CURRENT SINGLE: “Long Live”
Florida Georgia Line’s latest song, “Long Live,” is a celebration of hard work and good times and getting together with good friends to celebrate those things, and for Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley it’s a return to the sound of their debut album, Here’s to the Good Times.” Getting back to their roots wasn’t something FGL set out to do when they wrote “Long Live.” The song was written a couple of years ago with Corey Crowder, David Garcia and Josh Miller, and Tyler says, “We felt like the whole time, that we were channeling that 2012 Florida Georgia Line and just some of that real feel-good, nostalgic party music. I don’t know, it just had a really good energy and really positive and felt like it just took us back down memory lane every time we heard it.”
After it was written, the guys continued to listen to “Long Live” for about a year and fell more and more in love with it, so when it came time to pick songs for their new album, according to Tyler, “We said, this song’s a no-brainer and it has to go on this album.”
In a time when there’s so much angst and division and intensity in the world, Tyler says a song like “Long Live,” with its feel-good message of coming together and celebrating the simple things in life, “It feels like such a big song and such a necessary song and a timely song, even more timely now than ever.”
“Long Live” will be featured on Florida Georgia Line’s new album, Life Rolls On, which will be available everywhere on February 12th.
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Tyler Hubbard – “Yeah, so ‘Long Live’ was just a really, really special song that we wrote, I don’t know, now probably a couple years ago. I remember being on the road and we were on the Tree Vibez bus with Josh Miller, David Garcia and [Corey] Crowder, and we felt like the whole time, that we were channeling that 2012 Florida Georgia Line and just some of that real feel-good, nostalgic party music. I don’t know, it just had a really good energy and really positive and felt like it just took us back down memory lane every time we heard it. So, we just continued to listen to it and fall in love with it more and more over the course of the next year, and then [when it] came time to cut the album, we said, this song’s a no-brainer and it has to go on this album. It feels like such a big song and such a necessary song and a timely song, even more timely now than ever.”