Maren Morris Goes Viral For Apparent Wardrobe Malfunction At Willie Nelson’s Fourth Of July Picnic (2024)

Feeling a little bit of a breeze there?

Maren Morris is going viral over on Twitter (am I the only one still calling it Twitter?) for an apparent wardrobe malfunction during a recent show.

Video from the former country singer’s performance at Willie Nelson’s 4th of July Picnic in Camden, New Jersey shows Maren in a long jean skirt with a slit down the side – and as she dances around the stage, the crowd got more of a view than they bargained for when they bought tickets.

Despite some people claiming otherwise, folks on Twitter pointed out that Maren was, in fact, wearing underwear in the video. But that didn’t stop the video from spreading like wildfire and making jokes about the revealing outfit:

Maren has made headlines in recent months not only for her recent divorce from fellow singer and songwriter Ryan Hurd, but also for her announcement that she was leaving country music (only for her to change her mind and claim it was all “clickbait.”)

She also came out as bisexual last month in a post celebrating Pride Month.

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Maren Says She Wants To Open A Bar In Nashville

Cool, another artist bar for me to avoid.

Over the past few years, there have been a ton of major country artists opening bars in downtown Nashville. Alan Jackson, Luke Bryan, Jason Aldean, Kid Rock, John Rich, Miranda Lambert, Dierks Bentley and Florida Georgia Line all have their own bars, with Eric Church and Garth Brooks recently becoming the latest artists to hang their name in neon on Broadway.

Oh, and Morgan Wallen also has his own bar coming soon, which I assume will have the chairs bolted down on the rooftop.

So I know what you’re thinking: Why doesn’t Maren Morris have her own bar? (You were definitely thinking that, right? Yeah I didn’t think so).

But according to Maren, it’s something she wants to do, because why not at this point?

During an appearance onThe Late Show with Stephen Colbert,Maren spoke about missing the Tex-Mex food from her native Texas, and her desire to add her name to the long list of artists with their own bars in Nashville:

“I’ve lived in Nashville for 11 years now…They have not figured out Tex-Mex food in Tennessee…

Maybe that’s what my next thing should be, not that I know anything about it.

I’ve always wanted to open a bar in Nashville called My Church. And it would be in an old church, maybe a Catholic one.”

I mean, might as well, everybody else is doing it. And honestly, if we can just keep the tourists contained in all these artist-owned bars so that the rest of Nashville doesn’t turn into the same sh*tshow as Broadway, I’m all for it.

Leaving Country Music, Or Not?

Am I the only one whose head is officially spinning from Maren leaving and then not leaving country music?

After all the hoopla about her EP The Bridge, Maren said she was “moving forward” from country music:

“Honoring where I’ve been and what I’ve achieved in country music, but also freely moving forward.”

After that release, she said that country music was burning itself down during a Los Angeles Times interview.

“I thought I’d like to burn it to the ground and start over… but it’s burning itself down without my help.”

And she also called country music “toxic” and said she could no longer participate:

“I don’t want to say goodbye, but I really cannot participate in the really toxic arms of this institution anymore.I couldn’t do this sort of circus anymore, feeling like I had to absorb or explain people’s bad behavior. And you know, laugh it off.”

It seemed like she’s pretty set in her choice to no longer participate in the genre, right? Sounds pretty clear to me.

Think again. She threw the biggest curveball of all while appearing on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, saying that she was leaving ‘parts’ of country music behind, but not the genre entirely.

“No, no. I’m taking like the good parts with me, and all are welcome.

But there were some facets of it that I didn’t really, like, jive with anymore. So no, I’m a lot happier now.”

While this left fans more than confused, she elaborated on the topic again during last night’s episode of Watch What Happens Live.During the virtual fans question portion of the late-night talk show, a fan asked Morris if she could describe her sound on her upcoming album since she is “leaving country music.”

“I will sort of just clarify: I have not left country music; that was just the headline. I like what I said was that I was just leaving behind the kind of toxic parts of it – and that’s in any part of the music industry. But just like the things that I am in control of. Yeah – I want to take the good parts with me.

I’ve always written everything like very genre-bendy for years.

I don’t think people label it as much anymore. I’m from Texas, I grew up on all of that music, so the way I write, the way I sing, that’s just how it comes out -whatever genre I’m doing or whatever feature I’m doing.

So yeah, that was just a headline, clickbait that got blown up. I just make music.”

She also revealed that she was a little annoyed that media outlets ran with the headline that she was quitting country music, as those words never came out of her mouth.

“There is so much contention and drama…and maybe I attract some of it, but certainly, my heart is always in the right place.”

While maybe those words did not come out of her mouth directly, she did imply strongly that she was not a fan of the genre, even referring to it as “toxic.” It feels odd to trash the genre that brought you success and then say you are remaining a part of it? Like I said, am I the only one confused?

But as Morris did mention in her The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon segment that she’s not really country, so at this point… does anyone who is a fan of country music even care?