Jelly Roll has had a stellar 12 months, seeing his album Fantastically Damaged debut at No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200, notching No. 1 Nation Airplay hits comparable to “I Am Not Okay” and “Midway to Hell” and embarking on his first headlining enviornment trek, The Fantastically Damaged Tour. Plus, he turned in a pair of top-shelf performances at this week’s CMA Awards, together with a shifting model of “Consider” with Brooks & Dunn.
Nevertheless, although he had a number of nominations main into this 12 months’s CMAs, his identify wasn’t amongst this 12 months’s winners. Jelly Roll was nominated for entertainer of the 12 months (which finally went to Morgan Wallen, marking his first win within the class), male vocalist of the 12 months (which noticed Chris Stapleton choose up his eighth win in that class) and album of the 12 months (Jelly Roll’s Whitsitt Chapel was nominated, however Cody Johnson’s Leather-based was declared the victor within the class). Notably, Jelly Roll is featured on Leather-based, collaborating with Johnson on the track “Whiskey Bent.”
Jelly Roll could not have walked away from this 12 months’s CMAs with any new {hardware} in his arsenal — he gained the CMA new artist of the 12 months accolade in 2023 — however he’s not letting that get him down. As a substitute, he’s decided to work even tougher forward of subsequent 12 months’s CMA Awards, and he had loads of reward for this 12 months’s winners.
In a social media put up, Jelly stated he was grateful for his efficiency alongside Brooks & Dunn, showered reward on Wallen, Johnson and Stapleton, thanked his household, and revealed a second of inspiration he took from watching Taylor Swift.
“Standing subsequent to the 2 those who matter probably the most to me, we walked into the Bridgestone Area for my second CMA ever as a nominated artist,” he wrote. “On the largest night time in nation music on the largest stage in Nashville I had the chance to face subsequent to a few dwelling legends and reward Jesus in entrance of the world. Thanks Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, y’all may’ve picked any artist on the earth greater than me, I’ll by no means be capable of thank y’all sufficient for giving me a possibility to shamelessly stand on my religion in entrance of the world.”
He added of this 12 months’s CMA Awards winners, “I do know I don’t need to say this however, simply so we’re clear – Chris Stapleton was and at all times would be the Male Vocalist of the 12 months so long as he’s alive and I feel all of us agree about that. MORGAN WALLEN MY EAST TENNESSEE BROTHER lastly bought the flowers he deserves, nobody has executed extra for nation music within the final quarter of a century than Morgan has. And Cody, my brother and one among my greatest pals Cody Johnson, your album Leather-based is actually one among my favourite albums recorded within the final decade, any win for you is a win for me, you deserved this one, and now I can brag that I’m one of many solely options on the CMA album of the 12 months. To my spouse and daughter, thanks each. You each stood by me after I wasn’t value standing by I’m glad we’re having fun with this rocket experience collectively.”
He ended his put up by recalling inspiration he has taken from Taylor Swift, when Swift was in an analogous scenario, after her 2017 album Repute didn’t obtain a Grammy nomination within the album of the 12 months class — although Repute did choose up a nomination for greatest pop vocal album.
Jelly Roll wrote, “Lastly I seeen [sic] a clip the opposite day of Taylor Swift when she came upon her album Repute was not nominated for album of the 12 months on the Grammys and her first response was “it’s okay, I simply need to make a greater document” – man that lit a hearth beneath me in a means I’ve by no means had lit,” he stated. “That was final accountability in motion in the true second and that’s why Taylor is the legend she is. That was all stated to say, I’m going to put in writing a greater album, I’m going to work tougher and I’ll be again child, I will likely be again. PS REPUTATION was one of many biggest albums ever written.”
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