The cutest country couple. Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd brought the house down with their duet at the 2022 CMT Music Awards — but did you catch the sweet moment they shared?
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Taylor Swift shift from country to pop star.But Morris was feeling so grounded by monumental changes in her life — becoming a mother during the pandemic, losing her producer to cancer and the racial reckoning in America — that the music that leapt out wasn’t exactly club bangers.“If people are expecting some giant (expletive) pop record, I think they are going to be surprised,” said Morris from her home in Nashville, Tennessee. “But I think that it’s still very much me.”“Humble Quest,” coming out Friday, reflects Morris’ personal growth after two popular albums and multi-platinum hits that centered her as an outspoken and genre-fluid star in a rapidly changing country music landscape.
The Grammy-winning Texas-born singer’s openness on sexuality, femininity, politics and her acknowledgement of country music’s racist history has put a target on her back as well, mostly from anonymous online critics.“There was this dichotomy of feeling very humbled by the weight of the world and the election and the pandemic and motherhood, but also feeling this release of criticism and judgment from complete strangers,” said Morris.The word humble has often been thrown at her in negative ways, such as commenters saying Morris should cover up her body. That’s only led Morris to clapback by tweeting photos from her "Playboy" magazine shoot.In the title track, Morris reiterates that she’s a work in progress — stumbling, but striving to be better and not letting her ego “cast a shadow.”“Yeah, I’ve absolutely overstepped my bounds and opened my mouth one too many times and learned from it and got slapped on the wrist,” she said.
“But I don’t think it scared me into being more quiet. I think it’s just taught me to be a little bit more thoughtful
.The cutest country couple. Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd brought the house down with their duet at the 2022 CMT Music Awards — but did you catch the sweet moment they shared?
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Maren Morris is singing her marriage's praises. The «Circles Around This Town» singer spoke to ET's Rachel Smith at the 2022 CMT Music Awards red carpet Monday night where she said she feels like she hit the jackpot in her relationship with husband, Ryan Hurd.«We've had years where it's been hard, and we are still trying to find that — I think we are better now at finding the balance of home time and work time,» Morris shared of her and Hurd, who share two-year-old son, Hayes.
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People magazine, the "Circles Around This Town" singer said Ryan helped diagnose her with postpartum depression after their son, Hayes Andrew, was born in March 2020 during the very early days of the COVID pandemic. "I do check-ins all the time [with] therapy, which I've done for years, and my husband was a huge help diagnosing that too," Maren said. "Sometimes it's just someone really close to you saying, 'Are you OK?' It's so simple, but it kind of snaps you out of whatever fog you're in that you think is normal, but isn't."Maren's depression started to ease about six months after her son's birth.
Maren Morris, 31, encouraged fans to “find [their] light” in a pair of photos that she tweeted out on Tuesday March 22. The singer gave fans two different angles of herself in the same outfit, while she seemed excited that her new album would be coming out on Friday March 25. The country star joked about how the key to a good photo is really about finding the best camera angle.
Chris Willman Music WriterCountry superstar Maren Morris is not trying to play things down the middle. She had pop hits with Zedd on “The Middle” and on her own with “The Bones,” but her third album, “Humble Quest,” carries an extra level of humility in not having any overt pop aspirations.
Maren Morris has a message for all of the haters: ‘Get over it!’
Maren Morris is still proud of her 2019 Playboy cover. The 31-year-old clapped back at critics about the sexy shoot, and responded to trolls via Instagram on Saturday, March 19. “Before I go into the next album era, I did @playboy in 2019 and got a lot of hate at the time, but I’m the proudest that I showed country female sexuality in its realist form here,” she wrote on a caption of one of the black-and-white images from the magazine, shot by Harper Smith.