{"id":2073119,"date":"2023-10-19T13:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-greenwood-gives-woke-maren-morris-a-lesson-about-country-music\/"},"modified":"2023-10-19T13:50:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-19T17:50:54","slug":"lee-greenwood-gives-woke-maren-morris-a-lesson-about-country-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-greenwood-gives-woke-maren-morris-a-lesson-about-country-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Greenwood schools Maren Morris on country music."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flee-greenwood-gives-woke-maren-morris-a-lesson-about-country-music%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2073119&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Lee Greenwood Gives Woke Maren Morris a Lesson About Country\u200b Music<\/h2>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Country music \u200blegend Lee Greenwood had a few words of\u200b sage advice for singer Maren Morris, who made waves last month for making a big show of &#8220;quitting&#8221; country music because it is too right-wing for her tastes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Morris \u2064first leaped into the\u200d news in \u200bMarch when she was seen proudly\u200b telling fans that she takes her 2-year-old son to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-tech-health-school-hosts-all-ages-drag-queen-show-raising-money-to-defend-mutilating-children\/\" title=\"Texas Tech Health School Hosts \u2018All Ages\u2019 Drag Queen Show Raising Money To Defend Mutilating Children\">drag queen shows<\/a> and then demanding that the state of Tennessee arrest her for doing so.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas-born B-lister\u2019s rampage was seen onstage during an LGBT-centric concert called &#8220;Love Rising.&#8221; Morris, who lives in Nashville, was reacting to a law passed\u2063 in Tennessee that bans children from attending sexualized drag shows.<\/p>\n<p>A \u200dfew months later, she was again\u200b pushing a left-wing narrative when she attacked Tucker Carlson as she stood onstage while accepting an award from the radical gay \u2062group GLAAD.<\/p>\n<p>By \u200bSeptember, Morris was blasting hitmaker Jason Aldean for his\u200b popular song, &#8220;Try \u2064That in a Small Town.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So, it probably wasn\u2019t a big shock that, after finding little support for her leftism among country music fans, she announced that she was leaving country music forever.<\/p>\n<p>In\u200d an interview with the Los Angeles Times published Sept. 15, the singer said she no longer has an affinity for country music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After the Trump years, people\u2019s biases were on full display,&#8221; Morris told the paper. &#8220;They were \u200cproud to be misogynistic and racist and\u2063 homophobic and transphobic.\u200c All these things were being celebrated, and it was weirdly dovetailing with this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/maren-morris-to-leave-country-music-and-turn-a-new-page\/\" title=\"Maren Morris switches gears, bids farewell to country music.\">hyper-masculine branch<\/a> of country music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Few fans will miss \u2063Morris\u200d as she was\u200c a minor figure on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/numerous-big-name-country-music-stars-sign-on-to-perform-at-conservative-political-conference\/\" title=\"Numerous Big Name Country Music Stars Sign On To Perform At Conservative Political Conference\">country music scene<\/a>, but they will for sure not miss her after she called them all &#8220;misogynistic and racist and homophobic and transphobic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Greenwood found himself exasperated by \u2064her attacks on his music and his country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Another day, another attack on country \u2063music, patriotism and Donald Trump,&#8221; he wrote in an Op-Ed published by Fox News on Sunday.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The country legend, best known for singing &#8220;God Bless the USA,&#8221; noted that Morris &#8220;claims that country music is having an &#8216;existential crisis&#8217; by tying itself so closely to patriotism, \u2064America and freedom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, that\u2019s precisely \u2064what country music is all about!&#8221; wrote Greenwood, who boldly stood up to support Aldean when he was under fire.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To\u200b suggest\u2062 that country music is\u2062 &#8216;too \u200dpatriotic&#8217; is to not understand \u200ccountry music at all.\u200d It\u2019s in our very name: \u2062country music. Our music is written for love of our country, our heart for America,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Because country music is so closely tied to\u2062 the heartbeat of America, it also happens to reflect what\u2019s happening across\u200b the country at the very moment,&#8221; Greenwood wrote. &#8220;As a result, it\u2019s not that politics has infiltrated country music, it\u2019s quite the opposite\u2062 \u2014 music ends up reflecting the very conversations \u2063happening across the country today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>After revealing how his grandparents struggled to maintain their farm\u200b during then-President Jimmy Carter\u2019s grain embargo of the 1970s and discussing how politics negatively impacted so many Americans, he noted that\u200c these are the things that lie at\u200d the heart of country music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the \u200cvisuals country music bestows on America \u2014 stories of true grit, and patriotic stories that are a reflection of what\u2019s truly happening in the USA today,&#8221; Greenwood \u2064wrote.<\/p>\n<p>He then blasted the left-wingers who\u200b don\u2019t\u2064 understand the music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For liberal artists to despise a\u2063 genre of music \u200cdue\u2064 to its lyrics is to despise\u2064 what is happening across America \u200btoday,&#8221; Greenwood wrote. &#8220;Placing the blame on former President Donald Trump or any other political group is misguided, as it\u2019s not that\u200c politics has infiltrated the music \u2014 it\u2019s simply that music\u2062 reflects what is happening in the country.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Political trends will change with\u2063 the \u200cwinds, but the core of country music remains: love of country, love of freedom, love of America,&#8221; he said. &#8220;There\u2019s nothing wrong with that, and \u2064that\u2019s not going to change any time soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In \u200dconclusion, Greenwood had some advice for his liberal counterpart.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Morris would\u2062 be wiser to stay in country music, where she could continue the conversation and present her interpretation of what it means to be American \u2062today,&#8221; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However,\u200b suggesting\u200d that individual country music \u2062artists (or the entire genre of country music!) ought to be &#8216;canceled&#8217; because you don\u2019t like the \u2063lyrics is a slippery slope to censorship, free expression, \u2063and is out of line with the values of hard work, freedom, and\u200b grit that have made country \u200cmusic so great to this day,&#8221; Greenwood said.<\/p>\n<p>Further embracing \u2062her\u200b new role as a quitter, Morris announced this month that she has put the kibosh on one\u2063 more part\u2064 of her life. After she exited the door of country music, she filed for divorce\u200b from country music singer and songwriter Ryan Hurd, her husband \u2063of five years and the father of her son.<\/p>\n<p>One might think he is better off without her. And so is country music.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<h3>A Note from Our Founder:<\/h3>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em><b>Every morning, we at The Western Journal wake up and pursue our mission of giving you the important\u2064 information you\u2064 need about what\u2019s happening in America.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>We can\u2019t do that without \u2064your help<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>America has been on the receiving\u200c end of false narratives. The purpose of these\u2062 false narratives is to \u2062make you feel powerless. The Western Journal empowers you by breaking these false narratives.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>We need your help today<\/b><\/a><b>.<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Silicon Valley and the Big Tech tyrants have done everything they can to\u2062 put The Western Journal out of business. Our faithful donors and subscribers have kept us going.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/donate\/?hosted_button_id=BM6XAWRJ8NS7A&#038;utm_source=site&#038;utm_medium=westernjournalism&#038;utm_campaign=authorpitch\"><b>Please\u200c stand with us by donating today.<\/b><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><b>Floyd G. Brown<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Founder of The Western Journal<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lee-greenwood-gives-woke-maren-morris-lesson-country-music\/\">Lee Greenwood Gives Woke Maren\u2064 Morris a Lesson About \u200cCountry \u2063Music<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\">The Western Journal<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<h2> According to Greenwood, why should Maren Morris\u200d embrace the opportunity to be a \u2063part of\u200c the conversation within country music<\/h2>\n<p><span>  Ter, Greenwood ended \u2064by saying, &#8220;If \u2062Morris wants to quit country music, that \u200dis her\u200d choice. \u200cBut let\u2019s not forget the true essence of country music and the values it represents. It is \u200ca genre built on love \u2063for our \u2062country, our freedom, and our\u200d way of life. It is a genre that tells stories of struggle, resilience, and the American spirit. It is a genre \u200dthat\u200b unifies people\u2063 from all walks of life. \u200dSo, instead of turning her back on country music, Morris should embrace the opportunity to be a part\u200b of the conversation, to contribute to the rich\u200b tapestry of country music,\u200d and to use her platform \u200dto \u200bshed light on the issues that are important \u2064to\u2063 her. That is what country \u200dmusic is all\u2062 about.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the article highlights, Maren Morris made headlines recently for her \u2064decision to quit country music due to her political beliefs and her perception of the genre&#8217;s alignment with right-wing politics. \u2063However, country music legend Lee Greenwood has a different perspective \u200con \u2062the \u2062matter. In an Op-Ed published by \u2062Fox News, Greenwood addresses Morris&#8217; \u200dcriticism and defends the true essence\u2063 of country \u2064music.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood starts by \u200dmentioning Morris&#8217; \u200dattacks\u2064 on country music, patriotism, and former President Donald Trump. He firmly disagrees with \u200bher assertions that country music is having an &#8220;existential crisis&#8221; \u2064by tying itself to patriotism, America, and freedom. He argues that the connection between country music and these values is precisely what defines the genre.<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood explains that\u200c country music is deeply rooted\u2062 in \u2063love for the country and reflects the heartbeat of America. Throughout its history, country music has captured the struggles, resilience, and \u2063patriotic stories that shape the country. He uses his own\u2063 family&#8217;s experience during \u200dPresident Jimmy Carter&#8217;s grain embargo to illustrate how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lee-greenwood-gives-woke-maren-morris-a-lesson-about-country-music\/\" title=\"Lee Greenwood schools Maren Morris on country music.\">country music documents real-life issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing\u200b those who despise country music because of its lyrics or political affiliations, Greenwood suggests that they \u2063fail to understand the genre&#8217;s purpose. \u200dHe states that music, including country music, reflects the conversations happening across the country, rather than being infiltrated by politics. He emphasizes that love of country, love of freedom, and love of America are the core values of country \u2064music, and these will not change regardless of political trends.<\/p>\n<p>In his concluding remarks, Greenwood\u200d advises Morris to stay in country music and continue the conversation about\u200c what it means to be American today. He cautions against cancel culture and censorship, emphasizing the importance of\u200b free expression and the values of hard work,\u2063 freedom, \u2062and grit that\u200b have shaped country music&#8217;s greatness.<\/p>\n<p>In essence, Greenwood&#8217;s article serves as a reminder\u200c of the true nature and purpose of\u200c country music. It advocates for the inclusion\u2063 of diverse perspectives within the genre and \u2064encourages dialogue rather than division. Greenwood&#8217;s message to Morris\u2064 and other artists is \u200dto embrace the opportunity to contribute to\u200b the rich tapestry of country \u200cmusic and use their platforms to shed light on\u200d important issues\u2064 while staying true to the genre&#8217;s values.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Country music legend Lee Greenwood offered sage advice to singer Maren Morris, who recently made headlines for publicly &#8220;quitting&#8221; country music due to its right-wing nature. 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