{"id":328,"date":"2023-09-16T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/?p=328"},"modified":"2023-09-16T07:35:49","modified_gmt":"2023-09-16T14:35:49","slug":"maren-morris-says-shes-leaving-country-music-its-burning-itself-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/2023\/09\/16\/maren-morris-says-shes-leaving-country-music-its-burning-itself-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris says she\u2019s leaving country music: \u2018It\u2019s burning itself down\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Maren Morris\u00a0has done her best to change country music from the inside, but she\u2019s tired of fighting a losing battle \u2014 and she\u2019s ready to move on. \u201cI thought I\u2019d like to burn it to the ground and start over,\u201d Morris, 33, said of country music in an interview with the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0published on Friday, September 15. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"916\" height=\"594\" src=\"http:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230916_112930_Samsung-Internet.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230916_112930_Samsung-Internet.jpg 916w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230916_112930_Samsung-Internet-300x195.jpg 300w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230916_112930_Samsung-Internet-768x498.jpg 768w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230916_112930_Samsung-Internet-450x292.jpg 450w, https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Screenshot_20230916_112930_Samsung-Internet-780x506.jpg 780w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 916px) 100vw, 916px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBut it\u2019s burning itself down without my help.\u201d Morris has long advocated for greater diversity in the genre, which has traditionally been a branch of the music industry dominated by white male heterosexual artists. \u201cBut the stories going on within country music right now, I\u2019ve tried to avoid a lot of it at all costs,\u201d she explained, noting that she\u2019s benefitted from the dominant system as well. \u201cI feel very, very distanced from it.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her new songs \u201cThe Tree\u201d and \u201cGet the Hell Out of Here\u201d \u2014\u00a0released on Friday\u00a0as an EP called\u00a0The Bridge\u00a0\u2014 are about her decision to leave country music behind. \u201cIf you truly love this type of music and you start to see problems arise, it needs to be criticized. Anything this popular should be scrutinized if we want to see progress,\u201d she said. \u201cBut I\u2019ve kind of said everything I can say.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maren Morris\u00a0has done her best to change country music from the inside, but she\u2019s tired of fighting a losing battle \u2014 and she\u2019s ready to move on. \u201cI thought I\u2019d like to burn it to the ground and start over,\u201d Morris, 33, said of country music in an interview with the\u00a0Los Angeles Times\u00a0published on Friday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":329,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music-art"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usflashgazette.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}