Holy Water
by Marshmello (featuring Jelly Roll)

Album: single release only (2025)
Charted: 79
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Songfacts®:

  • "Holy Water" is a collaboration between Marshmello and Jelly Roll that's part heartbreak, part high-tech country experiment. The song finds Jelly Roll reflecting on loss, grief, and remembrance, elevating the ritual of raising a glass in memory to "holy water."
  • Marshmello took charge of the production and played every instrument himself, layering 12-string guitar, baritone guitar, mandolin, and his trademark synths and beats. "It's really heartfelt," said the white-helmeted DJ. "This is one of the most emotional songs I've ever released. When I shared it with Jelly Roll, he connected immediately. That pushed me to go further with the production and lean into the country elements."
  • On "Holy Water" Jelly Roll's storytelling and emotive vocals meet Marshmello's electronic sheen, creating a sound that's both mournful and uplifting. The collaboration rides the wave of YeeDM, a nascent country-EDM hybrid that's picked up steam in the 2020s. Marshmello previously mined the same vein with his two songs with Kane Brown: "One Thing Right" and "Miles On It."

    Other artists that have explored similar territory include Diplo's Thomas Wesley project (The Morgan Wallen-sung "Heartless" was a Hot 100 hit), Lost Frequencies' remix of Easton Corbin's "Are You With Me" and David Guetta's remix of Shaboozey's "A Bar Song (Tipsy)."

    For Jelly Roll, whose eclectic list of collaborators stretches from Jessie Murph and Lainey Wilson to Eminem, Machine Gun Kelly and Falling In Reverse, "Holy Water" nudges him into uncharted beat-driven territory.

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