Jelly Roll’s ‘Beautifully Broken’ Offers Country Music a Reset, by Aggressively Prioritizing Mental Health > Partying: Album Review

By now almost everybody has at least an inkling that Jelly Roll has become one of the biggest superstars of country music in the past two years. But, of course, there are parts of the show-biz world that remain stubbornly country-uncognizant … those who are still not ready for that Jelly. And so, when the singer turned up on the Emmys performing his latest single, “I Am Not Okay,” during the “In Memoriam” segment, a lot of coastal viewers were surely processing things in real time, wondering aloud: Who is this heavily tatted, almost literally larger-than-life figure, and is his gritty ballad about depression and anxiety really the right

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