{"id":6112,"date":"2025-05-17T17:05:43","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T22:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6112"},"modified":"2026-03-15T17:55:38","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:55:38","slug":"maren-morris-the-texas-born-singer-songwriter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/?p=6112","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris \u2014 The Texas-Born Singer-Songwriter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even on her major-label debut, 2016\u2019s Hero, Maren Morris bent the rules of traditional country radio: She cursed, read men for filth, and, on breakthrough single \u201cMy Church,\u201d bucked the title\u2019s pious implication by declaring the radio, not the church, as her salvation. Since then, the Texas-born singer-songwriter (who moved to Nashville in her twenties at the behest of her pal Kacey Musgraves) has purposefully distanced herself from the Music City machine, mocking the industry\u2019s conservatism on 2023\u2019s \u201cThe Tree\u201d and promoting 2024\u2019s Intermission EP explicitly as pop. The five tracks from that EP appear alongside nine new ones on Morris\u2019 fourth album, D R E A M S I C L E\u2014an even bolder departure from her country roots.<\/p>\n

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For both Intermission and D R E A M S I C L E, Morris veered away from Music Row and towards a crack team of pop songwriters (among them Julia Michaels, Tobias Jesso Jr., and MUNA). There\u2019s no mistaking lead single \u201cpeople still show up\u201d for anything like country; instead, Morris sounds funkier than ever over a slow-simmering Jack Antonoff groove in celebration of the safety net friends provide after a breakup. \u201cI wrote it back in early 2023, before a lot of my personal life stuff was imploding,\u201d Morris tells Apple Music\u2019s Zane Lowe, referring in part to her 2024 divorce. \u201cSo it was almost like this premonition of a song.\u201d<\/p>\n

Catharsis comes up often: On the \u201980s R&B throwback \u201ccry in the car,\u201d Morris extols the virtues of weeping at the wheel, and on the Julia Michaels duet \u201ccut!\u201d all the therapy and yoga in the world can\u2019t match the release of a good scream session. And though \u201ctoo good\u201d might be the record\u2019s twangiest moment, it\u2019s also the pettiest: \u201cBitch, you still owe me rent!\u201d Morris yowls to an ex, hoping that the couch they\u2019re crashing on these days is comfy. \u201cI don\u2019t want perfection from my idols,\u201d she tells Lowe. \u201cI want them to be honest, as much as they\u2019re willing to be. I want it to be a little bit human and messy.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Even on her major-label debut, 2016\u2019s Hero, Maren Morris bent the rules of traditional country radio: She cursed, read men for filth, and, on breakthrough single \u201cMy Church,\u201d bucked the title\u2019s pious implication by declaring the radio, not the church, as her salvation. Since then, the Texas-born singer-songwriter (who moved to Nashville in her twenties […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[202,45,96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-audio-sessions","category-conversations","category-featured-circle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6112"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6115,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6112\/revisions\/6115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/streamapse.com\/Magazine\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}