Interview: Florida Georgia Line’s Tyler Hubbard on I Love My Country, album number 5 and returning to the UK

Florida Georgia Line dropped new single I Love My Country yesterday, the first taster from their upcoming fifth studio album.

The record-breaking duo are at the top of their game with four huge albums, the latest being 2019’s Can’t Say I Ain’t Country, and an embarrassment of certifications under their belts. They also launched their own record label Round Here Records in 2019, which sits alongside their publishing company Tree Vibez and their Nashville venue FGL House.

To mark the release of the new single, I spoke to Tyler Hubbard – one half of FGL – to discuss the feel-good track, find out more about the duo’s upcoming album and to talk about their overdue return to the UK…

How are you doing?

We’re doing great man, we’re doing really well thank you.

Are you surviving the corona virus lockdown that we all seem to be under?

We are yeah. We’re surviving and excited for it to pass and in the meantime we’re just staying home and enjoying some good quality time with the kids and the wives. We’re just here at the house so we’re trying to soak it up as much as we can and stay positive.

Your new single I Love My Country came out today and it’s such a feel good track. It feels like you guys had fun with this one. How did the song come about?

Yeah, we did. We had a lot of fun making this one and this song’s been in our world for maybe almost two years. It’s been around and some good buddies of ours wrote it. We just decided, ‘man, this song keeps coming back to us and we keep singing it so maybe we should record it with some of the FGL flavour on it and get it out to the world’. That’s what we decided decided to do and we had so much fun in the studio with our co-producer, Corey Crowder, bringing this song to life.

With your last two albums Can’t Say I Ain’t Country and Dig Your Roots, you guys really experimented with your sound and pushed the boundaries. What can we expect from your new album coming later this year?

Our next album is going to be Here’s To The Good Times 2 and it’s a kind of a sequel to our first album. It’s definitely gonna be some FGL nostalgia but at the same time we’re gonna add to it. There’s gonna be some love songs, some spiritual songs and party jam. Sonically (it’s) a little bit of FGL nostalgia. We’re just super excited, man. We’ve been chomping at the bit working hard on making sure we got all the right songs for that. It’s a project we’ve wanted to do for a while but it hadn’t made sense until now. This will be our fifth album. It feels good to get back in that world a little bit, I guess. Also at the same time we never want to make the same record so it’s definitely going to be different but it’s also going to be a little bit familiar. We’re just excited man, that whole time when we came onto the scene and started doing our thing, it was just a certain time period… I don’t know how else to explain it. Even when I hear our first record, it just takes me to a certain time and I think we’ve heard that from a lot of our fans. I think there’ll be some special songs on there that we’re just really jacked about. We’re just really working hard on getting our hands all over our music man, just really focusing in on every single line, every vocal, every harmony and how we want to place everything.

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It’s Time to Rethink Florida Georgia Line, One of Country’s Biggest Shapeshifters
The duo of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley return with a brand new single—and a whole new outlook.

Here’s an (incomplete) list of what, in the eight years since their ridiculously successful debut, the men of Florida Georgia Line have become: headliners, husbands, restauranteurs, record label owners, whiskey makers, music producers and publishers. Tyler Hubbard, the Georgia half of the act, just announced that he and his wife Hayley will welcome a third child later this year. Brian Kelley, along with his wife Brittney, run the popular clothing brand Tribe Kelley. But what occasionally gets lost in the shuffle is that the duo has also emerged as one of the format’s premier musical shapeshifters, the latest evidence of which arrives today with their raucous new single “I Love My Country.”

“We haven’t had anything that hits this hard since ‘Round Here,’” says Kelley, the Sunshine State’s representative for the group, referring to their stadium-sized 2012 No.1. (It was their third to scale the Airplay Charts off their debut LP, Here’s to the Good Times.) “This one’s loud—it punches through the speaker,” he says of the song, a thunderous ode to down-home living. He’s right, though the last handful of years have hardly been quiet. Across their three ensuing albums, they’ve flirted with ethereal pop, reggae, folk, hip-hop, and R&B, and collaborated with the likes of Backstreet Boys, Ziggy Marley, Jason Aldean, Bebe Rexha, Tim McGraw, and Jason DeRulo. Most recently, they threw a pedal steel and a hick-hop flow on the country remix of Justin Bieber’s “Yummy.”

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We’ve officially entered into a new album era for FGL! “I Love My Country” is NOW AVAILABLE! Buy/stream the song now!

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FGL’s Tyler Hubbard and Wife Hayley Reveal Sex of Third Child — with the Help of an Elephant!

The exciting reveal took place at the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya, the couple’s rep confirms to PEOPLE exclusively

Tyler Hubbard and wife Hayley are having a boy!

The exciting reveal took place on March 4, during a trip to Africa that the Florida Georgia Line singer and his wife took with their daughter Olivia “Liv” Rose, 2, as well as bandmate Brian Kelley and his wife Brittney, PEOPLE can exclusively share.

In order to plan the big reveal, Hayley turned to Brittney for help — who found out the baby’s sex before going abroad and kept the news from her husband, who also wanted to be surprised.

When the group all made a visit to the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Kenya, which is known for its elephant orphan rescue and rehabilitation programs, Brittney stealthily gave a blue scarf to an elephant keeper upon their arrival.

Before the special elephant paid a visit to the group, Tyler and Hayley explained to their daughter, who loves elephants, that if the animal came to them wearing a blue scarf, she would be getting another little brother, and if the elephant had a pink scarf, a baby sister would be on the way this fall.

Much to Olivia’s surprise, when the elephant appeared, the blue scarf it wore revealed that her parents are expecting a son!

That night, the Hubbards and the Kelleys kept the celebration going with a dinner in Kenya.

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FGL just released a remix of Justin Bieber’s single “Yummy”. Check it out below

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Wolf Moon Bourbon was born out of brotherhood and created for life’s special moments shared with those we love most. This whiskey is aged to perfection in new American oak casks for four years to achieve a sweet and smooth profile. Keep an eye out for Wolf Moon Bourbon on tour with Jason Aldean and at your local retailer very soon.

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