Sunday, August 18, 2024

Jelly Roll was a compelling interviewee on the New York Times Interview, and while I haven’t listened to his music yet, I intend to.

But I’m posting to warn anyone who turned the interview off after Jelly Roll inveighed against voting: he walked that back in the final minutes of the podcast episode, which was a second interview session on a different day, telling the interviewer he was just messing with him.

The interviewer was probably right when he half jokingly asked whether the walkback was an attempt at revisionist history, but Jelly Roll jovially denied it.

Nonetheless, someone on his team likely told him between interviews that, when you don’t want to make political headlines, the only thing worse than endorsing a candidate is telling your millions-strong fanbase that their vote doesn’t count…