Maren Morris: Here’s why the LGBTQ+ advocate is leaving country music
Maren Morris has announced her departure from the country music industry. On 15 September, the passionate LGBTQIA+ ally released a two-track EP with lyrics that confirmed she no longer gives a “damn” (‘Get The Hell Out of Here’) and is “done filling a cup with a hole in the bottom” (‘The Tree’).
In a statement accompanying its release, Morris said the songs are “incredibly key to my next step because they express a very righteously angry and liberating phase of my life these last couple of years, but also how my navigation is finally pointing towards the future, whatever that may be or sound like.” “Honouring where I’ve been and what I’ve achieved in country music, but also freely moving forward,” she added.
Morris continued to explain her estrangement from the genre in an interview with LA Times, saying country music is “burning itself down without my help”. “After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display.
It just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic,” she explained. “All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music.
