Maren Morris releases new music about leaving toxic relationships
"This song evokes the pain of exhausting all your love and time for this person or 'entity' but realising it’s just a draining, transactional relationship that isn’t nourishing in any healthy way."
Country star Maren Morris has released new music.
The Grammy Award-winning singer's new singles, 'Big Tree' and 'Get the Hell Out of Here', came out over the weekend.
Taking about the two songs on her Instagram, the singer-songwriter said 'Big Tree' encapsulates the feelings of being in a toxic relationship.
"I wrote this on the 10 year anniversary of my moving to Nashville. It’s about a toxic “family tree” burning itself to the ground. Halfway through, I realise it’s burning itself down without any of my help. This song evokes the pain of exhausting all your love and time for this person or “entity” but realising it’s just a draining, transactional relationship that isn’t nourishing in any healthy way," she said on Instagram.
She says because of the toxic relationship, she decided to free herself and believed in finding love somewhere else.
"By the end of the song, I give myself permission to face the sun, plant new seeds where it’s safer to grow and realize that sometimes there is greener grass elsewhere," she wrote.
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On her other single, 'Get the Hell Out of Here', the singer says she had to focus on her own power in the new chapter of her life and not relying on other people's opinions.
"This is the aftermath of the tree burning. Being quite literally burned out, this is a story of me feeling pulled in every direction, needing everyone else’s understanding and acceptance but my own and how self-destructive that ultimately became. I relinquish control of trying to change everyone’s mind or bad faith behavior and focus on my own power going forward. Doing the right thing can feel lonely at times, but there are more friends than foes, so I finally quit making myself one of them," she wrote.
Below is the video of her new music:
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Over the weekend, LA Times reported that Maren was leaving country music and blamed the 'Trump years'.
"After the Trump years, people’s biases were on full display. It just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic," she said in the interview with the publication.
“It’s not out of true joy or love of the music. It’s to own the libs. And that’s so not what music is intended for. Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed — the actual oppressed. And now it’s being used as this really toxic weapon in culture wars,” she added.
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