hubbard, D-bag #1 (vest guy to show off fresh and fake tattoos) or D-bag #2 (blondie, former ball player turned skinny Rascal Flatts)
October 21, 2014 @ 1:39 pm
Tim, that would be D-Bag #1.
October 22, 2014 @ 8:41 am
What’s funny here is all you people spend time of this garbage website and get off on ripping on this band. These guys have made more money than any of us will ever even sniff and have shattered records on album sales and top hits. If you don’t like it, don’t listen to it, D-Bag.
October 22, 2014 @ 9:03 am
Actually the first week sales numbers just came in for this album and it couldn’t even manage 200K. Final numbers have it at about 197,000. That is paltry for a band of this stature. Brantley Gilbert beat this. There’s a chance this album doesn’t even go gold, at least not for months.
October 22, 2014 @ 10:52 am
And aren’t they openers for Aldean, still. Are they really selling out arenas as a headliner? I find that difficult to believe.
October 22, 2014 @ 10:38 am
Dustin,
Money and Billboard charts aren’t everything. Some of us care about the integrity and credibility of the genre. FGL are nothing but Scott Borchettas puppets. Plain and simple.
October 21, 2014 @ 1:50 pm
get off my lawn!
October 21, 2014 @ 6:35 pm
Get off my LAWN!!!
October 20, 2014 @ 2:52 pm
When will this shit end. They said country was dead in the 90’s but this shit is Zombie music, which Rob Zombie would consider a great insult. These D’ bags will probably get invited to join the Grand Ole Opry Like Little Tits Town did last week. But maybe the will show their Bro Boobs to go along with there “music”.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:02 pm
Honestly, they just sound like every other country song coming out of Nashville the last few years. Yeah, it’s bad, but not really that much worse than so many others.
Check out this video which sums up country music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WySgNm8qH-I
October 20, 2014 @ 3:15 pm
Go back to your hole and feed on your own bullshit you stupid stupid prick… You don’t know shit about country music. If you don’t like it don’t listen to it moron
October 20, 2014 @ 7:23 pm
Whoa man, someone is a little touchy. I officially can’t speak for Trigger but man, from my perspective you have some balls to come onto someone’s website and tell him/her what they can talk about. Isn’t there a tailgate somewhere you should be sitting on and a Tap Out tshirt that needs purchasing?
October 20, 2014 @ 7:26 pm
Don’t forget the shine that needs to be gotten on!
October 20, 2014 @ 3:24 pm
My favorite album right now is the “worst album ever”. Interesting.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:02 pm
I initially thought you had to be a troll, then I checked out your FB page and music. First of all, good for you! And anyone one from WV has a special place in my heart. All I can say is as you get older, your music taste change, become more refined – more substance over style. What I listened to in my teens and early 20’s embarrasses me today. Plus, you seem new to the country music scene (being a tatted skater and playing warp tour just a year ago). Get out there and explore – listen to the Outlaw station on Sirius and read Trigger on a daily basis!
FGL will be a distant memory in 10 years.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:01 pm
Don’t feel bad, Corey. I used to like The Monkees.
October 20, 2014 @ 10:08 pm
Hey , The Monkees where and are pretty damn good. Many great deep cuts are on their albums, some Country-Rock material that stands the test of time : Papa Gene’s Blues , Some Of Shelly’s Blues , Listen To The Band , I could go on and on
October 23, 2014 @ 7:13 am
Cory…. “Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.” your webpage looks like a thousand other wannabees. Good luck.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:29 pm
I just released my first album and it is country, take a peek on iTunes
Shane Greenville, I Wrote A Good Song
God Bless
October 20, 2014 @ 3:35 pm
People should stop focusing on this guys and start promoting artists like Diana Jones and Bonnie Montgomery. I think that in female country is the key to end with this awful Bro-Country.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:44 pm
I spend the majority of my time highlighting worthy artists, including many female artists as a focal point, and specifically as a way to counteract “Bro-Country.” It’s unfortunate that a story like this is what gets the viral attention and not those others, but my commitment to positive country music coverage and specifically coverage of women remains steadfast.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:20 pm
I also happen to like Diana Jones, but since 2011 I haven’t hear any new album from her. Maybe it’s because people prefer the trash that comes from “artists” like Florida Georgia Line.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:42 pm
I wouldn’t try to pull the jealousy card on your review, but I would pull the “old man” card. You’re probably sitting in your easy chair reading the comments and listening to a little, “I Think I’ll Just Stay Here & Drink” but newsflash – it’s 2014. Whether you like it or not, (obviously you don’t, which is fine) this is what country music is today. These guys and their team could care less about your review on the “worst album ever” b/c they just celebrated TWO back to back #1’s w/ “Dirt” and Jason Aldean’s “Burning It Down” (which I’m sure you’re not a fan of either). It’s funny to watch the haters hate, but these guys are backing up the dump trucks to the bank and have amassed a huge following from the club level to the arenas. I love old school country and new country, so I’m “good good” with all of it and don’t have to spew out reviews like yourself. You also might want to look at the charts and look at the people who are writing the songs because those people are huge players in Nashville behind the scenes – the same folks who can write a song like “Dirt” then turn around and write a song like “Get Your Shine On” or write songs like “I Saw God Today” and “Live Like You Were Dying” then write a tune like “Anything Goes”…Check yourself and your reviews before you go criticizing. How many cuts have you had by the way?
October 20, 2014 @ 4:06 pm
“How many cuts have you had by the way?” Since when does someone have to be a published/recorded/even just at home songwriter to know a good song when they hear it? Thankfully, there are plenty of songwriters who stick to what they know is right instead of selling out to get on what passes as “country” radio today.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:17 pm
Oh you don’t have to be a “professional” but I would like to see guys like Trigger who rant and rave about what “good songs” are etc…I’d like to hear him or you pen one – but it could add some credibility – btw – what determines a “good song” bc if good is stacking up number one singles, most downloaded on itunes, being a CMA Duo of the year, I’m pretty sure they are pretty good…last time i checked no one is trying to be at the bottom of the charts….it’s just clear that there is no open-mind mentality here which is fine, people have their preferences, but don’t act like these guys are so horrible when they are clearly on top of the country genre right now.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:23 pm
A lot of people also happen to think Hitler was good for Germany, guess the joke is on you.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:38 pm
“btw ”“ what determines a “good song” Hmmm, for starters, a good song has lyrics that actually mean something. A good song ends lines with more than one word that “rhymes” four times in a row. Good, good, good, good? All righty then. A good song doesn’t sound like every other song out there. We shouldn’t have to listen to two or three verses to try to figure out what song it is or who’s singing it!
While I don’t mind a bit if the songwriter himself isn’t the best singer and love songwriter rounds to get the back story behind the lyrics, if a song goes on radio, it should be sung by someone who has a great voice live, with no need for auto tune.
“if good is stacking up number one singles, most downloaded on itunes, being a CMA Duo of the year” Not my definition of good at all. That just means you have an excellent marketing team who’s willing to put a lot of money behind you.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:49 pm
Well, to each their own…I’m not saying every song on the album deserves a Grammy…but I am saying the album reflects what country music is right now – like it or not. Someone always has to bring Hitler into the conversation to stretch the extremes, touche touche…I get it I get it…you like your traditional country music or red dirt music – meaningful lyrics like the classics from yesteryear – I get it, I get it. I also get that those who commented on my original comment have no objectivity or open mind and can’t even probably say one good thing about FGL so this will be my last comment. I understand FGL and their music is divisive right now, but all music evolves and that’s just where we are at right now…So if you like it great turn it up, if you don’t turn it off – but there is no denying that FGL is waving the banner for mainstream country music right now. Happy Hating!
October 20, 2014 @ 4:57 pm
Well… Pitbull also sells a lot and his music is pure garbage. So basically every genre has this types of problems.
¡Imagine Pitbull and F.G.L together! That would be the end of the world.
October 20, 2014 @ 6:01 pm
That is funny! Pitbull is a complete joke. A total fabrication of endless mindless drivel and horrible noise. It is not music but a sound that would be best suited to welcoming people into hell.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:17 pm
Asserting that I am not a songwriter or that I do not have the authority to speak on songwriting or music matters because I’m not involved in the in’s and out’s of the business is a wild-eyed assumption. But even if it was true, I founded Saving Country Music with the idea that everyone has the right to an opinion about music, regardless if they’re a musician or not, and that everyone deserves a forum to share that opinion. I shared my opinions in this review, and then I gave you and all Florida Georgia Line fans a forum to rebut that opinion if you see fit. If you really want to put a dent in the opinions made in this review, then refute them. Tell us why you like the music. Convince us of why we’re wrong. Saying that I don’t have the credibility or experience to criticize someone’s music is not only misguided and ineffective, it is also probably incorrect.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:57 pm
Milli Vanilli, the Macarena, What Did the Fox Say, Creed also sold a lot. I could go on and on. The argument that because it sells it is good is the poorest defense for crappy music.
October 25, 2014 @ 5:59 pm
With all this talk of “horrible” music I just knew there would be at least a passing mention of Creed. Here’s the thing: Creed isn’t that bad. No, the band’s music wasn’t all that innovative and their frontman acted like an idiot back in the day, but ultimately they made likable hard rock with sweeping hooks. You can like it or hate it, but it isn’t anywhere near the problem that Florida Georgia Line and their crop of like-minded “artists” are. Creed were at least competent with their musical and lyrical arrangements and didn’t alienate the roots of their brand of rock. Florida Georgia Line’s music, by contrast, is utter garbage from a technical and aesthetic standpoint. They throw everything and the kitchen sink into a song as well as talking in their own hippity slang to make their songs seem “cool.” In the process, they’ve poisoned the roots of the genre they’re making a living in and claim it’s progress. A lot of Creed’s critics claimed that the band was boring and derivative; that might be so, but at least they weren’t a cancer like FGL is. I can’t think of anything more antithetical to country music than mediocre hip hop beats, autotune and mock gangsta rapping. At least Creed made the type of music their genre designated.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:23 pm
My problem with your argument is that you fail to recognize or acknowledge the fact that FGL and most of the mainstream “country music” artists resemble absolutely NO similarities to country music’s past. Upon examination one would believe their influence to be 1) Rap Music 2) Hair Metal 3) Pop Music 4) Alternative Rock… The only minuscule common denominator is a twang vocal..
How do you think I feel when I turn on a “Country Music” radio station? I’ve always been a big fan of many different eras of country music because they all had things in common and flowed through the same vein. Similar instruments were used, common topics were covered and there was pride in writing a clever song that touched the soul and made you think.
There used to be a respect for who came before you and famous country singers would honor and acknowledge their country music heros by covering an old song or playing a show together.
Who plays on stage with FGL?… Rappers. T-Pain and Nelly.
They are making millions using a marketing hoax that has destroyed everything country music ever was.
I just hope people WAKE UP.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:03 pm
Just because something appeals to the masses in the middle, doesn’t mean it is good. It just means it’s watered-down enough to not offend the majority. It’s the same model we use to elect the president – the safest, marketable candidate with the most money wins. That’s how Nashville works – style over substance.
I first learned this lesson when I was a 15 year old growing up in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. I was devastated over the popularity of Cyrus’ song “Achey Breaky Heart.” I thought it was the death of country music and could not understand its popularity. My step-mother explained that it will pass and that this kind of anomaly occurs in all genres every decade or so. That’s how I feel about FGL and the rest of the bro-country acts. It will pass. Without substance, the movement can’t sustain longevity. With Aldean being shut-out in the CMA nominations, I think we are seeing cracks in the foundations. “Dirt” briefly distracted detractors, but this has to be the end.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:04 pm
CC,
So which turd on the new album did you have a hand in writing?
October 20, 2014 @ 5:06 pm
You said it, CC. To each his own. The haters hate thing is a bit juvenile. Different tastes, different opinions, that’s all this is. Trig doesn’t like one of my favorite artists. But I have found humor and truth in everything he writes, even when I don’t agree. It’s much more interesting that way and it’s opened me up to some damn fine music.
October 20, 2014 @ 6:19 pm
The thing you are missing is that this isn’t country music anymore than Cher Boyardee is food. Its a prepackaged semblance of a food like product meant to fill bellies but provide no nutritional value. Its got a lot of sugar and a little acid to appeal to the most basic senses. That leads to an addiction to it and a lifelong need for something that does no real good and in doing so takes up the room for valuable sustanace. If you learn to listen to real country your tastes for this plastic mess will eventually fade.
Its just plain product designed to hook you into a life of waste.
October 21, 2014 @ 10:39 am
If there’s not already a drag queen named Cher Boyardee, I’m sure there’s one now. 🙂 Also – completely agree with your post.
October 20, 2014 @ 10:39 pm
I seldom listen to the so-called new country and I certainly haven’t listened to FGL or is it GFL? On second thought I think I heard a snippet of one of their songs a couple of weeks ago. If these guys were to go into an open mic club one night in disguise and got up on stage with only guitars(if they can play one) and sang one of their songs I seriously doubt they would make any kind of impression on anyone in the audience. However, if someone like Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard or Willie Nelson did the same in disguise there would be some wild applause I’m sure. When it takes 3, 4 or 5 people to write a piece of crap something is seriously wrong.
October 21, 2014 @ 7:05 am
you must be one of those idiots going round in pickup trucks thinking you’re so country, cool and modern because you listen to jason aldean, brantley gilbert, chase rice, Thomas rhett, tyler farr and florida georgia line. you said this is an old man review, which proves you’re an idiot because Trigger has praised songs by Carrie Underwood and Tim McGraw (whose music is not really old school country). simply, there’s traditional country music, good pop country music and then there’s bad pop country and bro country. This album just falls in the bad pop country and bro country categories, just like the other hacks I cited. let me tell you that I don’t give a fuck about you nor about those idiots, and if you think you’re cool because you listen to them, you’re not.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:43 pm
yall a bunch of queers they are making a better living than all of you all put together probably why are you judging just cause yall cant do it dont make it suck
October 20, 2014 @ 6:42 pm
You’re a special kind of stupid, aren’t you??
October 21, 2014 @ 3:10 pm
But that’s just it. The mainstream country(actually almost all mainstream “music”)establishment has set the bar so low musically and talent-wise that they can pick and choose who the next big star will be. Sad truth is, at leat 70% of the under 21 crowd will listen to and learn to like whatever the man on the radio tells them to. It’s more about image and marketing than the music.
October 20, 2014 @ 3:58 pm
Country music fans are so closed minded. Anything that doesn’t sound like George Straight is labeled “not real country”. Country music used to be so boring. These two actually bring a little life to country. Not every song needs to be about losing your dog, truck, or woman. It’s a different type of country music. If you don’t like it don’t listen to it.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:15 pm
“Not every song needs to be about losing your dog, truck, or woman.”
Dude, the 1970s called: it wants its stereotype back. (I know… lame, dated joke 😉 But I couldn’t resist.)
“If you don”™t like it don”™t listen to it.”
By that same logic, one could say that those who don’t like negative reviews, should not read them. (The title of this review should serve as a clue as to the nature of its contents.) The only difference between this review and Florida Georgia Line’s music is that the former is quite easy to avoid.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:36 pm
The point of music reviews is to attempt to guide listeners towards what to listen to and not listen to. In other words, the entire point of this was to tell people to not listen. So to attempt to rebut this opinion by telling people “don’t listen” isn’t a rebuttal of my opinion, it is validating it.
October 20, 2014 @ 6:32 pm
His name is STRAIT.
And you’re still wrong.
October 21, 2014 @ 7:13 am
you know what, I like good music: I love George STRAIT, Alan Jackson and I also like Keith Urban and Kenny Chesney. I also like Maroon 5 and Take That. but maybe this music is criticized because it ACTUALLY sucks!
October 21, 2014 @ 6:17 pm
I’m a huge country music fan, but I’d say I’m anything but close-minded when it comes to the genre. Sure, I like Hank Williams and Faron Young, Willie and Waylon, but I love alt. country acts like The Old 97s, Lucero, Chuck Ragan, Hank 3, etc. as well. I love when people mix other genres with country, but FGL simply doesn’t do it well.
October 21, 2014 @ 7:05 pm
You are so right, Mr.Haters. Songs should never be about lost dogs and broken hearts. They should ALWAYS be about trucks, tailgates, beer, and skanks! That’s keeping it fresh, yo! Hell yeah bitchez!!!
October 25, 2014 @ 7:51 pm
It would seem that you haven’t listened to George Srait in the past several years.
If you want to know what an absolute GEM of a country song sounds like , you’ll hear your share of ’em on George’s albums .He’s got the pick of the writer’s crop when its comes time for him to record and there’s proof of that on every album . George knows how to pick the best songs and also knows how to keep ’em country for the real country fans . He also knows how to incorporate the BEST of the new musical ideas without letting them usurp the roots . THIS is , to my mind , the big issue when it comes to Bro-stuff . They haven’t figured out how to tap into the tried and true lyric themes and instrumentation while “evolving ” the genre. All they are doing is ‘evolving’ ‘themselves out of work by jumping on trends and milking them dry ,in catering to a youth demographic with no country reference . Recipe for disaster career-wise . Thank goodness ……
October 20, 2014 @ 4:30 pm
Haters going to hate. Country music evolves. The album is awesome. When you are ripping apart songs, remember that most of the songs on this album, they didn’t write. The lyrics you hate belong to someone else, but whatever…. there’s constructive criticism and then’s there this review – nothing but a bunch of hate to get some attention to yourselves. Well done. Too bad it’s not going to change anyone’s opinion on FGL.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:06 pm
Alea,
If you like FGL, then God Bless you. You have the right to voice your opinion like everyone else.
However, the majority of country music lovers (including myself), do not consider FGL to be a true representation of country music. If I remember correctly, Tim McGraw did a song like Cruise way before FGL were even thought of called Over and Over. Not only are they riding on the coattails of that song (which I didn’t even like to begin with), FGL is just making music for 20-something year old frat boys who love to party 24/7. I’m just disgusted that this type of dreck even gets played on country radio.
October 20, 2014 @ 6:45 pm
The majority of country music lovers DO like Florida Georgia Line, which is why they are breaking records left & right and selling out all their shows. If I was in the minority on this, they wouldn’t be selling out arenas and selling millions of songs – did you know Cruise is STILL one of the top selling songs? Have you seen how excited crowds get when a FGL song comes on the overhead or is covered by another band? People go nuts with excitement. So, yes you hate them, yes others do as well, but that’s not the majority by any stretch of the imagination.
Cruise is absolutely NOTHING like Over & Over – completely different song and sound. Yes, Nelly sang on Over & Over and the remix of Cruise, but Cruise was huge before Nelly even touched it. If you watch the videos and read the articles about the song, he mentions that he didn’t want to ruin something that had already taken off for them.
I’m not in my 20’s. I’m not a frat boy. I’m not a party girl either. Neither are most of my friends, but we still love their music. It doesn’t just cater to a set demographic. It caters to a lot of people. I’ve attended their shows and I see people from all different walks of life singing along, dancing along and having an amazing time.
I get it, you hate them, and won’t ever give them a chance, because they corrupted country music in your mind, when they haven’t done a single thing that others before them have already done. Collaborations with other genres – done before. Party songs – done before. It’s the same old song from all the haters. Country music is constantly changing and crosses across all music genres – it is what it is.
BTW, I like a whole variety of country music artists (I saw you mention Kacey Musgraves somewhere – I liked her years before Merry Go Round) . I’m a lot more open-minded than most of your supporters who are quite to attack not only FGL but anyone who likes them as idiots. That’s what killing country music – all the hating and judgmental people lately. Country music fans used to be a music community. Now it’s just a bunch of people lashing out at each other.
October 20, 2014 @ 6:56 pm
Real country music lovers who have respect, love and integrity to and for the genre do NOT like FGL. The majority of their songs are about jacked-up trucks, tailgates, driving in said trucks along dirt roads and trying to pick up hot girls in cutoffs/tight clothes with cornball pick up lines. When FGL, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Brantley Gilbert, Cole Swindell, Thomas Rhett or any one of these fucktards try to pass off R&B/rap with banjo, dobro, mandolin, fiddle or steel pedal thrown in for good measure, it does NOT MAKE IT COUNTRY! And trying to use chart success and money to cover up artistic integrity (which those acts have none of) is a piss poor excuse and i ain’t having it!!!
October 20, 2014 @ 7:05 pm
So the only way someone is a “real country music fan” is if they agree with you? You aren’t even a country music fan – from what I gather you are a fan of some songwriter artists who happen to be in the “country” genre. Overall, you hate country music. You hate on all the top artists of today. Therefore, not a fan.
Country music has always mentioned trucks. What’s one of the biggest songs of the 90s? Pickup Man. Pretty sure it’s about picking up women in your truck.
Like I said there are millions who disagree with you. You are in the minority no matter how passionate your hate is for them.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:22 pm
Yes, because country music begins and ends with what’s played on Top 40 “country” radio, amirite?
I’d say I feel sorry for you nimrods because Top 40 is all you know, but I don’t. Not anymore.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:28 pm
Country music fans were never a solid community. There has always been discord. And while it’s admirable that you are a clean-living, non-judgmental, mature adult who likes a wide variety of music, you should work on being less sensitive too criticism of artists from fans who you don’t know and who have no real impact on your life. Too much stress in that. Just because FGL sells millions of records doesn’t mean an individual’s distaste for their music is wrong any more than your love of it is. There is no need to convert people. FGL will still be there for you adore.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:39 pm
Liza –
I’m not perfect and definitely have my faults. I’m just not a partying, 20-something frat boy. Big difference. As I stated previously, I get that not everyone likes FGL and that’s fine, I’m not trying to win anyone over. But Troy is wrong in stating that the majority of people agree with him or they aren’t really country music fans. I’m actually laughing at this whole thing – that someone can have so much hate over two guys they don’t even know that it causes an insane amount of passionate anger in them. No one is going to read this blog (or the comments) and walk away with a different opinion than they started off before reading any of this. Plain and simple. The haters will keep hating and the fans will keep supporting their favorites. Someone even bashed Little Big Town in these comments – what on earth did they ever do to people to get such nasty hate? They aren’t bro country or anywhere near it. Blogs like these only strengthen everyone’s original opinion – they don’t sway anyone’s opinion.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:59 pm
Alea, I listen to other genres of music also (personally, I love heavy metal, classic rock, folk and classical). The music that I listen to has substance. When it comes to the topic of FGL’s music, they don’t have any substance. People are entitled to listen to whatever the hell that they want. However at the end of the day: FGL doesn’t have any substance and a lot of country music fans besides myself are sick and tired of hearing this boy band.. Especially when they don’t contribute a goddamn thing to the genre. The only thing I give them credit for (and it pains me to say this) is that they’re brining people over to country music. And I’m begrudgingly saying that.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:34 pm
You may not be a 20-something frat boy, Alea, but your haters hate crap reeks of 20-something girly stuff. The thing you seem to be missing in your back and forth trying to convince everyone not all FGL people fit a stereotype/people are wrong about FGL and everyone has a right to their opinions is that this blog was created for a purpose and it exists for that purpose. I don’t think it’s going to change because you feel affronted.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
Liza – Ease up on your hate towards me. I’ve had no disagreement or issues with anything you said really, just that you keep twisting my words over & over again. Just listen to whatever makes you happy.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:04 pm
Your obsession with hate is disturbing, but thank you – I’ve always listened to whatever pleases me.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:34 pm
The majority of country music lovers DO like Florida Georgia Line, which is why they are breaking records left & right and selling out all their shows.
I’m not sure that you can say that. I think this information is anecdotal. If you polled the public, I think you would be surprised how many people dislike the direction of country music, and specifically Florida Georgia Line. That is the reason this review went hyper-viral right after it was posted. I’ve written similar reviews for Florida Georgia Line and other artists in the past, and it never had this type of reception. One of the reasons is because the American public is fed up. Read the comments about Nickelback by FGL’s own manager. That is what is happening to this band. Hatred for them is capturing the American zeitgest, and this album sent that trend into hyper-drive. This is the lesson to be learned by Florida Georgia Line. If they choose to not heed it, and simply look at sales numbers as a sign that everything is fine, they will fail. They are failing, and they will fail. And the fact that now tens of thousands of people, moving quickly towards hundreds of thousands of people who agree with this review are reading it and sharing it is further evidence of why this is true.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:44 pm
So 129 comments are being calculated as “tens of thousands of people, moving quickly towards hundreds of thousands of people who agree with this review are reading it and sharing it is further evidence of why this is true.” Just because people are sharing or reading it doesn’t mean they are in agreement. I shared it on my FB wall and not a single person agreed with it (even my FGL hater friends said not a word).
129 comments where multiple comments have been left by the same people (such as myself) – I don’t know if you read other blogs, but this is pretty low participation and commentary. Your calculations are flawed on just how much agreement people are with you.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:53 pm
BTW, you don’t need to poll the public – ticket and album sales show their vote and what people like. I’m not a Taylor Swift fan, but millions are – there’s no denying it. People love her and people love FGL. They are both at the top of their game.
Maybe people don’t want to hear songs about cheating anymore and similar country songs of the past, maybe there is enough sadness and stress in life that people just want to sit back and relax and have fun listening to bro country. Doesn’t make them stupid with nothing more than a 4th grade education. Doesn’t mean they don’t know about other music out there that isn’t played on mainstream radio. Doesn’t mean they disrespect the traditional sound. Doesn’t mean any of that. Just means people have a different taste in music than you and there’s nothing wrong with them for that.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:10 pm
I admireTaylor’s music and I admire her. Great talent. Great writing skills.
October 25, 2014 @ 2:49 am
@Alea, I cannot believe how blatantly stupid you are, you think that the majority of country listeners “like” FGL, ugh… News flash honey! Their majority of listeners are teenage girls, sex-deprived housewives, and stupid and immature frat boys like them. Your not giving any logical facts to why their “country”, rather using your personal beliefs and algorithm, your opinion holds no credibility or value simply because you’re a dumb uneducated fan girl/boy. And why would we want to listen to people getting drunk on Friday nights and having sex? Why has country writing became so shallow and uncreative? It should stick to telling actual stories and not stupid things that have no meaning on the quality of life. Perhaps you should rethink what you say and open up your mind, because you’re outweighed on this page by a lot, and what other people have said, more and more people are speaking out against them, and soon they’ll be shoved aside for the country music revolution and fall through the cracks hopefully. So keep thinking what you think, have your own opinion, even though it’s wrong, keep telling yourself that FGL is so “country” and how it’s so great.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:00 pm
Just because a “majority” of a group likes something, does not guarantee its quality. (That this article went viral shows that it may not be quite so much of a majority as you hoped or claimed).
Try listening to something different. Hellbound Glory, .357, JB Beverley, and the like. You might be pleasantly surprised.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:11 pm
yeah, whatever
October 20, 2014 @ 4:39 pm
I like nickelback…not even kidding
October 20, 2014 @ 4:55 pm
Maybe you don’t appreciate their lyrical content. But like it or not, these guys have country music “now” figured out. And they’re laughing all the way to the bank. They aren’t the idiots you think they are. They are college grads who, judging by their massive success , are actually pretty clever about a thing or two.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:14 pm
What is fascinating is how many who dislike Trigger’s review reduce this to money. The end of all arguments. Sad.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:34 pm
Yeah, Liza. Tragic. My point is, they didn’t win the lottery- they have financial sucesss because of the abundance of fans and support they have. Any maybe- just maybe- the amount of hard work they put into creating that fan base and promoting their music, etc. Direct correlation. I’m also not agreeing or disagreeing with this review, but in a sense saying, “FGL has found a formula that works for them, and they surely don’t give a flip about what this guy thinks!”
October 20, 2014 @ 6:11 pm
No one cares whether they give a “flip” or not. It’s a review, not a declaration. Fangirling just seems out of place. I think it’s lovely that their formula “works” – your job is done, then.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:22 pm
Lila, no, they’re not idiots.
FGL fans, now they’re idiots, because they somehow are relating to the tripe these boys are passing off as music.
October 20, 2014 @ 6:31 pm
Why is no one pointing the finger at country radio? Are all the “powers that be” who are controlling the air waves idiots, too?
October 20, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
Country radio has its critics too. There are many posts about its lack of support for women, for example.
October 20, 2014 @ 4:59 pm
Florida Georgia Line is just another lame boy group. It’s not country music in the least. Yes, ,country needs to evolve. It just doesn’t need to “evolve” in FGL’s direction. The best country music has always centered on strong songwriting that understands and speaks of the human condition. Like blues and soul, it’s music for adults. FGL and their ilk do none of that. It’s just insipid songs, autotuned “singing,” and bad rawk production. Ultimately, it’s music for teeny boppers and young adults that don’t understand real life. And to anyone who argues that they’re making lots of money, remember this: popular doesn’t mean good.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:09 pm
Good to see the FGL fanboys coming out in force in the comments! Haterz r tha worst! Keep gettin’ yer shine on!
October 20, 2014 @ 5:15 pm
I like the idea of fanboys.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:18 pm
Powderfinger,
If you like em, good for you. You have every right to like em. The rest of us will continue to listen to Kacey Musgraves, Sturgill Simpson and musicians who value quality over quantity/bullshit.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:36 pm
I didn’t think anyone would take that as a serious post, save some of the semi-literate FGL fans that may have struggled to read it.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:40 pm
My apologies, Powderfinger. I thought that you were being serious. But your post is exactly how the majority of FGL fans would and will respond to their detractors. Its hard for them to respond when they haven’t gotten past 4th grade.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:09 pm
Amen Jim!
Folks like us are more concerned about QUALITY. FGL aren’t quality.
When Trigger has to use pop acts like Lorde and Meghan Train as examples of acts with substance, you already know that the quality of country music is going right down the shitter.
October 20, 2014 @ 5:32 pm
I can’t believe that anyone likes this stupid $hit. Then their fans come on here and supports them saying that it’s evolving past the old “crap”. This is not evolving. It’s devolving. Nothing about this mindless drivel is worth any merit. The writing on these songs are equivalent to children.
October 20, 2014 @ 6:10 pm
Anyway, thought I might drop in and leave some album info.
For those who do want to hear something different. I wrote and sang ALL of my own songs on my new album. All of the musicians on the album are super good. They played with George Strait, Ray Price, Moe Bandy, Joe Nichols and several others great artist.
iTunes
Shane Greenville
“I Wrote A Good Song”
Hope you like it and share with others!
God Bless
October 20, 2014 @ 6:14 pm
AMEN AMEN AMEN I will never understand 1 what people see in them as to why anyone classifies them country. I will be so glad when their time has come and gone. Unfortunately real country artist get passed up on award shows for this kind of crap music. I have gotten to where I just don’t watch as it is the same ole same ole on thier and too much “duets” with non country artist on the show. If I wanted to listen to rap or rock I would go to that station. THanks for such a great review
October 20, 2014 @ 6:54 pm
I agree with your comments but it’s very clear they are catering to the younger college audience. This younger generation doesn’t know old-time country music, it’s a new world out there for our favorite genre and the lines are really blurred right now.
All the artists are struggling, trying to figure out where country music is going. Look at Kenny Chesney for example, he took a year off to try to find his voice just trying to stay relevant and alive in this new world of country music!
Do they stay true to their voice or do they sellout for the money that’s the question.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:15 pm
I just wanted to say how entertained I was by this review as a piece of writing. I especially appreciate that after going off in a way that was always going to resonate with somebody (like me) who’s so beyond tired of the formulaic idiocy that Florida Georgia Line has spewed out, Trigger ended the review with something FGL & their fans should actually read & heed (the Nickelback analogy). I just think it’s a remarkable skill to be able to craft such a lively, inspired post based on such boring music. Well done, Trigger.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:36 pm
Thanks Windmills!
October 20, 2014 @ 7:17 pm
There’s so much vulgarity and personal insults in this “review”, it makes me want to go out and pick up this CD, even though I’ve never heard it, just to piss off the classless reviewer.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:18 pm
Contrary to your popular belief, I am a country music fan. I wouldn’t dislike FGL, Luke Bryan or any of this bro-country BS if it HAD SUBSTANCE!!! All of the songs that are bro-country are about getting drunk and/or high, partying, tailgates, picking up females who are scantily clad and having sex with said scantily clad females.
There is nothing wrong way with making songs about having a good time and partying. However, when the majority of your album is about partying and the lyrics sounds like a 6 year old wrote them, you don’t have any artistic credibility or integrity and you are shitting on the genre as a whole.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:21 pm
And my last comment was for Alea, just to clear the air.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:23 pm
I think this is the most perfect album review I have ever read. Ever. I love you in a way that would never piss off significant others.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:31 pm
My first reaction to this article was complete disgust. Whoever wrote this article should be ashamed of themselves. I am someone who is all for people speaking out their opinion but this is WAY over the top. You don’t like Florida Georgia Line? That’s perfectly fine. But you have no right to say such terrible things. This whole article and some of the comments are completely disrespectful.
These boys have worked hard to get to where they are and clearly people are liking their music. Whether it’s country or it’s not it makes people happy. You don’t like it? Turn it off. Why would you waste your time to write an article on something you dislike so strongly? It makes no sense.
You think their songs lack quality? Your opinion. You think the genre is devolving instead of evolving? Okay, whatever. I am proud to say I am a fan of them and I am also entitled to my own opinion. They are obviously popular and are making hit after hit regardless of the quality. I LOVE their music. It puts me in a good mood. You don’t like it? That’s perfectly fine. But this whole article is rude and disrespectful. It is absolutely unnecessary.
Of course country music is not going to be the same as it was back in the day. It is changing, whether you like it or not. Just because Florida Georgia Line’s music has a different style and sound doesn’t mean they’re ‘ruining country music’. There are different sides to country. There are different sides to ALL genres! Florida Georgia Line is an example of that. Why don’t you guys just go and listen to the music that makes you happy and leave this type to whoever enjoys it, like me.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:20 pm
“But you have no right to say such terrible things.”
I will say whatever the hell I want, and have every right to do so under Article 1 of the Constitution of the United States.
I love how I’m the one being chided for saying “terrible” things. So condoning drunk driving, that’s not terrible? Objectifying women, that’s not terrible? “I’ll set you up on the kitchen sink, and stick the pink umbrella in your drink.” What does that line mean Taylor?
Why would you waste your time to write an article on something you dislike so strongly? It makes no sense.
Because it’s my job. I’m a music critic.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:31 pm
You should keep your comments to yourself and if you don’t like their album don’t post about it. Simple as that. So what if it’s your job? What about respect?
October 20, 2014 @ 8:38 pm
Taylor, its his JOB as a music critic to let people know what music is good and what music isn’t good. Trigger has very strong opinions on that (and I, for one, am glad he does. Saved me the hassle of adding FGL’s abomination of a sophomore record to the rest of my music library).
People are going to like what they like, Taylor. In Trigger’s case, he dislikes this album intensely. And I can’t say I blame him one bit. This album sounds like an adult with Tourette’s syndrome wrote this.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:42 pm
“its his JOB as a music critic to let people know what music is good and what music isn”™t good.”
Okay. So he suddenly knows what kind of music people like? It’s his opinion. Last time I checked everyone else has their own.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:59 pm
Might I add, Troy, it is very disrespectful to mention Tourette’s Syndrome. I have relatives who have this and it is very rude for you to say such a thing.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:04 pm
If you do have a relative suffering from Tourettes, I do apologize for my remark Taylor. However, if you are going to be offended by every single little thing that someone says or does, then this may not be the website for you. I’m going to continue to speak my mind and make no bones about it.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:07 pm
I am not offended, I’m just defending what I like. You have the right to your opinion and so do I.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:09 pm
Then let’s agree to disagree because you like them. I don’t. My point is that I need substance in my music. FGL don’t deliver in that regard.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:12 pm
You are more than welcome not to like them, I respect that. The whole reason I came to this site was because I saw comments that were disrespectful and I felt the need to voice my opinion. However, I have nothing against people who prefer other music.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:39 pm
There is something called freedom of speech, you don’t have the right to tell others what they can or can’t say.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:44 pm
I’m fully aware of that, M.G. Thanks for your input…
October 20, 2014 @ 8:59 pm
Taylor,
Obviously, you aren’t aware of that.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:04 pm
MH thanks for your input.
October 21, 2014 @ 4:38 am
Forget it, M.G. She doesn’t get the point. It is no use wasting your breath.
To paraphrase a quote from Joseph Belladonna, “Talking to her is like clapping with one hand.”
October 21, 2014 @ 7:52 am
Mike, I do understand the right to freedom of speech. Everyone has it, as do I. I didn’t mean for it to come off as if I were telling others what they should say. I was just saying what they were commenting was disrespect. But obviously no one cares so it doesn’t matter. Everyone has their own opinions. I just want to voice my own. Thanks.
October 22, 2014 @ 5:26 pm
Good Lord, Trigger. You sound like me and that’s scary LOL.
As I previously stated, I wouldn’t touch this LP with a 150 foot pole. My ROOMMATE, on the other hand, decided to buy it off of iTunes and blasted it full throttle throughout our house. My ears cannot unhear the processed sanitized generic crap that is FGL.
I am dumbfounded by the amount of processed vocals, Auto-Tune, Pro Tools and slapdash lyrics that they put together. Some of my favorite bands that I’m currently listening to (Evanescence, Within Temptation, Delain, Brooks & Dunn, Zac Brown Band, Alabama) took their time and cared about putting together a quality record, rather than throwing shit against the wall and seeing what sticks. What happened to the quality and passion that the majority of artists used to have for their music? It seems that hip-hop wannabes like FGL care about money and chart success. And those are usually the idiots that burn out very quickly. Thank you Trigger for putting me on to quality music.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:36 pm
I’ve been sitting here reading all these comments and I could not be more appalled at the way you people are treating FGL. And the fact that someone is pretending to be Tyler’s dad is just beyond disrespectful. What’s the point of it?! No one was even talking about him so it’s just unnecessary to bring that up.
So let me start off by saying this. Florida Georgia Line most definitely isn’t the typical country group. Do they have the same sound as, let’s say Brooks and Dunn, and the answer to that is no. Now let’s take other popular country artists and compare them to other country musicians that were once popular 10 or so years ago. Do they sound the same? Are they making music that talks about the same exact topics? No! You people don’t understand this. Country music has been evolving and FGL just happened to come in right when it was happening. But because they are more popular and their sound is more unique critics feel the need to hate on them.
Yes FGL is taking country music and changing it up. But guess what? People are enjoying this music! Why would FGL be selling out tour dates and getting 5 number 1 singles if their sound wasn’t working for them? Most traditional country fans hate FGL because of this. They don’t want to see FGL growing or becoming more and more popular because that just goes to show how much country music IN GENERAL is changing.
As far as BK goes I cannot even begin to say how disrespectful you guys are being towards him. Go listen to Country in my Soul, People Back Home, Tip it Back or Dirt. And if you ever hear them live, he sings Luke’s part in This is How we Roll. He sings pretty good. But the thing is, no he doesn’t sing on every song. But who cares! He’s still there to enhance the sound and harmonize alongside Tyler. He doesn’t have lead role but that doesn’t make him any less important to FGL!!!!
As far as money goes, FGL has made it clear since day one that they are here to create a fan base. They didn’t do this because they wanted the rock star life. They became singers because that is simply what they’re passionate about, money is just a plus to all this. They do everything for their fans and they are constantly noticing and thanking them. How many artists now a days even take their time and mention someone even on Twitter? Yeah not many.
Now I’m already prepared for the negative comments on here, but I really don’t care. People are entitled to speak their own opinions. I read a ton of other posts and they were all pretty negative too. I just think everyone needs to slow down and realize that there are tons of other popular artists singing about similar things right now. But everyone keeps the fingers pointed at FGL. Why is that? Why does no one else get blamed for “ruining country music”? But the thing is, this is where country music is at today. This is what the majority of fans want to listen to today. They can relate to it and understand it. It’s all the traditionalists who are having the problem here. Keep enjoying your music and we will keep enjoying ours. And if you have a problem with it, turn it off it’s not for you. Don’t keep blaming FGL for ruining something that was already changing right in front of our eyes.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:45 pm
Well stated Shannon!! Every word.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:56 pm
Hello, Alea!
I was reading your comments and I couldn’t agree more! By any chance do you have a twitter?
October 20, 2014 @ 7:59 pm
Yup – I’m on Twitter.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:01 pm
But because they are more popular and their sound is more unique critics feel the need to hate on them
Yes, of course. It’s unique in its uniqueness. Even though everyone else is singing about the same thing they are and sound just as shallow.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:13 pm
“I”™ve been sitting here reading all these comments and I could not be more appalled at the way you people are treating FGL.”
I could not be more appalled at the way Florida Georgia Line is treating the opportunity they have to entertain people in mass by promoting excessive materialism, consumerism, the clear objectification of women, drug use and other illicit behavior, and drinking while driving. Don’t act like you’re taking some moral high ground by coming out against this review when you’re also defending these shallow, misogynistic objectifying recidivists glorifying illegal behavior that results in the death of thousands of people per year. THERE’S a moral stance.
“Country music has been evolving and FGL just happened to come in right when it was happening.”
*Devolving, and Florida Georgia Line and their mindless, incoherent, and immature pap is the perfect example of this. This is not about taste, and nowhere in this review was the music criticized simply because it doesn’t sound like older country.
“And the fact that someone is pretending to be Tyler”™s dad is just beyond disrespectful.”
It would be my guess that whomever commented using that name did so not knowing the story behind Tyler’s dad. Nonetheless, those comments have been deleted, and I apologize to anyone who was offended.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:24 pm
Bravo.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:26 pm
Trigger, let me ask you this:
As a fellow country music lover: what genre of music would you classify FGL as? Personally, they’re taking the worst parts of R&B/rap and throwing a pseudo-country sheen over it all. What’s your take on this boy band?
October 20, 2014 @ 8:44 pm
Unclassifiable drivel.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:49 pm
LOL!! God Bless you, Trigger!
You’re a nicer man than I am. I’d call it a food poisoning induced diarrhea.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:33 pm
There is nothing wrong with good time music, and that’s what FGL is. Good. Time. Music. They celebrate the joys of life and of having a good time. You may not like it but there is certainly a place for it. Always has been and always will be. If you were around in the 50s you probably would have been one of the people chastising Elvis for what you call objectifying women and shallow, misogynistic music that celebrates illegal behavior. LOL. Oh, please, get over yourself.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:42 pm
Elvis Presley parallels? This has gotten out of hand.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:47 pm
Maybe, but I could easily see this article appearing in some 1950s newspaper, only it would be about Elvis instead of FGL. Glorifying illegal behavior?! Really? I’m surprised the author didn’t end his review by saying that FGL plays their music too damn loud!!! LOL.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
Contrary to popular belief. I like songs about partying and having a good time. However, if your ALBUM consists of nothing BUT these songs, then it’s a waste of my time. Not to mention, its an insult to folks who actually have a brain and use it. Not drink, snort, sniff or inject their brain cells away like these two posers.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
Greg says, “There is nothing wrong with good time music, and that”™s what FGL is. Good. Time. Music.”
Trigger says in the 7th paragraph of this review, “There”™s nothing wrong with fun, feel good songs themselves. But in such a void of anything striking even close to variety, an otherwise decent song like “Bumpin”™ The Night” suffers demonstrably amongst its peers.”
So see Greg, we agree 😉
October 21, 2014 @ 9:45 am
Well-stated, Shannon. Thank you for that. Anyone successful in his/her field does deserve some credit. The anti-christ, when he comes, will also have a huge and loyal fan base.
‘And if you have a problem with it, turn it off it”™s not for you.’
But, you see–Trigger’s reviewing skills save those of us with good taste from even having to turn it on in the first place. Which I appreciate. Because everything I have heard from FGL to this point is God-awful. Just terrible. Well-done, well-produced, well-performed–of course. Because Nashville does that. They bring the big guns when the money is there. But it is all just a money grab.
Or, more sinister-ly–something from the Ministry of Truth’s Music Department (Minitrue Musdep).
(I personally believe Big Machine has a prototype versificator.)
“The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There’s also a negative side.” — Hunter S. Thompson
PS. Trigger–please downgrade your ‘Dirt’ single review retroactively. Nobody picks a rose from the manure pile.
November 2, 2014 @ 11:21 pm
The majority of people eat fast food and we all know how unhealthy that habit is . The majority of people USED to smoke cigarettes cuz they ‘liked ’em’…and we know how that was just another addictive unhealthy habit but it took education AND legislation to make us change our habits.
I think this website and others like it , music reviewers , the Nash Icon label/radio network and the true artists who are willing to speak about this new ‘country music’ are only trying to educate us to healthier options …..make us aware that what radio feeds us in the name of the dollar is only one very very small part of the whole and , in fact , represents less and less of the whole as time goes on . Who is the most impressionable customer with , arguably , the most disposable income ? The young . I think its our responsibility to educate them to the healthier options available to them OUTSIDE of the barrage of commercial messages targeted at them. In lifestyle , in nutrition , and in the arts I think we have a responsibility to preserve and educate . Commercial country music today ,in almost every respect, exploits and caters to youthful INexperience and impressionability in very , very unhealthy ways . If experience and wisdom did not come into play , I’d say “shame on us’ for NOT guiding the youth to healthier choices ….or at least ensuring that those healthier choices will always exist .
October 20, 2014 @ 7:55 pm
This is the worst piece of trash article I’ve ever read. Clearly biased and this album could’ve been a lyrical masterpiece and the “reviewer ” still would have panned it. The author comes off as bitter and pretentious. Like there is something wrong with having fun in life and singing about it? Sorry but not all music has to be a depressing snooze fest. Oh well, y’all keep whining, and FGL will keep making #1 hits and selling out arenas along with the likes of Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean. Too damn bad if u don’t like it.
October 20, 2014 @ 7:58 pm
Not true. I do my best to be as non bias as possible. Read my review of Florida Georgia Line’s “Dirt” for example. It received a top grade.
https://savingcountrymusic.com/song-review-florida-georgia-lines-dirt
October 20, 2014 @ 8:41 pm
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Sorry I had to catch my breathe. Now that I’ve recovered from my mini-stroke, I’ll let y’all in a little secret; to all of you defending FGL and saying that they make great country music and that they’re laughing all the way to the bank, guess what; YOU ARE THE LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR. This music appeals to you because you don’t like to think. Please don’t reproduce. Of course they’ll sell out arenas; it’s moron, dip-shits like you that eat this garbage up because there isn’t any thinking behind it. I almost vomited up a kidney when you compared them to Jason Aldean and Luke Bryan, like those douche buckets are the gold standard… You know what, I stand corrected, they are. They suck, they know it, and they don’t give a damn. I’ll at least give them that. Hell, wasn’t it Dustin Lynch, that just this last week, had to get stitches after getting hit in the head with a beer can? AT HIS OWN SHOW? Christ, lead could take an example from people like y’all.
Reading comments from people trying to defend these guys, literally, makes me feel like I’m going to have an aneurism. “College educated”?!?! I couldn’t count how many people I know with college degrees that couldn’t tell you the difference between their ass and a hole in the ground. As far as I can tell, the only two guys with a brain in this situation are Borchetta and Zaruk; they openly admit it’s shit but are just money-grubbing whores; at least they’re honest. We were auditorally raped in the 00’s by Nickelback’s horseshit and I guess FGL will get the honor of doing so in the second decade of this century. It makes me sad. I’m just old enough to remember when country music didn’t suck, but then we got guys like Toby Keith and it was just downhill from there. And Greg, while I initially replied to you, don’t take these as personal attacks; I started out replying to you since you were at the bottom of the list, and then I read more and my head started to hurt from all the stupid. These comments are directed at every one of you wannabe country bros (and ladies) that wear Cinch/Weangler jeans, drink Keystone Light, have, or think a Dodge 3/4 ton with stacks is cool (and even though it never has or will see a trailer insist on driving with the towing mirrors flipped up), smoke Marlboro Lights, have some sort of tribal tattoo, or wear anything made my Hooey or any of those other douchebag clothing companies. I could go on but it’s really no use. You guys are a lost cause. Dont bother replying to me; I won’t be coming back to read it…. It might actually kill me.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:51 pm
Lol. Oh Lordy. Did you really just write a five paragraph essay about how all FGL fans are dumb, Un-educated people? And you start this essay by saying you need to catch your “BREATHE?” Hahaha. Pure comedic gold. Let me correct you. I may be one of those dumb, uneducated lowest common denominator folks, but a least I know you’re supposed to say you need to catch your BREATH. LMAO… Thanks for the laugh. And please realize I did not read more than one paragraph of your drivel. The first sentence really told me all I needed to know.
October 23, 2014 @ 7:46 am
Personally Greg….. looks like you just lost the discussion. in fact, I would say he misspelled that to set the snare.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:20 pm
I’m dumbfounded that FGL has rabid fans that troll sites to defend their honor a la Taylor Swift fans. Fangirls and fanboys – scary stuff. 🙂
October 21, 2014 @ 7:43 pm
The same thing happens when negative reviews of Eric Church get posted.
October 23, 2014 @ 9:11 am
At least Eric Church makes some music worth a damn (see Sinners Like Me, Dark Side, A Man Who Was Gonna Die Young, etc.) He swings and misses a lot with his music but he’s nowhere near a FGL.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:14 pm
Of all the reviews posted on this site, the FGL one gets all this attention? Very unfortunate.
I don’t have anything to add to the discussion, other than saying the review was hilarious, but I will take this moment to give kudos to Trigger for turning me on to some really solid music with his other reviews. (Kelsey Waldon’s The Gold Mine is still in constant repeat)
Let’s hope people start paying attention to all the positive reviews on the website that really highlight some deserving artists.
October 20, 2014 @ 8:28 pm
I like Nickelback ……
October 20, 2014 @ 8:34 pm
AHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAH…6.5 MILLION CD SINGLES SOLD…ON THE 1ST CD…..AHAHAH….1/2 A MILLION ALREADY SOLD ON THE CURRENT
CD OUT FOR 5 DAYS….AHAHAHAHA….WHO CARES IF ITS THE WORST….
…ITS SELLING….THIS IS NOT REMBRANDT, PICASO, OR THE BEATLES,
…HANK SR OR JR WISH THEY COULD SELL LIKE THIS, IT’S ALL ABOUT…
…THE MONEY…CALL IT CHOPPED CHICKEN LIVER IF YOU WANT TO…
..THEY DON’T CARE, THEY ARE LAUGHING ALL THE WAY TO THE BANK..
..THIS IS AMERICA…THIS IS CAPITALISM, THEY DON’T CARE WHAT YOU THINK.–KIX BROOKS OF BROOKS & DUNN -“HEY THIS NEW STUFF IS SELLING DON;T KNOCK IT, IT IS SELLING”…
October 20, 2014 @ 8:46 pm
KIX BROOKS OF BROOKS & DUNN -”HEY THIS NEW STUFF IS SELLING DON;T KNOCK IT, IT IS SELLING””¦
Allow me to retort.
October 21, 2014 @ 2:13 pm
People can make a good salary being a manager at Wal-Mart. Money has started controlling people’s minds and lives (including mine), and it’s sad.
I don’t give a dern what Hank Jr. wants, but Hank Sr. is gone from this earth. He couldn’t care less what’s going on down here. Believe it, he made his name linger as a praised legend, even with the mistakes he made. It’s because he had the talent and admiration for what he was put here to do, to do it right. God blessed him for that in ways money can’t buy an explanation for.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:11 pm
Now, I don’t in anyways endorse their music nor the nature of their songwriting, nor have I even bothered to listen to the album. If I did and it was as bad as this article says it is, I simply would’ve just passed it off as another ridiculous collection of songs amongst millions that I dislike. Out of personal taste.
Yet, writing a whole column about how terrible one feels it is, that’s the joke. I laugh it this, yes. I laugh at my extent of even acknowledging this. Until one has gathered the means to start a band, get people to listen, make a name, get on a national radar, and record songs no matter how shitty, Until you’ve went through the work and exposed your own creativity.. or lack thereof..
You can shut the fuck up.
For even if you do have a band, even if you do know what good music is, even if you were there when music as you know was real
If you were successful in your career and to yourself, you wouldn’t have the time to sit here and downgrade musicianship. It’s your freedom to, yes. As it is for this group to write the songs as described, and as it is for any rebuttal to my statement. But it’s my honest belief that
You can Shut the Fuck Up.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:21 pm
It’s his blog. Did you miss that?
October 20, 2014 @ 9:36 pm
No, but I wish I did. I never would’ve even heard of this band if it weren’t for naysayers sharing it on my newsfeed. Now, I’m aware of how stupid the songs are..
And I’m pissed off that people go out of their way to demean music careers..
And I’m just pissed in general now.
People know how powerful the web is; they know how far across the world digital information can go. And yet..
But guess who’s a new owner of that idiot album? Yes! Trucks, women, lakes, exactly what I had in mind today!
October 20, 2014 @ 10:17 pm
And no I’m not pissed as in angry. I’m pissed as in drunk and missin happy hour with nothing better to do.
October 23, 2014 @ 7:52 am
do you have a 12 pack handy in the back of yur pickup truck Hoss? get on down a dirt road with a hottie with the painted on jeans lookin so fine, as fine as wine, throw that tailgate down and chill brah. it’ll all be good good.
October 22, 2014 @ 8:12 am
Ha ha ha. 😀
They’re all here reading SCM…..every comment.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:27 pm
“Until one has gathered the means to start a band, get people to listen, make a name, get on a national radar, and record songs no matter how shitty, Until you”™ve went through the work and exposed your own creativity.. or lack thereof..
You can shut the fuck up.”
It would never occur to me to make such an accusation like this if I didn’t know for sure that the person I’m accusing truly wasn’t pursuing music on a professional level, and had potentially met the requirements I laid out to be able to criticize someone else’s creative pursuit. Nonetheless, I bristle at the idea that certain requirements must be met for people to have an opinion about music, and to share it.
“If you were successful in your career and to yourself, you wouldn”™t have the time to sit here and downgrade musicianship.”
This is untrue. One of the driving forces behind Saving Country Music is the identification that we live in a glutted music marketplace and consumers need guidance to navigate to the best music more than ever, and assuming that just because I take of my time to share my options means that I would not have the time or wherewithal to also pursue music on a personal or professional level is a wild-eyed assumption.
Using a forum I constructed to give impartial reviews and news coverage of music to promote my own personal music pursuits (if such pursuits existed) would be a severe compromise of ethics in my opinion.
As it says in the Saving Country Music Charter:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/charter
“Be responsible with the public platform Saving Country Music has created, and never use it for self-promotion of you, or any of its other principals, including for personal music, creative, or business endeavors aside from specific ones related to the site, or the personal endeavors of friends or other close associates.”
October 20, 2014 @ 10:10 pm
Those “guidelines” aren’t a measure or criteria that validates opinion. I’m sure you’re fathoms deep in the music business with years gone behind you. And I’m sure as heaven is wide you ain’t ever gonna shut the fuck up, as that ain’t in your blood to do so. But I’ll tell you this. I am one more person who learned about the subject of your criticism, the Florida Georgia Line. I know now of their existence. Positive reviews, you may hand left and right to the rest, but today I heard for the first time Florida Georgia Line and the worst album ever until the next worst album ever. And it’s still more constructive than what you said.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:18 pm
i suppose blind people cant know the beauty of a rainbow.
October 20, 2014 @ 9:23 pm
These comments really crack me up, especially from the FGL fans referring to “their music” and “their passion” and their “hard work.” If the music makes you happy, fine, but there are a few things you should know. These two were manufactured in the Belmont music factory as a music business experiment. “Their music?” Not so fast. You are correct about the “winning formula,” but that formula came from extensive market research paid for by record label executives and songs written by committee, hardly from the musical genious of these two. Also, giant marketing and PR firms have carried most of the weight in the “hard work” department. If you can explain or show me any evidence of these guys working hard or paying any sort of dues (music business degrees do not count). I’ll gladly stand corrected. FGL is winning awards, dominating charts, and making tons of money for the same reason more people eat at Long John Silver than the struggling mom and pop catfish house down the road- because Long John Silver has mastered the art of making fish not taste like fish. If you like the music, fine, but don’t make these guys out to be more than what they really are- the faces of a product being sold to you by a corporation. And if you prefer the filet-o-fish sandwich combo, that’s totally cool. But that ain’t fish your eating!
October 20, 2014 @ 9:49 pm
I hadn’t heard any of the album except Dirt, which is why I had hope, but then I found this, started reading, and got curious. I looked it up on YouTube and listened to part of several songs. Holy crap, I could feel myself getting stupid. I can’t even tell the songs apart! I have an audio engineering background, so just the bad production was distracting enough. How can you have such over-produced EDM, throw in a soft banjo, and call it country? The autotune is so thick you could gag and it’s so over done, in some spots it sounded truncated and distorted. Did I hear actual feedback, like from an oscillator, in one song? I REALLY hope they didn’t put that in there on purpose, maybe it was a YouTube mess up, but it sounded like it was on purpose. Ugh! Then there’s the lyrics.. So yeah, I had to turn it off and go back to reading this review, which was nice to hear someone with common sense give a well written and well based/educated opinion, so I started getting some IQ points back. Very nice review, I couldn’t have said it better myself. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to go back to listening to Charlie Worsham, George Strait, Josh Turner, and Vince Gill, which is this evening’s line up 🙂
October 20, 2014 @ 10:05 pm
If you don’t like them simply don’t listen it’s that easy. Of course they’re different than your mom and pops country music. Every music genre sounds different than it did in the past get over it. I doubt fgl is losing any sleep over this or anyone’s negative opinion everyone and their mother has critics in life. This band will continue to have great album sales and do what they love doing making a ton of money doing it. They will continue to sell out concerts and have millions of fans. So congrats on getting your opinions out there I’m sure your really hurting their feelings!!
October 20, 2014 @ 10:41 pm
I LOVE FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE I’m actually going to their concert on Saturday with Jason Alden! Who ever thinks that they are the “new country of nickel back” or “bad version of backstreet boys” is the most dumbass shit I’ve ever heard. At least this band actually plays music that sounds like country not this other hip hop shit in newer country. I have every one of their songs on my iTunes! They are my favorite band along with a few other country singers! Insane how people think this is “the worst album ever”. So that’s why they won 5 cma music awards and many other awards. Makes me sick seeing comments like this. TEAM FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE
October 21, 2014 @ 12:10 pm
So Jason Aldean is already cheating on his new girlfriend? With you?
What, was this date a prize in a contest? What was second place, going to 2 concerts with Aldean?
“I”™m actually going to their concert on Saturday with Jason Alden!”
October 20, 2014 @ 10:52 pm
Omg people simple as this, if you don’t like them don’t fucking listen to them!!! Nobody gives a shit about your stupid ass opinion!!! They get more green in their pocket than what you get!! Haters just keep on hatin’!!! Hope that pisses all yall off!!
October 21, 2014 @ 1:26 pm
“If you don”™t like them don”™t fucking listen to them!!!
* I don’t. But I am sick of getting it shoved down my throat every single time I walk down the street.
“Nobody gives a shit about your stupid ass opinion!!!
* You are posting on this board. So obviously YOU give at least some type of shit.
“They get more green in their pocket than what you get!!”
* I just found a big green piece of lint in my pocket. Does that count?
“Haters just keep on hatin”™!!! Hope that pisses all yall off!!”
* Actually, infantile comments like this make me laugh! I would almost say keep them coming!
October 21, 2014 @ 6:47 pm
1, WTF are you talking about for real, and 2 It’s really hilarious how bad people don’t like them but have their precious time to comment on here and talk shit about them. I really love being the only one on here that likes them so much to comment just so people can scroll and it piss them off. So take your immature smart ass comments and shove them up your ass. Thanks for commenting on my post dick! 🙂
October 21, 2014 @ 6:56 pm
You seem like you are a lot of fun at parties.
October 21, 2014 @ 7:13 pm
You’re a good fanboy, Matty.