Maren Morris Is Quitting The Country Music Scene:
Within her two new daring music videos, Maren Morris doesn’t just burn a tree. She is cutting ties with Nashville and leaving country music behind.
The five-time winner of the Academy of Country Music as well as Country Music Association Awards released her two-song EP, The Bridge, on Friday. This marks her move to Columbia Records from the Sony Nashville part of the label.
Greg Kurstin as well as Jack Antonoff, who have worked with Lorde, St. Vincent, as well as Lana Del Rey, as well as country-pop superstar Taylor Swift as well as the Chicks on their most recent album, Gaslighter, produced the project.
“These two songs are very important to my next step because they describe a very righteously angry and freeing time in my life over the last couple of years. They also show how my guidance is finally heading towards the future, whatever that may be as well as sound like.
Honoring Where I’ve Been And What I’ve Done In Country Music, But Freely Moving Forward,” In A Statement, Morris Said:
Morris said in a statement, “I want to honor where I’ve been and what I’ve done within country music, but I also want to move forward freely.” Morris walks around a small town in the music video for “The Tree” as she gets ready to “cross the bridge” out of country music.
With a sign that says “Welcome to our perfect small town from sunrise to sunset,” the clip seems to make a reference to Jason Aldean’s controversial song “Try That in a Small Town.”
Morris keeps walking toward the bridge. As she does, she passes homes and empty businesses with signs that say “Go Woke, Go Broke,” “Don’t Tread On Me,” as well as “Lunatic Country Music Person.”
Then, Morris Walks Around In A Daze Past Tumbleweeds And To Boarded-U:
Morris then walks around in a daze, looking for signs of life among the tumbleweeds and boarded-up shops. She comes to a dead tree within the town square and tries to water it.
When the tree’s prickly roots wrap around her legs in a dangerous and painful way, she gives up and lights a match. Just as she’s about to set the tree on fire, she realizes that it’s already on fire and that “the rot at the roots was the root of the problem.”
“The Tree” Revolves Around A “Toxic ‘family Tree’ Burning Itself Down:
Morris said in her statement that “The Tree” revolves around a “toxic ‘family tree’ burning itself down. Halfway through, I see that it’s going out on its own without any help from me.
This song makes you feel the pain of giving all your love and attention to this person or “entity” and then understanding that it’s just a tiring, business relationship that isn’t good in any way.
At the conclusion of the song, I give me permission to face the sun, put new seeds where it’s safer to grow, and understand that sometimes there’s greener grass elsewhere.”
The other The Bridge video published on Friday, for Antonoff’s “Get the Hell Out of Here,” serves as the sequel. In it, Morris crosses a bridge as well as finds safety in a green field on the other side, while a burning ghost town within the distance gets covered in soot and ash.
Morris Said That “Being Completely Burned Out” Is What This Song Is About:
Morris said that this song is about “literally being burned out” as well as is the “story of me feeling pulled within every direction, needing everyone else’s sympathy and acceptance yet my own, and how self-destructive that was in the end.”
I give up trying to change people’s minds or fix their bad habits and instead focus upon my own authority going ahead. Performing the right thing may at times seem lonely, yet there are far more friends than enemies, so I finally stopped trying to be one of them.
Morris also told the Los Angeles Times that “Get the Hell Out of Here” was “really heavy” and “about letting go of that pain and saying, ‘I can’t bail water out of this sinking ship anymore. It makes no sense. I’d rather be happy.'”
Morris also told the L.A. Times, “People’s views were on full show after the Trump years. It just showed people for who they really were and how happy they were to be sexist, racist, homophobic, or transphobic.
Morris Was A Guest Judge Upon Rupaul’s Drag Race Early This Year:
Morris was a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race earlier this year. She told the contestants, “Coming from country music as well as its relationship with LGBTQ+ people, I just want to say I’m sorry.” One of the Season 15 queens, Mistress Isabelle Brooks, said, “Just you being here shows you’re an ally.”
But Morris’s fight with Jason Aldean’s wife Brittany Kerr Aldean over a transphobic comment she made on Instagram in 2022 was possibly her most popular political statement.
Morris called Brittany a “scumbag human” as well as “Insurrection Barbie,” in response, Fox News show host Tucker Carlson called Morris a “lunatic country music person.”
Morris reacted to the criticism through selling official “Lunatic Country Music Person” T-shirts, which earned over $150,000 for the Trans Lifeline as well as GLAAD’s Transgender Media Program.
Morris And Antonoff Are Putting Together Her Next Full-Length Studio Record Right Now:
“I’ve pretty much said all I can say. Morris, who is currently working upon her next full-length studio album alongside Antonoff, told the L.A. Times this week, “I always thought I’d have to do middle fingers within the air jumping out of an airplane, yet I’m trying to grow up and realize I can just walk out of the parts of this that no longer create me happy.”
But in “The Tree,” she hopes that other country singers are going to cross or burn the bridge as well as accept ally ship and more open-minded views.
