January 3, 2022

MAREN MORRIS: ASSETS TO SUPPORT THE RELEASE OF SINGLE “CIRCLES AROUND THIS TOWN” -AVAILABLE NOW (AUDIO & VIDEO)

MAREN MORRIS: ASSETS TO SUPPORT THE RELEASE OF SINGLE “CIRCLES AROUND THIS TOWN” -AVAILABLE NOW (AUDIO & VIDEO)

January 7, 2022— Grammy-winning superstar Maren Morris shares a new single today, “Circles Around This Town,” alongside a music video directed by Harper Smith—listen here and watch here. The song, which made its country radio world premiere earlier today, was written by Maren and frequent collaborators Ryan Hurd , Julia Michaels and Jimmy Robbins and produced by Greg Kurstin. More music from Maren is imminent.

“I could see the visuals for ‘Circles Around This Town’ the moment I wrote the song,” Maren says. “I’ve always been so inspired by the industrial, blown out colors of music videos from the 90s, so Harper Smith and I wanted the aesthetics of this video to reflect that grainy, devil-may-care attitude of all my females heroes from that era: Sheryl, Fiona, Alanis. Obviously, having a penchant for the nostalgic, we decided to recreate my teenage bedroom and pin old photos of me as a kid on the walls and have me typing on an old PC computer. I knew I didn’t want to take anything too seriously in this video, so all our amplified ‘signs of the universe’ are purposefully campy, but they also ask the viewer, ‘Is the universe actually showing you signs or do you just know when you need to make a real change?’ ‘Circles Around This Town’ is my story, so I felt like I truly got to relive my journey from Texas to Nashville again.”

Furthermore, Maren is nominated for two Grammy awards this year: Best Country Song for “Better Than We Found It” and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Chasing After You,” the No. 1, Platinum-certified collaboration with her husband Ryan Hurd.

One of music’s brightest stars, Maren released her massively acclaimed, record-shattering album GIRL in 2019, one of country’s most celebrated albums that year which spawned smash hits including the four times Platinum-certified, Grammy-nominated “The Bones;” and the Platinum-certified No. 1 title track. Maren won 2021 ACM Awards for Female Artist of the Year—for the second year in a row—and Song of the Year and three trophies at the 2020 CMA Awards. GIRL arrived three years after Maren’s breakout, Platinum-certified debut album HERO, for which she won countless accolades including Grammy, ACM and CMA Awards.

“CIRCLES AROUND THIS TOWN” AUDIO/VIDEO WORK PARTS FROM MAREN MORRIS

INTRO AUDIO

Hey it’s Maren Morris

Hey y’all, Maren Morris here

Hey y’all it’s Maren Morris

Hey I’m Maren Morris

What’s up y’all this is Maren Morris. This is my single Circles Around This Town (Video)

And this is my brand new song

Hey it’s Maren Morris. You just heard my song “Circles Around This Town” (Video)

“Circles Around This Town” is about my journey from Texas to Nashville almost nine years ago to become a songwriter. And everything that I had to go through to get to where I am today. And it’s just a nice, nostalgic look back on my life for me and hopefully inspiring to any aspiring songwriter out there.

“Circles Around This Town” is about my trek from Texas to Tennessee about nine years ago when I moved to Nashville, and I had a Montero Sport with no air conditioning. So that is all true from the song. And I lived in a sight unseen, like Craigslist listing and yeah, I just kind of slept it and wrote with everybody who would write with me. And I love the second verse of “Circles” because it kind of names named drops my song, “My Church” and “80s Mercedes,” which were my first two singles ever. So it’s sort of a look back on my history, but it’s hopefully inspiring to any upcoming or aspiring songwriter or someone in the creative arts that just or anyone that wants to chase their dream down like you’re never really done is the the fun thing about this life is, you know, the targets always moving. And I wanted to write a song to remind myself, especially in such a crazy time when we couldn’t tour that this is how you got to where you are and you got to be real, real grateful for it.