Jason Aldean and Florida Georgia Line Danced on the Grave of Country at Gexa on Saturday

While I respect the fact that you are able to express whatever your opinion is, whether you like a band, it's lyrics, etc. I feel like you should just do it. It took me three lines to figure out what the rest of the article was going to be about, you don't need to make egregious statements like the hell you had to sit through was so bad that you would welcome a disease such as Ebola..... it was uncalled for, so very over dramatic, and made me not want to read the rest because you were exaggerating so dramatically right off the top that I didn't continue to read as the rest of the article, I'm sure, was as over dramatic as that comparison. Just write your opinions and call it a day... good writers don't need to over-exaggerate the issue. 

This is so dumb. Get over yourself. Let people have fun, enjoy themselves, friends and party music. Their music isn't meant to be artistic and beautiful. This is there niche. And the idea that everyone is "privileged" that goes to these concerts is erroneous. Keep your pompous accusations to yourself bigot. 

Nashville, and record labels own, the radio stations, song writers, and the "artists" . The writers , write what there told , "artists" sing what there told , all for the bottom line . Its a business first , and Nashville does what its always done , find a formula that sells , and do it till it stops selling . As you know , thats what caused the whole outlaw movement , of the 70's , and the Bakersfield sound , from the 60's. I dont blame the "artists" they want to be paid for all the years of struggling just buy guitar strings and food. (3 years ago Ga/Fl line played to 15 people in Atl bars, alot) Writers , want to be paid too . And doing what the labels demand, is what it takes to make money.It will take a change in what "sells" to change Nashville, then they will do "that style , what ever it is" to death too. People, are turning away from the mainstream radio stations,to the internet and XM radio. The labels have taken notice, but as long as a large number of people buy this "stuff" thats passed as country, it will keep being the same "pickup truck/ dirt road/ tailgate/ moonshine/ riverside/ songs" thats been coming out for the past few years .

I cannot stand Fla/Ga.line or Luke Bryan.  Lyrics are not dead, you just have to make an all out effort to write good ones.  Try listening to Zac Brown Band, keith urban, Tim McGraw they stillsing good lyrics.

You probably know this, but FGL wrote Aldean's current single...there's a reason you despise them both...they are one-and-the-same!!

Jason Aldean's current single sounds like Mr. Mackey from South Park singing...especially in the bridge...Go on, have a listen and tell me I'm wrong!!  #cantstandjasonaldean 

If you guys think this review is good, check out this review of their CD!! LMAO!!! I am beginning to think these guys are actually this bad!

http://www.savingcountrymusic.com/florida-georgia-lines-anything-goes-is-the-worst-album-in-the-history-of-country-music

I didn't realize country acts and/or country fans had to be farmers to write or appreciate music.  Sad that someone makes their living tearing down other people.  Don't like it, don't listen - seems easy enough.

Lmao!!!! You went one step more than I would though... you actually went to one of these shit shows. Lol. These guys are terrible, give me some ZBB any day over these clowns!!

Love, love, love this article!  Thank you!  So sorry you had to sit through the torture, but it made for a GREAT piece!

This person writing this is obviously fat old and has no sense of fun and is so uncomfortable with them self they can't enjoy some new age sexy woman and music to have a little fun. If you don't like the music then don't go don't listen to it and move on. I'm sorry you got so upset watching other people have fun and kick back and kiss each other telling me you never do and must not get any either... it's new age country.. not classic country. . So please feel free to get ebola because that seems to be your thing..

This guy hit the nail on the head.  Their music is so cheesy.  I don't think he was being a jerk.  Country music has gone off the deep end.  It isn't even a recognizable genre on the radio any more.  I know things change.  But this isn't change.  This music is trying to be something besides what it is.  Do they even have a steel guitar or fiddle in the band? 

The singer should have a pleasant singing voice.The singer should be able to sing.The singer should be able to sing without yelling.The singer should be able to sing without pitch correction gadgets.Steel guitar and fiddle must be present.You must be able to hear them dominant in the mix.The drums should not be dominant in the mix.The drummer should stick to the groove without a bunch of happy handing.Absolutely no drum loops or hip hop beats.No guitar wanking.The guitar solo should resemble the melody line.Absolutely no distortion of any kind on any instrument.The beats used will be straight 8's, 2/4 shuffle, 4/4 shuffle or a waltz.No blinking lights on stage.This is a basic criteria for county music.

  Anything else is simply not country music.  It is some perverted interpretation on country music.  If you mute the vocals of any genre you should be able to recognize what genre it is by listening to the music.  If you were to do that with FLG, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Brantley Gilbert, Lady A, Rascal Flatts or most of everything coming out of Nashville you would here Adult Contemporary Pop or Soft Rock.  Just my opinion as a fan of many genres of music.  I'm not saying FGL is bad I am only saying it is pop music.

Everyone  has  the  right  to  say and think  what they want. Don't  be a jerk  and rag on someone  because  they like  or dislike  something  that  you  like  or  dislike . 

I'm going to be as polite as I can, we just buried my Most Amazing Grandma two weeks ago and she was buried in Oklahoma! It was one of the worst weeks of my life! But with your amazingly awful words you expressed, My grandma was from her birth in the dirt. She worked from nothing to everything to Give our family all we have and all we do!

Her funeral we played this amazing song, "Dirt"!

I feel like who ever has enough time to complain about this song has no idea what it is like to not only get their hands dirty but to have a family that built everything from "dirt" & up!

I am sorry but you are truly disrespectful and rude! & I apologize but you must of never had to get your hands in the dirt to do something with your life!

Everybody should rinse this crap out of their mouths by going to the Primus and The Chocolate Factory show at The Majestic on Nov 16th.

Todays country music has nothing to do with Lefty Frizzell, Webb Pierce or Johnny Cash and Waylon for that matter. All the new country rap crap artists cut their teeth on Bon Jovi Wanted Dead or Alive. That is the root of today's music, not steel guitar and twin fiddles. If George Strait thinks when he sang Murder on Music Row things were bad, today music would it a mass killing.

Think I'd rather re-live the 'Donny and Marie in the Round" concert my sister took me too when I was 16 than sit through this show.

Half of what you hear in every live show is tracked, and by the way its music, it evolves retard. And you still bought a ticket so you can bash someone else's hard work. I went to school for journalism and music business so please report on other things in the music industry that are far more important, like the ongoing issue that music consumers are streaming more than downloading and how to fairly compensate the artists and songwriters. 

artists do not stretch the borders of a musical genre.  if their music stretches beyond the borders, they enter another genre.  country music is country music and this is not country music.  it's very bad 80's rock. 

This was cute and appropriate. Teenage Singer Melody Williamson Calls Out Nashville in “There’s No Country Here”

...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TtSamAaRvg

First Saving Country Music's review of Florida Georgia Line's album now this concert review.  Love it! 

Me and the lady had a blast. A good heatsack, some jarbud and some cold Ultra with the finest in new country. Only a Dave Matthews fan could have a bad time at a rockin' jamfest like this. You must be too old.

This review wins the Internet, today..

You don't like it go to the fucking retirement home ya jackass times change and just cause it isn't your preference in music doesn't mean it's not good and there not artists.. They make a hell of a lot more money than you do I'm quit sure!! And there not twisting anybody's arms to get the fans to pack into the stands!! I'm sure your parents were saying the same things about the music you listened to when you were a kid!! If ya don't like it don't listen to it just makes yourself look even stupider complaining about it!!! Lame jackass!!!!

I am not sure which I enjoyed more, the review or the comments. Thanks Jaime-Paul Falcon! Started my day with a snorting, choking laugh. 

Jaime-Paul Falcon, thank you for your service to our country. You took that grenade like a champ. 

This review had me laughing so hard.

I will 100% agree with you that their music is not country in the country/western sense that you have. Today's country is now country/pop and I'm not saying that's it's right that they changed the way country is but do we really want these guys imaging Hank or Cash? Nah I say let them keep their style of music. You don't have to be such a dick when you're critiquing a show, you lose credibility that way. Now I'll say that I hate the singer that raps in the song "dirt" but it's a catchy song and I can enjoy it for what it is, not what I wish it was. And to your farmer comment, being from a farm doesn't make you country, willie would be turning in his grave hearing you make that comment. And to your concert experience, you went to a show with a crowd obviously too young for yourself, it had nothing to do with the "new age" country crowd, it was you. So get off your soap box and your "back in my day" Rant and open your eyes and quit being so obnoxiously biased.

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M'Kay?!!

@matt.pm151 Sturgill Simpson is New-Age Country. 

Florida Georgia Line is a boy-band. 

@matt.pm151 Mmkay, not old, or fat and I have a sense of fun. This mentality is exactly the problem. The "music" these groups play is an auto-tuned creation of some studio executive, and the musical creativity is nonexistent. It has nothing to do with "fun", he was simply pointing out the lack of seeming intelligence that groups like this bring out. New age country? Are you on crack? There's nothing country about this drivel. I don't care if bro-country is your thing, but please stop using the country part, because it bears zero resemblance to country music. Your "new age" needs to find it's own stations and its own genre. Stay out of ours because quite frankly, your music IS the Ebola of country music. It's causing all talent in the industry to hemorrhage and die due to the bro-country infection that requires little talent, little imagination, and copious amounts of cliches.

@matt.pm151 Listen to the lyrics to the crap they pump out.  It is aweful.  I am not an old fart, or a music hater, but they are not country at all.  If they would jump on over to pop I would be fine with them doing there thing...over there.  Do not insult the groundwork so many worked so long to create.  Haggard, Jones, Williams, Cash, Jennings did not rebel to sound like the establishment they hated so much.  These men realized they were not happy with sounding like everyone else with their cookie cutter songs and went elsewhere.  they sang about their real lives.  FGL do not know what country is.  Having fun is fine, but not under the guise of trying to be something you are not.

@lilbo_2001 I totally agree with you on the importance of the shifting infrastructure of the music biz, but there's also a place for opinion pieces about the pop culture of music. I would guess that public opinion about music likely influences what consumers download or stream. I found the article maybe a bit too biting, but none-the-less amusing. It made me curious to check out their music even if I might hate it...not sure if I'll stream or download it though. Not disagreeing with you, just saying that as a music consumer I find value in both journalism and opinion.

@heythere  Agreed. 

@deep-sigh  B-b-b-but I thought you had to be OLD to hate Florida Georgia Line?!?!

@MichaelTwilley  There are 18 and 19 year olds speaking out against this garbage.  You must be in an alcoholic haze to realize this, bro.

@gladiator2569 yep, cause making more money and selling out is the right thing to do.  Oh and stupider is not a word....if you are going to go on a misinformed ramble use grammar check.

You should really proofread your comment before posting it. Turns out you're the one looking like a jackass!

@gladiator2569 "quit sure" - A+, buddy!

the amount of money a performer earns has no bearing on their artistic integrity.

when every song is about getting drunk and hooking up with the opposite sex, you are bound to attract a certain kind of crowd.

@gladiator2569 "quit sure" - A+, buddy! 

also, the amount of money a person makes has no bearing on their artistic success. having songs about more than one topic would be more of a proper measure. 

@gladiator2569 Oh my, where to start...  "If, you, ., because, they're, quite, they're, you, more stupid"  I think you've proven the author's point, bro.

@gladiator2569  yes, times change, but musical genres don't.  artists do NOT stretch musical borders.  if they go beyond the borders they enter another genre.  country music is country music and this is not country music.  it's very bad 80's rock.

@gladiator2569 It's not good. Modern country is like children's music. 

@gladiator2569 Your butchering of the English language just further proves the type of people that dig this abortion of music deemed ever so properly as bro country.

@gladiator2569  Money = talent?  Not so, bro.  Keep chowing down on those Mickey D cheeseburgers. 

@gladiator2569 I'm pretty young, but Florida-Georgia line is indeed terrible. Also, just cause they make money doesn't mean they don't suck. You have terrible priorities, not sucking is way more valuable than money.

@AdamOMalley Willie is not dead! 

@WhoDatGirl77 @matt.pm151 Ironic you say Mmkay...Have a look at my comment about Jason Aldean's current single!!

@lkajfjs @MichaelTwilley if he was drinking Ultra... he couldn't have been in a haze... that's a chicks beer... I say this...because I'm a chick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdImDqbgc2g

At 1:26, Aldean lights a fart

at 2:10 begins the bridge M'Kay!!