Maren Morris has been extremely imaginative despite her divorce and her move to a different genre
“I don’t have to serve this machine of what I think country music was or what it expected me to be. I can just do my thing now,” said the musician.
Major personal and professional shifts are inspiring Maren Morris’ new music.
The “My Church” singer-songwriter, 34, appeared on the Sept. 25 episode of Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast and opened up about how creative she’s been feeling after her divorce from ex-husband Ryan Hurd and pivoting out of the country genre.
Morris spoke about tapping into a new creative space following “a huge 180 in my life in the last two years,” telling the podcast host about her move from Columbia Records’ country-focused Nashville label to the company’s New York branch.
“I think just retooling this genre shift kind of away from country and more so, like, in every realm,
genre-less space, has been really tough but necessary and scary — just to walk away from something that I built for so long,” she said. “I didn’t fit it anymore. It didn’t fit me.”
