NEW SINGLE – “Undivided w/ Tyler Hubbard”
Tyler Hubbard of Florida Georgia Line co-wrote Tim McGraw’s new single, “Undivided,” while he was quarantining on his tour bus after testing positive for Covid-19. Since Florida Georgia Line had just finished recording their album, which comes out next month, Tyler felt compelled to share the song with Tim McGraw. The first time Tim heard “Undivided,” he knew he had to record it, and it had to be now because of the message of unity and acceptance and coming together, and since Tyler wrote it, Tim wanted him to be a part of the song.
Tim has spent a lot of time thinking about the message of “Undivided,” and he says, “It’s about humanity and about how people are to be treated, and how you treat people.”
Tim actually heard John Meacham – who co-authored Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation with Tim – speaking on TV, and he felt like what John was saying was directly related to the meaning of “Undivided.” “I’m not gonna say it as well as he did, but what he said is, sort of the nature of nature is war, right? And as humans, what we do is we sort of enter this warring nature, and we try to carve out communities and societies out of it. And in order to do that, there has to be social contracts that we have with each other – how we’re gonna treat each other and how we’re gonna expect to be treated, and how we’re gonna operate as a community and as a society. And when those things start to fray, then the war of nature starts coming in. And I think that this song sort of outlines how we’re supposed to operate and part of what our social contract is.”
Based on the chorus of “Undivided”:
“I think it’s time to come together
You and I can make a change
Maybe we can make a difference
Make the world a better place
Look around and love somebody
We’ve been hateful long enough
Let the Good Lord reunite us
‘Til this country that we love’s
Undivided”
we’d have to agree with Tim McGraw that it’s a good contract for humanity.
Tim McGraw – Undivided human contract :41
“It’s about humanity and about how people are to be treated, and how you treat people. I heard my friend the other night, John Meacham (co-authored Songs of America: Patriotism, Protest, and the Music That Made a Nation with Tim), and I’m not gonna say it as well as he did, but what he said is, sort of the nature of nature is war, right? And as humans, what we do is we sort of enter this warring nature, and we try to carve out communities and societies out of it. And in order to do that, there has to be social contracts that we have with each other – how we’re gonna treat each other and how we’re gonna expect to be treated, and how we’re gonna operate as a community and as a society. And when those things start to fray, then the war of nature starts coming in. And I think that this song sort of outlines how we’re supposed to operate and part of what our social contract is.”