Maren Morris returns with her new single ‘Circles Around This Town’ out everywhere today, kicking off 2022, along with an accompanying music video, detailing her journey to Nashville and success. Listen here.
Today, Maren Morris has kicked off a new era in her music with the release of her brand new track ‘Circles Around This Town,’ written by Maren and frequent collaborators Ryan Hurd, Julia Michaels and Jimmy Robbins and produced by Greg Kurstin. Alongside the release of the atmospheric song that harkens back to her earlier ‘Hero’ days, Morris has released a music video, directed by Harper Smith. Of the video, Maren says, “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.”
The song is a phenomenal track, kicking off a new era for Morris in 2022 and ramping up fans excitement for more music, with nostalgic-hued, guitar heavy production that fits seamlessly with the tone of the song.
