Maren Morris has hit reset. Hard. Not a polite tap of the button — more like a full-on factory reset, flipping her life and career inside out and emerging on the other side with a sharp new EP, Intermission , that feels like a raw nerve dressed up in festival glam.
“Pretty much a 180, top to bottom,” Morris admits, perched backstage at Louisville’s Bourbon and Beyond. And she means it. Personal life, career trajectory, the works — nothing escaped her purge. She’s always been one to embrace change, but this time, she burned the old playbook.
“I read a quote the other day that said, ‘You’re going to have to sacrifice your old life to get to your new one.’” She pauses, letting the weight of that sink in. “You can’t cherry-pick the parts you’re going to change. It’s just cellular turnover at every phase.”
Enter Intermission — a title that does double duty as both a pause and a promise. These four tracks are a peek behind the curtain, a teaser for what’s next. They come with a bite, but they’re not bitter. They’re more like a breath of fresh air that leaves a sting in your lungs.