Imagine, just for a second, that you were transported back to the mid-2010s — when, some might say, country music was at its peak. You are sitting on the water with the sun beating down on your charred skin. A sip of a cold drink will surely make you cool down a bit.
A couple moments later, you will notice it’s a little quiet on the boat. You yell at your buddy to throw some music on. Your buddy will then head on over to the radio, turn the dial and you can expect Florida Georgia Line to be playing.
Even if you aren’t a massive fan of country music or FGL, as some call the duo, you will 100% recognize some of the certified hits that Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley put out.
Kelley, from Ormond Beach, Florida, and Hubbard, from Monroe, Georgia, formed Florida Georgia Line in 2010. Their first album, Here’s To The Good Times…This Is How We Roll, put the two on the map.
On the album, they had a collaboration with Luke Bryan on the title track, This Is How We Roll and from there, it was only up for the duo.
Speaking of massive collaborations, in 2018 when Morgan Wallen released his first album, If I Know Me, Florida Georgia Line made an appearance in the huge hit, Up Down.
From Anything Goes, Cruise, Up Down, Round Here, and so many others, so many people were astonished that the duo would split.
In an announcement in February of 2022, Hubbard and Kelley announced that they will be pursuing solo careers. The reason for the split is still up in the air to this day. Some early suspicions of the cause of the breakup had to do with a potential difference in politics between Hubbard and Kelley.
Hubbard recently sent the record straight in an interview with Human School. Hubbard even posted the podcast clip to his Instagram in which he said, “I’d like to set the record straight, it had nothing to do with politics.”
Years have gone by and fans of the 26-time award winning duo are ready for a reunion and perhaps even Hubbard and Kelley are too.
Circulating all across social media has been rumors of the two coming back together. On January 2nd, Kelley released a video of him going on a hike with Hubbard. Kelley and Hubbard also took a picture together at the CMA awards back in November.
The two have also made appearances on podcasts as well. On the ‘Human School Podcast,’ Hubbard stated, “I have a desire for that friendship. I miss the guy I was partners with for 10 years. I miss my old roommate, my best man at my wedding, and if nothing else, we should have a relationship.”
Kelley also hopped behind the mic of a podcast as well in May of 2024 with Bussin’ With The Boys. On the podcast, Kelley never denied the possibility of the two coming back together stating, “Time will tell … We will have to see, I am sure the fans would like it, I am sure the fans would love that.”
We have seen a revival album in the past when Brooks & Dunn released Reboot in 2019 and it was a big success for the duo. Could we see something similar in a potential reunion between Hubbard and Kelley or would they make new music?
All fans can do, and even myself, is be patient and let Hubbard and Kelley sort the differences out. Whether they come back together or they don’t, we can still hear the new tracks that the two artists put out and if we want to go back in time and throw on some Florida Georgia Line songs, there is nothing stopping us.