Maren Morris sounds completely advantageous on her personal on a canopy of Billy Idol’s 1982 traditional “Dancing With Myself.” The countrified, sultry tackle the brand new wave rocker’s ode going it alone dropped on Thursday (Feb. 15), together with an appropriately one-woman music video shot inside Nashville’s iconic Grimey’s report retailer.
As you may count on, Morris layers the unique snarling rock tune with banjos, strummed acoustic guitars and her signature smoky vocals on the monitor produced by Gabe Simon (Noah Kahan, Lana Del Rey). Within the visible, Morris dances her method by means of the aisles of the empty unbiased report retailer, pulling out items of vinyl and hoisting them over her head in between journeys to a makeshift stage the place she croons the tune’s onanistic chorus into right into a mic for an viewers of none.
Morris, who finalized her divorce from husband Ryan Hurd earlier this month, advised Yahoo! Leisure that the tune is a celebration of her single life. “I’m on this new slate in life and I need to kind of lean into the vulnerability of the lyrics, as a result of after I was [writing] them down, I don’t know, it type of struck this melancholic be aware and I really feel like that’s such a relatable theme to singleness,” she stated. [Being single] is enjoyable and also you’re actually attending to know your self, which is vital as a result of you’re the longest relationship you’ll have in your life so it is advisable are inclined to that one. However there’s additionally, you realize, moments of bittersweetness once you really feel on these occasional nights just a little lonely.”
The singer stated filming in Grimey’s was particularly candy as a result of it’s positioned in East Nashville, which is the place she lived when she first moved to city. “I simply put my total coronary heart into not giving a s–t and dancing and searching silly,” she stated. “I felt actually emotionally related to the tune. … I simply was like, I’m dancing with myself.”
After asserting final yr that she was planning to “step again” from making nation music — which she advised the outlet was misinterpreted on the time — Morris stated she’s within the “early inventive phases” of writing her subsequent album after going again to the drafting board on the mission she was engaged on earlier than the divorce. As for whether or not the album will likely be extra pop than nation, Morris stated it’s “too early to inform.”
“Dancing” is Morris’ first new music since she dropped her two-song 2023 EP The Bridge. The singer will obtain the Visionary Award for her dedication to talking out about injustice at this yr’s Billboard Girls in Music Awards on March 6, the place she may also carry out.
Watch Morris’ video for “Dancing With Myself” beneath.