{"id":119372,"date":"2025-03-04T18:01:09","date_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/04\/jelly-roll-wants-a-lifelong-contract-on-american-idol\/"},"modified":"2025-03-04T18:01:09","modified_gmt":"2025-03-04T18:01:09","slug":"jelly-roll-wants-a-lifelong-contract-on-american-idol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/2025\/03\/04\/jelly-roll-wants-a-lifelong-contract-on-american-idol\/","title":{"rendered":"Jelly Roll wants a ‘lifelong’ contract on ‘American Idol’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Jelly Roll<\/strong> is thrilled that he’ll be American Idol<\/em>‘s first “artist-in-residence” when the show returns for its new season March 9 on ABC. But if he has his way, he’ll be the first \u2014 and the last.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Entertainment Tonight<\/strong><\/em>,<\/strong><\/a> Jelly said, “What I want to do is get a permanent<\/em> artist-in-residency there. That\u2019s my dream right now \u2014 is that it never could be anybody but me, and American Idol<\/em> signs a lifelong contract for Jelly Roll to be the mentor artist-in-residence.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jelly, an American Idol<\/em> fanatic, also shares that he got the newly created position by “just fanning my way into the job … proving how much I know and love about American Idol<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The concept of “paying it forward” is what excites Jelly the most about his role. “Music changed my life,\u201d he told ET<\/em>. \u201cBefore I wrote a song … music changed my life. These kids are on the verge of having their life changed.”<\/p>\n

He admits, “Every time I leave there, I feel wrong that, like, they let me do that, you know what I mean? Like, they let me do that on TV. It’s crazy.”<\/p>\n

He also shares that judges Luke Bryan<\/strong> and Lionel Richie<\/strong> are “the funniest … they’re a hoot and a half,” while new judge and former Idol<\/em> champ\u00a0Carrie Underwood<\/strong> is “killin’ it.”<\/p>\n

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Disney\/Stewart Cook Jelly Roll is thrilled that he’ll be American Idol‘s first “artist-in-residence” when the show returns for its new season March 9 on ABC. But if he has his way, he’ll be the first \u2014 and the last. Speaking to Entertainment Tonight, Jelly said, “What I want to doRead More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[425,426,455,427],"tags":[701,702,227,527,700,490,528,276,703,648],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119372"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/magic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}