MAREN MORRIS
She is driving a Mercedes with the crown on the rearview mirror and she mentions Amen and Hallelujah in the chorus. She is Maren Morris, a hot chick with the powerful voice who sings about how much she likes the radio when it plays Hank Williams and Johnny Cash. If you haven’t heard her smashing summer hit My Church, you probably weren’t listening to the radio.
Her second single was 80s Mercedes, the song with the promising title in which the vehicle serves her as a man magnet. Maren Morris is a new country star on American sky, and her forte is her uniqueness. Sure, the big vocal range adds up to the authenticity, just as solid, catchy songs. Listening to her debut Hero is like listening to Maren reading you the pages of her diary.
Morris warns her friend in Drunk Girls Don’t Cry to not trust the guy when he tells her that he will change, and then she does the opposite in Just Another Thing. She spends another stupid Friday night with the wrong guy, and writes an amazing song about it.
I Wish I was is a brave love departure. Morris sings:
I am not the hero in the story
I’m not the girl that gets the glory
Cause you’re looking for true love
And I’m the bad one, but I Wish, I wish I was
Musically speaking, there are no innovations her. Familiar harmony progressions that characterize country-pop as a genre. The sound of the record is purposely not polished because the young singer wanted to seem approachable. Still, it is produced enough to be attractive to everyone.
Maren Morris succeeds to convince the listener that her experiences are true. I believed her.
