It doesn’t seem all that long ago that Florida Georgia Line was filling up concerts and country charts alike.
The duo – Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley — formed in 2010, and they produced a string of hits together. But Florida Georgia Line last performed together in 2022, and it sounds like that … well, it sounds like that will be it for the duo.
Hubbard is preparing to drop his second album since the split, and he recently spoke to PEOPLE.
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“It was a cool season of life,” and I wouldn’t trade it for the world,” he said of his Florida Georgia Line days. “But I don’t want it back. I’m in away different place, and I wouldn’t trade it.”
Meanwhile, Kelley made headlines back in March when he released his new song, “Kiss My Boots.” Some went as far as to call it a diss track directed toward Hubbard.
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“Want the world to know that you did me wrong,” the song goes. “I don’t know how you act sweet, after how you did me, here’s a middle finger to you through a song.”
The video reportedly shows Kelley hunting a snake and has a shot to close it all of a close up of his belt and the word “Florida.” He was, of course, the Florida half of Florida Georgia Line.
“It was healing to write. I feel released now. Everyone processes things differently. I went inward,” Kelley said then, according to PEOPLE. “I went to work and stayed busy. I’m proud of myself for doing it that way. It was worth it. Now I have a song that helped me through a tough time. Hopefully, ‘Kiss My Boots’ can help a lot of people. Give them some confidence and help them get their power back.”
Hubbard appears to have taken the high road when PEOPLE asked him about the song and the relationship.
“I’m happy for BK, and I hope he’s happy and that he’s doing his thing and I’m doing my thing,” he said in what PEOPLE called a prepared statement. “I want only good things for him, and I wish him the best.”
In the end, it appears that, at least for now, Kelley and Hubbard are happy being on their own. And it certainly seems as though there is a rift of some sort. But they are still young — Hubbard is 37 and Kelley is 38 — and considering their success together it would not surprise to see a reunion down the road, too.
Time has a way of healing.