{"id":1308795,"date":"2019-04-16T09:53:39","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:53:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1805495"},"modified":"2019-04-16T09:53:39","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T15:53:39","slug":"maren-morris-how-to-get-from-timid-to-vocal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/maren-morris-how-to-get-from-timid-to-vocal\/","title":{"rendered":"Maren Morris: How to Get from Timid to Vocal"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/div>\n

by Alison Bonaguro<\/a><\/span> 9m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

\u201cAt the beginning, I was really timid.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s how Maren Morris<\/a> describes her first attempts at making music when she first arrived in Nashville, after leaving her college band They Were Stars<\/a> back in Texas. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to voice an opinion, because I felt like I was going to sound uneducated or like I was being too aggressive. Unfortunately, as a woman, that\u2019s the thought that\u2019s always in your head when you want to state an opinion,\u201d Morris said.<\/p>\n

She was sharing this with Kiara Brown, an aspiring singer-songwriter that Morris is mentoring through the Women Who Rock Music and Mentorship program on the Today<\/em> show.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen it\u2019s your<\/em> music, it\u2019s your<\/em> song, it\u2019s your<\/em> voice,\u201d she added, \u201cyou have complete creative umbrage to voice any opinion. It too me a few years to realize, \u2019This is my music. I have to ultimately have the final say, and that\u2019s okay.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Morris said that she wanted to get involved in helping women who wanted to be songwriters, singers and even producers and engineers and every other job that exists in the music industry. \u201cIt\u2019s more than just talking about it. You have to do something about it. I\u2019ve been in so many studios where there aren\u2019t a ton of women behind the board.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve had to kind of wake myself up to the things that I\u2019ve overlooked,\u201d she said. \u201cLike, I\u2019ve never worked with a female producer before, because you just get into rooms with men that you write songs with, and men are awesome. But it takes people to wake up and realize, \u2019Why are there no women in this room?\u2019 I need to start making more of those opportunities happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

As part of the #SeeHerHearHer campaign, Morris was able to give Brown a check for $5,000 to jump start her music career. \u201cIt\u2019s all this very cool tapestry that you\u2019re gonna look back on in a year or 10 years,\u201d Morris told Brown.<\/p>\n

By the end of the video, Morris explained that when she pictures the future of the music business, she thinks about how her own kids will see it.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t have any kids yet, but I want my kids to look at this industry in a very different way than I\u2019ve had to look at it,\u201d she said. \u201cI want them to see \u2014 in hopefully less than 10 years \u2014 everything is so much more balanced.\u201d
https:\/\/www.today.com\/video\/country-superstar-maren-morris-shares-advice-for-aspiring-singer-and-songwriter-1494989379756<\/p>\n

\n
Alison makes her living loving country music. She’s based in Chicago, but she’s always leaving her heart in Nashville.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

via:: CMT News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

by Alison Bonaguro 9m ago \u201cAt the beginning, I was really timid.\u201d That\u2019s how Maren Morris describes her first attempts at making music when she first arrived in Nashville, after leaving her college band They Were Stars back in Texas. \u201cI didn\u2019t know how to voice an opinion, because I felt like I was going […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[159],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1308795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-12 06:39:02","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}