I feel like all songs try to create a story; artists try to create imagery in their songs in order for listeners to understand it.

In Florida Georgia Line’s album of Acoustic Live Sessions, the songs are kept to their country roots more than country-pop. The backbeats to songs create more of the mood, and without them, acoustic songs feel slower and much more intimate than ones that are auto-tuned. 

The relationship that the song creates with the listener is more intimate and personal without any auto-tuned background. Sometimes, the listener can understand and hear the words better without the backbeat crowding the lyrics. 

The album starts out with one of their most popular songs: “Cruise.” “Cruise” introduces the country album perfectly, outlining their country twang. The first song on an album is usually the most important because it introduces the song; it is culminating the image they want the listener to hear. The song takes us on a trip of freedom, unfolding the never-ending mystery of where you are going on that cruise in your car. In a way, it drives us into the next few songs. 

“Round Here,” is where Flordia Georgia Line officially can start the “story.” He outlines a story and welcomes us in with the song—almost like we are family that they are welcoming back home. He is telling us what their everyday routine is, where they live, and what their customs are; it is another introduction.

The next song, “Stay,” is a somewhat vulnerable, fragile song where he is saying everything he would give up for this woman. The story finally gets to the roots of the problems and reveals something more personal. They would not want this fragility upfront because that is not what they want to introduce us into. 

It gives us the imagery of his personal struggles and what he would do in order to amend them. In the next few lines, he admits his love to her. Would she stay with him if he told her he loved her? It shows the amount of regret he has and that he is strong enough to admit it to her. 

This album is a mix of some of their biggest hits to some of their not as well known songs and ranges from upbeat to more personal. Their biggest and most well-known songs that can be found in this album are, “Cruise,” “This Is How We Roll,” “H.O.L.Y.,” “Talk You Out Of It,” and “Meant To Be.”