Can't say I ain't country

" ... they're the biggest thing in country music in 2019 - so big, they're essentially pop stars ... Can't Say I Ain't Country trades upon a pancultural pop that could easily slide onto any play list you'd like. Despite this deliberate amorphous sound, there's a reason why FGL front-loads Can't Say I Ain't Country with a preemptive protest of their country roots, then peppers the album with odes to small towns and good old boys ... Can't Say I Ain't Country is a successful blend of the cosmopolitan and country, sounding as assured on soulful slow jams and percolating crossover pop as it does on the breakneck twang of "Y'all Boys"".

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"Enter Can't Say I Ain't Country, Florida Georgia Line's jumbled claim for the genre's ever-changing center. One of the album's central reference points is the latest LP from ex-labelmate Taylor Swift: This is something like their own Reputation, a defensive, winking response from the act that's come to serve as shorthand for everything wrong with modern country. It's full of attempts to shore up their credibility, along with jabs at detractors (see the title track and the Nineties-rap-referencing skits)".

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"They're leading lights of so-called "bro country", a hugely successful yet maligned sub-genre in which songs about partying, drinking and romancing, with elements of rock and hip-hop production, are sung by brawny, gym-honed, tattooed men in trucks ... Can't Say I Ain't Country is full of bro country tropes. Opening skit Tyler Got Him a Tesla teases Hubbard over his choice of an expensive electric truck. Mentions of Instagram and playlists pepper the lyrics and the songs heave at the dividing line between country and modern, radio-friendly pop".

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