Maren Morris Unveils New Single Circles Around This Town
Friday, 07 January 2022
Written by Laura Johnson
Photo: Claire Schaper
Maren Morris has dropped a new single, Circles Around This Town.
The earworm country song was written by Morris with frequent collaborators Ryan Hurd, Julia Michaels and Jimmy Robbins, with production handled by Greg Kurstin. More new music is said to be on the way, though no further details have been confirmed, and there's no news on a follow-up to 2019's 'Girl'.
Head below to check out the track's Harper Smith-directed video. Discussing it, the American country singer said:
“I could see the visuals for ‘Circles Around This Town’ the moment I wrote the song. 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.”
Morris has received two nominations for this year's Grammy Awards: Best Country Song for Better Than We Found It and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for Chasing After You, the collaboration with her husband Ryan Hurd.
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