Pat Green is “Proud” of Florida Georgia Line. “I Love Watching People Win.”
Texas country artist Pat Green recently released a new single called “While I Was Away” ahead of the release of his new record Home on August 14th, and when asked what he thought about the new artists and the new style of country music prevailing in the mainstream today, he not only took the high road, he had some high praise for one of country music’s most notorious repeat offenders for trampling on country music’s roots.
In an interview with The Boot, Pat praised the efforts of Florida Georgia Line, who is now using the same road manager Green had for the first 15 years of his career.
“I don’t think I could ever wear a sleeveless shirt and a chain on my wallet. I would feel silly, that’s all. I just couldn’t do it. But I’m proud of them,” Green says. “To put yourselves out there and open yourself up to all of the criticism that comes in this business, and then open your family up to all of that—it’s a meat grinder, and it’s a neat thing to see people succeed.”
Pat says he first saw the duo perform when he took his kids to a Taylor Swift concert, and Florida Georgia Line was the opening act. “My kids got into it. My daughter loved it….They’re putting on a show. There are people that get into it and sing along. Slap each other on the back, drink a beer.”
Then Pat Green got all Zig Ziglar about the band.
“I love watching people win; whether I’m going to play their music 10 times in my car doesn’t mean anything. Watching someone win is fun.”
Pat also had praise for Eric Church, the Eli Young Band, and fellow Texas country artist Wade Bowen. “I could sit there and listen to his songs all day.”
The 43-year-old Pat Green has put together what at times has been a polarizing career in Texas country. One of the very early stars of the regional genre, he was accused of selling out after he signed with Universal in 2001, and then with BNA in 2006 and released some radio-friendly material. He was also chided for his predominant hair highlights. Pat told Rolling Stone Country recently, “I think it’s funny that people thought I sold out. I’m like, ‘Nothing changed; I just got paid more.’ Certainly, there are times when you’re on a BNA or RCA [label] when they’re like, ‘We’ve gotta polish this up for radio.’ That’s the way it goes. But I think everything else sounded like what I would do, anyway.”
Pat Green’s new album Home is being released through Thirty Tigers.
Eric
July 22, 2015 @ 9:40 am
A very classy statement. I love how he praised FGL’s success without endorsing their music. Ultimately, it is best for artists to take the high road and leave the task of criticism to the critics.
Dan H
July 22, 2015 @ 9:44 am
Hmmmm..
the pistolero
July 22, 2015 @ 10:14 am
I think it”™s funny that people thought I sold out. I”™m like, ”˜Nothing changed; I just got paid more.”™
Really? Nothing changed? I find that rather dubious. I mean, I’d like to think that the same Pat Green that recorded “Nightmare” and “Me And Billy The Kid” was not the same Pat Green that recorded “College” and “Country Star.”
BEH
July 22, 2015 @ 12:00 pm
College was a co-write with Brad Paisley. What do you think it was going to sound like?
the pistolero
July 22, 2015 @ 12:03 pm
I figured it would be bad ”” I just did not appreciate HOW bad until I heard it.
Hawkeye
July 22, 2015 @ 2:42 pm
Did you mean anticipate instead of appreciate?
the pistolero
July 23, 2015 @ 8:07 am
Yes, yes I did…
Dan
July 23, 2015 @ 5:01 am
it could have been something like Anything Like Me, No, Part II, One of Those Lives, I Do Now, Letter to Me, Rainin You, He Didn’t Have to Be or I Wish You’d Stay. your comment is downright ignorant, Brad is one of the best and wittiest songwriters in the mainstream realm.
the pistolero
July 23, 2015 @ 8:06 am
It could have been, but it wasn’t, and therein lies the problem. Suffice it to say Brad Paisley used to be good. Used to be being the key phrase there.
kingfish
July 23, 2015 @ 11:30 am
maybe the reason it used to be good was because he had chely ghostwrite for him when they were a couple.
Dan
July 23, 2015 @ 12:41 pm
half of the songs I cited come from Brad’s recent albums, from 5th Gear to This is Country Music. Wheelhouse has some great songwriting on it even though it’s not a pure country album. Moonshine in the Trunk was a disappointment but it’s a fun record and it still has great cuts: Shattered Glass, American Flag on the Moon, Moonshine in the Trunk, Country Nation and Me and Jesus are very solid cuts
Nadia Lockheart
July 22, 2015 @ 10:14 am
I’ve already said this so tirelessly already that saying it again is almost parody at this point………………..but I can’t help but find it laughable how many perceive Florida Georgia Line as the most offensive thing in country/”country” music right now.
In my eyes, they are more blissfully ignorant than they are offensive or douchey. I mean, most of their lyrics are absolute nonsense and grammatically challenged. But I’ve just never gotten the vibe that they are the douches many listeners make them out to be. A lot of their gestures I’ve researched through interviews and social media suggest a deficit of self-awareness, but also a streak of genuine gratitude and well-meaning vibe that blends with their party-hardy populism. Finally, as much as they do obviously use the word “girl” often in their lyrics and unfortunate phrases here and there like “sugar shaker”, more often than not they seem more interested in describing the scenery around them to the extent they strike me as rather harmless in comparison to related acts.
For all the flak they do deserve in selling themselves way too short as songwriters and associating with Joey Moi, at least they actually sound like they’re having fun and are grateful for where they are and who helped get them there. In contrast, Jason Aldean or Brantley Gilbert always sound like they’re about to punch you in the face on what are supposed to be party songs on paper, while Chase Rice and Thomas Rhett’s debut major-label albums are so self-absorbed in objectifying the female body.
I may prefer at least 75% of other current mainstream acts over Florida Georgia Line presently (Jon Pardi, for instance, serves as a great case-in-point as to how much better Florida Georgia Line can be) but you can also do significantly worse than them in my view. They’re just a generic, middle-of-the-road brand most focused on making a dollar than anything of either particular importance or offensive quality. And I think that’s what Pat Green was acknowledging in his remarks: there will always be a place for that as much as we lament the absence of affecting, poignant and intimate songwriting to counterpoint that in the mainstream.
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 11:08 am
No, he wasn’t acknowledging anything even remotely close to that. It wasn’t some deep, philosophical analysis of the state of modern country music. He was acknowledging that they’d been successful. That’s it. I thought he was pretty clear about that, but apparently I was mistaken.
Nadia Lockheart
July 22, 2015 @ 12:59 pm
He also said he saw them when attending a Taylor Swift concert with his children, and acknowledged their purpose is to “put on a show”.
That certainly doesn’t equate to an endorsement, but it’s consistent with what I said because he discerns the balance between art and commerce. Art is about moving and inspiring others, and commerce is about entertainment. The two can definitely go hand in hand, but I think Green acknowledges them as a pure commerce act that his daughters love and he can acknowledge.
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 1:15 pm
He said they did put on a show, he never said that was their purpose. At no point did he get into an analysis of the balance between art and commerce. He got into “I love watching people win.” There’s no cultural ambiguity going on here, it’s pretty black and white, dude
Acca Dacca
July 22, 2015 @ 11:29 am
I agree with this assessment. It took me months to fully grasp what Trigger and everyone were railing about with these guys. I still don’t agree wholeheartedly, but I at least GOT it. To me, they’re a couple of dunderheads that have trouble maintaining pitch live, but with a gift for melodic ear worms that they unfortunately use for evil.
Nadia Lockheart
July 22, 2015 @ 1:11 pm
I just think, especially considering their acknowledgements that they have been raised on shuffling music from one artist to the next across various formats and, consequentially, that what they identify as country/”country” music and culture is highly influenced by the advent of the monogenre………………that I can’t get worked up about them nearly as much as I get worked up about Luke Bryan, for instance.
Because we already know Luke Bryan’s debut album was more genuinely steeped in contemporary country influences and was replete with thoughtful, affecting slices of life. We also knew that he grew up and worked a job as a peanut farmer for a while in rural Georgia, so he should be sensitive enough to the central themes of the country music tradition and of agrarian lifestyles. So to see him stoop to the level he has, and at nearly a decade older than Florida Georgia Line, is a complete betrayal of his potential and the life he knows.
Same story with Billy Currington and Easton Corbin, for instance. Their general direction as of late can be construed as nothing short of selling out, whereas with Florida Georgia Line they basically outed themselves as pandering to the almighty dollar from the very onset in public comments insisting they are a brand. At least the latter are comparatively transparent of their intentions, and sound like they give a damn in enjoying the ride.
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 1:25 pm
That’s like saying the rapist who’s had consensual sex before (Luke bryan) is bad, but the rapist who’s only known rape (FGL) is ok because they don’t know any better.
“Less bad” and “don’t know better” don’t mean shit. They’re both still terrible and I feel the need to go get a rape kit done every time one of their abominations gives me yet another auditory raping when the radio comes on.
Cool Lester Smooth
July 22, 2015 @ 1:29 pm
Jesus, it’s dumb party music, not a crime, and it isn’t their fault that country radio is playing their 80s arena rock songs.
It’s far, far worse when someone like Luke Bryan changes his musical sound to 80s arena rock and uses his influence within the format to make that a trend.
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 1:34 pm
Jesus, dude, it’s a joke, not a dick. Don’t take it so hard.
Banner
July 22, 2015 @ 3:09 pm
very wierd analogy
Cool Lester Smooth
July 22, 2015 @ 4:34 pm
Sorry, I just have a strict “is it funny enough” litmus test with rape jokes, and that one didn’t come particularly close to passing.
Anyway, back to my point, it’s not FGL’s fault that country radio decided to play the dumb party music that they make from a genuine place.
It is Luke Bryan’s fault that he switched his musical style to FGL’s dumb party music, and then used his influence to make that style the dominant force on country radio, so that he could make more money.
It’s far, far worse to be a sellout than an idiot.
BwareDWare94
July 22, 2015 @ 5:44 pm
You just compared hearing a Florida Georgia Line song to rape. Really?
Joshua R.
July 22, 2015 @ 9:46 pm
“Jesus, dude, it”™s a joke, not a dick. Don”™t take it so hard.”
Quote of the year; Jim Bob. Had me rolling.
Joshua R.
July 22, 2015 @ 9:52 pm
“You just compared hearing a Florida Georgia Line song to rape. Really?”
Most Liberal Comment of the Year Award goes to; BwareDWare94!!!! *Applause and cheering!*
Jason
July 22, 2015 @ 6:24 pm
I still have some hope that FGL can actually get better. Their initial EP “Anything Like Me” was pretty good, especially Black Tears. They were never particularly country, and even that EP leans more towards rock, but it shows they’re capable of more, which I why I get angry when songs like “Cruise” or “Sun Daze” come along.
They even had a couple of good songs off of their last album. “Dirt”, “Confession”, and “Like You Ain’t Even Gone” (even though the latter is not at all country) are decent songs that show me that the band is at least capable of being more than a total joke of a band that makes albums played in the background of every frat party. The almighty dollar can ruin anyone.
As for Pat Green, his compliments seemed really generic, I’m assuming because he didn’t want to get either side riled up. It was the best thing to do.
Courtney
July 22, 2015 @ 11:41 am
I agree with you to the extent that they definitely don’t make me as mad as other ones out there. I can’t take them two guys seriously enough to be offended by them.
He seemed pretty generic in his compliments to me though. It almost sounded like he was saying that it was basically kid music, that he didn’t really listen to it, and that he didn’t want to be negative about anything. I would expect that from someone like him.
Cool Lester Smooth
July 22, 2015 @ 1:32 pm
Yup. They’re idiots, but they’re not cynical, and they’re not fake.
All of the “old school” artists lamenting the state of the genre always say something to the effect of “I don’t love the music, and it isn’t country, but it’s their sound, so it’s dumb to have a problem with it.”
Mike W.
July 22, 2015 @ 10:21 am
Including Eli Young Band with Church and Bowen is a joke in itself. Church can be a ass, but at least he isn’t doing Country dance records or whatever crap EYB put out recently. Bowen is just awesome.
JF
July 22, 2015 @ 10:45 am
“Bowen is just awesome”
Could not agree more.
Jack Williams
July 22, 2015 @ 10:50 am
Wonder what his friend Billy Joe would think of THAT.
Derek E. Sullivan
July 22, 2015 @ 10:56 am
FGL gets a lot of hate on here and that’s fine, this is a country music site and they don’t play traditional country music at all. They are a pop group. But they do write all of their own music. They’ve created or at least perfected their own sound. Plus, I cut them a little slack for being two guys in their 20s. They want to party and they write party anthems.
Especially after Dirt, it would not surprise me if they evolve into a solid country act down the road. They are both married now and kids will be on the way. I really believe that their future music will be more about family life and not so much about getting high on a Sunday. Their vocals and harmonies are fine, it’s the lyrics that make me cringe.
It bothers me a lot more when an act like Jake Owen tries to copy their sound with the shitty song Real Life or whatever it’s called. That’s fake and garbage.
the pistolero
July 22, 2015 @ 11:06 am
But they do write all of their own music.
That would only mean anything if it was any good.
Acca Dacca
July 22, 2015 @ 11:32 am
I don’t hate these guys as much as some others, but praising them for writing their own songs is like giving them credit for blowing all their own chunks. If the lyrics weren’t so ridiculous and inane, I’d be able to appreciate that quality even if I didn’t like the songs. But these guys barely speak English, it seems, and make up words when nothing else fits their simplistic rhyme structures. I understand what you’re trying to get at, but it might actually be better if these guys used more outside songwriters (except for Dallas Davidson).
Jack Williams
July 22, 2015 @ 11:43 am
but praising them for writing their own songs is like giving them credit for blowing all their own chunks.
That you, Triggerman?
Seriously, though. Good one. Did an actual LMAO. Well, you know what I mean.
Trigger
July 22, 2015 @ 1:16 pm
No Jack, remember you’re one of my many fake aliases I use to agree with myself to make it look like more people read my site than actually do. Because apparently I have time for that.
Jack Williams
July 22, 2015 @ 2:34 pm
Oh, that’s right. Been playing this part for so long that I started to think I was a real person.
Fuzzy TwoShirts
July 22, 2015 @ 7:02 pm
I thought that was me you used for that… I’ve been going through a serious existential crisis over it.
Acca Dacca
July 23, 2015 @ 11:32 am
Ha! Maybe I AM Trigger… I used to have multiple personality disorder, but we’re alright now.
In all seriousness, all of these accusations are like a backhanded compliment to Trigger’s writing. Say anything with any measure of wit around here and the one or two-time visitors start claiming you’re a sock account, because Trig is apparently the only one with a sharp tongue on the internet that likes real country music.
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 12:10 pm
Getting married and having kids is not going to make them “country”, nor will it give them “talent.” I’m married with kids and I’m just as country and talent-deprived as I’ve ever been.
Ya know what getting married and having kids did for me? It made me married. With kids. Just like it’ll do for the talentless hacks that are FGL. Your optimism is wildly misplaced here
Eric
July 22, 2015 @ 12:22 pm
People tend to prefer songs that fit their own life experiences. There is a reason why the age of the average pop fan has always been about 18, while the age of the average country fan was traditionally about 35.
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 12:31 pm
Generally speaking, you’re right. But the truly good artists transcend this age barrier. For example, go back and listen to Clint Black’s “killin time.” Those lyrics do not sound like they came from a mid to late-20’s kid. Those are grown-ass man lyrics that happened to come from a kid. There’s a reason people think so highly of him. If FGL were ever to be good, they’d be good already
*for extra credit, you may also reference any Hank Williams song he ever wrote. The same principle applies.
Eric
July 22, 2015 @ 2:39 pm
No doubt there are many exceptions, with Clint Black perhaps being the foremost. On average, though, pop artists reach their career peak in their late 20s, while male country artists reach their career peak in their mid to late 30s.
Josh
July 23, 2015 @ 12:04 pm
Unfortunately guys like Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean are proof that this is not true at all. Those guys are late 30’s, early 40’s, with multiple kids, and they put out the same kind of crap as FGL. In fact, Aldean and Bryan are the opposite. They’re music was better when they were younger.
Kevin Davis
July 22, 2015 @ 12:25 pm
Derek,
It is more accurate to say that they “co-write” most of their songs — as a part of a songwriting committee that normally has at least four writers, which is typical nowadays. And, significantly, they had nothing to do with their best (and only good) song, “Dirt.”
As for marriage and kids, just look at Luke Bryan. He has a lovely wife and daughters, and his music has only gotten worse.
Cool Lester Smooth
July 22, 2015 @ 1:25 pm
The fact that they didn’t have a hand in “Dirt” is why that song is such soulless, pandering, idiotic kitsch rather than their normal joyous, dumb party music.
Kevin Davis
July 22, 2015 @ 1:59 pm
I disagree about “Dirt.” Sure, it has an obvious sentimental appeal (rather common in country music), but I don’t think it is pandering. And “kitsch” is an appropriate label for all of the mindless laundry lists of Southern cliches that dominate half of the Hot Country charts for the past three years.
If “Dirt” was recorded by a more respectable artist, like Alan Jackson, everyone would say how great of a song it is.
Cool Lester Smooth
July 22, 2015 @ 4:26 pm
If Dirt was recorded by a more respectable artist (and it wouldn’t be), we’d be lambasting it for being terribly written pandering garbage.
People only pretend it’s good because they hate FGL’s mediocre pop music so much that they get excited when they sleepwalk their way through a bad country-adjacent song like Dirt.
Joshua R.
July 22, 2015 @ 10:01 pm
“If Dirt was recorded by a more respectable artist (and it wouldn”™t be), we”™d be lambasting it for being terribly written pandering garbage.
People only pretend it”™s good because they hate FGL”™s mediocre pop music so much that they get excited when they sleepwalk their way through a bad country-adjacent song like Dirt.”
Bud I generally disagree with you, but you are 100% correct
Nadia Lockheart
July 22, 2015 @ 1:14 pm
They actually write half of their songs.
They didn’t co-write “Dirt”, “Round Here”, “Stay” or “Sippin’ On Fire”, but they have co-written “Cruise”, “Get Your Shine On”, “This Is How We Roll” and “Sun Daze”.
But I see your point. And they’ve also been prolific as of late co-writing hit songs for other artists.
Mike W.
July 22, 2015 @ 1:44 pm
I feel like their songwriting doesn’t count for much considering they basically rewrite and rehash the same couple songs over and over.
Of course you could say the same about every remaining music row writer these days.
Nadia Lockheart
July 22, 2015 @ 2:04 pm
Agreed.
Just giving any credit where it is due is all.
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 2:40 pm
I think you’re confusing the word “credit” with the word “blame.”
Big Cat
July 22, 2015 @ 5:02 pm
Please do not believe FGL writes all their own songs. Your falling for the Nashville label – publisher BS that Brian and Tyler are told to throw out. They sit in on song writing sessions where their catchy ear worm melodies are written and then they throw in some lyrics. Co-write is a stretch.
I think everyone here knows my stance. Acts like FGL just don’t bother me. I can’t blame a couple of guys for figuring out a way to make millions (many times over), tour the world and have a blast on stage in front of hundreds of thousands of fans. Just like 80’s metal it will fade away. I hope Brian and Tyler are better money managers than Brett Michaels.
Jake
July 23, 2015 @ 10:39 am
Stay was written by Black Stone Cherry.
Jason
July 22, 2015 @ 6:28 pm
They write all of their own music? That’s just plain false, in fact Sun Daze is the only single off of “Anything Goes” that they wrote, and they didn’t write it alone. It doesn’t even matter if they did write all their songs when most of their music is trash anyways.
Lunchbox
July 22, 2015 @ 1:01 pm
i’ve never heard of this Pat Green gentleman. where should i start?
Jason
July 22, 2015 @ 1:19 pm
His Live at Billy Bob’s Texas album is a great introduction.
the pistolero
July 22, 2015 @ 1:34 pm
Oh God, this. So much this. Pretty much every song on that album is the best version of said song.
Also see: George’s Bar.
Powderfinger
July 22, 2015 @ 2:58 pm
That’s one of my favorite albums from anyone. Really good.
gbkeith
July 22, 2015 @ 3:06 pm
Start at the very beginning, and stop when it starts to suck.
Root Beer Man
July 22, 2015 @ 1:25 pm
feh it figures I never liked Pat Green in the first place so his support of the “countreh homiez” doesn’t really bother me!
Mike W.
July 22, 2015 @ 1:40 pm
Somewhat related to Pat Green, but has anyone heard any update in regards to Jack Ingram? He seems to pop up with a new song every couple months on YouTube, but hasn’t released a new single, EP, or album in ages.
Both he and Green suffered in regards to their music in Nashville, but I admit to being more curious about new Jack Ingram music than anything new from Pat Green (Zane Williams did a much better job on Greens new single).
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 1:46 pm
I totally get why trigger posted this, but what’s with all these people defending FGL here on SCM? Thinking you guys are on the wrong site, bros
Nadia Lockheart
July 22, 2015 @ 2:11 pm
Because it is relevant to the nature of Pat Smith’s remarks?
And no, there’s no need for me to wander elsewhere. I’m an active listener of all kinds of music, and seeing that this is a community that encourages open discussion, I’m not even a fan of Florida Georgia Line, but I’m not going to censor myself just because I’m self-aware a fraction of this community is averse to anything that makes corporate country/”country” airwaves. There’s already enough anti-intellectualism permeating much of the traditional media circuit as is.
That’s just my opinion in the end. At least 75% of mainstream acts are ranked higher on the totem pole than Florida Georgia Line (including Pat Green), but I hardly view them among the worst either.
Jim Bob
July 22, 2015 @ 2:23 pm
Huh. Apparently I was wrong. Turns out an opinion can be wrong. Cause yours is very, very wrong.
I understand how discussing FGL is relevant, but that’s not the same thing as defending them. Guess I don’t understand ambiguous “logic” like you. Personally, I’d never heard of pat green before this, but apparently you he/she’s think he’s “mainstream.” That’s cool, I guess I just don’t understand ambiguity quite the same way
Trigger
July 22, 2015 @ 2:53 pm
Okay folks, I don’t see the need for a heated argument here. We all have a right to our opinions, and every opinion should feel welcomed here, even from Florida Georgia Line apologists (which I am too surprised there’s so many of, but whatever). Seen a couple of people ask why I posted this. It’s because I thought the quotes were interesting and I wanted to open them up for discussion.
Nadia Lockheart
July 22, 2015 @ 3:37 pm
That’s pretty much what I gathered, and seeing that Florida Georgia Line are cited in the article’s title also exemplifies why much of the discussion has naturally defaulted to the duo.
I thought, at the crux of Smith’s remarks, were insights that appeal to 1) the often contentious generational divide between country listeners and 2) the ceaseless debate between art and commerce and which role or place each has in the corporate mainstream. That’s at least how I interpreted them.
And I think both Pat Smith and Florida Georgia Line serve as a fascinating case-in-point as to how that line can thin out. Pat Smith temporarily experimented with playing the major label game during the “What I’m For” era most notably, and Florida Georgia Line have tinkered with appealing to those who are perhaps more inclined to favor some degree of art in mainstream music with “Dirt”.
Absolutely no shame in striving for either.
Nadia Lockheart
July 22, 2015 @ 5:14 pm
Ugh, meant to say Pat Green, not Pat Smith! A little off-focus today, admittedly! -__-
Cool Lester Smooth
July 22, 2015 @ 5:49 pm
I don’t think I’m a FGL apologist. I just think that their shitty music comes from an honest place, compared to their imitators in the mainstream.
That doesn’t make their music any better…it just makes the Dallas Davison crew even worse.
John Conquest
July 22, 2015 @ 3:37 pm
I’m ashamed that Pat Green is from Texas.
It’s a shame that Pat Green is from Texas.
It’s a shame that Pat Green is labelled ‘Texas Music.’
It’s a shame that ‘Texas Music’ is now a meaningless label.
ElectricOutcast
July 22, 2015 @ 5:03 pm
This might come as a bit of a shock to y’all but I strongly believe this with all my heart and will not apologize for it: I think Wade Bowen is the best singer-songwriter I discovered since Garth Brooks.
Almost Out of Gas
July 22, 2015 @ 5:14 pm
I’m not surprised by his comment. His music is so faceless and anonymous, I’ve always seen him as the middle of the road, easy way out, kind of music maker.
Can anybody enlighten me about his eventual greatness?
Chase
July 22, 2015 @ 8:09 pm
If FGL is winning I don’t want to know what losing is.
Summer Jam
July 23, 2015 @ 1:42 am
LOL @ all the hate that FGL gets. I agree with what some of the other guys on here are saying, these dudes are not bad people nor are they untalented. Their music just all sounds the same and most of the lyrics are garbage. There is not enough depth to their lyrics. The music itself is pretty good, it’s the perfect blend of pop, rock, and country…..which i love, considering i love rock, country, and a good bit of pop, and i think millions of other people do too. FGL is far from the worst thing in country music, everyone just love to hate on them because they look like a bunch of douchebags and they sing party themes. I’ve said it before and will say it again, after a good bit of time passes and FGL becomes irrelevant, people will look back at them and be like “damn, what ever happened to those guys? they were great!”. They will be remembered in country music history, no matter how shitty some people say they are. They aren’t that bad, if they straightened out their act and started putting in lyrical depth, they would be great. As of now, they appeal to the masses, people want to hear the party songs. Maybe they will start doing some things different with their next album, we can only hope…
Fuzzy TwoShirts
July 23, 2015 @ 7:28 am
whoa dude. you did not just say that these guys were talented, did you? let me explain something: Willie plays his own guitar, sings on pitch live without a machine, writes his own quality songs, and has a wide vocal range. Elvis played his own guitar and piano, never used autotune and was always on pitch live, and had a four octave singing range. I play fifteen instruments, strings, wind and percussion. these clowns barely play a guitar between them, can’t sing on pitch without a computer, and have a very narrow vocal range. that’s textbook untalented.
Cool Lester Smooth
July 24, 2015 @ 5:04 pm
…but they can write a hell of a hook.
If only they used that talent for good! haha
Mike W.
July 23, 2015 @ 8:01 am
You really think FGL is going to be remembered as “being pretty great”?
Come on……
Look, you can like whatever you like. You have made it clear in the past you love pop-Country and that’s fine, to each his/her own. But you are deluding yourself if anyone is going to look back at FGL in 30 years and think they were “great”.
They are destined to be like Rascal Flatts, they will keep pumping out music and selling albums and having the occasional radio hit once their star begins to fade…but no one is ever, ever, ever going to mistake them for actual musicians or anything approaching being “great”.
Six String Richie
July 23, 2015 @ 12:49 pm
I love watching good artists win.
TX MUSIC JIM
July 23, 2015 @ 12:56 pm
Damn folks Pat took the high road, good for him. His new single “while I was away” really is a good song written by songwriter Zane Williams. Chill out its not like he said FGL was “God” or anything!