Florida Georgia Line’s Song “Cruise” (A Rant)
The Country Music Anti-Christ Scott Borchetta has decided to unleash a new wave of pestilence on the human eardrum, this time in the form of the glorified boy band Florida Georgia Line.
Originating from the Republic Nashville imprint of Big Machine Records, the duo consisting of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley met while attending the Mike Curb College of Music at Nashville’s private and exclusive Belmont University. I know, right? Doesn’t get more country than that! Apparently they were both enrolled in the “How To Be A Upper Middle Class Douchebag But Pretend To Be A Country Boy And Filch Rednecks Out Of Their Hard Earned Money, 101” class. They made eyes across the classroom, and afterwards discussed their mutual desire for world music domination over $175 haircuts, manscaping, and colonics. Next thing you know, Florida Georgia Line is born.
Florida Georgia Line is a horrible combination of Rascal Flatts pretty boy hyper-pop, and designer jeans Jason Aldean “backroad” laundry list bullshit. They are everything bad about quotation mark “country” in 2012 combined into one big stuffed crotch sandwich.
Punctuating how pathetic “Cruise” is, is the fact that these two dudes apparently don’t know how to use punctuation. The first line of the song goes, “Baby you a song,” instead of, “Baby you’re a song.” But what else can you expect when the title of their EP is It’z Just What We Do. Yes, it’s one of those albums, blurring the lines between Ebonics and idiocracy, produced by Joey Moi of Nickelback fame. I swear, sometimes these rants just write themselves.
Somebody should tell the Doogie Houser-looking Brian Kelley that if you want to play electric guitar, you actually have to PLUG IT IN. Actually strike that, we don’t want to hear this hack-ass Ken doll-looking douche nozzle struggling to finger the most basic chords. His best chance of locating a G-string is if it was riding up his bandmate Tyler Hubbard’s ass. Looks like Tyler Hubbard likes to rock the dog tags, but just because he wears dog tags and plays with his privates doesn’t mean he has any army cred.
Sorry for being rude Tyler and Brian, it’z just what I do.
“Cruise” is about cheap girls and expensive trucks, set to a straightforward rock song with the ever-present pop country dead giveaway: the token banjo. Tyler and Brian think they’re picking up all these chicks because of their pimped-out ride, but the truth is most of these sweet little fraulines haven’t said no to a man since puberty. And unfortunately that “lift kit” on their Chevy won’t raise their IQ’s out of the sub-par percentiles or increase the potential of their laughable, dwarfish manhoods brought on by more metabolics than Manny Ramirez gulped down during the steroid era. It also won’t make me overlook that Florida Georgia Line’s vocals have all the tell-tale earmarks of Auto-tune embellishment.
And what is this yellow shit they’re tossing around towards the end of the video? It’s never a good idea to wallow in anything yellow and powdery. Piles of raw pollen? Sulfur? Powdered eggs? Powdered AIDS? Hell screw it, let them play around in it and let’s hope it brings a demise to this awful, puss-filled abscess of American corporate culture.
This is the #2 song in country music for the 2nd straight week folks. We’ve got a lot of work to do.
Welcome to country music Florida Georgia Line.
Two guns down!
November 14, 2012 @ 11:12 am
I know it doesn’t pertain, but I think it would be interesting to hear your review of Aaron Lewis’s new album The Road. I know your thoughts about Endless Summer and Country Boy. But listening to his new album everything besides Endless Summer sounds like one of the most country albums to come from mainstream Nashville in recent time.
November 14, 2012 @ 11:30 am
Just because something is really country doesn’t mean it’s good. I haven’t listened to the new Aaron Lewis yet.
August 11, 2018 @ 1:22 pm
Who ever wrote this article is BUGGIN!
November 14, 2012 @ 11:21 am
My sister has this on her iPod. I’m going to have to hold her down and make her listen to George Jones’ entire discography until she forgets Florida Georgia Line.
November 14, 2012 @ 11:36 am
I made it to 1:07, then I puked.
November 23, 2012 @ 3:44 pm
My wife begged me to shut it off after 0:47. She now has nightmares
June 3, 2014 @ 8:10 pm
They call it country. It isn’t even close. I don’t think the talent is there. Their music is an insult to true country music.
May 23, 2020 @ 3:55 pm
Sorry but you are so wrong. Brian Kelley and Tyler Hubbard are obviously successful for a reason. They are one of, if not the only country group that is RIAA Diamond Certified. They are 8x Platinum and have over 4 million fans. They have beat George Strait’s Record of consecutive days in #1. They aren’t a boy band they are a duo. And you saying that they basically aren’t smart, Brian went to three colleges. Also have you seen rapping videos? Also everyone saying they aren’t country, country music is on of those genres where it is MIXED. I would rather listen to songs about trucks and small towns than songs about swag and twerkin’ around. Also it’s okay if you don’t like Flordia Georgia Line, not everyone has great taste. Plus I know this comment is all over the place because I was trying to remember are the stupid things written in this article to prove wrong. If you really don’t like there music you don’t need to be rude about you could just be like most people when they don’t like certain songs they change the station or skip the song and move on with their life’s.
November 2, 2014 @ 2:47 pm
I tried to listen to this poor excuse of a country song, I only made it to 38 seconds then broke my computer.
November 14, 2012 @ 11:46 am
I thought the song sucked, but I don’t really see how the band is a bunch of upper middle class douchebags who are pretending to be rednecks.
First off, Belmont is far from an “exclusive” school, they accept over 60% of the people who apply. And while it is private, it’s a also a Christian school and the tuition is 10K less than what you would pay at Vanderbilt or Sewanee.
While there was some message of a pick up trucks and small towns, I did not hear a lot of the usual redneck laundry list stuff you would hear. And there are a lot of people from small towns who go to a half decent college.
Gram Parsons came from one of the richest families in Florida and didn’t get into country music until he went to Harvard. Then he would sing songs promoting very simple country values.
The difference is that Parsons made great music and they play horrible music. But I don’t care where they went to school.
November 14, 2012 @ 12:02 pm
Fair enough.
I understand Belmont may not be Yale. I just thought it was a little ironic that the “Mike Curb School of Music” gave birth to this duo who are trying to pass themselves off as hayseeds from the back roads. No, this is not as laundry list as some songs, but that’s probably because they’re not talented enough to cram as many countryisms into a phrase as is the norm these days. Back roads, trucks, Chevys, and little farms towns all make appearances though.
I’ve said many times it doesn’t matter who you are, or where you’re from, if the music is good, that’s all that matters. But in this case, the music is worse than bad, and since it sits at the top of the country charts, it’s open season in my book.
This is a rant anyway, let’s not take it too literally.
November 14, 2012 @ 3:10 pm
I see your point.
I guess to me there is a slight difference between country cliches (Back roads, small towns etc.) and redneck cliches (guns, dip, etc.); and even though they are far from mutually exclusive, I associate the latter with the laundry list.
Anyway, we can both agree that the band is god awful.
November 15, 2012 @ 3:16 am
Don’t mean to nitpick, but it’s actually the “Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.” I seriously doubt that these guys have the musical talent to get into Belmont’s School of Music.
It’s pretty depressing that, of the three Belmont acts that Scott Borchetta has signed (the others being Edens Edge and Greg Bates), Florida-Georgia Line is the only one that seems to have taken off. I hope that in ten years Belmont tour guides aren’t selling the university to prospective students by saying “Florida-Georgia Line went here!” while Lee Ann Womack and Josh Turner (and possibly Brad Paisley even) will have been forgotten.
November 15, 2012 @ 10:25 am
Oh the irony of how the school that bears Mike Curb’s name is becoming a hotbed of rising Scott Borchetta / Big Machine talent, while Curb’s existing roster continues to be pilfered by Borchetta as well.
November 14, 2012 @ 11:50 am
You know, I can’t stand it when classic Southern Rock bands are name dropped in these kinds of soulless pop country songs. In this case, it’s the Marshall Tucker Band. No self respecting MTB fan would want to get within a thousand miles of this song.
November 14, 2012 @ 12:07 pm
Hey Trig (if that is your real name) your review and caption point to your complete lack of knowledge of the dangerous effects electric guitar harmonics can have when combined with dance movement energies. It should be obvious to you that if the guitar were plugged in while one is busting out some serious “Walk Like an Egyptian” dance moves that the resultant synergy could result in a unrestrained force that could melt the entire planet. All I can say is, “Thank god FGL did their homework and as a result avoided a planetary catastrophe.”
November 14, 2012 @ 12:18 pm
I knew you would hate this band, but you know what grinds my gears? They call themselves Florida Georgia Line, but neither of them are from South GA or North FL. One is from around Atlanta and another is from around Daytona Beach. Their music also sounds nothing like the music this area is famous for. FALSE ADVERTISEMENT!
I’m sure they’ll be #1 on the country charts this time next year.
November 14, 2012 @ 12:37 pm
Well they’re already #2, and the only reason they’re not #1 is Billboard’s new slanted chart rules have Taylor Swift there.
November 14, 2012 @ 3:12 pm
A silver lining to the new rules?
May 23, 2020 @ 4:10 pm
Okay I am reading so many comments about how they aren’t from around the Florida Georgia Line well if you did your research here is how they actually can up with their name: Tyler and Brian meet at the University of Belmont and before long they were writing and playing songs together. They didn’t wanted to be known as just Tyler and Brian. They almost named their band Orange Peach but then they realized they wanted the name to the represent were they came from. So they threw out there state names and Line and then it stuck. They had this idea at 2 or 3 in the morning when they lived together in Nashville.
November 15, 2012 @ 12:45 am
It appears that Florida Georgia Line has actually been helped by the new chart system. They are currently #7 on the Billboard country airplay chart.
November 14, 2012 @ 1:57 pm
I’m not even going to listen to this shit. GA FLA line my ass. This offends me because I am from North Florida and my Family originated from Baimbridge and Thomasville GA. George Strait was one of the last great ones to come along. It seems to me that with what he and many others started doing in the mid to late 80’s was the beginning of what has developed today. I’m not blaming anyone but I think its all about $$$ anymore and that is a shame. In George’s defense, he has kept it close to home more than most. If people are not allowed to try a certain food/drink/beer/etc, how will they know if they like it? Answer: They won’t. This is exactly what the fuck tards in control of “Country Music” want.
November 15, 2012 @ 7:29 am
I’m a born and raised north Floridian myself, I live, work, and play on and around the Florida Georgia line. I can assure you, especially during this time of year, if these two dickholes showed up on the “back roads” in the woods that run along the Florida Georgia line, they would be greeted by scores of boys like myself, driving our lifted trucks, with dog boxes in the back, and probably a buck deer laying on the top of it, who would be happy to kick one’s ass all the way back to Atlanta, and the other one’s back to Daytona, for posing as one of us.
IT’Z JUST WHAT WE WOULD DO!
November 15, 2012 @ 9:25 am
I’m a Florida-born-and-raised Cracker myself and I, as well, take offense to these pussies calling this poppy shit “country” music AND especially including Florida in their name. I’m sure the true grit Georgia boys wouldn’t take a liking to it either.
September 19, 2013 @ 5:08 pm
flcracker, your really a idiot…along with the rest of yall…let these boys make their money however the f@!* they want to…half of yall prolly aint even country to start with…unlike myself.
November 15, 2012 @ 7:39 am
I’m from Moultrie , GA . You guessed it , a stone’s throw from the Florida-Georgia line . I’d like to report that that this nonsense isn’t what really takes place with the young people in this neck of the woods … but sadly , I can’t .
My office is directly across the road from the local high school . At 3:00 sharp every day there’s a parade of super-jacked/loud exhaust 4X4s blaring pop/rap/country reminding me of how musically clueless these kids are . “Pontoon” seems to be tune of choice here lately .
As much as it pains me to admit it , I’m not even safe at home . This newest piece of shit is sure to make its way into my wife’s sun visor CD holster right along side Chesney , Aldean , and Bryan . I have no doubt she’ll be very impressed that her newest music mistake is ” from here ” . For the record , she didn’t “like heavy metal until Creed and Nickleback came out .” I love her dearly in spite of her poor taste in music , I guess .
Truthfully , I didn’t listen to the song or watch the video . I’ll gladly take you guys’ word for it . I saw that Trig mentioned these punks name-dropped MTB . I wish Paul Riddle would hunt these guys down a throw a fierce beating on them with his Vic Firths .
November 21, 2012 @ 10:53 am
I live in SE.GA (’bout an hour from the state line) and agree 100% that unfortunately crap like this has become anthems to scores of young people who adapt all the stereotypes mentioned here…shaping themselves into sort of hillbilly-douchebag characters that are about as country as Flavor Flav…reminds me of the white collar yuppies who put on leather/bandannas when they ride their Harleys on the weekends and try to pass themselves off as real bikers…
November 15, 2012 @ 8:01 am
Hey William , three words for ya … Garth Fucking Brooks . I’m not much of a George Strait fan , but I think the cowboy hatted putz on the trapeze deserves the lion’s share of the blame for what we’re suffering in country music today . With the honorable mention going to Rickey Lynn Gregg . Who ? For a good laugh , look him up .
November 26, 2012 @ 11:07 am
Hell yea Robby. You hit it on the head with Garth. Rickey Lynn Greg is damn hilarious. I think I just a little bit of man hood having listened to a couple songs.
November 16, 2012 @ 6:41 am
Amen boys. Lake City here and I don’t want to be associated with these dickheads either. With that said we are fighting a whole culture of pretenders. They’re easy to spot because they drive brand new jacked up trucks with loud exhaust and dog boxes. Truth is if they got within five miles of the woods anything they were “huntin” would be long gone. Real people are tough to find but this horseshit music is a great way for me to know who I don’t want to even speak to.
November 14, 2012 @ 2:22 pm
What the hell is this shit? Wow…I thought I’d heard bad before, but wow…just, wow…speechless
November 14, 2012 @ 3:23 pm
Urgh, that whole thing made me cringe. o_O
Looks like that stuff at the end is powdered paint (or maybe that colored dust from Regina Spektor’s “Fidelity” video)…
November 14, 2012 @ 3:41 pm
Best. Review. Ever.
November 14, 2012 @ 4:08 pm
Yeah, I noticed the auto-tune before you pointed it out in the review. Something else that calls my attention is how over-produced the song actually is. And honestly, I stopped looking at Billboard after the new rule thing. It’s already depressing to make any real fan of country music want to sit down in a bench and cry to see that Taylor swift has been up in that list since God knows when.
November 14, 2012 @ 11:35 pm
when did hunter hayes start taking roids lol?
your standard pop country sh** cant say much else.
November 15, 2012 @ 12:43 am
What’s funny about this song is that the music is not that bad, even though it’s not enough to cover up the atrocious lyrics.
November 18, 2012 @ 8:10 pm
I agree, the musical elements are not that bad – not really original, but not horrible either. The only thing that is really bad in the arrangement is the terrible drum machine. The lyrics are stupid on the other hand – how hard is it to say ‘you’re’? Having that as the hook of a song is simply embarrassing.
November 19, 2012 @ 9:22 am
Well put — the music is pretty by-the-numbers, but the lyrics… yeesh. I thought most mainstream country these days was pretty dumbed-down — this really takes the cake!
(If some guy ever comes up to me and says “Baby, you a song,” I think I’d either throw a drink in his face, or just laugh at him.)
March 15, 2013 @ 7:41 pm
i totally agree with you, and i dont think those lyrics “baby you a song, you make me wanna roll my windows down” dont even make any sense in that order anyway, ive never met a person that makes me want to roll down my windows.
November 15, 2012 @ 2:40 am
Damn it!!!
When I woke up this morning I told myself, “James, you’re NOT going to get dumber today.”
I blew it about 30 seconds into this clip. Sorry, I mean THIZ clip! I think it’z contagious!
November 15, 2012 @ 6:29 am
Funny story about this. Last night I was at the bar with a buddy of mine, I put on a bunch of good old tunes, Marty Robbins, Willie Nelson, Waylon, ect… Guy comes up and asks us, what is this old shit, I answer this is country music, he says you think this is country music, then listen to this. Proceeds to put this song on, interrupting my next song of Dwight yoakom. As soon as I heard the beginning, I told him either you buy me another pbr and shot of whiskey, or I’m throwing your ass into the jukebox. He knew I wasn’t joking and got what I asked for. This song makes me want to punt small animals and babies into a wood chipper
November 15, 2012 @ 7:59 am
What a horrible song, video and equally horrible vocals
November 15, 2012 @ 8:15 am
Although I’d love to be disgusted and repulsed by this obviously metro-pop song, I refuse to give the video a “view” on Youtube. Puke and vomit.
November 15, 2012 @ 8:21 am
And, since when did wearing clothes and accessories that cost more than your unplugged dual humbucker Gibson become hillbilly? Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! Why?
November 15, 2012 @ 8:24 am
On a recent trip to Macon , GA , I took my young daughters to The Big House . It’s now a museum , but was once the communal home to most of the members of the original Allman Brothers Band . In the parking lot following our tour , my 10-year-old was genuinely impressed , with my 5-year-old asking “Daddy , why were there guitars everywhere in that old house ?” My eldest asked a few questions pertaining to the ABB , but then noted “Mama said Jason Aldean’s from Macon too . Does he have a museum around here ?” I replied , “He sure does !” while simultaneously pointing to the flatbed full of Porta Potties parked across the street .
I realize my anecdote has nothing to to with Trig’s article . But maybe it will make some of you around here have a good little chuckle . I sure as hell did .
November 15, 2012 @ 9:39 am
When I read the “Mike Curb School of Music at Belmont University,” I scrolled to the end to see whether “paroday” was one of the tags for the post.
Thanks for the warning.
I like the band’s name, but it sounds like I wouldn’t like their music and schtick.
I will never know, because I am not going to subject my ears to it.
November 15, 2012 @ 10:01 am
The chick in the bikini is hot… I paused it there and that’s as far as I got.
Oh yeah… the song sucks. Pretty boy pop country bands suck.
November 15, 2012 @ 5:31 pm
Trig, I’m surprised you’ve shown so much restraint in this rant!..(lol)
I ‘m absolutely convinced that Scott Borchetta has secretly perfected an “artificial non-intelligence” software program that “listens” to all of the current Top 40 mainstream country songs to spot commonalities and trends. This software then predicts exactly what the radio listening audience currently likes best and creates songs to cater to their innermost needs! Then all Scott has to do is locate “artists” who meet the basic physical and sonic characteristics needed to fill the bill to records these songs and what you wind up with is “Cruise”!
For the last 15 or more years I’ve witnessed mainstream country struggling valiantly to seek out the lowest common denominator, but even I am surprised by how far down it’s sunk with this song. The only two questions that remain are: 1.) Can it possibly get any worse?, and 2.) If it does, how long will that song stay at #1? The AirHeads have truly gained control of the mainstream country asylum.
November 17, 2012 @ 5:00 am
So it happened again, I clicked on the video, knowing for sure that the song sucks. And not only does it suck, it sucks bigtime. Still I click, even after reading the comments. And boy did it suck, and it’s #2 on Bilboard…. Fortunately radio in Holland doesn’t play this, so I only have to hear it once. Well, I didn’t puke, only just, but halfway through the song I got this quote in my head, from a song by The Jam, Goin’ Underground, a punkrock-song from 1980: “The public gets what the public wants,but I don’t want what the society says, I’m goin’ underground”.
So I went to Youtube, found footage of the one time I saw them in concert in 1980, played the song, at the end I didn’t remember one word or note from what was that song.
Country has got to be saved from the underground, but not just by pissing on the mainstream. I like reading these rants, but I come to SCM for the good music.
November 25, 2012 @ 10:20 pm
Almost worse than rap-country.
November 26, 2012 @ 9:39 pm
Dear Triggerman,
Let me ask you a question oh “country music savior of the world,” how much money have you made in the last 6 months off of your music? Better yet, how much money have you made off of any “brand” that you might have created. Welcome to the music business my friend, it’s a “brand” and a “business.” What does a “business” do? It turns profit off of a product. And you my friend seem to have zero concept of what a successful “product” would be in today’s country music world. So good luck and congratulations on your bogus blog that I’m sure will be highly regarded and your awesome opinion will be ever so respected.
Sincerely,
Your Dad
PS. That “Anti-Christ” Scott Borchetta would probably be more than happy to discuss your opinions with you. You could probably schedule an appointment with a member of his staff and he can fly to meet you in his private Leer jet. I am sure there is a “contact us” page on the Big Machine website.
November 26, 2012 @ 11:41 pm
I’m pretty sure you’re really not my dad.
November 27, 2012 @ 1:02 am
As Triggerman commented in the article about “Beer with Jesus”, his dad passed away from cancer when he was 5 years old.
Your comment seems to be a classic case of unintentionally hurting someone by being too clever by half.
November 27, 2012 @ 5:44 am
Of course people need to make money. Everybody knows that. But the product they turn out doesn’t have to be garbage in order to do.
November 27, 2012 @ 7:25 am
I don’t personally know The Triggerman . With that out of the way , I invite you to eat shit on his behalf . Those of us that visit and post here share his opinions the majority of the time . We also appreciate his taking the time and effort to have a forum for the rest of us to vent our frustrations about what’s being done with a genre of music we sincerely care about .
As for your money , limos , and jets … lube them all up with that hair gel ( I’m sure you purchase in industrial-sized containers ) and shove them up your ass . If don’t speak for others here they’ll surely correct me , but we couldn’t possibly care less if what we post here is popular with the consumers of the pablum Borchetta & Co. churn out . It’s quite the opposite as a matter of fact .
January 7, 2013 @ 8:04 am
I’d rather be a poor, talented, respected musician than a rich, hated hack. Just remember, money can’t buy you everything. Can’t believe I just said that.
August 27, 2013 @ 7:50 am
100% agree with Papa… you are all just hating on this music because they are successful and you are writing a blog about them. Let me ask you this one “Triggerman”… do you think they know or care who YOU are?
November 27, 2012 @ 8:46 pm
Doug Gray should beat their ass.
December 6, 2012 @ 9:59 am
Just because this does not appeal to you, does not mean this is not country. People like Florida Georgia Line and Thomas Rhett are introducing a new hybrid style of country. And for the author of this article to even compare them to Rascal Flatts is beyond absurd. They are not even close to pop. It’s a new age country rock group with a little hip hop flare to it. Young fans and new comers into the genre of “Country Music” can relate to these songs and love to play them as they “cruise” down the road or during a party with friends. I can’t party to George Strait or Merle Haggard, although I respect those artists and listen to them, when the time is right. We listen to music when we are in certain moods and want our emotions to reflect the music we hear. So realize there is a place and time for a group like this. To reference the looks of Brian Kelley and call him a Ken Doll Douche makes me question all credibility you try to put behind this article. The review was about the music I thought…But all people achieving success need haters and critics, so continue to talk and spread word of the group and make them more famous then they already are. As a debut album and single has already went #1 – and the song cruise has sold over a million copies. Numbers don’t lie, and I’m sure they don’t make their music for you or care of your narrow minded opinion.
Sincerely,
The new generation of country music fans.
We respect the old and love the new. So get with the times, cause it aint changing anytime soon.
December 6, 2012 @ 10:08 am
“Young fans and new comers into the genre of “Country Music” can relate to these songs and love to play them as they “cruise” down the road or during a party with friends.”
Oh how I love it.
GET OFF MY LAWN YOU YOUNG WHIPPER SNAPPERS!!!!!!
December 6, 2012 @ 10:21 am
Whipper Snappers? That terminology is as outdated as your view of music. You can’t enjoy the fact that certain acts bring fans into a genre they would have never thought twice about listening to if it wasn’t for them? I used to be biased and have a stereotype of country music until I started to listen to it. The single song that changed my mind was “Guys Like Me” by Eric Church. It made me rethink what country music was. From there i started searching and exploring other music in country music. So if artists like these are a gateway to new fans then i dont see a problem with it. It’s not all fiddles and banjos and overused twang and sorrow like it used to be. And that’s just alright with me…I could go the rest of my life without listening to another Taylor Swift song though. But as an OPEN MINDED individual, I realize there’s a place and market for her. It ain’t for me but whatever.
January 30, 2013 @ 10:29 am
I hear your arguements, and I can understand where they come from, the same place Florida/Georgia Line comes from…the new generation of “give me something I don’t have to work for”. I was that age once too. Not that long ago.
I get sometimes you want music that is just party music, you don’t have to think about…you just play it as background noise, much your local Abercrombie Fitch store…loud and pointless. Also, you need something to fill the silence when you and your friends are buried in your iPhones rather than having a conversation. This “new generation” of country allows you to hear some music, text away, and not realize that you’re listening to garbage.. #1 or not.
But there is hope if you do know who Haggard and Jones are. I came into the fold on Brooks & Dunn/Garth. Then I heard Hank Sr. and Waylon and realized that country music has a whole other quality and authenticity. If Church was the artist that turned your light blub on, well, however it happens it happens, but I think you are about .000001% scratched the surface of what is reasonable country and you haven’t even come into the universe of what is real/true country music.
…And a secret…you can party plenty hard to true country. Try crusiing down the road to Don Williams “Tulsa Time” or partying Waylon’s “Slow Rollin Low”.
The mainstream music business won’t change anytime soon…but you will. You will grow up, mature, and you will find that the music you say is the “wave of the future” is just popcorn shit for the current trends.
…and did someone below try to compare the authenticity of F/G Line to George Strait??? Holy hell.
I agree with Trigger, “get off my lawn”.
December 6, 2012 @ 10:19 am
“As a debut album and single has already went #1 ”“ and the song cruise has sold over a million copies. Numbers don”™t lie, and I”™m sure they don”™t make their music for you or care of your narrow minded opinion. ”
I was thinking maybe I’d go out to my local Five Guys for lunch today,as I have a hankering for one of their heralded cheeseburgers. But, you know, maybe I’m just being an elitist. They haven’t sold billions and billions of burgers like McDonalds. Numbers don’t lie. Yes sir, I’m a get me a Big Mac! Super size me!
February 9, 2013 @ 11:46 am
you sir, are brilliant. awesome analogy 🙂
January 7, 2013 @ 7:55 am
Justin Bieber has sold millions of albums and had #1s, but everyone over the age of 14 thinks his music is complete garbage…so yes, numbers can lie.
July 4, 2013 @ 9:04 am
Thank you!!! I’ve been listening to George jones, Alan Jackson, Merle haggard, Loretta lyn and all them other amazing singers for my whole life. Sometimes, when we wanna have so good ol country times we don’t wanna go racin down a back road havin fun for it to be ruined by a sad ” he stopped lovin her today” to come on. I respectt y’all’s opinion and sayings but dang the weathers changin. Today it’s sunny and tomorrow it’s snowin! It’s just like music. Years ago those true country songs were the top charts but now, it’s developed into something else that us country folks can relate to. I’m sorry sir but your wrong.
September 28, 2013 @ 5:44 pm
In response to Move Over Old Timers’ post, I have only one observation. The words “hybrid” and “infused” are two words that should NEVER….EVER be used to describe country music!!!
December 11, 2012 @ 5:55 pm
florida georgia line writes their own songs, where as george strait does not…who is more authentic again?
December 11, 2012 @ 6:18 pm
George Strait can write words at a 2nd grade competency, where apparently Florida Georgia Line can’t.
But who mentioned George Strait?
May 28, 2013 @ 8:06 am
not so sure about that Trig…. GS has a great ear for a song but he does not write songs. His guitar is more or less a prop or a place to put his hands. Nobody has done more with less in the history of country music.
May 28, 2013 @ 8:24 am
BTW – great review. This band blows…. have a young kid here in the office all excited he got 6 ticks to see these bozos, I had to laugh. He says I am just “hatin” which made me laugh even harder and he cant figure out why. So I offered an olive branch…..Taking him to see Cody Canada and the Departed next weekend. He will see the light, these kids are just sheep, they are following this new sound because of the mass media…. none of the defenders of FGL can say what musically attracts them, they can only say they like it. The musical IQ of the current generation is very low. They actually like auto tuning. They like ebonics. Expose them to real music and they will learn why its better. they all love to punch their iphones, “cruz” the internet… they just need to learn how to find the good stuff. Hopefully XXX gets back up soon so thay have a gathering place of information.
June 3, 2014 @ 5:13 pm
Okay, I just was reading through the comments here thanks to the latest imbecilic comment, and I came upon this one again and had to reply.
I’ve said my piece on the “writing your own songs” bit before, but it deserves to be pointed out that Strait has been stepping up and writing more on his last few albums, with some pretty spectacular results so far. “Out Of Sight, Out Of Mind,” “Drinkin’ Man,” “Shame On Me,” and “That’s What Breaking Hearts Do” are some of the best songs he’s ever put out, IMO.
But, to reiterate: the writing your own songs bit is a bullshit argument. They said the same thing about Shania back in the day and her songs sucked ass just like FGL’s do now. Authentic? Sure. FGL authentic? Sure they are. Authentic TRASH, that is.
December 16, 2012 @ 2:57 pm
ice cold….beer in….a pick up truuuck
January 22, 2013 @ 1:55 am
Okay y’all. I just want to say this. I’m 27 and grew up on traditional country but also appreciate other art forms such as Blues and Jazz. I have cerebral palsy and blind but play guitar, piano, and sing. My girlfriend and I are both bluegrass musicians and know what is like to starve out on the road doing our best playing meaninful talent-filled music. When we turn on the radio we would love to hear good country music but now I just listen to my CD collection. Now, I’m subjected to the likes of Taylor Swift and especially crap like this. I remember the days when you had to have talent to play or sing and in bluegrass you still do. I hope one day we can get back to Tammy, George, Cash, Whitley, Travis, Strait, Skaggs, Lefty, need I go on. Let’s show um how it’s really done. Let’s bring back music with heart and soul not beer, pick-up trucks, girls, and fake pop-country marketed to citified teens. This is not how we do it in the mountains of East Tn.
February 19, 2013 @ 10:20 pm
Briankelleycountry.com
January 30, 2013 @ 9:40 am
The stuff they are throwing around at the end is colored flour. Most commonly used in the Indian Festival of Colors known as Holi.
It has started being used at parties due to its bright colors, non-toxcicity, ease of creation, and the fact it washes off in the shower really easy and won’t stain your clothes.
It started gaining promenence in the US -outside of heavily indian comunities- with things ike the Graffiti 5k which features a “color throwing party” at the end of the race. There are annual Graffiti runs in both Florida and Georgia.
February 9, 2013 @ 11:44 am
I’ll be the minority. Fuck you all. Florida Georgia Line is awesome. All the respect in the world to Jones, and everyone else definitely legends. But once again… fuck you. Thanks 🙂
February 14, 2013 @ 1:00 pm
^^^^^
I’m with ya. Most people won’t say anything because they don’t wanna get flamed. But I don’t give a shit if I get tore apart on a internet blog. Yes its poppy but doesn’t change the fact I like it. And same here love Jones, Sr., Haggard, Waylon…etc. But still enjoy listening to this. Anyways hate away and proceed with your “rant”.
February 18, 2013 @ 2:23 am
……………so, when are you intending on tearing their full-length album “Here’s to the Good Times” a new one, Trigger?
Be warned in advance: “Cruise” is just the tip of this iceberg. They go all-out country rap on “It’z Just What We Do” and admit how sexually repressed they are in the innuendo-stretched-to-full-length-song that is “Tell Me How You Like It”.
“Dayum, Baby” is definitely a leading contender for worst title to have ever been appropriated to a track on a country radio album (and Auto-Tuned even more shamelessly to death) =X
February 18, 2013 @ 2:44 pm
Well see. It’s on the “to do” list but there’s a few more albums actually worth listening to I want to get out of the way first.
February 19, 2013 @ 10:16 pm
Do y’all want to hear some real Brian Kelley country go to briankelleycountry.com and click the iTunes link. Thanks y’all and God bless
February 23, 2013 @ 1:54 pm
First off, you write really well. That was a great review. Very enjoyable read! Seriously! I got some good laughs from this, for sure. That being said, I have to agree and disagree. I love Florida Georgia Line, but at the same time I recognize that these guys aren’t George Jones, Merle Haggard, or even Zac Brown. You have to draw the line, but once you do, this stuff is awesome to crank up with your buddies over a few beers, or over the summer just driving around. But like I said, if you don’t make the distinction between this and “true” country, then I agree, it’s a problem.
February 25, 2013 @ 8:35 am
Hey Florida Georgia Line has got to be one of the best things that have happened to country music in the last decade what do you think Hank Jr. and David Allen Coe sung about whiskey, women, and trucks. That is country music and no music style ever stays the same like rock for instance is rock from the 80’s anything like today? No so neither is Country music excuse me for liking an upbeat music group that sings about the only things real rednecks care about TRUCKS BEER AND WOMEN!
March 30, 2013 @ 9:06 pm
Wow, I guess I’m in the minority too, but all of you need to get your heads out of your asses and stop acting like a bunch of elitist dicks. County music had evolved and continues to evolve just as every other genre does. And for you to say that they have no actual talent and depend on the auto tune clearly shows that you’ve never heard how they sound live. This whole site is a joke. Have a nice day. 🙂
April 4, 2013 @ 1:10 pm
Howdy Pilgrims,
The thing about country today, is that become an offshoot of the pop virus thats killing good music everywhere. Popular music in general has started to polarize into a sing songy mash of bullshit that sounds more like children’s songs than a creation worthy of radio time. Good music still exists, and those who actually care about the music and the lyrics would argue that more unrecognized artists and groups exist than the artists that the major record labels promote because lets face it, music today isn’t so much about the music as it is the money. Album sales have long since been the driving force which fuels the music industry, so the labels promote pretty boy sing a long artists that can barely hold an instrument as long as they’re something pretty to look at. Not to say that every great artist has to be hideous, fat, an asshole, or suicidal, but true musicians live and breath their medium, who write for the people they love, for the feelings they feel so intensely they have to express them in a way so someone can not only hear what they are saying, but also feel the depth of their emotion. Not every person writes so deeply or lays their heart on the table like that, but the best artists in the very least turned those writings into great music: Hank Williams Sr., Waylon Jennings, David Allen Coe, Ray Price and the list goes on. Though he didn’t write the song, Waylon sums it all up in the first verse of Luckenbauch, Texas, The only two things in life that make it worth livin’, is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women, I don’t need my name in the marquee lights, I got my song and I got you with me tonight, maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.” Good country songs are still written and played today, even by some of the more popular artists, but I believe FGL and bands of the like shouldn’t even be considered country just because they sing with a southern accent and play an acoustic guitar. Like most of the people above, I agree that they are a pop-country band like many of the country singers today, so they should just make a damn pop-country genre. Adding bands like this to the country genre is polluting and diluting the genre that I know and love.
November 1, 2014 @ 3:01 pm
Amen, bro.
April 10, 2013 @ 6:47 pm
I would like ot see any of you HYPOCRITES here do better. I hear all of you running your mouths but not one of you f*&ktards could ever do better.
April 22, 2013 @ 1:37 pm
I just did better, I farted.
April 14, 2013 @ 10:15 am
Hey this guy’s if u ever met them and seen them in concert are the best Damn thing since Brooks and Dunn .Who got on my Damn nerves cause they may have been good back in the day but they are fucking horrible.I was glad they broke up and first of all just because they are better than u means they are better. This website is called savingcountrymusic it should be ruiningcountrymusic cause that is all you are doing.The modern country music is rock,pop,rap,and southern rock altogether.So Trigger you need to shut your fucking ass up!!! So get over your single ass fucking non country ass!!!
May 8, 2013 @ 11:28 pm
A stripper puts on a “show” but that does not mean it is good. If you want to see a real show go see Lynyrd Skynyrd or the Charlie Daniels band. THAT IS CLOSER TO COUNTRY MUSIC THAN THIS WILL EVER BE!
April 22, 2013 @ 12:54 pm
This, like 99.9% of all crap labeled “country music” is mindless garbage. The only thing left to be determined is the just how shitty this particular song is. Survey says this song sucks fucking donkey balls.
April 24, 2013 @ 8:15 pm
Just because you don’t like a song doesn’t mean you go out and bad mouth it.
I’m guessing you’re an adult but its hard to tell because of how childish this article is. Hey if you don’t like it keep your mouth shut.
August 4, 2013 @ 2:13 pm
ummmm, basketball, actually, we can!
April 29, 2013 @ 9:23 am
hey florida Georgia line i like your songs so much
July 21, 2015 @ 3:11 pm
The band florida georgia line..obviously got their band name from the respected states of residency…i am 48 yrs old and i find this young generation of country music singers quite awesome..so i agree with whomever said let then make their money and Cruise on into their deserving spot in the music hall of fame….sincerely mjackson…haddock ga..
May 3, 2013 @ 1:18 pm
Don’t look, but……………the Mainstream Top 40 re-mix featuring Nelly is #18 on Pop radio presently and still rising at a rapid rate! =X
As if the Auto-Tune on the original weren’t bad enough, they douse the new version in an even thicker coating of it! =X
May 3, 2013 @ 7:01 pm
Wow…big trucks, girls, banjo riff, dog tags. They’re thinking “what else can I show to make me look like a Deebag?” Tyler is from a ghetto town called Monroe, where there are more public housing areas there than anywhere else outside of metro Atlanta. He grew up in a cultish type Christian church and never ever never ever spent a day in his douche life in any type of military. Stop acting tough, Tyler, Duchebbard, because you aren’t…and your music should be played to get prisoners in GITMO to talk!
May 8, 2013 @ 8:07 pm
This is the worst song ever. Every time I hear it, it makes me nauseous.
May 8, 2013 @ 11:03 pm
So Trigger, I’m curious.
Seeing how extensively you’ve covered Taylor Swift due to how she has reached such a fairly unprecedented scope of audience that transcends radio format lines despite frustratingly allowing Borchetta and others to market her as “country” throughout her first three albums………as well as “Dirt Road Anthem” and how it resembles a dubious milestone for the invasion of country rap to the radio genre……….it seems its high time for a new feature on Florida-Georgia Line’s frightening ascension to fame on Mainstream Top 40 radio now as well, and its implications on the country radio genre and beyond.
As devastating as “Dirt Road Anthem” was and still is, it never even successfully charted any other radio format. It didn’t succeed in crossing over. In contrast, not only is Florida-Georgia Line successfully crossing over with the Nelly-featured re-mix of “Cruise”………..it’s looking like, the way it is registering +200 or greater spin gains each day, that it may be a frickin’ future #1 on Pop radio for crying out loud!
I’m already expecting they’ll release a remix of their current chart-topping hit “Get Your Shine On” featuring another rent-a-rapper after the “Cruise” remix peaks, and then probably roll with either “Dayum, Baby” (maybe featuring Nicki Minaj or Selena Gomez in place of Sarah Buxton) or the title track after that.
Any way you look at this, the implications are absolutely terrifying. Laundry-list stereotypes about living in the South on Mainstream Top 40 radio. Exaggeratedly “twanged” vocals on Mainstream Top 40 radio. And with them succeeding in a way Fast Ryde never could, they’re only going to burst open this floodgate of a bunch of impostors that are basically a blend of Hot Chelle Rae and LMFAO: except boasting about trucks rather than sports cars, “moonshine” from Bi-Mart instead of Petron, and wear cut-off jeans and wallet chains instead of leopard print pants and Afro wigs! -__-
May 10, 2013 @ 2:22 pm
It’s funny, because right when you posted this, I was thinking roughly the same thing. I may have an article on this upcoming…
May 8, 2013 @ 11:08 pm
Amen. Thanks for saying it.
May 13, 2013 @ 2:04 pm
Not trying to be rude or anything but whover wrote this website was kind of a dick because i love florida georgia line, cruise, not for the video because i am female but because its country and it is upbeat and haven’t you ever heard of slang language because now a days alot of people use slang language. If they would have put in baby you’re a song wouldn’t make much sense and besides it is their song not yours so next time you should keep you rude opinions to yourself instead of putting it on a freaking wbsite!
January 18, 2014 @ 8:37 pm
Clarissa, you obviously have no idea what opinions are. Go back and learn them before thinking you are making a difference.
May 21, 2013 @ 6:34 pm
Putting your song on the remix with a thug (Nelly) = country sellout! The original Cruise song was ok, but I lost all respect for them as a band when they collaborated with Nelly. Who’s next? P Diddy? Kanye? Timbaland? Sellouts! If your song is good, push it! At least go pop on your own, like Ms. Swift…but they lack the talent to do that.
July 17, 2013 @ 4:30 am
Florida Georgia Line fuckin rules and Brian Kelley is fuckin hott. Their songs are awesome…..better than any of all you low lifes could do! Whoever made this website is a damn idiot and is just jealous because they’re not as talented as both of them or as hott as my future husband, Brian Kelley! Thank you and screw you!
August 3, 2013 @ 8:57 am
Jessica, when you are old enough to appreciate real music, you will understand that this is not country, nor is it “awesome,” And you’ll have to wait a few years until you are legally allowed to marry, considering Mr. Kelly would agree to marry a groupie who was half his age.
September 22, 2013 @ 6:59 pm
I just did better. I just farted. Now all I have to do is get it on tape and send it to Dallas Davidson…I am sure it will be a hit in no time!!
September 20, 2013 @ 8:08 pm
All of the haters and the author of this negative, nasty, bitter, rant are very jealous people. FGL could care less what any of you think. I went to an awesome FGL concert attended by 11,000 people of all ages, and FGL rocked the house. . If you don’t like their music, DON’T listen to them! Meanwhile, FGL is laughing at you all the way to the bank. Oh, and by the way, when did any you write and record three #1 singles ( and counting) off your first CD????
September 22, 2013 @ 4:49 pm
I dot know what this horrible website has against Florida Georgia Line, but it’s not cool. They are an amazing band and they are twice the person that the person who posts this crap will ever be.
September 22, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
This is terrible. A glorified boy band!? Your just jealous that they have done something with their life. It sounds like you need one, too.
September 22, 2013 @ 5:23 pm
This is terrible.
You know, you could have just stopped right there.
September 22, 2013 @ 5:19 pm
Hey y’all, times have changed and so has music. I if you don’t like it don’t listen to it. Like happy girl said, they probably are laughing all the way to the bank. And if you think that some of their songs are ‘sexual’ we y’all are just being nasty because you thought of it that way.’Tell me how you like it’, I’m pretty sure, was talking about a date. I seriously doubt that they meant it like that and intended children to listen to it.
September 22, 2013 @ 7:01 pm
I will give Abby credit for one thing though. Her punctuation and grammar is a hell of a lot better than 99% of the 13 year old fangirls that post to this site!
October 12, 2013 @ 7:15 am
Mr. Borschetta and the members of Florida Georgia Line failed to mention me in this song. It was specifically outlined in the contract that we signed and notarized that I was to be mentioned in every single song produced by this group. However, it appears they reneged on their promise.
Mr. Borschetta, Mr. Kelley, and Mr. Hubbard will be hearing from my lawyers soon.
Sincerely
ICB
October 14, 2013 @ 5:59 pm
FUCK YOU! you just wish you could sing as good as half these people, so out of jealousy, you make fun of them. They’ve made it a lot further than you have in the country music business, so shut up. K. And obviously if they have had 3 working on four consecutive number one songs, they’re doing something right. And how many have you had? Oh yeah, that’s right, NONE! So shut your dumb ass mouth.
October 14, 2013 @ 6:05 pm
You forgot the part about living in my mom’s basement.
October 31, 2013 @ 2:58 pm
Easy to call someone else a douche bag when you’ve never been paid to sing a note in your pathetic life. The origin of your kind of vile rant is jealousy. I pity you.
October 31, 2013 @ 9:13 pm
And you know I’ve never been paid to sing a note how?
November 8, 2013 @ 9:16 am
You guys who are just hating on Florida Georgia Line are so fucking stupid. So what if you don’t like their music? That’s YOUR opinion and they don’t get2 shits about what you have to say. They obviously know they’re going to have haters and they’re just going to laugh it off and continue to have fun and make amazing music. They’re AMAZING in concert and do have really well written music. They clearly know things are spelled wrong and aren’t grammatically correct but most of the time music isn’t grammatically correct I mean who honest looks at that when they hear a good song? ‘Oh this is a good song I wonder if all the grammar is right?’ No as long as their music pulls people in and gets them to sing along and have fun that’s all that they care about. So much of what you just said is wrong on so many levels. This is what country music is turning into. If you don’t like FGL then what? Do you not like Chris Young, Luke Bryan, or Jason Aldean? Cause they’re all a lot alike. Get with the times they worked hard to get where they are and if you don’t like it you don’t have to. Get a fucking life and quit hating cause nobody cares. Y’all are stupid get the fuck over it. K? Thanks
November 19, 2013 @ 8:34 pm
Ok lets see you got a guy with a Mohawk playing electric = not country, a pretty boy = not country, and a wannabe long haired country boy = not country, and nelly = not country at all!!!!!!! There so fake its not even funny!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A country boy will survive they won’t
December 7, 2013 @ 5:52 pm
Listin, u ass whole that wrpte this, if u dont have any thing nice to say dont say it all, quit making stuff up, about tyler playing with his privates, all u are so somebody that is doing this beacuse ur jelous. And u dont want florida Georgia line to exist, mainly u have no clue what country music js all about, so how about u shut ur ugly ass mouth. And stop acting like u know all about brian and tyler and country music
And sorry for critizing you,itz just what we do, and thats how we do it round here,
Xoxox <3
January 14, 2014 @ 5:38 am
Wow, what education level do you have? Speak English often?
January 14, 2014 @ 5:40 am
Oh and it’s amazing how mouthy people get when they have a computer monitor to hide behind. Who’s the bitch? Oh yeah, YOU!
January 15, 2014 @ 8:01 pm
Listin Bitch is a prime example of the education level of your typical FGL fan. Thank you for showing us all your grammatical prowess, champ. That’s how y’all do it…
urp.
December 22, 2013 @ 8:27 am
If you actually like this Florida Georgia line why are you even spending time on this website? you should be watching PMT right now to get your fill of the pop 20 videos grossly mislabled as country.Their music is just jerk terrible and it just plain sucks, the videos ridiculous most likely Appealing to the recent crossover fans from Justin Bieber. It ain’t country pure and simple….the other side can argue about it all day long. Ball caps on backwards, Mohawks, midgets wrestling on a beach, rap stars and fing Lionel Ritchie is NOT country. Ask any of these so called country music fans about George Jones, George Strait, Alan Jackson, Hank Willims Sr/Jr, Hank Thompson, Loretta Lynn etc they have no clue whom you are speaking. If they say they also like their music have them name a few songs without using google and the truth will be told.
January 14, 2014 @ 5:35 am
Take a very trendy very sub-par country song by the country version of the Back Street Boys and it plaques the country charts. But because these pretty boys feature Nelly, it’s all of a sudden ok play it on top 40 radio stations. I am not a hater of cross-over songs like Taylor Swift has recently done on a few occasions, but if I wanted to hear modern versions of “Achy Breaky Heart” on the radio I would tune into a Country station. I wish the industry would stop pushing shit like this on us forcing many of us to temporarily change channels to avoid the discomfort crap songs like this give us. Top 40 and country shouldn’t be mixed. To quote Offspring “You gotta keep em separated”!
January 30, 2014 @ 9:21 pm
Yeah the song “cruise” absolutely sucks…that’s why it was the longest running #1 single of all time, 50 some consecutive weeks, hell they’re writing the music they like to write and sing, if you don’t like it, you don’t like it, I don’t really think they care if you like them or not, lol, they have millions more fans that are in love with them, and love what they do, they may not be a straight country duo, more so a country-pop duo, but I guarantee you that they’re gonna be around for a while so turn off your country radio
February 27, 2014 @ 11:03 am
So, to be a country artist/band/whatever, you must grow up in a trailer and not go to college…is it country music, or white trash music? Not knocking anyone from any region, income, or lifestyle, but come on lets not knock any artist just because they went to college or grew up in one neighborhood over another. Definitely a solid rant, but if you are going to rip on someone/anyone for grammatical errors, you should try to be pretty grammatically correct yourself… 😉
It takes a lot of the credibility away from the rant, lol.
March 6, 2014 @ 8:11 pm
Okay I can’t even begin to try to correct all of the things on here that you got dead wrong so here’s just a few. 1. Both boys worked for years to get into te colleges they are in, just because they got noticed fairly quick, (not really they started in 09 and made an album in ’10 that is practically unknown) doesn’t mean they didn’t work for it, in 2010 they WROTE the song Black Tears for Jason Aldean which got them more noticed in the music industry. 2. OKAY GENIUS, tell me one artist or group that when they’re filming a music video, actually plays through the entire song, especially with a guitar, but either way watch their behind the scenes videos for their music videos and they will literally say, “time to go ‘Fake preform'” so dissing them on that is a completely invalid arguement. 3. They do autotune BUT, only for their background vocals, Brian Kelley can and DOES sing, and is actually (in my opinion) better then Tyler, HE is an amazing guitarist as well, and calling him a “Ken Doll” is ridiculous, by no means is he unattractive, and your comments about him come from the fact that he probably looks better then you. 4. They SELL OUT almost every concert they headline in, so apparently someone likes them, I’ve been to 2 of their concerts and in every concert there is a HUGE age amount of people at their concerts that are over 25 so it’s not like they’re singing to a bunch of spastic teenage girls, with that being said the two concerts were perobably the best concerts I’ve ever been to, I was vip the second time and watched them BOTH play acoustic guitar and sing, no autotune, no loud busy music to drowned them out, nothing, just pure guitar and vocals, they were amazing, and their actual public concert (which I was front row in) was so much fun, so entertaining, had an amazing set up , and most of all their interaction with the crowd was just amazing. The first concert of theirs I went to was at a state fair and even then it was absolutely amazing I had riser seats but it was still a great concert and a lot of fun to be at. So here’s my point, your criticizing a band you know nothing about and won’t even give a chance, your jealousy of their success has evolved to the “You-don’t-deserve-credit-for-all-your-hard-work-because-I’m-a-jealous-ugly-f*uck-face-and-wish-I-was-you” stage, that’s not healthy man, and they’re doing a trillion times better in their life then you ever will. BTW I absolutely love and respect Hank, Waylon, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, George Jones, George Strait, Garth Brooks, and every other country artist you have mentioned, but yes I LOVE Florida-Georgia Line and their music, yes it’s not like the original country but it’s fun and well I like listening to it, and so do MANY other people, plain and simple.
March 13, 2014 @ 7:08 am
Finally someone does their research. Awesome argument! =D
March 11, 2014 @ 3:12 pm
I remember turning this song on the radio in my dad’s car and he like “what the hell is this shit?” He obviously doesn’t listen to country, but that’s my summary of this song.
If I ever have to deal with someone who has this song on their phone, I’m throwing it in the toilet and taking a shit on it.
March 13, 2014 @ 7:05 am
I find it funny that you talk shit about them not knowing what they sing about, especially about “fingering guitar chords”… you strum… not finger guitar chords. You all are literally the only people I’ve seen hating on them. They don’t play about controversy or for a cause…. They play to have fun… AND GOD FORBID, we have celebrities that stay out of the news for domestic abuse, narcotics abuse, or drama. These really are two good down to earth guys. I do admit, they can be a bit conceited at times, but compared to other artists, these guys are doing fine. You said they had no celebrity help and just “picked up guitars and started playing”… Well, they’ve made it this big that their Silverados are worth more than your apartments in the cities y’all blog from… So obviously they did something right to make it this big.
April 5, 2014 @ 1:32 pm
Florida Georgia Line is the best! And for all you haters, use spellcheck to at least disguise how you cant spell better than a second grader! Savannah, that was a great comment, thank you! I love FGL, and I also appreciate music by George Strait and Alan Jackson, and for your information, I can name many of the songs by George and Alan. (A.J. -Amarillo, Don’t Rock The Jukebox, Livin’ on Love, Little Bitty. G.S. -Cross My Heart, Carryin’ Your Love With Me, Check Yes or No) FGL FOREVER!
June 3, 2014 @ 4:08 pm
Florida Georgia line is an absolute disgrace to actual country music. When you mix hip-hop, pop, and rock together and call yourself a “country artist”, you ought to be hung. Groups like these are to blame for today’s youth becoming what they are. If the members of Florida Georgia Line all died in a plane crash today, I would celebrate. Call me fucked up, but groups like these influence the children of today in a very negative way and it has to end soon. My two cents on this fake “country” artist. Fuck em.
August 25, 2014 @ 3:45 pm
50,000,000+ views on youtube. Had to be something right, just saying. Can’t do much better than that.
September 28, 2014 @ 8:55 pm
One thing about newer “Country” music, I’ve never heard of anyone running up to them saying “OH MY GOSH YOU CHANGED MY LIFE!!!”
Well…maybe if you consider getting drunk in your truck and getting a DUI…
Sure if you like to listen to it, listen on. But I wouldn’t classify this as Country music. It’s almost exactly like pop music. Repetitive and all about partying and having fun. Country is supposed to be about LIFE right? I don’t see anyone who has a future ahead of them that parties every day of the week.
I’d rather listen to stuff that has meaning to it. Maybe about childhood, domestic violence, or how you feel after you get hurt emotionally, about being bullied, or having things taken away from you. Life lessons in general that help you prepare for being in one of those situations. Music is not only made to entertain, it’s supposed to teach lessons about life and inspire its listeners.
Many people are too shallow about their self-image to ignore trends and peer pressure these days. Also, many people are ignorant to the fact that teaching themselves about life would let them feel less insecure and feel the need to only listen to stuff that’s mainstream.
Some people these days are just afraid to be themselves.THAT is one of the many reasons why, I’m sad to say, this generation of children and young adults act the way they do. Dont blame the listeners, blame the media and the people who enjoy promoting this type of stuff that ruins culture of music. If adults were the role models they were meant to be everything would be better.
They need to go through and re-label music….and possibly redefine the term MUSIC…
I would not say that this music is about life. Party music? Maybe.
And P.S. you guys, this is coming from a seventeen-year-old girl…just saying… I was just doing something for a Humanities assignment and couldn’t keep my mouth shut.
December 1, 2016 @ 9:35 pm
In response to justacluelessmusician, when you said FGL hasn’t written or recorded any songs about real life experiences such as domestic violence, emotional pain, etc., you clearly haven’t heard some of the “hidden gems” of their albums. In fact there are many songs like that such as Man I Am Today, Black Tears, Take It Out On Me, Music is Healing, and While He’s Still around. In some of these songs Tyler’s father is mentioned because he passed away in 2007 when Tyler was 19 or 20. Granted some of these are newer. I will agree in some aspects though, I wouldn’t consider Life is a Honeymoon country new or old, but if they tried to be like George Strait or Merle Haggard, they’d be called country legend wanna be’s, and that’s not who Brian and Tyler are. Country music has evolved whether you like it or not, also Cruise hit Diamond Status. BK and Tyler stick to who they are and don’t put on a mask. I won’t say you have to like them, listen to them, or even respect them, but saying they don’t work hard is bullshit. Tyler and Brian had jobs to pay for college, Tyler had a car detailing business to pay the bills. They lose a lot of sleep putting on shows every night, sometimes in sold out arenas, and they write a lot of their songs. As if their schedules aren’t busy enough, they’ve got wives to maintain a relationship with, as well as family. And about the “you’ve changed my life part” FGL really did change my life. I’ve been depressed since 2014 and a year ago I found their music and it really helped me through tough times. If I’m having a rough day, their music makes me feel better. Also over the years you can see how they’ve grown up some and now not all of their songs are about partying. Grow Old was recorded by Tyler for a surprise song for his wife at their wedding. Yes I know how much could a 13 year old know about depression and “I need to go do my homework” (taking 10th grade Geometry by the way), but Florida Georgia Line’s new music is so different than their old songs, it’s kind of scary. Like I said you don’t have to respect them, but they’re some of the kindest souls you’ll ever meet, and they work just as hard as a middle class American. Putting on a performance takes energy, and I can’t imaging how tired they get sometimes. I’m not really one to start drama but a wise woman once told me, “Never feel like you have to defend yourself. Fuck the haters!” One last thing, Yes some of their songs are about partying and girls, but they’ve somewhat matured to writing about growing old with their wives, and a little party every once in a while.
October 14, 2014 @ 7:34 pm
Okay, so I’m 12, and I hate this song. It’s stupid. Worse than truck yeah. Worse than all the awfulness that Tim McGraw is pushing nowadays. This song just sucks. FGL needs to learn that country music is more than just a truck and some chick in a bikini. I was listening to pandora the other day, when this song came on. I immediately gave it a thumbs down and thankfully I had some skips left.
I really wish I grew up about a decade before I was born. Then I would’ve grown up with people like the Dixie Chicks and Trisha Yearwood. Not Taylor Swift (at least she’s out of that ‘country’ act) and FGL.
*sigh* I hope Scott Borschetta gets killed in a car accident, so we won’t have to deal with this anymore.
March 3, 2015 @ 9:08 pm
I can’t stand this song and Florida Georgia Line.
August 4, 2015 @ 7:44 pm
God I hate florida georgia line. Not a country boyband, unless you mean heroin addict looking thirty something that look like they have been through the ringer.
Nasty looking idiots too, why is scumbaggery so rampant in pop music, both in country and hip hop. These two look like they are trying beat Keith Richards to the grave. Horrible autotuned derivative benality, their “music” could be outdone by any twelve year old with garageband and antares autotune plug in. They suck.
July 21, 2017 @ 7:43 am
All right, Trigger, now read this: I like Florida-Georgia Line. I think they’re music is fun, even though I don’t think Tyler Hubbard is all that great a singer. Trigger, I’m not sure you understand what modern country music is all about. Yes, it is different in a number of ways from traditional and authentic country-and-western music, but so what!? All contemporary musical genres go through stylistic changes over the years; some for the better and others not so much. I believe the changes in country music are for the much better. Modern country is more dynamic and exciting than traditional and authentic country-and-western, and modern country rocks harder and sounds hotter than almost anything currently marketed as “rock” … with or without the roll! I get a real kick out of what Hubbard and Kelley sing; and moreover I believe that since crossing over to country, Darius Rucker is making the best music of his life and career. I saw Rucker last summer at the Alpharetta Amphitheater and had a great time. I also saw Thomas Rhett last year at the Atlanta Coliseum and had a great time as well. It’s no wonder that many of the fans of modern country music are former rock fans. I am a rocker myself and always will be, but today’s rock has no oomph, no balls, no spirit. Modern country has and is all that! Get with it, Trigger, and stop shooting blanks (LOL)!
May 13, 2018 @ 4:01 pm
So I suppose Brantley Gilbert sucks to then..since he uses a rock guitar and always sports a chest tight shirt to show off his pecs and biceps? Here is a great suggestion, If you don’t like it, then DON’T FUCKING LISTEN TO IT!!
February 7, 2022 @ 2:58 am
Love this post! I was saying it then, and I was saying it now: FLG killed country music!