Maren Morris Says She Has No Plans to Be a 'Pop Star': 'That's Hilarious'

Morris talked in ‘Variety’ about how she kept her Texas roots

Maren Morris isn’t going to be “pop” anytime soon.

The country star, 33, opened up Diversity in an interview that honored her as the changemaker of the year about her relationship with country music since she announced her departure from the toxic aspects of the business in September The Los Angeles Times.

Morris has stated that she has no plans to “become a ‘pop star’.”

“Obviously not — like, that’s ridiculous,” she said of the pivot idea.

Maren Morris clarifies that she hasn’t ‘left country music’: ‘I want to take the good roles with me’

Despite working with Jack Antonoff on “Get the Hell Out Of Here,” which is on her latest EP the bridgekeeps his Texas roots.

“I’m not getting out of Dodge. I love living in Nashville and I don’t consider myself a country music expat,” she told the publication. “There are so many amazing people here making important music. I’m a part of this city and I want to make it better the same way I want the music industry to be better.”

Elsewhere in the conversation, Morris discussed how she doesn’t think of herself as “bad” for choosing to step away from country music.

“I’m just tired of being a person who wants to get ahead,” she told the publication. “I was successful, but – I think – at a moral price. I couldn’t keep doing the same song and dance.”

She said her questions about the genre’s lack of diversity and inclusion became more pressing when the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests took place.

While at the 2020 CMA Awards, where she picked up three awards for her hit single “The Bones,” she “looked around at the crowd and for the first time stupidly realized that there were actually only white people there.”

“I wish I had woken up earlier,” she added.

Maren Morris performs in Boston in May 2023.

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Last month, the “Girl” singer discussed her relationship with country music The New York Times‘ Pop cast.

“I couldn’t do this circus anymore — I felt like I had to absorb and explain people’s bad behavior and laugh at it,” she told the podcast. “I just couldn’t do that especially after 2020. I changed. A lot of things changed about me that year.” She added that “quitting country music” was a bit of an exaggeration — but she “definitely doesn’t get to participate in a lot of that” and she’s “OK, I’m just doing my thing.”

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