Maren Morris has debuted a new song about never wanting to fall in love again – one day after coming out as bisexual in the wake of her divorce from Ryan Hurd.
In an Instagram post celebrating Pride Month this Monday, Maren announced: ‘Happy to be the B in LGBTQ+, happy pride!’
Her joyful declaration came five months after she and Ryan finalized their divorce, which she filed for last October following five years of marriage.
The day after she broke the news of her sexuality, Maren gave her first live performance of her song I Hope I Never Fall in Love during a concert in Colorado.
‘I hope I never fall in love again,’ she sings in the ballad, vowing that her previous romance was ‘the last time,’ according to Us Weekly.
Maren Morris has debuted a new song about never wanting to fall in love again – one day after coming out as bisexual; pictured playing Salt Lake City last week
Maren gave the song a tongue-in-cheek introduction, telling the crowd at Red Rocks: ‘When you hear the title, you’re going to be like: “OK, b****. Yeah, right.”‘
‘This song I wrote with my friend Delacey. This song is called I Hope I Never Fall in Love. It’s pretty [self]-explanatory,’ shared the country songstress.
‘I take another page from my hero’s book,’ the number begins. ‘I haven’t slept for days and the pressure’s cooked. I know with all the fish in the deep blue sea. I’m gonna get bored and take you home with me.’
By the chorus, however, she has grimly resolved: ‘I hope I never fall in love. I hope I never fall in love again. I’m not taking it back.’
Maren then expresses her determination to ‘be a good girl’ and ‘stay on the wagon’ – or to at least ‘keep it to myself if it ever happens.’
Her tack will be to ‘throw myself a party and I’ll drink champagne,’ she decides. ‘I probably won’t be happy but I’ll dance in vain. When the lonely feelings creep in, won’t let my will power weaken.’
In her concluding verse, she declares: ‘I was once a b**** when it came to love. I’d get a little hit and be all messed up. But I loved him from the bottom and I saw the light. God as my witness, that was the last time.’
Maren and Ryan, her fellow country music singer, tied the knot in Nashville in 2018 and are now the parents of a four-year-old son called Hayes.
Her joyful declaration came five months after she and Ryan Hurd finalized their divorce, which she filed for last October following five years of marriage; pictured February 2023
Maren and Ryan, her fellow country music singer, tied the knot in Nashville in 2018 and are now the parents of a four-year-old son called Hayes; Maren pictured with Hayes
Their separation went public in October of last year when Maren filed for divorce in Tennessee, citing ‘irreconcilable differences.’
Two months later, she revealed that she was not ready to begin dating again and was focusing instead on her work as a songwriter.
Noting that her divorce proceedings were still ‘ongoing,’ she said she ‘would like this to wrap up’ and was not in the ‘headspace’ to embark on another relationship.
‘I’m writing so much right now that’s been kind of my way of dating… is just through song,’ she explained on The Howard Stern Show.
Maren finally came out as bisexual on Instagram this Monday, after years of vociferous advocacy for LGBTQ+ causes.
In 2022 she carried on a spat with her fellow country star Jason Aldean’s wife Brittany, whom she accused of transphobia over an Instagram joke.
Brittany wrote: ‘I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase,’ prompting a scathing response from Maren, who referred to her as ‘Insurrection Barbie.’
Right-wing pundit Candace Owens then slammed Maren on Twitter, prompting Maren to sneer: ‘My Grammy is positively sobbing right now,’ and Candace to accuse her of sounding ‘like a 15 year old girl on Tik-Tok.’
Their separation went public in October of last year when Maren filed for divorce in Tennessee, citing ‘irreconcilable differences’; pictured February 2023
Maren also jumped into the social media fray when Candace Cameron Bure said she was leaving the Hallmark Channel in favor of projects about ‘traditional marriage’ on the Great American Family network.
Invoking Candace’s Full House character DJ Tanner, Maren wrote an Instagram comment quipping: ‘Make DJ gay again.’
Last year she appeared on RuPaul’s Drag Race and apologized on the verge of tears for country music’s ‘relationship with LGBTQ+ members.’
Months later, she wrote an essay denouncing the ‘awful’ way that ‘the country music industry has treated LGBTQ people’ in Billboard.
‘There are people like Ty Herndon, who wasn’t able to come out until he was basically not in the industry anymore. But there is progress being made: TJ Osborne, one of my closest friends, came out a couple years ago, and there’s such support behind him because it’s like: “Yeah, it doesn’t matter.”‘
TJ, who is one of the Brothers Osborne, became the only openly gay artist signed to a major country label upon coming out in February 2021.
