Fly Over States

Fly Over States

Jason Aldean

“Fly Over States” is a song written by Neil Thrasher and Michael Dulaney and recorded by American country music artist Jason Aldean. It was released in February 2012 as the fifth and final single from his 2010 album My Kinda Party and the fifteenth one of his career. In May 2012, it became his seventh number one hit as well as his fourteenth top 10 hit and his ninth consecutive top 5.

The title references the term flyover states, often associated with the Southern and Midwestern United States. The singer tells the story of two men on a first class flight “from New York to Los Angeles”, discussing who would want to live in the land they are seeing down below and saying that the land is “in the middle of nowhere.” The singer though goes on to say that these men have never been to these places or met the people who live and work in these towns, that if they had, they’d “understand why God made those fly over states.”