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Perth Now
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Maren Morris hails Beyonce's 'great' impact on country music
Maren Morris thinks Beyonce has had a "great" impact on country music. The 35-year-old singer loves seeing mainstream stars embrace country music and Maren has admitted to being a big fan of Beyonce's 'Cowboy Carter' album, which she released in 2024. Speaking to the Observer newspaper, Maren explained: "It's great when people come in and obviously have such a deep respect for the lore and the roots of country music, which people of colour started. "Beyonce telling the history of that in a correct way was so important." Maren believes some critics of the recent trend have overlooked the evolution of country music. The 'My Church' hitmaker - who was married to country music star Ryan Hurd from 2018 until 2024 - said: "It's like, do people remember that that happened? That listen to mainstream country music now? We've been doing this for a very long time. Or at least, really bad*** artists have." Maren also hailed music icons Johnny Cash and Dolly Parton as "real outlaws". The award-winning star explained: "These people are famous for this long and this globally for a reason, and it's not just because they're from the south. It's because they have an identity and they stand up for the marginalised. They were real outlaws. "If there's any crisis [in country music], I think it's that the people that have an issue with any of that forget that their heroes were talking about that stuff before they were born. "I hope [audiences] hear themselves in it, whether it's a past self or who they want to be." Maren previously confessed to being wowed by Beyonce's country music. The singer is impressed that Beyonce has been able to make such a seamless transition between different musical genres. Maren - whose music is rooted in the country genre - told E! News: "I feel like she's always been genre-less, but I think the leaning into country elements and sort of reclaiming country music back to black people because they created the genre is such a statement. "Rhiannon Giddens playing banjo on 'Texas Hold 'Em', which is such an amazing statement in itself."
Yahoo
11-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Maren Morris' Big Hooks Hide Private Wounds
'Feels like the worst year/ is always the one you're in,' Maren Morris laments at the beginning of the loose-limbed 'Carry Me Through,' which pops up near the end of the singer-songwriter's fourth album. That plaint is tinged with hard-won wisdom — she's reminding herself that while life's journey might seem bad in the moment, any bumpy roads will look smooth in the rear-view mirror. It's an appropriate observation on Dreamsicle, a modern pop confection named after a treat that shrouds its central sweetness in pucker-inducing sherbet. Dreamsicle flips its namesake's script: It has the surface trappings of a sun-dappled pop album, but those big hooks are often hiding semi-privately mourned wounds. 'Cry In the Car' pairs lyrics about feeling 'safe behind the glass' with zig-zagging synths and a strutting beat, while 'Cut!,' a punchy duet with pop utility player Julia Michaels, answers the question 'how does she do it?' with a portrait of someone who knows exactly when she can let herself fall apart. More from Rolling Stone Maren Morris Announces Extensive 'Dreamsicle' 2025 World Tour Maren Morris Sends Her Suitors Packing on Single 'Bed No Breakfast' Zedd Invites John Mayer, Maren Morris, More Onstage During Coachella Set Morris came up in country music, with mid-'10s hits like the legend-saluting 'My Church' and the sumptuous '80s Mercedes' showing off her ability to bridge country's generation gaps lyrically and vocally. Dreamsicle might be her first full-length project since she announced her decision to 'step outside of' the genre in 2023, but it shows how her vision of pop remains rooted in sturdy songwriting. 'This Is How A Woman Leaves' is a seething statement of finality that feels lifted from real-life arguments; 'I Hope I Never Fall In Love' spins out of the 'Be My Baby' beat to fight off fuure heartbreak, Morris' voice cracking open as she wails the song's title. Dreamsicle isn't entirely riding the bummer wave, even if, as Morris admits on the cloud-borne title track, 'I overthink the moment/ right down to the minute.' The swaying 'Bed No Breakfast' shoos a one-night stand out the door with a winking grace; 'People Still Show Up' is a serpentine soft-rocker with a rueful message: The world might seem filled with horrors, but there just might be enough good folks out there to make life a bit nicer — even if that reprieve only lasts about as long as a pop song. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Perth Now
08-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Perth Now
Maren Morris has easy co-parenting relationship with ex Ryan Hurd
Maren Morris finds co-parenting with Ryan Hurd easy. The 'My Church' hitmaker divorced the 38-year-old singer in January 2024 after five years of marriage and they now live just five minutes apart from one another, making it simple to arrange things for their five-year-old son Hayes. She told The Zoe Report: 'Our stops are really easy, and we'll have family dinners.' Hayes spends alternate weeks with each parent and Maren admitted it is an adjustment every time she is on her own again. She said: 'Those weeks I have him, the house is full of chaos and energy and laughter and scraped knees. 'And then, when he is not there, you have to recalibrate your alone-ness because you're like, 'Wow, this is just me in here now.' That's when I've leaned into it and not been drowned by my own company.' But the 35-year-old singer enjoys living alone and claimed she doesn't plan to live with a partner again, though she'd want them in close proximity. She said: 'I can just sprawl out all my skin care and display all my fragrances. I have joked that I want to be like Frida Kahlo and her husband and just live next door to each other. 'If I ever meet someone that I want to be romantically linked to, I'll be like, 'You can live next door.' Frida and her husband, their bedrooms were connected by a bridge. That's about as close as I want to be to someone." Maren has embraced the chance to be more spontaneous when Hayes is with his dad, such as a recent trip to Australia. She said: 'Made some friends, got a tattoo, ate really well, and just soaked in every moment of it. "When I'm home, it's the best because sometimes I'll jet off to New York. I went and saw my friend Cassadee Pope in 'Titanìque' off-Broadway, and that was nice to just have the freedom to do so and not have to ask someone's schedule or permission.' And the 'People Still Show Up' hitmaker is thankful for the support of nearby friends such as Sheryl Crow and real estate agent Leisa Hans. She said: 'It's just so nice to know mothers that have gone through this and made it out the other side. "Their kids are happy, and they're friends with their exes, and they have family dinners. I'm getting into that space now, which is so much more peaceful.'
USA Today
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Maren Morris on touring, Taylor Swift advice and why she feels like Elphaba in 'Wicked'
Maren Morris on touring, Taylor Swift advice and why she feels like Elphaba in 'Wicked' Show Caption Hide Caption Maren Morris gets candid on her past year: 'It hasn't been easy' Maren Morris chats with USA TODAY's Ralphie Aversa about her Golden Globe nomination and the past year of her life and career. Maren Morris is a few days past her divergent Coachella performances – a lovely 'My Church' with the LA Philharmonic and a lively 'The Middle' with electro-pop DJ Zedd – and she's still buzzing from the desert music festival. 'Singing 'My Church' with the orchestra, that was my first single and country hit but you saw 10 years later the resonance it still had with the crowd,' Morris says from Nashville. 'I always get emotional during that song, but with the choir and the setting at golden hour when we performed … and then cut to the next night with Zedd. A complete 180. We've had such a great friendship so I didn't feel as nervous. And the artists he brought up – John Mayer and Julia Michaels – are all my friends, so it was a celebratory night.' Morris has plenty to revel in this year. Her just-released fourth studio album, 'Dreamsicle,' a lush pop-leaning extension of last summer's 'Intermission' EP, is stocked with equal parts sass and introspection. The songs 'Bed No Breakfast' and 'Push Me Over' detail modern dating from the bisexual Morris with a mixture of cheeky humor and pure exploratory lust, while the album's glossy title track digs into her continued acceptance that sometimes even things that feel permanent melt away ('Will I ever enjoy anything while I'm standing in it?' she muses in the song). When it's mentioned that much of the lyrical content on the album has a 'something has changed within me' vibe connected to the "Wicked" song 'Defying Gravity,' Morris immediately agrees. More: Beyoncé brings Cowboy Carter to life in flawless tour kick off: Review 'I'm a massive 'Wicked' fan and I heavily identify with Elphaba. Her core beliefs have been so rocked that she feels so betrayed, but she also has this intrepid calmness because she knows she can't change the entire system,' Morris, 35, says. 'Everyone comes to the point with their hometown or a relationship and been like, I have reached the finish line of whatever this was and I cannot stick around ... and that is scary.' Morris, who divorced country singer/songwriter Ryan Hurd in 2024 (they share a 5-year-old son, Hayes) said she reached out to friends including Taylor Swift and The Chicks during her times of personal upheaval and gleaned 'peace and advice' from them. But her experiences are her own, and Morris views 'Dreamsicle' as a 'demarcation line' in her life. 'It's honoring her,' she says of her younger self, 'and not this 'youth is wasted on the young' bitterness, but more 'thank God she got me here.' These are several chapters of my life going into one full (album) and I'm honoring each of them. I'm so happy I gave myself the time to do so. This is a healing space.' Along with her new album, Morris will embark on a global trek to support 'Dreamsicle,' with the North American leg starting July 12 in Quebec City and running through Sept. 12 in Atlanta. Tickets are on sale at 10 a.m. local time May 2 via She's been crafting the tour and production for about a year and is excited that plans 'are 3D now and not just an email PDF.' The mix of festivals, amphitheaters and clubs is something she's become used to since the pandemic caused the cancelation of her 2020 RSVP Tour. 'Since COVID we've been flexible and adaptable to the touring scale, which we learned to do out of necessity. It's worked in our favor because playing some intimate venues, we can get our bearings from day one,' she says. 'I just want (the shows) to feel like a vulnerable, fun experience and escape. I'm really setting an artistically high bar for myself and I want it to feel human to the fan buying the ticket.' While the color palette of 'Dreamsicle' indicates a '60s-era 'Beach Blanket Bingo' motif, Morris is leaning more toward the trees and ambient lighting of her last tour rather than the 'crazy LED walls and low fog and hydraulic lifts' from her run to support 'Girl' in 2019. 'I love a lamp and a rug and some instruments. Those have always been touchstones to me, like, can these people actually play and sing? I do love an over-the-top show, but for what I do, I think there is a way to blend both worlds and bring it back to an organic space of real humans making music,' she says. More: Post Malone fires up first stadium tour with trusty accomplice Jelly Roll: Review As with her 2022 Humble Quest Tour, Morris will be joined by her closest fan, son Hayes, who is already a road warrior who travels well, loves to visit catering and hang out with mom's band. Morris readily admits that touring with a child changes the dynamic – 'Your day is a lot longer and a lot different,' she says – but she appreciates the ancillary benefits of having her little guy on the bus. 'The biggest gift with kids is experiencing things through their eyes and he's getting me out of my comfort zone of the bus and venue and we're going to the local zoo and park,' she says. Once she's on stage, though, Morris will sprinkle many of her new songs throughout a set that might include her reworked slow-burn version of Billy Idol's 1983 fist pumper, 'Dancing with Myself' along with new album tracks that she describes as 'living in organic spaces to heavily layered synths and vocal stacks.' Two standout tracks, the funky 'People Still Show Up' co-produced by Jack Antonoff and the pub singalong 'Too Good,' are prime contenders and also indicative of Morris' personal listening habits during her writing and recording period – a lot of Patty Griffin, Foy Vance and a throwback to her high school years, The Cardigans. 'I was in this deep, deep '70s mindset,' she says. 'There was a lot of vulnerability and chaos in my songwriting, but also a lot of fun and pop … I never feel like I have to change anything.'
Glasgow Times
27-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Glasgow Times
American country singer Maren Morris coming to Glasgow
Maren Morris, known for songs like The Bones and My Church, will be performing at the O2 Academy in the city's Southside. The gig will take place on Saturday, November 8. READ NEXT: 'Quirky' play to follow poets Giovanni Pascoli and Robert Burns in the afterlife The singer, who has around 11 million monthly listeners, released her debut album at the age of 14 and has written tunes for the likes of Tim McGraw (Last Turn Home) and Kelly Clarkson (Second Wind). Tickets for her upcoming Glasgow show will go live at 10am on May 2. To purchase tickets, click HERE READ NEXT: Glasgow busker goes viral after covering Oasis tune on Subway Fans can also get tickets via presale which will go live on May 1 at 10am. Signs up/sign in to Gigs in Scotland to access the presale.
