“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis on Friday about the poll-lagging Florida governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with Disney over the past year.
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Maren Morris is “taking an axe to the tree” that is rotting at the root — a metaphor in her new song “The Tree” about country music’s deep-rooted issues to grow with the times.
The singer, 33, dubs her new two-track EP The Bridge — released today — one of numerous metaphors she uses to imagine a path out of the country music industry, which made her a star.
On “The Tree”, Morris sings, “I’m done filling a cup with a hole in the bottom”; while “Get the Hell Out of Here” begins with the lyrics, “Watered the garden but forgot to fill the well/ I fed all my good intentions while I starved myself.”
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Though the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter isn’t tired of writing music and playing guitar, she explains that her decision to leave country music is solely due to the industry’s reluctance to face its racist and misogynist history and its unwillingness to welcome more women, queer people and people of colour. That’s where The Bridge comes into play. The record represents Morris’ intentional and purposeful shift from her country success to wherever her career takes her next.
“I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over,” the 33-year-old told the Los Angeles Times of country music. “But it’s burning itself down without my help.”
“The stories going on within country music right now, I’ve tried to avoid a lot of it at all costs. I feel very, very distanced from it,” she said.
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Morris continued: “These songs are obviously the result of that — the aftermath of walking away
“Why is this guy picking a fight with Mickey Mouse?” Bill Maher asked Ron DeSantis on Friday about the poll-lagging Florida governor’s ongoing jurisdictional and legal battles with Disney over the past year.
Cher has been accused of allegedly hiring four men to kidnap her own adult son as a way to halt him from seeing his then-estranged wife.Back in 2021, the pop icon’s son [with rock legend Gregg Allman] – Elijah Blue Allman – had filed for a divorce from his then-wife, Marie Angela King. Allegedly, the pair had reconnected for 12 days in November 2022.As Rolling Stone reports, court documents show that King has claimed that on November 30, the night of their wedding anniversary, four men reportedly entered the couple’s New York hotel room and abducted Allman.The allegations of the case were outlined in a court declaration that was then signed by King on December 4 in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
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Maren Morris has revealed that she will be departing from country music due to the industry’s “homophobia and transphobia.”The Texan singer has been an outspoken advocate for LGBTQ+ rights within the country music scene since the start of her career. She appeared as a guest judge on RuPaul’s Drag Race and apologised for country music’s historically poor relationship with its queer fans.In an interview with Los Angeles Times, Morris discussed her attempts to “burn [county music] to the ground and start over” as a way to make the genre more progressive and inclusive.
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It wouldn’t be a country music party without a little bit of Carly.
is taking “a step back” from country music after years of from inside the industry. “I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over,” Morris told in a candid new interview. “But it’s burning itself down without my help.”For starters, the 33-year-old Grammy-winner will now release music through Columbia Records instead of their Nashville branch.
Maren Morris is over it!
Maren Morris confirmed that she’s taking a step back from country music during an interview with the Los Angeles Times.
John Waters shocked audiences with “Pink Flamingos” more than 50 years ago, he probably didn’t foresee major museum exhibitions of his trashy aesthetic and irreverent filmmaking. But half a century later, he’s become the elder statesman of rebellion, and the Academy Museum is celebrating Baltimore’s treasure with a career-spanning exhibit and accompanying film retrospective.
Maren Morris seemingly takes aim at the state of country music with the release of her new songs “The Tree” and “Get the Hell Out of Here.”
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Fox’s “The Masked Singer” is taking to the streets next Saturday, Sept. 23, in Los Angeles, offering up freebies throughout the city. Dubbed “Masked Mania,” the show has partnered with ten businesses to offer up free food and other items, as well as the opportunity to see some of the show’s costumes up close.
Michael Schneider Variety Editor at Large Southern California Public Radio president/CEO Herb Scannell has announced his plans to retire after four years at the organization, which operates KPCC-FM (“LAist 89.3”), LAist.com and LAist Studios. Scannell, the Nickelodeon vet who later ran BBC Worldwide North America and Mitú, will remain in the role until a new successor is named. The SCPR board has started a search for Scannell’s replacement.
Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis turned their son Dimitri‘s soccer practice into a group outing on Saturday (September 9) in Los Angeles.