Single Review: 'Stay' – Florida Georgia Line
11 years ago Liv Carter Comments Off on Single Review: 'Stay' – Florida Georgia Line
Songwriters: Joey Moi, John Fred Young, Chris Robertson, Jon Lawhon, Ben Wells
After three uptempo party anthems, Florida Georgia Line slows things down with new single, ‘Stay.’ It had probably been a better idea to keep churning out the footstompers as, when they try for heartfelt, it fails.
Of course, it doesn’t help that the song is simply not very good. The duo gets so little to work with that I can’t blame them for this sub-par single.
Written by producer Joey Moi and the band Black Stone Cherry, the treatment the song got here is all but identical to the original version on Black Stone Cherry’s 2011 Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea album. Read that as: somewhere between Nickelback and 3 Doors Down, which means an uninspired melody that drags on, too much music in the arrangement, and a mix that is far too loud.
The overwrought delivery of phrases like “I would break my bones just to heal your pain,” not in the slightest bit a romantic statement, might work for the angsty ’90s rock of the aforementioned bands, but it doesn’t here. And no one can deliver a dysfunctional thought like “if I told you I love you, would it make you want to stay” in a way that’s meant to convince in what is supposed to be a love song.
This will become the fourth chart-topper for the duo but I am sure they themselves can write a better ballad than this.
‘Stay’ goes for adds on October 7.
Liv Carter
She holds several certificates from Berklee College of Music, and a certificate in Positive Psychology from UC Berkeley.
Her main influences are coffee, cats, and Alexander Hamilton.
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