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Maren Morris was not current for the 2024 CMT Music Awards on Sunday, April 7, regardless of being nominated.
Morris, 33, confirmed her absence a number of hours earlier, noting she had a previous work dedication.
“E-book tour week formally commences. Karina [Argow] and I are flying to New York tonight, so we’ll see you Wednesday on the Barnes & Noble in Union Sq.,” she mentioned in an Instagram Story on Sunday, referring to her Addie Ant Goes on an Journey kids’s guide.
The singer was nominated on Sunday alongside Hozier for CMT Efficiency of the Yr for his or her duet of his music “Take Me to Church” throughout a September 2023 episode of CMT Crossroads. The pair competed in opposition to Amber Riley, Bret Michaels and Chris Janson, Carrie Underwood, Cody Johnson, Dierks Bentley, Dustin Lynch and MacKenzie Porter, Jelly Roll, Kelsea Ballerini and The Struggle and Treaty within the class.
The 2024 CMT Music Awards took over Texas, which suggests fan-favorite nation stars flocked to the crimson carpet. The most important names of the style introduced their style A-game to Austin’s Moody Middle on Sunday, April 7. We’re speaking flirty frocks, glamorous robes, fashionable fits — paired with daring hair, fierce make-up and equipment to recollect. […]
All through her profession, Morris has obtained 15 nods on the CMT Music Awards, however she has but to take house a trophy on the ceremony, which was held on the Moody Middle in Austin, Texas, this yr.
Regardless of her success within the style, Morris revealed in September 2023 that she was leaving nation music. “I assumed I’d prefer to burn it to the bottom and begin over,” she informed the Los Angeles Instances. “However it’s burning itself down with out my assist.”
Morris, who has been outspoken about points surrounding the LGBTQ+ group, race and extra, added that she felt “very, very distanced” from the style and she or he had “type of mentioned every little thing I can say” in an effort to alter issues.
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The next month, Morris clarified that she was being “hyperbolic” and a whole exit from nation music could be “ridiculous.”
“I felt like I don’t need to say goodbye, however I actually can’t take part within the actually poisonous arms of this establishment anymore,” she mentioned on The New York Instances’ “Popcast” podcast in October 2023, noting that she wouldn’t submit her music to nation awards exhibits anymore. “I don’t know if it’s endlessly. … I’m not shutting off followers of nation music, or that’s not my intention. It’s simply the music trade that I’ve to stroll away, a couple of factions, from.”
Maren Morris isn’t afraid to make use of her voice — even when it means talking out in opposition to her fellow nation music stars. Morris first stepped on to the nation music scene along with her self-titled EP in 2015. Since then, she’s been making music and headlines. The “Circles Round This City” singer has by no means shied away from […]
Morris defined that she noticed “the writing on the wall” when detractors started telling her, “You don’t belong right here,” amid her advocacy.
“I believe after I zoomed out, hard-cold information … that is getting considerably worse every year for individuals on the margins, and girls normally,” she continued. “It’s not improved, it’s not even plateaued. It’s gotten worse.”
In November 2023, Morris referred to as the potential for turning into a pop star “hilarious.”
Nation music’s largest names haven’t been afraid to go head-to-head through the years, exchanging blows on social media, making up at awards exhibits and extra. In 2015, a number of feminine artists got here collectively to fireside again at radio character Keith Hill amid his feedback about why he performs extra male artists on the air. The controversy was dubbed “Tomato-gate.” […]
“I’m not getting out of Dodge. I really like residing in Nashville, and I don’t take into account myself an expat of nation music,” she informed Selection on the time. “There’s so many superb individuals right here making music that issues. I’m a bit of this city, and I need to make it higher in the identical methods I need the music trade to be higher.”
Amid the drama over her profession path, Morris additionally filed for divorce from Ryan Hurd in October 2023 after 5 years of marriage. The pair, who share 4-year-old son Hayes, finalized the proceedings in January.