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After coming to glory with his 2016 song "My Church", MAREN MORRIS has become one of the biggest stars of country music, publishing enormous successes, including "The Bones" and "The Middle". She won the Grammy Award for the best solo country performance and five prizes from the Country Music Academy and the Country Music Association. But now the 33 -year -old singer leaves the genre. On September 15, Morris released an EP from two songs entitled The bridge On its transition from country and in different types of music. His two new songs - "The Tree" and "Feet the Hell Out of here" - include the pointed criticism of the state of country music.

"These two songs are incredibly essential at my next step because they express a very angry and liberating phase of my life in the past two years, but also how my navigation finally points to the future, anything or sounds, "" Morris said in a press release As indicated by Billboard . "Honor where I was and what I did in country music, but also to move forward."

The star went more in depth on his problems with the country music sector and his decision to leave him in an interview with the Los Angeles Times . Read the rest to find out more about the evolution of Morris's career, why she says that the world of the country has become "a toxic weapon" and how fans reacted to the news.

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Morris expressed his place on political and social issues, in particular by supporting democratic politicians and being an ally for the LGBTQ community. Last year, she made the headlines after denouncing Transphobic comments Made by Country musician Jason Aldean and his wife Brittany Aldean . AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

Los Angeles Times , asked Morris on Jason's controversial song "Try this in a small town", which was released earlier this year and was criticized for the words which, according to some, promote justifiable violence and racist beliefs.

"People broadcast these songs out of spite," said Morris. "It is not by true joy or love of music. It is to own the Libs. And this is not what music is intended. Music is supposed to be the voice of the oppressed - the real oppressed. And now it is used as this really toxic weapon in cultural wars. ""

When asked if her departure from country music means that "Libs were detained", the singer replied: "I am sure that some people may think. And I would say:" Do not hesitate. Go for it. "I do not want to have a contradictory relationship with country music. I always find myself strangely protecting him. But it is not a family member. It is the [Expletive] part, it is that I Talk about it as if it is a person, but it is not the case. It is therefore a lot to deeply deconstruct that I still disilar it. "

Morris explained that she thought it was his responsibility to underline the problems she had seen in the genre and to correct them. But she realized that she also had another option.

"If you really like this type of music and you start to see problems, it must be criticized. Everything that popular should be examined if we want to see the progress," she said. "But I have somewhat saying everything I can say. I always thought I should do my fingers in the middle in the air to jump from an airplane, but I try to ripen here and realize that I can just get away from the parts of that which do not make me happy. "

Elsewhere in the interview, she explained: "I thought I would like to burn [country music] on the ground and start again. But it burns without my help."

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Country music radio has been criticized in recent years Do not play music by female artists , which is something that many Female country singers also talked. Morris tackled this in his interview.

"Obviously, being one of the few women to have succeeded on Country radio, everything you do is looked at under a microscope," she said. "You are examined more than your male peers, even when you manage well. So I had to eliminate all of this from my head this year and write songs. A lot of drama within the community, I" chose I chose to get out of it. "

Morris underlined an era when she believes that country music has taken on a transmission into more hateful ideals.

"After Trump years, people 'prejudices were fully exposed," said singer "Chasing After You". "It has just revealed who were really people and that they were proud to be misogynist and racist and homophobic and transphobic. All these things were celebrated, and it was strangely adapting with this hyper-masculine branch Country music. I call it Butt Rock. "

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THE Musical video for Morris's new song "The Tree" The watch to cross an empty town that includes a shop that goes bankrupt. A panel reads "welcome to our perfect little town from the sun to sunset." It was interpreted as a search for Jason's song, which recalls "Sun Cities" —TOWNS who did not allow the presence of non -white people after sunset. Part of the video of "Try that in a small down" was filmed in front of a courthouse in Tennessee where a lynching took place.

In her video, Morris turns on a match to burn a tree, but then watched her burn alone. The lyrics of "The Tree" include the line ", I take an ax at the tree / the rot in the roots is the root of the problem / but you want to blame me."

In A message on Instagram , Morris described "getting out of hell from here" as the consequences of "the tree". She explained: "[l] is a story of me, I feel fired in all directions, needing the understanding and acceptance of all the others, but mine and how the self-destructive that is Finally become. I give up control to try to change the mind or behavior of everyone's bad faith or bad faith. And focus on my own power in the future. "

Morris's Instagram post on his new music is full of comments from Country fans who are angry with his criticism of the genre.

"You have not left country music, country music has left you when you started taking a brain washing in Hollywood," reads a comment. Another person wrote: "Country music has always sang on beer, trucks, family, God and small towns. Country music is not the problem, it's you." Someone else said: "What is funny is that she really believes it's country music that is the problem when it is the problem! Be careful to their own business and make the Good music! Stop trying to push her silly beliefs on everyone. She believes you believe either what she believes in where you are wrong! She's bad! "

Morris also receives support. A fan wrote: "All these hatefuls in the comments simply prove how toxic the country musical community. I can identify with his pain as a long -standing fan of country music." Another person commented: "You are an ally, you are a disruptor, you are courageous, you are courageous, you are beautiful, you are nice, you are only you." She also had a little love Sheryl Crow , another artist who worked in country music among other genres. "Again, you suffer from my @Marenmorris spirit," wrote Crow. "Proud of you."

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