Maren Morris says she does not ‘have something to show anymore.’ Now, she’s embracing ‘singleness’ and a brand new period of independence.

Maren Morris is embracing a brand new period of independence, each in her skilled and private life. On Thursday, the Grammy-winning star drops an emotional cowl of Billy Idol’s “Dancing With Myself,” which additionally occurs to coincide with Singles Consciousness Day.

“I am on this new slate in life and I need to kind of lean into the vulnerability of the lyrics, as a result of once I was [writing] them down, I do not know, it type of struck this melancholic word and I really feel like that is such a relatable theme to singleness,” Morris, who just lately finalized her divorce from singer Ryan Hurd, tells Yahoo Leisure. “[Being single] is enjoyable and also you’re actually attending to know your self, which is vital as a result of you’re the longest relationship you will have in your life so that you must are likely to that one. However there’s additionally, you understand, moments of bittersweetness once you really feel on these occasional nights a bit of lonely.”

Morris’s cowl might be seen in a brand new spot for Seen Wi-fi, the one-line wi-fi service designed for singles.

“I partnered with Seen as a result of I cherished the theme of their messaging, which is independence and possession,” she provides. “For me proper now, I am actually leaning into my kind of singleness and it is daunting however thrilling.”

Morris says taking pictures the video for this was “cathartic” and “a extremely emotional expertise.”

“We filmed it at Grimey’s right here in Nashville. It is such an iconic document retailer in Nashville, it is independently owned. It is in East Nashville the place I used to dwell once I first moved right here. So there’s simply quite a lot of emotional ties I’ve to that venue,” she says. “I simply put my total coronary heart into not giving a shit and dancing and looking out silly. I felt actually emotionally related to the tune. … I simply was like, I’m dancing with myself.”

Morris says recording the quilt was “one of many best” days she’s had within the studio.

“I haven’t got something to show anymore. Like, as an artist I really feel actually untethered and free on this second of my artistry and in addition simply, like, personhood proper now,” Morris says.

“You recognize, I’ve confirmed that I can do a large vocal on songs, I’ve confirmed that I can kind of weave by means of genres. So on this tune, I really feel prefer it was extra in regards to the emotion than attempting to sing the s*** out of it,” she laughs, including she wished to “hold the tenderness of the tune intact.”

Morris can also be channeling that power into a brand new album — and never the one she thought she was placing out into the world 5 months in the past.

“I’m in early, early artistic levels of music proper now. I used to be engaged on one thing all final yr after which, you understand, my private life had some huge shifts,” she explains. “So I kind of went again to the drafting board. Proper now I am within the type of enjoyable early levels of not figuring out the place it is heading. … I am working with all my favourite individuals they usually’re simply actually carrying me by means of this season of my life by means of tune. I am writing stuff that’s actually not like what I’ve performed earlier than. So I am, I am positively excited for individuals to listen to it.”

In September, weeks earlier than Morris filed for divorce from Hurd, she informed the Los Angeles Occasions that she was taking a “step again” from the nation music trade as she began working with pop producer Jack Antonoff. Headlines shortly declared she was leaving genres, which Morris tells Yahoo is not precisely correct. (“These have been clearly not my precise phrases.”) As for whether or not her forthcoming album is extra pop than nation, Morris says it is “too early to inform.”

“I really feel like I’ve at all times been a bit of bit each. So just like the departure [from country], I imply in an institutional method, I am leaving some issues behind, however I believe I am going to at all times make music that is weaving tons of genres all through as a result of that is what comes out once I write,” she says. “I believe it is gonna lean extra different and pop simply because these are the sounds that I am experimenting with. I really feel prefer it’ll be extra in that realm, however it’s too early to say, on document! Nevertheless it’s positively like a brand new sound for me.

As for her “Dancing With Myself” cowl and Seen Wi-fi advert, Morris is “excited for my followers to see this aspect of me simply actually letting go.”

“I hope that folks really feel like they wanna dance once they hear it, but additionally empowered,” she says. “I really feel like we added quite a lot of moments of bittersweet vulnerability to it as properly within the verses. I really feel prefer it’s simply a type of few instances I’ve lined one other individual’s tune and received to actually make it my very own.”

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