Maren Morris about Touring, Taylor Swift Rat and why she feels like Elphaba in “Wicked”

Maren Morris is a few days after her different coachella appearances one “My Church” with the La Philharmonic and a lively “center” with electro-pop-dj Zedd-and she still buzzes from the Desert Music Festival.

“With the orchestra” My Church “with the orchestra, that was my first single and my country hit, but 10 years later you saw the response that it still had with the crowd,” says Morris from Nashville. “During this song, I will always be emotionally, but with the choir and the backdrop at a gold hour when we performed … and then cut with Zedd until the next night.

Morris has a lot to enjoy this year.

Her just published fourth studio album “Dreamsikel”, a lush extension of the “Popmorte-EP last summer”, is filled with equal parts and introspection.

The songs “Bed No Breakfast” and “Push Me Over” Detailed modern examination of the bisexual Morris with a mixture of cheeky humor and pure thirst for exploration, while the brilliant title track of the album intervenes in their continued acceptance, which sometimes even melt things (“I will ever enjoy something while I am?

When it is mentioned that a large part of the lyrical content on the album has changed a “somewhat changed mood”, which is connected to the “Wicked” song “defective gravity”, Morris is right immediately.

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“I am a massive” evil “fan and I am very identifying myself with Elphaba. Her core beliefs were so shaken that she feels so betrayed, but she also has this intrepid calm because she knows that she cannot change the entire system,” says Morris, 35,. “Everyone gets to the point with their hometown or a relationship and was how, I reached the finish line of everything that was and I can't stay nearby … and that is scary.”

Morris, who said to friends like Taylor Swift and the chicks in their times of personal upheavals and “Peace and Council” by Country singer Ryan Hurd (they share a 5-year-old son, Hayes).

But her experiences are her own, and Morris sees “dreams” as a “demarcation line” in her life.

“It honors,” she says of her younger self, “and not this” youth is wasted in young bitterness, but thank god she brought me here. “These are some chapters of my life in a full (album) and I honest of them.

Together with her new album, Morris will start a global hike to support “Dreamicle”, whereby the North American leg on July 12th in Quebec City will be running in Atlanta from September 12th. Tickets will be available at 10 a.m. on May 2 via Marenmorris.com.

She has been doing the tour and production for about a year and is pleased that plans are “now 3D and not just an e -mail PDF”.

The mixture of festivals, amphitheaters and clubs is something that it has got used to since the pandemic has caused the cancellation of its RSVP tour of 2020.

“Since Covid, we have been flexible and adaptable to the tour scale that we learned from the need. It worked in our favor because we play some intimate venues, we can get ourselves to the camp from day one,” she says. “I just want to (the shows) feel like a vulnerable, entertaining experience and escape. I really set an artistically high bar for myself and I want it to feel humanly for the fan who buys the ticket.”

While the color palette of “Dreamsicle” indicates a “beach deck bingo” motif of the 1960s, Morris is more of a bend to the trees and the surrounding lighting of her last tour as the “crazy LED walls and low fog and hydraulic lifts” from her run to support “girls” in 2019.

“I love a lamp and a carpet and some instruments. For me, these were always touchones, how these people actually play and sing? I love an exaggerated show, but for what I do, I think there is a way to mix both worlds and bring them back to an organic space of real people who make music,” she says.

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As with her 2022 Humble Quest Tour, Morris becomes her closest fan, son Hayes, who is already a street warrior who travels well, loves to visit Catering and hang out with mom's band.

Morris easily admits that the tour with a child changes dynamics – “her day is much longer and much different,” she says – but she appreciates the side advantages of having her little guy on the bus.

“The biggest gift with children is to experience things through their eyes, and he brings me out of my comfort zone of the bus and the event location and we go to the local zoo and park,” she says.

However, as soon as she is on stage, Morris will sprinkle many of her new songs in a set, to which her revised Slow Burn version of Billy Idol's Fist Pumper from 1983, together with new album tracks, is described as “Living in organic rooms to strongly layered synths and vocal stacks”.

Two outstanding tracks, the Funky “People who still appear” by Jack Antonoff and the Pub Singalong “Too Good”, are main competitors and also on Morris' personal hearing habits during their writing and recording time many paty grip, foy vance and a decline into their high school years.

“I was in this deep way of thinking of the 1970s,” she says. “In my songwriting there was a lot of vulnerability and chaos, but also a lot of fun and pop … I never have the feeling that I have to change something.”

This article originally appeared on USA Today: Maren Morris Talks 'Dreamsikel' Album 2025 Tour