Maren Morris in New York City on Nov. 8.Photo:Christopher Peterson / SplashNews
Christopher Peterson / SplashNews
Weeks after announcing she isdistancing herselffrom the country music industry,Maren Morrisspent the day of the genre’s biggest award show out and about in New York City.
Morris, 33, was not in Nashville for the2023 CMA Awardson Wednesday but instead spent her time attending various events in Manhattan.
The Grammy winner shared anInstagrampost of some of the highlights of her New York trip, including various shots of the sexy red dress, dinner at celeb hotspot Carbone and a photo with country singersMickey GuytonandBrittney Spencer, who joined her for a performance onThe Tonight Showon Tuesday.
The trio sang “The Tree,” which is featured on Morris’ newest EPThe Bridge, along with “Get the Hell Out of Here.”
In a chat withTonight Showhost Jimmy Fallon, the singer explained her decision to pump the brakes on her country music career. (She first told theLos Angeles Timesin September that she thought she’d wanted to “burn [country] to the ground and start over,” but felt it was “burning itself down without my help”).
“I just felt like I was leaving some things in country music behind that didn’t really serve me anymore,” she explained. “And so it felt like calling [the EP]The Bridgefelt like the step to the next thing, whatever it is.”
Morris continued, explaining that headlines declaring she was leaving country music were “very hyperbolic,” as there would always be a part of her that was country.
Maren Morris at The Tonight Show on Nov. 7.Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty
Todd Owyoung/NBC via Getty
“I don’t think it’s something you can really leave, because it’s a music that’s in me, and that’s what I grew up doing. It’s the music I write, even if I’ve been sort of genre-fluid my whole career. You can’t scrub the country music out,” she said. “I’m taking the good parts with me, and all are welcome. There were some facets of it that I didn’t really jive with anymore. I’m a lot happier now.”
Meanwhile, Morris kicked off her New York trip on Monday with an intimate fan club show at Bowery Ballroom, during which she told the crowd she was going through the “weirdest year of my life.”
The star — who filed for divorce from husband Ryan Hurd in October after five years of marriage — said she was “going through some s—” and thanked fans for “leaning on you too hard” as she performed.
source: people.com
