Maren Morris Realized THIS Is Wrong With Country Music Upon Receiving Award

Maren Morris left the country music industry because of its toxicity and she's not holding back with her thoughts about the genre as she recently gave more details about her exit.

The musician recently spoke in an interview with Variety and noted that it was hard for her to fully separate from the genre itself because it was engraved to her as an artist and as a person.

Regardless, there was still a lot of negative connotation surrounding country music and she couldn't stand it anymore.

"I just got so sick of being a 'yes' person to get ahead... I've been successful, but - I think - at a moral cost. I couldn't keep doing the same song and dance," she said.

Elsewhere in the conversation, Morris credited some music acts like the Chicks and the Highwomen for being an inspiration to her to voice out her opinion about what she believes in even though it meant that she's turning her back against country music.

Maren Morris Realized the Negative Things About Country Music Upon Receiving a Major Award

In 2020, Maren Morris took the CMAs stage to accept an award for her song "The Bones" and upon receiving it, she had a major realization.

"I looked around at the crowd and stupidly realized for the first time that there were basically only white people there," she recalled. (via KKYR)

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She added that she wish she had "woken up" or realized things earlier in her career.

Maren Morris Has No Plans to Become a Pop Star

Even though she left the country music industry, the musician clarifies that she will not become a pop star as she finds it "hilarious."

Rather, she will distance herself from parts of country music that didn't sit well with her the most.

She later noted that she don't consider herself as an "expat of country music" because there are a lot of amazing people in Nashville making music that matters.

"I'm a piece of this town, and I want to make it better in the same ways I want the music industry to be better," she added.

In other updates about Maren Morris, the musician just released an EP titled "The Bridge" which contained the songs "Get The Hell Out Of Here" and "The Tree."

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