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Maren Morris: 'Even if you had never heard of me before, you were like, This doesn’t sound like anyone else'

After four album cycles, the country star had to “resign myself from looking at any sort of numerical graph or chart.”

It’s my safe space.” So it’s not exactly a coincidence that two of Morris’s lead singles — 2016’s “My Church” and 2022’s “Circles Around This Town” — put the pedal down to evoke her own type of Highway FM. I remember blurting out the line, “Man, this shit’s unflattering, like the crack in the paint.”When I went to do the vocals, it almost felt like I was channeling Stripped-era Christina Aguilera with “Fighter” or “The Voice Within.” It was giving me an early-2000s vibe on the production front. She has written smash hits for all of your favorite women in pop, including Britney Spears, Olivia Rodrigo, Sabrina Carpenter, and Selena Gomez.

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