Sounds like Maren Morris is embracing her next chapter with confidence and creativity. Balancing motherhood, a new album, and personal growth post-divorce is no small feat—and it looks like she’s channeling all that energy into her music.
The new single “Bed No Breakfast”—even the title suggests she’s flipping the script on traditional romance. A playful take on hookup culture, maybe with a touch of empowerment? Feels like she’s setting her own terms now.
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With lyrics like “Won’t you sleep better at your place / Hope you enjoyed your stay, but you can’t stay / A five-star review is expected” and “These thousand-count sheets aren’t for restin’,” the Country Music Association Award winner makes it clear—this isn’t a love song looking for forever.
Speaking with People, the artist shared, “The whole process of writing that song made me laugh, so I thought, ‘This feels like the perfect moment to put it out there with the way modern dating is. It’s kind of a cry for the people.'”
Morris and her ex-husband Ryan Hurd, went their separate ways last year after six years marriage. They share a son, Hayes, five.
The video shows Morris enjoying a variety of solo activities, such as lounging on a pile of mattress, while she looks at her phone, hanging up up lingerie to dry and making bacon sandwiches with an iron and ironing board
The sexy ditty follows the release of her much more serious single, Carry Me Through.
‘I think because Carry Me Through is such an emotional, soulful song about carrying yourself across whatever threshold emotionally, and knowing that you have support and community, but ultimately you have to be the one that makes the choice,’ she explained.
‘That was just such an intentional opening of the project for me, but then I wanted to one-two punch listeners with, yes, it has this soulful, healing vibe to the album, but there’s also a lot of tongue-in-cheek humor and realism.’
‘Bed No Breakfast just seemed like the best way to surprise people that maybe thought the record was going to sound just all like Carry Me Through, in that vein,’ she explained.
‘This felt like a good shock to the system of like, “Wait, no, there’s still some Texan sass in there too.”‘
In addition to ending her marriage, Morris, who identifies as bisexual, also stepped away from Country Music in 2023, citing being unable to overlook certain actions toward the LGBTQ community.
She became widely known for her public feud with Brittany Aldean, Jason Aldean’s wife, over comments about transgender people.
“I couldn’t continue with this circus—constantly feeling like I had to absorb and explain people’s bad behaviors and just laugh it off,” she shared on The New York Times Popcast podcast. “After 2020, I realized I couldn’t do that anymore. I’ve changed. A lot changed for me that year.”
Morris also released the single Better Than We Found It in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, following the deaths of George Floyd and other African Americans. She spoke out about the need for greater diversity within the Country music industry.
