Maren Morris at Billboard Women In Music 2024 held at YouTube Theater on March 6, 2024 in Inglewood, California. Gilbert Flores for Billboard
Maren Morris‘ new EP may be called Intermission, but she says she’ s in fact drawing back the drape on her real feelings on the job rather than attracting it shut.
In a video clip published to Instagram on Monday (July 29), the 34-year-old singer-songwriter opened regarding the title of her five-track mini-album, which drops thisFriday “Calling this project Intermission was intentional,” she informed fans. “It’s a break in the act, and for me, it’s certainly an act break and brand-new phase of my life, and I’m so prepared to see what gets on the various other web page.
“I just am so proud of this music,” she proceeded. “It wasn’t easy to write, because I’m going through a lot, and this is the diary of that. But it’s also the most fun music as well as the most heartbreaking because i’m allowing myself to go there — ’cause I don’t have to protect anyone anymore. It’s just about my feelings. So, I hope you love it.”
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Led by the solitary “Cut!” including Julia Michaels, Intermission marks Morris’ very first correct set of tunes because declare separation from fellow songwriter Ryan Hurd, with whom she shares 4-year-old boy Hayes, inOctober At the moment, Morris’ attorneys specified that the ex-couple was “unable to live together successfully as husband and wife,” and were “experiencing irreconcilable differences in their marriage.”
The Grammy champion discussed her split previously this month in advance of the launch of one more Intermission solitary, “I Hope I Never Fall in Love.” “It’s pretty self-explanatory from the title, having just gone through a giant breakup,” she stated of the track in an Instagram video clip. “Just not wanting to go down that path again, and wanting to keep things casual, and really just lean into the ‘situationship’ of it all.”
Morris’ brand-new video clip transpires a week after Brittany Aldean reworked their 2022 fight over gender-affirming medical care in a podcast meeting, calling the “The Middle” vocalist’s feminist sights “bulls–t.” “She’s got a group of friends here in Nashville that, they just have it out for me for whatever reason,” the previous NBA professional dancer stated of the artist on Try That in aSmall Town “She started to make fun of my business, which at the time was hair extensions. Going back to the feminist movement … aren’t you supposed to be all peace, love and all inclusivity and all the things?”
Watch Morris discuss Intermission‘s title listed below.
