Maren Morris on Monday got here out as bisexual.
“Completely happy delight,” Morris wrote on Instagram from a present in Phoenix, Arizona. “Completely happy 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 12 months, 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 relating to 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 all the time been an asker of questions and a status-quo challenger simply by being a girl. So it wasn’t actually even a alternative,” Morris advised Los Angeles Occasions of her nation style exit. “I didn’t consider myself as a political artist. I simply wrote songs about actual life by means of a lens of deep respect for my nation heroes. However the additional you get into the nation music enterprise, that’s if you begin to see the cracks. And when you see it, you possibly can’t un-see it.”
She added that her departure from the neighborhood was a call based mostly in love for what she believes. “Nation music is a enterprise, but it surely will get offered, notably to younger writers and artists who come up inside it, as nearly a god. It seems like indoctrination. If you happen to really love this kind of music, and also you begin to see issues come up, it must be criticized. Something this well-liked needs to be scrutinized if we wish to see progress,” she stated.