Maren Morris Slams Trump Supporters in Fiery Rant

Maren's personal revelation came after she broke her silence on comments she made in 2023 about leaving the 'toxic' world of country music.

The singer told the New York Times' Popcast podcast back in September 2023 she felt 'like I have to absorb and explain people's bad behaviors and laugh it off.'

The hitmaker added, 'I just couldn't do that after 2020 particularly. I've changed. A lot of things changed about me that year.'

'I don't want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore,' she said.

She also told the Los Angeles Times: 'I thought I'd like to burn it to the ground and start over. But it's burning itself down without my help.'

Advertisement

But Morris has since clarified she 'never said she was leaving country music' in a 2025 interview with The Guardian.

Morris called the headline of the LA Times article - which was titled 'Maren Morris is getting the hell out of country music: "I've said everything I can say"' - 'really unfortunate.'

'I never said I’m leaving country music, because that’s not really how I feel at all,' she told the publication. 'You hear country music on this album. You can’t just intentionally take the parts away. There would be nothing left of the sound of me. Because it’s just there. It’s in my bones and it’s in the way I write,' she said, speaking of her fourth studio album, Dreamsicle.

She added that the article 'caused a ton of unnecessary drama for me from that community because I was already sort of on the outs. I’m not backtracking what I said, I just never said that.'

The singer, who has been a Nashville resident for 12 years, added 'it’s not going to be some tussle that’s going to make me change my address.'

Though she moved label divisions, no longer does the country radio circuit, and doesn't submit her music to the Country Music Awards or the Academy of Country Music Awards, the singer still works with all the same people.

'It would be strange to be like: "This music isn’t me anymore,"' she explained. 'That makes me feel like I’m s******g on the music I’ve already put out, and that’s not how I feel at all.'

'The fans that I’ve made and the communities those fans have made through being a fan of my music is so important to me,' she added, 'so to ever come out of my mouth saying: "I’m leaving you behind" – I'd never be so reckless and stupid.'

Advertisement