https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KctTCSLLXKQ
Bro country, die. Just...die. You are useless, and we no longer need you.
So yeah, Florida Georgia Line, what is there really to say about them? They started off pretty decent with songs like Get Your Shine On, 'Round Here, and heck, I even like the original version of Cruise. However, over time, they just became more and more generic and lost the qualities that made them decent.
This brings us to This Is How We Roll, the song on the table today. Did I mention that bro country needs to die? Well, it does, and songs like this are a prime example. Songs like this are nothing more than homogenous and generic crap talking about the stereotypical country music topics of women, trucks, beer, etc., and pandering to the masses that only care if those topics are mentioned. It's not that good of a song. The instrumentation is clunky, the lead singer sounds like he's forcing a southern accent, Luke Bryan (an artist who I think is pretty good) barely gets any time to sing, and it all fails.
Of course, I'm sure FGL, Luke Bryan, and anyone involved with the making of this song knew that, so what do they do? They make a remix of it. Gee, didn't see that coming. This time they recruit Jason DeRulo (dammit, DeRulo, why do you keep doing this to me?). Normally, I wouldn't have a problem with this, but there's just one problem: THE SONG ALREADY HAS A GUEST ARTIST!!!!! Seriously, as much as I like Luke Bryan, wasn't he enough? Once again, just like with what happened with the remix of Cruise, unnecessary autotune, overly used synths, and EDM beats are added to make it a more poppy song. The difference between this and Cruise (Remix), however, is the core song here wasn't that good to begin with. And do I even have to mention how irrelevant DeRulo's verse is? I thought Nelly's verse on the remix of Cruise added nothing, but at least he stuck to the topic of the song. In this case, however, FGL talk about them picking up chicks because of how country they are whereas DeRulo talks about picking up chicks because of how "gangsta" he is. News flash, DeRulo: YOU'RE NOT GANGSTA!!! Even worse, he takes, like, half of Luke Bryan's verse. Bryan wasn't given that much time to sing in the original, and Jason DeRulo really had no business taking any of it. Besides, no matter how much you like or hate Luke Bryan, you have to admit that he is a much better fit for the little interlude he does than DeRulo will ever be.
Overall, I give the original a 2 out of 5 for at least being somewhat catchy, and the remix a big, fat 0 out of 5.
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