Morris first stepped on to the country music scene with her self-titled EP in 2015. Since then, she’s been making music and headlines. The “Circles Around This Town” singer has never shied away from calling out some of her colleagues — including
Some fans have attempted to run Morris out of the genre but that never stopped her. After her 2016 songs “My Church” and “80s Mercedes” found major success, haters would say, “You don’t belong here,” Morris recalled onBy signing up, I agree to the Terms and Privacy Policy and to receive emails from USWeekly“I don’t want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore,” she explained. “I’m OK kind of just doing my own thing.
"I have got to correct that and acknowledge that ... absolutely, cultural appropriation culture vulturing is a real thing,” she continued. “I love country music so much. I have my version of it, and I think that going forward, I just want to pay respect to the people that actually built it for me, and just continue working and educating myself and trying to educate people around me.
“I’m very honored that my record is nominated. But I don’t know if I feel home there right now,” she told. “So many people I love will be in that room, and maybe I’ll make a game-time decision and go. As of right now, though, I don’t feel comfortable going.”“Coming from country music and its relationship with LGBTQ+ members, I just want to say I’m sorry,” Morris said on a January 2023 episode of, addressing the season 15 competitors.
“I couldn’t do this circus anymore — feeling like l have to absorb and explain people’s bad behaviors and laugh it off,” she explained. “A lot of things changed about me that year.”