Maren Morris is leaving country music over all the hate in the industry

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Maren Morris says she is leaving country music because of the industry’s history of racism, misogyny, homophobia, and transphobia.

The singer-songwriter and outspoken LGBTQ+ ally recently released a two-song E.P., The Bridge, on Columbia Records after having released her past three albums on the label’s Nashville imprint. In a recent statement, Morris described the E.P. as a first step away from the country music machine and the culture wars being waged within it.

“These two songs are incredibly key to my next step because they express a very righteously angry and liberating phase of my life these last couple of years,” she wrote, “but also how my navigation is finally pointing towards the future, whatever that may be or sound like. Honoring where I’ve been and what I’ve achieved in country music, but also freely moving forward.”

“I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over,” she told the Los Angeles Times of her efforts to make change in the genre. “But it’s burning itself down without my help.”

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