I'm Good

Album: GOAT (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) (2026)
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Songfacts®:

  • "I'm Good" is an uplifting anthem about resilience, redemption, and gratitude recorded by Jelly Roll for the animated film GOAT. In the movie, Jelly Roll voices Grizz, a gruff, battle-scarred grizzly bear competing in the fictional sport of roarball.
  • GOAT, a Sony Pictures Animation release from the same creative universe that gave us Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, unfolds in a hyper-colorful all-animal world where physics are optional and inspiration is mandatory. The story follows Will, a small goat with big dreams who sets out to prove that "smalls can ball" in a league dominated by much larger, louder creatures. If that premise sounds suspiciously like a parable about underdogs, that's because it is, and it's one Jelly Roll has been writing variations of for years.
  • Although "I'm Good" was crafted specifically for the film, it slots neatly into Jelly Roll's personal mythology. This is the same artist who turned survival into a musical through-line on songs like "Save Me," "Son Of A Sinner," and "Need A Favor," where gratitude often shows up only after a long, bumpy detour through regret. "I'm Good" feels like the moment when he exhales and says, I'm still here, and that counts.

    Like much of Jelly Roll's catalog, the song doesn't pretend the darkness never existed; it just refuses to let it have the final verse. That fits neatly with GOAT's central theme of defying expectations, whether you're a small goat trying to survive roarball or a Nashville outsider who once looked like a long shot at best.
  • Jelly Roll co-wrote "I'm Good" with:

    Ben Johnson, a Nashville-based songwriter/producer, with multiple hits including Parmalee's "Take My Name" and Nate Smith's "Bulletproof."

    Hunter Phelps, a Florida native and hit songwriter known for Lainey Wilson's "Wait In The Truck" and Jordan Davis' "Bar None."

    John Byron, a Brentwood, Tennessee native who co-wrote Morgan Wallen's 16-week #1 hit "Last Night"

    Taylor Phillips, a North Carolina native who co-wrote Jelly Roll's "I Am Not Okay" and "Liar" along with hits for Morgan Wallen, Kane Brown, and Luke Combs.
  • The track was produced by:

    Charlie Handsome (Ryan Vojtesak). The Atlanta-based producer has worked with Post Malone, Morgan Wallen, Drake, Kanye West, and many others across hip-hop, R&B and country music.

    Ben Johnson, who served as both co-writer and co-producer.

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