Maren Morris is embracing a brand new period of independence, each in her skilled and private life. On Thursday, the Grammy-winning star drops an emotional cowl of Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself,” which additionally occurs to coincide with Singles Consciousness Day.
“I am on this new slate in life and I wish to kind of lean into the vulnerability of the lyrics, as a result of after I was [writing] them down, I do not know, it type of struck this melancholic notice and I really feel like that is such a relatable theme to singleness,” Morris, who not too long ago finalized her divorce from singer Ryan Hurd, tells Yahoo Leisure. “[Being single] is enjoyable and also you’re actually attending to know your self, which is essential as a result of you’re the longest relationship you may have in your life so you have to are inclined to that one. However there’s additionally, you realize, moments of bittersweetness once you really feel on these occasional nights a bit of lonely.”
Morris’s cowl might be seen in a brand new spot for Seen Wi-fi, the one-line wi-fi service designed for singles.
“I partnered with Seen as a result of I cherished the theme of their messaging, which is independence and possession,” she provides. “For me proper now, I am actually leaning into my kind of singleness and it is daunting however thrilling.”
Morris says capturing the video for this was “cathartic” and “a very emotional expertise.”
“We filmed it at Grimey’s right here in Nashville. It is such an iconic file retailer in Nashville, it is independently owned. It is in East Nashville the place I used to dwell after I first moved right here. So there’s simply a number of emotional ties I’ve to that venue,” she says. “I simply put my total coronary heart into not giving a shit and dancing and looking out silly. I felt actually emotionally related to the music. … I simply was like, I’m dancing with myself.”
Morris says recording the quilt was “one of many best” days she’s had within the studio.
“I haven’t got something to show anymore. Like, as an artist I really feel actually untethered and free on this second of my artistry and in addition simply, like, personhood proper now,” Morris says.
“You already know, I’ve confirmed that I can do an enormous vocal on songs, I’ve confirmed that I can kind of weave by means of genres. So on this music, I really feel prefer it was extra concerning the emotion than making an attempt to sing the s*** out of it,” she laughs, including she wished to “maintain the tenderness of the music intact.”
Morris can be channeling that vitality into a brand new album — and never the one she thought she was placing out into the world 5 months in the past.
“I’m in early, early inventive phases of music proper now. I used to be engaged on one thing all final yr after which, you realize, my private life had some large shifts,” she explains. “So I kind of went again to the drafting board. Proper now I am within the type of enjoyable early phases of not realizing the place it is heading. … I am working with all my favourite folks they usually’re simply actually carrying me by means of this season of my life by means of music. I am writing stuff that’s actually not like what I’ve accomplished earlier than. So I am, I am undoubtedly excited for folks to listen to it.”
In September, weeks earlier than Morris filed for divorce from Hurd, she advised the Los Angeles Instances that she was taking a “step again” from the nation music business as she began working with pop producer Jack Antonoff. Headlines shortly declared she was leaving genres, which Morris tells Yahoo is not precisely correct. (“These had been clearly not my actual phrases.”) As for whether or not her forthcoming album is extra pop than nation, Morris says it is “too early to inform.”
“I really feel like I’ve all the time been a bit of bit each. So just like the departure [from country], I imply in an institutional approach, I am leaving some issues behind, however I believe I will all the time make music that is weaving tons of genres all through as a result of that is what comes out after I write,” she says. “I believe it is gonna lean extra various and pop simply because these are the sounds that I am experimenting with. I really feel prefer it’ll be extra in that realm, however it’s too early to say, on file! Nevertheless it’s undoubtedly like a brand new sound for me.
As for her “Dancing With Myself” cowl and Seen Wi-fi advert, Morris is “excited for my followers to see this aspect of me simply actually letting go.”
“I hope that folks really feel like they wanna dance once they hear it, but additionally empowered,” she says. “I really feel like we added a number of moments of bittersweet vulnerability to it as nicely within the verses. I really feel prefer it’s simply a kind of few instances I’ve lined one other particular person’s music and acquired to really make it my very own.”
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