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Maren Morris on Addressing Divorce, Religion and a Single Woman’s Freedom in Pop-Leaning ‘Dreamsicle’ Album: ‘It’s Taken Me Years to Live Up to the Boldness of My Own Music’
Maren Morris talks about whether her pop-leaning 'Dreamsicle' is a 'divorce album,' and finding feistiness and joy as well as sadness for the new album.
One of her previous biggest hits was “The Bones,” about how a house built on a strong foundation will last, so it’s telling that this album is named after a fairly opposite scenario — a confection that is designed to be consumed or go away quickly. The symbol of the Dreamsicle alludes to a theme running through the songs of how good things can go bad, or just dry up… something it won’t surprise any of Morris’ fans to be hearing about, given what she’s gone through in the last few years, most principally a divorce. That’s not surprising, because even going back to your debut album, and addressing complicated situations in those lyrics, it often felt like you were kind of the one making the decisions, like in the song “I Wish I Was.” Throughout a lot of your material there’s an attitude that “I’m taking control of this, however hard it is,” sometimes cloaking that in being the person who is right and sometimes just being more more objective about it.
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