Jelly Roll: The Name He Prefers
Jelly Roll has become somewhat of a household name in the last few years and has climbed to superstardom in country music.
During one of his many interviews over the CMA Fest weekend, Jelly shared what he most liked to be called.
He noted of his fame that he “gets stopped everywhere” by fans, and he’s cool with it. When asked what he feels most familiar with being called by fans and friends, he noted, “I think people call me ‘Jelly’; if you know me or feel like you know me, you call me ‘Jelly.’ I respond better to ‘Jelly’ than Jelly Roll. If you say Jelly Roll, I kinda go, ‘Aww s—.'”
He added that he feels best when someone calls him just “Jelly.” He said, “Delete the Roll, man.”
Jelly also touched on doing mundane things in life, like going to the grocery store and getting a nod from fans. He said that he has a grocery store by his house near Nashville that he goes to, and everyone is “super-sweet” to him.
He revealed that he “loves” to go grocery shopping and that people there don’t even ask him for a picture. He said, “They’ll stop me and say hi, but nobody asks me for a picture, everybody is just really, really, cool.”
“They treat me like a neighbor. They all know I live in that little community, so it’s more like they talk about cool neighbor stuff. Like, ‘Did you hear about such and such’s farm selling? Or, what about that storm that knocked down a tree?'”
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Kane Brown is releasing a lot of new music, and one song is a collaboration with Jelly Roll.
When we spoke to Kane last week (6/4), he said of the new work, “We actually had my next single before the ‘Mello one came out before we made the transition,” referring to dance music producer Marshmello. “I think it’s gonna speak to a lot of people.”
He continued, “We wrote it out of the country, which is crazy. We wrote it in Europe. It’s called ‘Haunted,’ and it’s just a deep song. You can have all the money in the world, and you can’t escape depression. We actually have Jelly Roll as a feature on it.”
No doubt Jelly loves the song. Brown added, “To tell you how excited Jelly is, he thought we missed out on the song because it was supposed to be my next single. He was like, ‘Hell, give it to me, and I’m gonna release it,’ and I was like, ‘No, I’m not throwing it away.'”
