Maren Morris gained a whole lot of attention for her gold-certified single “My Church” proving that she can sing and write with the best of them. Now in advance of her upcoming record release, she’s revealing a new song, “Rich,” and it’s irreverent, sassy and 100 percent catchy.
She sings of a guy she falls for again and again - only to end up with a broken heart. Morris counts her heartbreaks in nickels, dimes and dollars. “If I had a dollar every time that I swore you off / And a twenty every time that i picked up when you called / And a crisp new Benjamin for when you’re here then gone again / And a dollar every time I was right about you after all,” she sings.
The best part is the chorus - a bouncy, image-filled rendition of what she’d do with all the money.
“Boy I’d be rich, head to toe Prada / Benz in the driveway, yacht in the water / Vegas at the Mandarin, high roller gambling / Me and Diddy drippin’ diamonds like Marilyn.” She ends each chorus with “Shit, I’d be rich.”
Though some country artists may shy away from cussing on their albums, Morris is simply being true to herself.
“I just try to write how I would say it. I’m only shooting myself in the foot if I write it in a way where I wouldn’t speak like that,” Morris tells Rolling Stone Country. “I don’t get this whole glossing over fun little tidbits of people’s personalities. That’s not how we talk. . . . But it’s also just fun to throw in colorful language, whether it’s a cuss word or not. I want people to listen to this and feel like it’s their friend saying it to them.”
Hero is set to street on June 3, and Morris says, “This record really encapsulates everything that’s been bouncing around my head for the past three years. It’s woven with every thread of my influences, which pulls from the country and R&B landscapes.” As far as the title, she adds, “They say never meet your heroes, but what if you just became your own?”
In addition to her album releasing early June, Morris also has touring plans.She’s joining Keith Urban and Brett Eldredge for Urban’s 2016 RipCORD World Tour. It kicks off June 2 in Kansas City, Mo.
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