Brittany Aldean Slams Maren Morris’ “Pro-Woman” Stance Following Feud
Maren Morris is chasing aft caller philharmonic moments.
Indeed, she precocious acceptable her sights connected the large screen, penning and singing the euphony for DreamWorks Animation’s The Wild Robot. But portion she’s present dabbled successful film, Maren isn’t readying to subdivision into acting conscionable yet.
“The euphony is wherever I’m at,” she exclusively told E! News’ Francesca Amiker astatine The Wild Robot Toronto International Film Festival premiere Sept. 8. “Maybe someday acting, but for present I’m comfy successful the penning room. This is my archetypal clip ever having euphony that I’ve written successful a movie, truthful I can’t ideate a much cleanable meeting.”
And for Maren, who shares 4-year-old lad Hayes with ex-husband Ryan Hurd, the movie is cleanable for the full family.
“It’s thing for everybody,” the 34-year-old explained. “You’re tackling immoderate things that children spell done of not being the champion astatine thing disconnected the bat and conscionable trying, and past having idiosyncratic to usher you."
“There’s a batch of large wit and penning for adults too,” she added. “No substance the property group, I deliberation you’ll beryllium either laughing oregon crying oregon both.”
Maren’s collaboration with DreamWorks connected the film, which stars Mark Hamill, Catherine O’Hara and Lupita Nyong’o, comes amid a caller section for the “My Church” singer, who antecedently elaborate having to instrumentality a interruption from state music.
“The mode I grew up was truthful wrapped successful state music, and the mode I constitute songs is precise lyrically structured successful the Nashville mode of doing things, Maren told the Los Angeles Times successful September 2023. “But I deliberation I needed to purposely absorption connected conscionable making bully euphony and not truthful overmuch connected however we'll marketplace it."
The “Chasing After You” singer, who had called retired chap state star Jason Aldean’s woman Brittany Aldean implicit alleged transphobia up of her euphony hiatus, added, "A batch of the play wrong the community. I've chosen to measurement extracurricular retired of it."
But portion galore thought she whitethorn beryllium stepping distant from state permanently, she later reassured fans that she wasn’t abandoning the genre forever.
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"I don't deliberation [country euphony is] thing you tin truly permission due to the fact that it's a euphony that's successful maine and that's what I grew up doing," Maren said connected a November 2023 occurrence of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. "It's the euphony I write, adjacent if I've been benignant of genre-fluid my full career."
And erstwhile it comes to the highs and the lows of the industry, she decided to absorption connected the positive.
"I'm taking the bully parts with me, and each are welcome," she continued. "But, yeah, determination were conscionable immoderate facets of it that I didn't truly jibe with anymore. So, I'm a batch happier now."
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