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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.

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Speaker 2: Maren Morris is familiar with crossing over onto the pop

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Speaker 2: charts with her own hit The Bones and her assistance

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Speaker 2: on Z's pop edm masterpiece The Middle, but she's always

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Speaker 2: been firmly rooted in country music until now. After feeling

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Speaker 2: alienated for her politics inside the country scene, she's exploring

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Speaker 2: a new direction, starting.

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Speaker 1: With the apptly named two song EP The Bridge.

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Speaker 2: She's even worked on her next LP with pop's hottest

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Speaker 2: producer Jack Antonoff, famous for his production for the likes

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Speaker 2: of Taylor and Lana del Rey. But this isn't to

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Speaker 2: say the way Maren's written such powerful music in the

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Speaker 2: past is changing all that much.

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Speaker 1: She tells La Times.

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Speaker 2: Working with Jack will say, let's write something insane today

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Speaker 2: and it might suck, but that's what I used to

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Speaker 2: do when I moved to Nashville ten years ago. The

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Speaker 2: freedom to fail new collaborations have been helpful for me

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Speaker 2: in getting perspective. I feel like the hall monitor of

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Speaker 2: country music. The people I'm working with now have no

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Speaker 2: idea what's going on in country music or the names

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about.

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Speaker 1: Maren's new single, The Treat, is out now, that's direct

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Speaker 1: from Hollywood,