Kane Brown’s Haunting New Collaboration With Jelly Roll

Kane Brown is releasing a lot of new music, and one song is a collaboration with Jelly Roll.

When we spoke to Kane on Tuesday (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.'"

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Brown upheld a Nashville tradition dating back to the 1970s earlier this week (6/4) when he held a number-one party at BMI for his latest success, "I Can Feel It."

The song features a sample of Phill Collins' classic song "In The Air Tonight" and gives Collins a co-write. Kane has yet to hear a word from the rock star on the song, and he told us he had never met him.

Surrounded by the song's co-writers, Kane talked about how he feels about his place in country music right now. Brown told us when asked about where he stands in the genre, "I wish you could be inside my head because I felt like the outcast, and then for this album, I feel like we were almost done, and we were writing so many super 1990s, I was like, 'It's not 1990s enough.' And now, the music is out, and I'm like, 'Oh snap, are we too country now?' I'm just all over the place."

He added, "I think it's a good spot. I think it gives a lot more people a chance to come in, and it's just fun. Everything that is on top of the charts right now is just fun songs."

The country star concluded, "All the songs that are being released right now make me super happy."

This weekend, the singer headlines shows in Raleigh, North Carolina, and Atlanta, Georgia. Throughout his summer tour, he also plays shows in Boston, New Jersey, Hollywood, Florida, Orange Beach, Alabama, and more.

Kane Brown is one country superstar who does not slack when it comes to music videos. Many of his videos are art pieces and have movie-like quality. Kane and his wife Katleyn won CMT's top honor earlier this year when they took home the coveted Video of the Year award for their "Thank God" video.

Brown recently released a cover of Elvis Presley's classic "Blue Christmas." Elvis' voice starts off the familiar song, and Kane's voice comes in on the second verse.

Kane told us of the new cover, "I chose to cover 'Blue Christmas' because it was probably one of my favorite Christmas songs. I don't have a lot. I used to sing it all the time whenever I was first coming up in the music scene, just while I was warming up and just playing around on stage, so when I got asked to do a Christmas song, of course, I'd have picked that one. And to reimagine it with Elvis is amazing."

He added, "I heard it for the first time the other day, so just to hear me and Elvis on the same song is crazy. "

Kane said of the King of Rock and Roll, "Elvis is awesome. I wish I would have been around to get to watch him perform, but I did get to watch his documentary, so it felt like I was kind of there."

He recently performed the song along with performance video clips of Elvis as a duet on a new holiday special celebrating Elvis Presley and Christmas music at Graceland. The show was called Christmas at Graceland and aired on NBC.

Here, we gathered five of what we believe are Brown's best music videos to date.

This music video is quite dramatic and features actor Ross Butler. The video tells the story of a lovestruck pair, with Brown appearing against theatrical staging in a rural setting. Kane told us, "This song is about a relationship. Everybody's had [a situation] where you make up, and you break up, and you just keep running into each other, and then something about that spark in the relationship gets y'all back together and may fall apart again, but he tried it twice at least."

The music video was filmed in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming, mountain forests and starred Brown's wife, Katelyn, and their young daughter, Kingsley. Kane told us of the song, "'Worship You' is basically 'Heaven' 2.0; it's saying that your girl, your wife, is your everything. You know that she doesn't walk on water or anything like that, but you basically praise her. Originally, it was thinking about Kate, you know, but then I did this video that I put on my Instagram; it was me, Kate, and Kingsley, and I was singing it to Kingsley."

He added, "It's basically just worshiping my family now; they're both my girls, and I'd do anything for them. Worship the ground they walk on. I feel like it's going to be a wedding song."

Kane told us of this number one song, "I wrote this song in 2019. I remember it was a little writer's retreat thing on the road. So we had two different songs going, one in the back of the bus and one in the front of the bus. And I was in the back. And as I came up front, they, the writers, had this great idea. And they already had some of the first verse, and I just remember thinking, this could be a smash." The video was filmed at The Nashville Palace dancehall and honky tonk.

Brown told us of the epic video at the time it was released, "I think it's the biggest music video that we've done. This was one that I didn't really get to see the treatment for. We did it in Mount Pleasant, which is 45 minutes to an hour away from Nashville, going toward Alabama, and it was awesome. But when I got there and saw that those cops had everyone pulled over, I thought that someone had really wrecked. Like, I didn't know that that was the set. It looked like the town was literally abandoned."

This song was the first number-one song by a husband and wife (Kane and Katelyn Brown) since Tim McGraw and Faith Hill's "It's Your Love" in 1997. The music video was shot in Hawaii. The video won the 2023 CMT Video of the Year honor at the April award show. The popular video has over 55 million views on YouTube.