“I am very honored that my file is nominated,” Morris stated of her CMA nomination. “However I do not know if I really feel [at] residence there proper now. So many individuals I like shall be in that room, and possibly I will make a game-time resolution and go. However as of proper now, I do not really feel snug going.”
Morris described feeling a necessity to face in opposition to bigotry within the nation music neighborhood.
“I hate feeling like I should be the corridor monitor of treating individuals like human beings in nation music,” Morris advised the publication. “It is exhausting. However there is a very insidious tradition of individuals feeling very snug being transphobic and homophobic and racist, and that they will wrap it in a joke and nobody will ever name them out for it. It simply turns into regular for individuals to behave like that.”
Morris has lately come beneath hearth by some conservatives for talking out in opposition to transphobia, with Fox Information host Tucker Carlson calling her a “lunatic nation music individual.”
She additionally plans to proceed to talk her thoughts.
“I do not assume I misplaced any followers over this,” Morris stated. “I have been very clear from the get-go. It sucks when artists keep quiet, keep quiet, keep quiet, after which they lastly attain their breaking level and should say one thing as a result of one thing is so unjust or disgusting. After which they lose half their crowd as a result of they stayed quiet. I attempt to inform my husband this, as a result of he is nonetheless constructing [his own music career]: Let individuals know the place you stand. Those who do not get it would fall away, however the ones that follow you’ll know what they’re contributing to.”