Maren Morris on Monday got here out as bisexual.
“Glad satisfaction,” Morris wrote on Instagram from a present in Phoenix, Arizona. “Glad to be the B in LGBTQ+.”
The Hollywood Reporter reached out to Morris for additional remark.
The information comes a number of months after the singer finalized her divorce from nation singer Ryan Hurd. The previous couple share a 4-year-old son, Hayes.
Late final yr, Morris introduced she was leaving nation music over issues surrounding its conservatism, and in 2022 she made headlines for her ongoing feud with Jason Aldean’s spouse, Brittany Kerr, surrounding Kerr’s transphobic feedback concerning gender-affirming healthcare.
Morris’ 2023 tune “The Tree” was additionally seemingly a response to Aldean’s extremely controversial music video for “Attempt That in a Small City.”
“I’ve at all times been an asker of questions and a status-quo challenger simply by being a lady. So it wasn’t actually even a selection,” Morris informed Los Angeles Instances of her nation style exit. “I didn’t consider myself as a political artist. I simply wrote songs about actual life by way of a lens of deep respect for my nation heroes. However the additional you get into the nation music enterprise, that’s while you begin to see the cracks. And when you see it, you may’t un-see it.”
She added that her departure from the neighborhood was a choice based mostly in love for what she believes. “Nation music is a enterprise, nevertheless it will get bought, notably to younger writers and artists who come up inside it, as virtually a god. It sort of feels like indoctrination. In the event you actually love such a music, and also you begin to see issues come up, it must be criticized. Something this common needs to be scrutinized if we wish to see progress,” she mentioned.
