Country singer quitting genre due to effect of 'Trump years' will have no impact on industry: Music critic

September 19, 2023 at 08:55

Singer Maren Morris claimed the "Trump years" exposed the bigoted views of people in the country music industry which led to her giving up on the genre.
In an interview with the Los Angeles Times on Friday, the "Get the Hell Out of Here" singer spoke about her transition from country music over the last year.
She primarily blamed what she called "the Trump years" for allowing people to feel "proud" for being "misogynistic and racist" in their music.
It just revealed who people really were and that they were proud to be misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic.
All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this hyper-masculine branch of country music.
COUNTRY MUSIC STAR SHARES WHY HE’S LEAVING THE INDUSTRY AND HEADING INTO MINISTRY: ‘WHAT I’M CALLED TO DO’Not everyone agreed with Morris’ view.
Country music critic Kyle "Trigger" Coroneos, who founded Saving Country Music in 2008 to help promote independent musicians, suggested that the singer may be "spending too much time in her social media mentions."
"I really don't know what she's talking about there because, I think when it comes to country music, I think most of the artists, especially in the mainstream of the genre, they don't want to be politically acrimonious in any way.
They just don't want someone preaching to them about how they're supposed to think and what they're supposed to do."
Morris was one of many critics who attacked fellow country singer Jason Aldean’s wife, Brittany, after she wrote a social media post thanking her parents for not changing her gender as a kid.
"I’d really like to thank my parents for not changing my gender when I went through my tomboy phase.
CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPCoroneos added that he doesn’t think her leave will impact country music, claiming that Morris has more of "an outsized footprint in the media."
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