Add HARDY to the list of country music fans hoping for a Florida Georgia Line reunion. After Tyler Hubbard revealed he hoped to rekindle his friendship with his former duo partner, Brian Kelley, and the two reconnected by going on a hike, HARDY says he hopes that more Florida Georgia Line music might be coming.
“I drove back from Mississippi yesterday morning, and I listened to ‘Here’s To The Good Times’ and ‘Anything Goes,’ the whole record all the way through,” HARDY tells Audacy. “Because I’m like, ‘I need to get back in the FGL headspace.’ I don’t know. I have no inside baseball. I’m literally just like, I feel like it’s coming and I wanna be on the front end of it.”
“I feel like they’re scheming something,” he adds.
What Tyler Hubbard Said About His Friendship With Brian Kelley
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In speaking on the Human School Podcast, Hubbard recalled Kelley telling him he wanted to do a solo project. Hubbard reiterated that their split wasn’t over politics, or anything other than Hubbard felt adamant that they could not both do solo careers and remain a part of a duo. After a friendship that began when they were both in college, Hubbard and Kelley went their separate ways, not speaking for “a couple of years,” according to Hubbard.
“I have a desire for that friendship,” Hubbard admits. “I miss the guy I was partners with for ten years. I miss my old roommate, my best man at my wedding, and if nothing else, we should have a relationship.”
Hubbard is open to the idea of making music with Kelley, even if it doesn’t necessarily mean an official Florida Georgia Line reunion.
“It doesn’t have to be what it was, and it doesn’t have to equal FGL doing anything, but we need to repair… and spend some time together face-to-face,” Hubbard says. “And just walk and talk and hang, and go fishing or get a guitar out. I’m excited for that, because it feels like, at this point, enough time has gone by.”
More than making music together, the father of three wants to be close to Kelley, like they were for so many years.
“What I’m hungry for is… let me get my friend back,” Hubbard says. “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.”
Why Florida Georgia Line Split Up in 2022
In 2022, Florida Georgia Line surprised fans by announcing they were splitting up, so they could both focus on solo projects.
“I think ‘taking a break’ is the proper term, as opposed to breaking up,” Hubbard told People at the time.
“We’re not going our separate ways,” added Kelley. “We’re taking a break from recording our music. We’re being artists. We love creating. And so a couple years back, we started writing without each other and trying different writers, and now we’re both doing that with our music.”
After announcing their spllit, Hubbard expounded on what it meant for both him and Kelley.
“I think the traditional mindset of people, when they hear of a band or duos breaking up and they’re going solo, it’s, ‘Well, okay, that’s cute. They’re going to have fun doing their solo stuff for a little while, and it will be what it is. And then they’ll go back and do their thing [together],’” Hubbard shared with Everything Nash and other outlets, after announcing the end of FGL. “But. I think that challenge really pushes me to not be the statistic. I truly feel that Florida Georgia Line was just a chapter in the book, an important chapter, and one I’m forever grateful for. But it’s not my whole story. And so I am really excited and committed to giving this all I got.”
Both Hubbard and Kelley have gone on to release solo music. Hubbard just celebrated his fourth consecutive No. 1 single, with “Park.” In 2024, Kelley released his third solo studio album, Ed & Mary Margaret’s Son.