Maren Morris has made some drastic changes in her life in recent months. She announced her departure from country music in September. Additionally, she filed for divorce earlier this month. Her EP The Bridge helped to mark the beginning of those changes.
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Yesterday, Morris took to social media to discuss the two-song collection. In the video, she speaks over a photo of her as a child playing guitar. “So, I released my EP, The Bridge about a month ago. It very much is about where I’m going, but it’s also about where I’ve been,” she began.
Morris added that the EP made her want to look back through old videos and photos of herself. “I came across this one,” she said of the photo. “This has got to be early 2000s. I mean, look at the décor in my parents’ house. If I recall correctly, the local newspaper, The Fort Worth Star-Telegram came out and shot these photos of me playing guitar with my dad.”
Then Morris invited her fans to “walk over the bridge” with her, ask some questions, and “get nostalgic.”
When Morris released The Bridge she said she wanted the EP to be a transition between her last album and her upcoming release. The EP, she said, “honors where I’ve been but also feels like a forward step into the sun.”
“I welcome, celebrate, and grieve the changes that have happened these last few years and these two songs say it better than I ever could in a caption or interview,” she wrote in the social media post about the EP. “In the meantime,” she added, “let’s cross the bridge together.”
Earlier this month, Morris clarified her stance on leaving country music. “I felt like I don’t want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore,” she told The New York Times. “I love living in Nashville and I have my family there. There’s a reason why people come here from Los Angeles and New York to write with us because we have amazing songwriters there , so that’s not going to change. But, I couldn’t do this circus anymore of feeling like I have to absorb and explain people’s bad behaviors and laugh it off.”
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