I mean, when you spend your life insulting and looking down on everybody in country music\u2026<\/p>\n
Maren Morris<\/a> is currently in a new era of her career after announcing back in 2023 that she was leaving country music while calling it a \u201ctoxic institution\u201d, then backtracking and saying she was never leaving country and that it was \u201cclickbait.\u201d<\/p>\n All of this came after Maren has been involved in quite a bit of drama with others in country music over the years, most notably her feud with Brittany Aldean a few years ago.<\/p>\n Back in 2022, the wife of Jason Aldean had posted a tongue-in-cheek Instagram post thanking her mom for not changing her gender when she went through her tomboy phase, and Maren decided to insert herself, insulting Brittany for her job and telling her to \u201czip it\u201d while calling her \u201cInsurrection Barbie\u201d over her support of President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n It\u2019s far from the first time Maren has called out those in her own genre. In 2021, Maren accused the industry of protecting white men like Morgan Wallen following his racial slur controversy, and in early 2023 she apologized on behalf of country music for the genre\u2019s treatment of LGBTQ+ people, which rubbed some of her fellow artists the wrong way.<\/p>\n She\u2019s also compared country music to \u201can abusive relationship\u201d and says she feels like the \u201chall monitor.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI hate feeling like I need to be the hall monitor of treating people like human beings in country music. It\u2019s exhausting. But there\u2019s a very insidious culture of people feeling very comfortable being transphobic and homophobic and racist.\u201d<\/p>\n Then there was the whole saga surrounding her leaving country music. At the time, she called it a \u201ctoxic institution\u201d that was \u201cburning itself down.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore.\u00a0I couldn\u2019t do this sort of circus anymore, feeling like I had to absorb or explain people\u2019s bad behavior. And you know, laugh it off.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n So yeah, you can probably see why she rubbed people the wrong way with the way, not even with her politics but with the way she talked about country music.<\/p>\n But for some reason, Maren is apparently shocked that people in country music aren\u2019t friendly to her anymore\u2026<\/p>\n In a long diatribe posted to her TikTok, the pop singer responded to a fan comment about finding \u201cthe right\u201d audience, and once again decided to blast the country music industry as a bunch of hateful Trump supporters.<\/p>\n \u201cMy first album, Hero, with my church, it came out in June of 2016, and Trump won in November of 2016. So my entire success of my first record was under this first year of Trump\u2019s reign. So weirdly, everything felt very political. Even though no one cared that much before, this was a very big year for us all to be blindsided of his win. So the last 10 years of my career have been under this Trump presidency, Biden, then Trump again. And it\u2019s been quite interesting to see the country music space become very politicized.\u201d<\/p>\n Honestly, it\u2019s pretty rich of Maren to complain about country music becoming too politicized. When you think of \u201cpolitical\u201d voices in country music, Maren is one of a handful of names at the top of the list. Nobody is making her speak out about politics. If she feels like it\u2019s the right thing to do and something she wants to do, great, but there are plenty of artists who have long, successful careers without ever revealing their political affiliation to fans. You can\u2019t choose to use your platform to speak on politics (which, again, is 100% her right to do) but then complain that it\u2019s too political.<\/p>\n She also again complains about the atmosphere in Nashville and in the country music industry:<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s really heartbreaking because I love my Texas roots. I love country music. I love Nashville. I live there. I\u2019ve not lived anywhere else in the last 13 years. But it\u2019s been very hot. Like no one is very friendly. Some people are cool, but it\u2019s been very dicey at these award shows and s\u2014. And I don\u2019t really go to them anymore, but it\u2019s been very heated.\u201d<\/p>\n Again, do you think it has to do with the fact that you\u2019ve insulted the genre as a bunch of racist homophobes and called the institution \u201ctoxic?\u201d I can see why people might not be as friendly when you\u2019re constantly bashing them publicly\u2026<\/p>\n Then, without an ounce of self-awareness, Maren goes on to say that it\u2019s impossible to make country music without being political \u2013 after bashing the industry for becoming too political:<\/p>\n \u201cYou cannot be a full songwriter and reflect reality and life through song without being political. Like, I\u2019m sorry, it is what it is. That\u2019s John Prine, babe. And I try to be kind. I try to be benevolent. But there are people and energies in the sphere of my work the last few years that have really put me off. So I\u2019ve stepped away in certain facets, but I still love country music, obviously.\u201d<\/p>\n It seems like she loves country music like OJ loved Nicole\u2026<\/p>\n Maren goes on to say that she\u2019s lost friends and family members over the years, but that she doesn\u2019t regret speaking out on what she believes in. And again, that\u2019s 100% her right to do \u2013 but when you continue to insult those people for their own beliefs because they don\u2019t align with yours, you can\u2019t then be surprised that they don\u2019t want to be friendly with you either.<\/p>\n And I already know what her response would be: I\u2019m just speaking up for what\u2019s right and speaking out against hate. And that\u2019s the problem with politics today: Anything you say is right and anything you don\u2019t like is hate speech.<\/p>\n Maybe, just maybe, it\u2019s more nuanced than that, and those with different beliefs AREN\u2019T terrible people just because they feel differently than you.<\/p>\n Maybe that institution you\u2019re calling \u201ctoxic\u201d isn\u2019t as \u201chateful\u201d as you think, and just doesn\u2019t like being constantly insulted by your moral superiority disguised as righteousness.<\/p>\n @marenmorris<\/a> Replying to @Kevin Smith \u266c original sound \u2013 marenmorris<\/a> <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t