By Michaela Gordoni
Country duo Florida Georgia Line broke up in 2022, but Tyler Hubbard misses his former bandmate Brian Kelley.
“I’d like to set the record straight,” Hubbard said on the “Human School Official” podcast. “It had nothing to do with politics. My boundary is I’m not willing to do Florida Georgia Line and then have direct competitor that’s my partner doing the exact same thing.”
“But you and me are stronger together than we are apart,” Hubbard continued. “…There’s not a right or wrong. There’s not a good guy or bad guy.”
He admits that his partner, BK, stuck to his gut with his decisions, as did Hubbard.
“I set a boundary that I wasn’t willing to cross,” Hubbard said.
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“I thought we were just going to do this forever,” he said. “I just took it for granted.”
He’s says that he and BK are aligned on everything except for this one thing when it comes to career direction.
Just “the fact that he thinks we can do both and I don’t think we can,” Hubbard said.
In 2022, BK sent Hubbard a song that changed everything.
“I said, ‘I feel like it’d be a great [Kenny] Chesney pitch. You ought to send it to Chesney and see if he’d bite on it,’” Hubbard recalled.
BK said, “Well, I did actually send it to Chesney. And he passed on it, which I’m taking as a sign.” Hubbard said, “Well, a sign for what?’” BK said, “That I should do it.”
Then, Hubbard knew BK was really serious about going solo.
Hubbard says it wasn’t a dramatic breakup, but public pressure made it more stressful.
“I miss my old roommate, my best man at my wedding. What I’m hungry for is to let me get my friend back. That’s the hardest part still,” he said.
Hubbard revealed he hadn’t spoken to BK for a few years, but they have plans to go on a hike soon.
“It doesn’t have to be what it was, and it doesn’t have to equal FGL doing anything,” he said. “But we need to repair…spend some time together face-to-face. Walk and talk and hang. Go fishing. Get a guitar out.”
“We had so many amazing years of blessings, and doing the craziest things that our wildest dreams couldn’t have imagined. We should be doing life together in some capacity still,” Hubbard said.
Hopefully, even if the pair never make music again, at least they may feel like the brothers they once were.
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