{"id":26420,"date":"2023-09-18T05:55:09","date_gmt":"2023-09-18T09:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/?p=26420"},"modified":"2023-09-18T05:30:18","modified_gmt":"2023-09-18T09:30:18","slug":"maren-morris-says-shes-walking-away-from-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/maren-morris-says-shes-walking-away-from-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris Says She&#8217;s Walking Away From Country Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maren Morris says she&#8217;s walking away from country music, or at least the parts of it she thinks are toxic.<\/p>\n<p>She put out two new, not-so-subtle songs on Friday, September 15 that allude to it.<\/p>\n<p>One called &#8220;The Tree&#8221;, and another called &#8220;Get the Hell Out of Here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8L-_5Uky_iU\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/REVvs5bzyAw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>They both still have country elements though, so she hasn&#8217;t gone totally pop yet.<\/p>\n<p>She just did a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/music\/story\/2023-09-15\/maren-morris-the-bridge-nashville-country-music-leaving\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">big interview with The L.A. Times<\/a> and said songs like &#8220;Try That in a Small Town&#8221; have turned her off of country.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;People are streaming these songs out of spite. It&#8217;s not out of true joy or love of the music.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She said she thinks there&#8217;s a new &#8220;hyper-masculine branch of country&#8221; that&#8217;s attracted people who are sexist, racist, homophobic, and proud of it.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, it doesn&#8217;t sound like she&#8217;s too worried about country turning its back on HER.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think that biting the hand that fed you is a real thing.&#8221; Adding, there&#8217;s a lot of &#8220;fear-mongering about getting Dixie Chick-ed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To anyone who doesn&#8217;t like her ripping on country, her response is,<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Anything this popular should be scrutinized if we want to see progress.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Maren Morris says she&#8217;s walking away from country music, or at least the parts of it she thinks are toxic.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":26421,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[5001,22,5002],"class_list":["post-26420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-get-the-hell-out-of-here","tag-maren-morris","tag-the-tree"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-12 11:48:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/country959.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2023\/09\/maren-morris-says-shes-walking-away-from-country-music\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/cjwffm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}