{"id":20965,"date":"2021-03-17T19:00:16","date_gmt":"2021-03-17T23:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/?p=20965"},"modified":"2021-03-17T09:48:50","modified_gmt":"2021-03-17T13:48:50","slug":"maren-morris-wants-to-help-country-music-diversify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/03\/maren-morris-wants-to-help-country-music-diversify\/","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris Wants To Help Country Music Diversify"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ll-iSn-dFb4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Maren Morris\u00a0was on recently on &#8220;Ellen&#8221; talking about her son Hayes Andrew, who will be turning one next week.<\/p>\n<p>She said the silver lining of the pandemic has been spending time with him instead of being on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Ellen congratulated her for &#8220;The Middle&#8221; passing a billion streams on Spotify, and for her ACM Video of the Year nomination for &#8220;Better Than We Found It&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That led to a discussion about diversity in country music.<\/p>\n<p>Maren said she sees disparities in race AND gender, and she&#8217;s planning to do her part.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;There are so many black women and men who adore country music and don&#8217;t feel the door is open for them even a crack. So, I&#8217;ve been doing so much of my own homework the last couple of years, especially since George Floyd. Country music as a genre . . . we all have so much room to grow, myself included . . . but I think country music definitely is stepping up to the plate, slowly but surely.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maren Morris admits she needs to do more to help country music diversify.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":20974,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"No","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2804,633,116],"class_list":["post-20965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-diversity","tag-ellen","tag-maren-morris"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-16 00:40:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country929.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2021\/03\/maren-morris-wants-to-help-country-music-diversify\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20965","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20966,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20965\/revisions\/20966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cfcofm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}