Music Review: Florida Georgia Line "Sun Daze"

Florida Georgia Line

Sun Daze

Album: Anything Goes

Year: 2014

              Tyler Hubbard lays out on the beach all day in the loafing  “Sun Daze.”

            Sprightly whistling and a lagging guitar open the single, setting a snoozy tone.  On the table next to his lounge chair, he puts his iPod on shuffle. In the span of ten minutes, the Rolling Stones, Merle Haggard and Jay-Z have played. He stares at the girls in bikinis passing by, nodding at them. One of them waves back and he has to remember to ask her if she wants to play corn hole with him later. Then, he might have sex with her. He’s careful to get from up the chair, trying to trip on his flip flops and heads to the keg. His cup is empty. (“I'm gonna wear my flip-flops and/I'm gonna play some flip-cup and/Rock a little bit of hip-hop and Haggard and Jagger/And throw a 20 on the corn hole game/If I'm lucky yeah I might get laid/The way that it's going, the keg gon' be floating.”)

             In the chorus, he takes a flask out of his duffel bag and pours it into his soda. He called in. The day is far too beautiful to stay inside in an office. (“All I wanna do today is wear my favorite shades and get stoned/Work a little less, play a little more/That's what this day is for/And all I wanna do is lace my J's and lace some Jack in my Coke/Work on my laid back, ain't nothin' wrong/With gettin' my sun daze on, gettin' my sun daze on.”)

             He cheers for the girl who waved at him earlier in the corn hole game. At the end, he offers her more beer and compliments her. He says she really knows how to have fun. He says they can take a ride on his motorcycle and go back to his house. They can have sex in his kitchen and drink at the same time. They’ll be so drunk they won’t even remember they were together. (“Girl you know you're the life of my party/You can stay and keep sippin' Bacardi/Stir it up as we turn on some Marley/If you want you can get on Harley/I sit you up on a kitchen sink/Stick the pink umbrella in your drink/The way that we're feeling we gone by this evening.”)

            The chorus is sung twice to end the single.

            Hubbard is a slacker without much of a work ethic. It’s likely he calls in more than he actually works. His overgrown frat boy behavior is immature in the first verse. However, he becomes a creep in the second verse. It’s as though he’s trying to get her more drunk and then mentioning getting on his bike after drinking all day? It’s inexcusable.

            The irresponsible “Sun Daze” doesn’t care much about anything at all.