rewrite this content and keep HTML tags Breadcrumb Trail Links Music Celebrity ‘People are streaming these songs out of spite … It’s to own the libs’ Get the latest from Mark Daniell straight to your inbox Sign Up Published Sep 19, 2023 • Last updated 55 minutes ago • 3 minute read Maren Morris arrives at the iHeartCountry Festival on Saturday, May 7, 2022, at the Moody Center in Austin, Texas. Photo by Jack Plunkett /AP Article content Grammy award-winning singer Maren Morris is walking away from country music blaming the “Trump years” for her exit. Advertisement 2 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. 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Get email updates from your favourite authors. Article content Morris announced her departure from the music genre in an interview with the Los Angeles Times, in which she chastised the industry for failing to confront its role as a “weapon in culture wars.” Article content “I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over,” she said of country music. “But it’s burning itself down without my help.” For her latest two-track EP The Bridge, Morris, 33, switched to Columbia Records from the company’s Nashville branch because she began to feel “distanced” from the politics that have started to infuse the music genre, which she referred to as “butt rock.” “After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display,” Morris told the Times. “They were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic. All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music.” Your noon-hour look at what’s happening in Toronto and beyond. By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. You may unsubscribe any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link at the bottom of our emails or any newsletter. Postmedia Network Inc. | 365 Bloor Street East, Toronto, Ontario, M4W 3L4 | 416-383-2300 Thanks for signing up! A welcome email is on its way. If you don’t see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Your Midday Sun will soon be in your inbox. We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again Article content Advertisement 3 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Morris said she didn’t start off thinking of herself as a “political artist.” “I just wrote songs about real life through a lens of deep respect for my country heroes,” she said. “But the further you get into the country music business, that’s when you start to see the cracks. And once you see it, you can’t un-see it. So you start doing everything you can with the little power you have to make things better.” Pointing to the popularity of Jason Aldean’s recent hit song Try That in a Small Town, Morris said, “People are streaming these songs out of spite. It’s not out of true joy or love of the music. It’s to own the libs. And that’s so not what music is intended for. Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed — the actual oppressed. And now it’s being used as this really toxic weapon in culture wars.” Advertisement 4 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content Morris became embroiled in several high-profile dust ups with her fellow artists, leading conservative commentator Tucker Carlson to brand her as a “lunatic country music person” after she lashed out at Brittany Aldean for thanking her parents for not changing her gender “when I went through my tomboy phase.” Morris responded, “It’s so easy to, like, not be a scumbag human? Sell your clip-ins and zip it, Insurrection Barbie.” Morris continued, “You know, I’m glad she didn’t become a boy either because we really don’t need another a**hole dude in the world. Sucks when Karens try to hide their homophobia/transphobia behind their ‘protectiveness of the children.’ Weren’t they putting their kids in ‘Biden-is-a-pedo’ shirts on social media? Sounds like a real safe way to protect them from millions of eyes!” Advertisement 5 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content She also refused to stand or applaud for Morgan Wallen at the American Country Music Awards following his N-word scandal. But country music critic Kyle “Trigger” Coroneos thinks Morris’ departure won’t be noticed by many country fans. “I think the constant hall-monitoring that Maren Morris and some other people have been participating in, especially through the COVID years and things like that, were just constantly berating people for the beliefs they have or the actions they take or the decisions they make has gotten people just where they’re tired of it. They just don’t want someone preaching to them about how they’re supposed to think and what they’re supposed to do,” he told Fox News. On social media, Morris’ comments were met with indifference. Advertisement 6 This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Article content “Does the average person care?” one person wrote. “We just wanna hear some music live on the weekends during our only night out. Like, keep politics out of music. I don’t care.” “Was she even country to begin with?” another asked. “Reminded me of a female Sam Hunt … pop music on country radio.” But Morris has a sense of relief as she departs, telling the Times, “I’ve kind of said everything I can say.” “I always thought I’d have to do middle fingers in the air jumping out of an airplane, but I’m trying to mature here and realize I can just walk away from the parts of this that no longer make me happy.” mdaniell@postmedia.com X: @markhdaniell Jack White bashes Mark Wahlberg, Mel Gibson, Joe Rogan and Guy Fieri for hanging with Donald Trump Jason Aldean blasts cancel culture after ‘long week’ of controversy: ‘I am a proud American’ Jason Aldean roasted after wife Brittany gets kiss from Donald Trump Article content Share this article in your social network Comments Postmedia is committed to maintaining a lively but civil forum for discussion and encourage all readers to share their views on our articles. 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Maren Morris says she’s quitting country music, blames ‘Trump years’
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