Bryan is a five-time "Entertainer of the Year", being awarded by both the Academy of Country Music Awards and the Country Music Association. In 2019, Bryan's 2013 album Crash My Party received the first Album of the Decade award from the Academy of Country Music.
Luke Bryan was born in Leesburg, Georgia, to LeClaire and Tommy Bryan, who owned a peanut farm. Shortly before Luke was going to move to Nashville at age 19, his elder brother Chris was unexpectedly killed in a car accident. His mother, LeClaire, had made a statement: "We knew Luke at some point would come to Nashville," his mother said. "But ... you can't leave your family, and ... I couldn't bear the thought of him being away."
Instead, Luke went to college at Georgia Southern University in Statesboro, Georgia, where he joined the Sigma Chi fraternity, briefly dated his future wife Caroline, and graduated in 1999 with a bachelor's degree in business administration. Luke reconnected with Caroline several years later when he was performing at a bar in Statesboro when she was in town, later resuming their relationship and eventually marrying.
Two years after graduating from college, Bryan finally made it to Nashville, when his father urged him to pack his truck to pursue a career in music. He initially gained success as a songwriter, but soon after signed as a performer; his first major success was "All My Friends Say".
2006–2009: I'll Stay Me
Soon after his arrival in Nashville, Bryan joined a publishing house in the city. Among his first cuts was the title track of Travis Tritt's 2004 album My Honky Tonk History.
He was later signed by Capitol Nashville to a recording contract. In the meantime, Bryan co-wrote Billy Currington's single "Good Directions", which went to number one on the Hot Country Songs chart in mid-2007. Bryan co-wrote his debut single, "All My Friends Say", with producer Jeff Stevens. This song reached a peak of #5 on the Hot Country Songs chart. In August 2007, Capitol Nashville released Bryan's debut album, I'll Stay Me. Bryan wrote or co-wrote all but one of its 11 songs. The album's second single, "We Rode in Trucks", peaked at #33 while "Country Man" reached #10.
2009–2011: Doin' My Thing
On March 10, 2009, he released an EP titled Spring Break with All My Friends that featured two new songs, "Sorority Girls" and "Take My Drunk Ass Home," plus an acoustic version of "All My Friends Say". After this EP, he released his fourth single, "Do I" in May 2009. Bryan wrote the song with Charles Kelley and Dave Haywood of Lady A, whose lead singer Hillary Scott also sings backing vocals on it. The song reached #2 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
"Do I" was included on Bryan's second album, Doin' My Thing, which was released in October 2009. Also included on the album was a cover of OneRepublic's "Apologize". Bryan wrote the album's next two singles, "Rain Is a Good Thing" and "Someone Else Calling You Baby", with Dallas Davidson and Jeff Stevens, respectively. Both of these songs went to #1 on the country music charts. AllMusic gave this album a positive review as well, with Stephen Thomas Erlewine considering Bryan more "relaxed" in comparison to his debut. On February 26, 2010, Bryan released a second EP, titled Spring Break 2...Hangover Edition, which featured three new songs: "Wild Weekend", "Cold Beer Drinker", and "I'm Hungover". While Bryan is mainly known as a country music singer, he has explored other genres like alternative rock with his cover of "Apologize".
Bryan appeared on the April 18, 2010, episode of Celebrity Apprentice alongside fellow country star Emily West. The task for each team was to make over an up-and-coming country star, with Bryan being selected by Team Rocksolid, led by Bill Goldberg, and West being selected by team Tenacity, led by Cyndi Lauper. Bryan's makeover failed to impress the judges, leading to Rocksolid losing the task. Bryan's single "Rain Is a Good Thing" and West's single "Blue Sky" were both sold on iTunes, with a month's worth of sales being donated to Lauper's charity, the Stonewall Community Foundation, resulting in $25,000 being raised.
2011–2013: Tailgates & Tanlines
Bryan released his third EP, Spring Break 3...It's a Shore Thing, on February 25, 2011, featuring four new songs - "In Love With the Girl," "If You Ain't Here to Party," "Shore Thing," and "Love In a College Town". This release was followed by Bryan's seventh single, "Country Girl (Shake It for Me)", which was released on March 14, 2011. Also co-written by Bryan and Davidson, it served as the lead-off single to his third studio album, Tailgates & Tanlines, which was released August 9, 2011. The album peaked at #1 on the Top Country Albums chart and #2 on the Billboard 200 chart. "Country Girl" peaked at #4 on the country music charts and #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. The album's next three singles - "I Don't Want This Night to End", "Drunk on You", and "Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye" - all reached #1 on the country music charts. Bryan, along with Eric Church, sang guest vocals on Jason Aldean's "The Only Way I Know," the second single from his 2012 album, Night Train.
On March 6, 2012, Bryan released his fourth Spring Break EP entitled Spring Break 4...Suntan City. Along with the title track, which Bryan co-wrote with Dallas Davidson, Rhett Akins and Ben Hayslip, the EP includes "Spring Break-Up," "Little Bit Later On," and "Shake the Sand". On January 30, 2013, Bryan announced his first compilation album, Spring Break...Here to Party, which includes 14 songs - 12 from his previous Spring Break EPs and two new tracks. It was released on March 5. The album debuted at #1 on both the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and the Billboard 200 chart, becoming the first album of his career to top the all-genre album chart. One of the new Spring Break songs, "Buzzkill", reached the top 20 on the Hot Country Songs chart.
2013–2015: Crash My Party
Luke Bryan's fourth studio album, Crash My Party, was released on August 12, 2013. The album's first single, "Crash My Party", was premiered in a performance at the 2013 ACM Awards and released on April 7, 2013. It reached #1 on the Country Airplay chart in July 2013. The album's second single, "That's My Kind of Night", was released to country radio on August 5, 2013. It reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart in August 2013 and peaked at #2 on the Country Airplay chart in October 2013. The album's third single, "Drink a Beer", was released to country radio on October 24, 2013. It reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart in January 2014 and #1 on the Country Airplay chart in February 2014. During the kickoff show for his 2014 That's My Kind of Night Tour in Columbus, Ohio, Bryan announced to the crowd that "Play It Again" would become the album's fourth single. This song reached #1 on both the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts in May 2014. At the same time, Bryan sang guest vocals on Florida Georgia Line's 2014 single "This Is How We Roll". On July 14, 2014, the song "Roller Coaster" was released as the album's fifth single. It reached #1 on the Country Airplay chart in October 2014. The album's sixth single, "I See You", was released to country radio on November 3, 2014. It reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts in February 2015.
On March 11, 2014, Bryan began his sixth year of spring performances at Spinnaker Beach Club in Panama City Beach, Florida. On the same day, he also released his sixth Spring Break EP, Spring Break 6...Like We Ain't Ever.
Bryan is the only country music artist to release an album of six #1 singles on both the Billboard's Hot Country Songs and Country Airplay charts.
2015–2018: Kill the Lights and What Makes You Country
On November 11, 2014, it was confirmed that Bryan had begun writing and recording songs for his upcoming fifth studio album. His last Spring Break album, Spring Break...Checkin' Out, was released on March 10, 2015. It includes the six songs from the previous year's EP and five original new songs.
On May 19, 2015, Bryan released his first single from his fifth studio album, Kill the Lights, "Kick the Dust Up", which peaked at #1 on the Country Airplay chart. He co-wrote over half of the songs on this album. This album provides not only his country flare, but also has tracks that include a disco type beat along with the songs of romance. The album's second single, "Strip It Down", was released to country radio on August 4, 2015. The album was released on August 7. Kill the Lights sold 345,000 total copies its first week and beat out Dr. Dre's Compton to debut at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart. "Strip It Down" went #1 in October 2015, making fourteen cumulative #1's. The album's third single, "Home Alone Tonight", released to country radio on November 23, 2015. The song also became his 15th song to reach #1. The album's fourth single, "Huntin', Fishin' and Lovin' Every Day", released to country radio on March 14, 2016. All six of the singles released from Bryan's Kill the Lights album reached #1 on the Billboard Country Airplay chart, making Bryan the first artist in the 27-year history of the chart to achieve six #1 singles from one album.
It was announced that Bryan would perform at halftime of the 2015 Thanksgiving match-up between the Dallas Cowboys and Carolina Panthers.
In 2016, Bryan was selected as one of 30 artists to perform on "Forever Country", a mash-up track of "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "On the Road Again" and "I Will Always Love You" which celebrates 50 years of the CMA Awards.
On February 5, 2017, Bryan performed the National Anthem at Super Bowl LI at NRG Stadium in Houston, TX. In September 2017, Bryan was announced as a judge for the revival of American Idol on ABC.
Bryan released "Light It Up" in mid-2017. It served as the lead-off single to his sixth album, What Makes You Country, which was released on December 8, 2017. "Most People Are Good" and "Sunrise, Sunburn, Sunset" were released as the album's second and third singles, respectively. The album's fourth single, the album's title track, released to country radio on October 22, 2018.
When American Idol returned for another season on ABC, Bryan returned along with Katy Perry and Lionel Richie as judges.
2019–2021: Born Here Live Here Die Here
"Knockin' Boots" was released to country radio in March 2019. In October 2019, "What She Wants Tonight" was released to country radio as the second single from his upcoming album. In January 2020, Bryan announced his next album would be titled Born Here Live Here Die Here and was scheduled to be released on April 24, 2020. The announcement of the album followed the announcement of his upcoming Proud to Be Right Here Tour. On March 13, 2020, "One Margarita" was released as the third single from his upcoming album. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Bryan delayed the release of the album to August 7, 2020, and rescheduled the Proud to Be Right Here Tour to 2021. On June 12, 2020, Bryan released the track "Build Me A Daddy" along with a music video for the song. On October 19, 2020, the song "Down to One" was made the fourth single from the album. A Deluxe edition of Born Here Live Here Die Here, released on April 9, 2021, produced the album's fifth single, "Waves", as well as its sixth single, "Up," which was released on October 11, 2021. In October, it was announced that Bryan would host the 55th Annual Country Music Association Awards for the first time, making him the first solo host in 18 years.
buzzkill
Luke Bryan Lyrics
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Cops knocking when the party's just begun
You're a big rain cloud parked over my boat
You're a cell phone splashing in my coffee cup
A fumble on the one when my team was going up
You're like brakes on my brain and all I know
You're a buzzkill every time you come around
Why are you still showing up and bringing me down?
Why do I keep letting you get to me
And mess up what that's not what's gonna be?
You walk right by crashing my high like I know you will
You little buzzkill Baby, you're a buzzkill
I used to do everything I could do to do nice things
No matter what I did or didn't do it didn't change
Everybody knows you ended us
So, while you're showing up here on my side of the tracks
Slipping in this barn just to check out where I'm at
I was a six pack in, now I'm sober as a judge
'Cause you're a buzzkill every time you come around
Those beers might as well have been poured out
Why are you still showing up and bringing me down?
Why do I keep letting you get to me
And mess up what that's not what's gonna be?
You walk right by crashing my high like I know you will
You little buzzkill
'Cause if it didn't hurt enough now I got to see you flirt
Nailed to the stool, watching you work
Don't you give a damn about how I feel
You little brown haired, blue eyed, beautiful buzzkill
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're such buzzkill
Yea, you're a buzzkill every time you come around
Those beers might as well have been poured out
Why are you still showing up and bringing me down?
Why do I keep letting you get to me
And mess up what that's not what's gonna be?
You walk right by crashing my high like I know you will
You little buzzkill, you little buzzkill
The song "Buzzkill" by Luke Bryan is about someone who keeps ruining the good times in the singer's life. The person is compared to various things that ruin a good mood or situation, such as insufficient funds on a screen, cops showing up at a party, a rain cloud over a boat, and a cell phone in a coffee cup. The person is called a buzzkill because they bring down the atmosphere, making the singer question why they keep allowing this individual to get to them and ruin what could have been a good time. The lyrics also reveal that the singer used to go out of his way to do nice things for this person, but it didn't change the fact that they ended their relationship. In the end, the singer reflects on how this person still affects them and tries to move on.
The chorus is repeated throughout the song, emphasizing the impact the buzzkill has on the singer's life. The use of similes helps to create a vivid image of how this individual is perceived, making it easier for the listener to relate to the singer's frustration. The use of the phrase "buzzkill" throughout the song creates a catchy and memorable hook that sticks in the listener's mind. The song's overall message suggests that sometimes it's best to cut toxic people out of our lives, even if we used to care for them deeply.
Line by Line Meaning
You're like a screen flashing insufficient funds
You bring negative energy and bad vibes, similar to the feeling of receiving an insufficient funds notification on a screen.
Cops knocking when the party's just begun
Your presence feels like a sudden disruption, much like cops showing up to a party uninvited.
You're a big rain cloud parked over my boat
Just like a rain cloud can spoil plans to enjoy a day out on a boat, your presence spoils any fun or enjoyment that was going on.
You're a cell phone splashing in my coffee cup
You disrupt and ruin moments of peace and relaxation in the same way a phone that falls into a coffee cup causes chaos and a big mess.
A fumble on the one when my team was going up
You cause disappointment and ruin a promising situation much like a fumble on the one-yard line in football ruins a team's chances of scoring.
You're like brakes on my brain and all I know
Your presence stops all positive thoughts and actions, just like how brakes on a car cause a sudden stoppage from moving forward.
You're a buzzkill every time you come around
Your presence dampens the mood and brings negativity, which ruins any possibility of having a good time.
Those beers might as well have been poured out
Your negative influence is so strong that the drinks you're trying to enjoy feel like a waste, as if you may as well not even have them.
Why are you still showing up and bringing me down?
Despite knowing the negative impact you have, you continue to show up and ruin any possibility of good times or happiness.
Why do I keep letting you get to me
The artist is struggling with why they can't just ignore or move past the buzzkill's negativity and enjoy themselves.
And mess up what that's not what's gonna be?
Referring to a future where negativity isn't impacting present enjoyment, this line is emphasizing that the singer feels like their time is being wasted by the buzzkill.
You walk right by crashing my high like I know you will
The buzzkill ruining the artist's good mood becomes inevitable and predictable like a recurring event.
I used to do everything I could do to do nice things
The singer remembers trying to go out of their way to be good to the buzzkill, despite the negative effect on their personal life.
No matter what I did or didn't do it didn't change
The singer acknowledges that no matter their efforts, they could never change the buzzkill's negativity or the effect it had on them.
Everybody knows you ended us
The buzzkill's actions have led to the end of a relationship, and everyone involved is aware of this fact.
So, while you're showing up here on my side of the tracks
Despite being aware of the effect the buzzkill has, they continue to show up at the artist's location and force their negativity on them.
Slipping in this barn just to check out where I'm at
This line shows the buzzkill's deceptive nature, going out of their way to find out information and disrupt when they're not wanted.
I was a six pack in, now I'm sober as a judge
The buzzkill has ruined any chance of enjoyment, even after the singer started drinking as a mechanism to ignore the negativity.
'Cause if it didn't hurt enough now I got to see you flirt
The singer watches the buzzkill flirt with others, wondering why they continue to intentionally disrupt and cause pain.
Nailed to the stool, watching you work
The artist feels stuck, watching as the buzzkill causes chaos and ruins their day, unable to do anything or leave.
Don't you give a damn about how I feel
The artist confronts the buzzkill about their lack of care for how their actions are affecting others.
You little brown haired, blue eyed, beautiful buzzkill
Describing the buzzkill with positive adjectives, the artist acknowledges their beauty while simultaneously criticizing their negative behavior.
Lyrics © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
Written by: JASON SEVER, LUKE BRYAN, RACHEL THIBODEAU
Lyrics Licensed & Provided by LyricFind
Cedric Compin
You're like a screen flashin', insufficient funds,
Cops knockin' when the party's just begun.
You're a big rain cloud parked over my boat.
You're a cell phone splashin' in my coffee cup,
A fumble on the one when my team was going up,
You're like brakes on my brain and all I know,
[Chorus]
You're a buzzkill, every time you come around.
Those beers might as well have been poured out.
Why are you still showin' up and bringin' me down?
Why do I keep letting you get to me,
and mess up what this night was gonna be?
You walk right by, crashing my high like I know you will,
you little buzzkill.
Baby, you're a buzzkill.
I used to do everything I could do to do nice things,
No matter what I did or didn't do it didn't change.
Everybody knows you ended us.
So why you showing up here on my side of the tracks?
Slipping in this bar just to check out where I'm at,
I was a six pack in, now I'm as sober as a judge, cause
[Chorus]
You're a buzzkill, every time you come around.
Those beers might as well have been poured out.
Why are you still showin' up and bringin' me down?
Why do I keep letting you get to me,
and mess up what this night was gonna be?
You walk right by, crashing my high like I know you will,
you little buzzkill.
As if it didn't hurt enough, Now I gotta see you flirt.
Nailed to the stool, watching you work,
Don't you give a damn about how I feel,You little brown haired, blue eyed, beautiful buzzkill.
Yeah, yeah, yeah
You're such a buzzkill.
[Chorus]
Yeah, You're a buzzkill, every time you come around.
Those beers might as well have been poured out.
Why are you still showin' up and bringing me down?
Why do I keep letting you get to me,
and mess up what this night was gonna be?
You walk right by, crashing my high like I know you will,
you little buzzkill.
You little buzzkill.
Eric Martinez
I remember having this song on repeat after a break up 8/12 years ago. Now I’m married to the woman of my dreams and have two beautiful baby girls.
CodyTXF
Shout to to Luke Bryan's most underrated song ever. Still loving it in 2016.
Jordan Wiser
@Ali ❣ 2022
Ali ❣
2021 ❣️
Hailey Wedeking
November 2020 🥰
Dino
2020
Coy Stormo
I think "Drink a Beer" is better. But this is still a really good song
Pamela Conley
Love this album !!!There is no one like Luke Bryan !!!
Gordon Mcmullan
Luke bryan was one of the 3 who made me love country music. Now i cant get enough of it. Was so mad when he did a concert in my area with another fav BG and i didnt find out till the day of. Keep up the great work luke.
Jen R.
I could listen to Luke Bryan sing all day. Lol. I love this song though, really fits the mood & situation I'm in. Another great song from Luke!