(AUDIO) FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE TRIES NOT TO OVER-THINK DEMOS WHEN PITCHING SONGS

In addition to writing songs for their own career, Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler and Brian also write songs that they pitch to other people to record.  Because they do have such distinct voices and their own unique style, they realize that it could be a help or a hindrance to sing their own demos for songs that they pitch, but Tyler Hubbard says, “Sometimes we just try not to think too much about things like that and just write songs and just write songs. You know what I’m saying?  Just be simple about it and write a song that we want to sing or that we want to get on stage and sing.”

Tyler says at the end of the day, if they’re not going to cut a song, they just want to get it out there so someone else might cut it.  There is the possibility that if another artist hears them singing the demo, they might instantly think it sounds like a Florida Georgia Line song and have trouble hearing themselves singing it, but Tyler says, “We still try not to think too much about it because it can be a good thing or bad thing to have us on, you know what I’m saying?  So, it’s just what it is. We just try to let the music speak for what it’s worth and you know hopefully whatever artist just digs it, whoever’s singing it.  But it does make a difference for sure.”

Florida Georgia Line didn’t write their latest single, “God, You Mama and Me,” which just broke into the top ten on the charts, but it was a song they loved immediately when they first heard the demo.

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“Sometimes we just try not to think too much about things like that and just write songs and just write songs. You know what I’m saying just be simple about it and write a song that we want to sing or that we want to get on stage and sing. But yeah when you really get down to it you’re like well maybe we’re not going to cut this list let’s do a demo and pitch it and whatever but we still try not to think too much about it because it can be a good thing or bad thing to have us on it, you know what I’m saying?  So, it’s just what it is. We just have let the music speak for what it’s worth and you know, hopefully whatever artist just digs it, whoever’s singing it.  But it does make a difference for sure.”