Maren Morris and ex-husband Ryan Hurd are each taking the music world by storm, dropping their own new single on Friday, October 25.
Morris, 34, released “People Still Show Up.” Announcing the track via Instagram, she coyly wrote, “Somebody change the topic…🧡.”
With lyrics such as, “Life has pushed you so low, down into the mud, but people still show up,” and, “Why is it that when the world is ending and you didn’t have a friend, it’s the friends you never think to call who all roll up with a pickup truck,” the song appears to pay tribute to friends who are supportive through tough periods in life.
Hurd, 37, for his part, released “This Party Sucks” on Friday.
“New home and new music. ‘This Party Sucks’ out Friday on Big Machine Records,” Hurd wrote via Instagram earlier this week. “Throw me a high five in the comments if you are as jazzed up as I am. 🍻.”
In the new release, Hurd sings about rocking up to the type of party he used to enjoy but now he is just wishing he was elsewhere with a lover.
“I’m trying to figure out how long we have to stay. I used to love this sh— but now I hate champagne,” he sings in one part, while other lyrics include, “Baby, come and save me from this small talk conversation. I ain’t thinking about a thing except you and me escaping.”
The two singers met in 2014 during a songwriting session, tying the knot four years later. Morris filed for divorce in October 2023 after five years of marriage, which was finalized in January. Since then, she and Hurd have remained committed to peacefully raising 3-year-old son Hayes.
“The coparenting thing has been going well,” Morris said during a September appearance on the “Armchair Expert” podcast. “We’re trying our best in this way, but it’s still pretty fresh.”
Morris has also started to dip her toe back into the dating scene after coming out as bisexual this summer.
“[I’m dating] a little bit,” Morris said during an appearance on the “Chicks in the Office” podcast last month. “I mean, I’ve never really dated. Like, I’ve been in two long, monogamous relationships with men, and I never really had this dating phase because I was just always working [and] I ended up with long relationships with people I worked with or had proximity to.”
She added at the time, “Dating for the first time, like, in your 30s is wild, and [joining app] Raya is wild. Like, I’ve had some good experiences from it and, luckily, nothing crazy traumatizing.”
The experience has also informed Morris’ forthcoming records.
“Dating right now is great and it’s fun, but I feel bad for saying this, it’s just giving me fodder for songwriting,” Morris added on the “Chicks in the Office” podcast. “Like, ‘Sorry to be using you.’ It’s like helping me get into the POV, like, an actor preparing. I’m going method [acting], like bad date, good date [or] whatever in between, it’s really fueling me.”
Morris released an EP titled Intermission, which features songs about her divorce from Hurd, in August.
“I feel like I’m still in the early stages of figuring the sound out. I had basically a whole record done, and then my life imploded,” she exclusively told Us Weekly in February. “I sort of am back to square one, which is not that scary to me anymore because … nothing could shake me at this point. I’m in the fun stage of figuring out what the sound is.”
