Song Review – “My Church” by Maren Morris
Get ready, because we’re about to have another starlet and her breakout single gerrymandered to the top of the charts via unilateral action by iHeartMedia. At least this time it’s a much better selection than Kelsea Ballerini.
Maren Morris is a 25-year-old singer for Columbia Records Nashville who released her debut EP back in November of 2015. She’s also scheduled to be the latest benefactor of iHeartMedia’s “On The Verge” program, which takes a song and guarantees it spins across the country music network of America’s largest radio station owner. Her debut single “My Church” will soon be heading north on the charts, and like numerous “On The Verge” artists before her, it could spell the launching of a serious country music career.
If you’re wondering what the Dave Cobb-influenced mainstream country world might sound like after the success of Chris Stapleton, take a good sniff at “My Church.” The arrangement and grainy production quality could very well be that of Lindi Ortega or Nikki Lane, but this is a major label artist looking to gain the attention of the fickle mainstream country music fan who traditionally discounts the female performer right off the bat, and scoffs at anything that falls sort of slick production standards.
“My Church,” similarly to Charles Kelley’s recently “critically-acclaimed” single “The Driver,” somewhat fools the listener into thinking they’re taking in something really “deep” and fresh simply because the production sounds that way. When broken down a bit more though, a less than perfect effort is revealed, even if it’s above average for its peer group.
Certainly one of the most talked-about elements to this song will be that Maren evokes the sainted names of Hank Williams and Johnny Cash in “My Church,” and even goes on to mention the songs “Cold, Cold Heart” and “Ring of Fire.” Though some will accuse Maren of tokenism or trite name-dropping, the references do feel organic to the idea behind “My Church,” which is that Maren finds her religious moments behind the wheel, listening to classic country on the radio. And who among us can’t identify with that?
Even if you want to hate “My Church,” it’s hard not to cheer some of its merits. And as silly or sad as it may seem, yes, it does make a difference that this is a song from a mainstream artist. From most Americana performers, “My Church” would be album filler. But from a cute young major label starlet, we’ll take it. It doesn’t make up for the fact that like so many mainstream songs, it replaces a resolving third verse for another pass at the chorus, or that it’s the equivalent of country radio catnip since it references radio specifically—something the good ‘ol boy radio programmers love because it affirms their radio format is still relevant, even if it isn’t.
Not a world beater, but not bad, at least “My Church” gets the texturing and vibe right. It is a step in the right direction. But let’s tap the breaks a bit on proclaiming Maren Morris the second coming of Kacey Musgraves, which even then might still be a polarizing concept in the mind of some listeners. I would pin Morris more as the next Mickey Guyton or Jamie Lin Spears, who both released very promising debut singles, only to follow it up with EP’s full of flat pop music resulting in a deflated career.
Taking a gander at the Maren Morris EP, it quickly reveals that “My Church” is the exception, not the rule. There’s a song called “80’s Mercedes” that is a total foray into the pop world with only a conciliatory spritz of steel guitar essence waffing in the far background. “Drunk Girls Don’t Cry” starts with a Calypso-style feel before giving way to pseudo suburban white girl rapping. I’ve been saying for years that if Taylor Swift showed up on Music Row right now, they’d make her release an EP and she’d be working a job as a barista in west Nashville.
The truth is we have no idea who or what Maren Morris will develop into, and neither does Columbia Records Nashville, or possibly Maren Morris herself. And we won’t know until we hear a full-length album. She’s opened for Chris Stapleton and been booked on the Americana-leaning Camayo cruise. She’s also been spotted out there in an Old Dominion trucker hat, and has been confirmed for an opening slot on the upcoming Keith Urban tour. So who the hell knows what we’ve got here.
But for a lead single, “My Church” is not bad. Which is good, because it’s about to become ubiquitous.
January 18, 2016 @ 9:50 am
Expected a little more gospel-y organ-y intro, but well-arranged otherwise. Maybe should’ve borrowed from Fastball’s radio intro on The Way? Too cliche’y?? No Amazing Grace quote–too ubiquitous?
Good comparison to Mickey Guyton, too!
October 11, 2018 @ 7:49 pm
I think it’s a great song and the words tell it all
January 18, 2016 @ 10:01 am
Just a correction, Kelsea Ballerini wasn’t picked for iHeartmedia’s On The Verge program ever. Cam and Raelyn were the only females picked before Maren.
January 18, 2016 @ 10:04 am
That was a more general commentary on Kelsea Ballerini as the girl leading the new generation of female artists and her general lack of substance, not her participation in “On The Verge.” Some are born with parents who are already in bed with the radio programming business and don’t need “One The Verge” help, and some are not. 🙂
January 18, 2016 @ 10:09 pm
So, my radio stations in Atlanta have finally been inundated with Ballerini, and she reminds me a lot of Selena Gomez.
She’s got this warm, rich, wonderful voice, that’s surprising from someone with a Plastic Pop Princess public persona…and her songs do their best to hide that voice behind terrible, pop production and inane lyrics.
January 18, 2016 @ 10:08 am
Saw her open up for Stapleton a while back. She’s certainly a little on the pop side, but her show was enjoyable even as a solo act. I Wish I Was might be her favorite song of mine.
Also, I read that her and Kacey Musgraves are close friends. She has crashed at Kacey’s house multiple times when in Nashville for shows. Hopefully more of Kacey rubs off on her and not vice versa.
January 18, 2016 @ 10:36 am
Definitely a good song. She delivers attitude in the vein of Kacey Musgraves but possesses much stronger vocals and obviously has no reservations about pandering to country radio.
That said, I am already starting to see a double standard emerging, almost certainly due to the fact that she’s a girl and not a “bro.”
From my understanding, she generally talks about not wanting to be confined by one genre. It bothered people when Sam Hunt and Thomas Rhett do that, but with Maren, it’s laudable honesty or whatever.
As noted in the review, 80s Mercedes is a straight-up Katy Perry-style pop song — and it’s about a car no less. Yet I generally see raves over that song instead of the same criticism you see when “bros” release poppy songs about trucks.
“I Wish I Was” belongs in the same genre as Thomas Rhett’s “Die A Happy Man,” while “Company You Keep” feature the same type of groove, instrumentation, and production you’ll find on the other recent Rhett and Brett Eldredge records. Nothing remotely traditional about it – it’s one of those “funky” country songs.
She has a very good chance of being successful. She has a good look, a good voice, a good overall sound, and a lot of influential support. But it just bothers me that she’s being positioned as some sort of “savior” or “breath of fresh air” when the balance of her music seems far more like that of Kelsea Ballerini (if you can’t beat the bros, join them) than Kacey Musgraves.
January 18, 2016 @ 10:36 am
This being the new mainstream seems like the best possible outcome to me. Its pop enough for a wide audience, but it is quite unmistakeably country. Whitey Morgan is never gonna be the mainstream thing, but if this became the mainstream, at least ill be able to make eye contact when i say “i like country”.
January 18, 2016 @ 11:10 am
I certainly hope she’s not the second coming of Kacey Musgraves. We don’t need another one dimensional agenda-political songwriter passing off goofy lyrics as intelligent.
In that photo she looks like a living barbie doll.
The song is okay.
January 18, 2016 @ 12:28 pm
Listen to this guy. Kacey is pretty phenomenal bud I think you gotta relax a little bit. Other than Ashley Monroe, I would say Kacey is at the top among female country singers. Figure it out.
I don’t care for the song, too poppy for me. I like the more traditional stuff.
January 18, 2016 @ 2:42 pm
Kacey Musgraves as the top female? Get real.. she is the definition of an average singer.
January 18, 2016 @ 9:24 pm
Amen Brandon! And honestly even average is a bit of a stretch.
She’s not untalented, not by a long shot. She’s leaps and bounds better than what Country Radio has been emitting, but she isn’t particularly remarkable in the context of Country Music’s great women.
She isn’t worthy to drive Lorrie Morgan’s tour bus.
January 18, 2016 @ 11:49 am
I heard this song in very frequent rotation when satellite radio did a free preview a month or two ago. The specific radio mention was savvy. This song itself and the fact that she’s best known as a writer do work in her favor.
Unfortunately, I find myself in agreement with this assessment: “Taking a gander at the Maren Morris EP, it quickly reveals that “My Church” is the exception, not the rule.”
Thinking of upcoming female country artists, I like the song “About to Find Out” by Margo Price.
January 18, 2016 @ 12:17 pm
Did you mention Cobb here because he produced this? Or because it sounds like someone else trying to imitate him? Imitation is the greatest form of flattery and it would indeed be interesting to see mainstreamers trying to recreate the sound he’s been running with going on a few years. I feel like this song is a wolf in sheep’s skin kind of thing. This song says all the right things, but the tempo is wrong (and possibly the time signature…coulda been a pretty damn good waltz if you ask me) and its still got that bubbly pop feeling to it. Oh, and obligatory clapping, which I guess is Nashville’s way of trying to be cool and different. It just doesn’t feel right for what the song is trying to convey.
January 18, 2016 @ 1:35 pm
Cobb did not produce this from my knowledge. It felt more like the mainstream emulating Cobb.
January 18, 2016 @ 12:19 pm
Almost turned this one off when I heard the obligatory clapping on the upbeats ……shit …can we PLEASE STOP that ??
Interesting that the lyric references to honest country songs need to go so far back . That alone speaks volumes . NOTHING has come along in twenty or 30 years , it seems , that impacted country music any more substantially than the stuff written ‘ way back when ‘ . Even more interestingly, they are not even gambling this young singer can relate to her piers with the dated song /artist references used in this lyric . On the other hand , it would have been just plain foolish to reference a Rascal Flats or a Keith Urban or , God forbid , the Kruze Kids .
This is from the DELTA DAWN template arrangement -wise – and it works far better in terms of the stick-with-you factor than 99% of mainstream stuff which is grossly overwritten in terms of word count but completely underwritten in terms of substance . The title MY CHURCH is weak in terms of sonic effectiveness – its not ear-catching …nor is the delivery on the melody at that point . However the word ” church’ has and will always carry more weighT emotionally than it does sonically so it may be a solid trade-off . Maren has a mature voice .She avoids vocal pyrotechnics and the risk of putting the attention on HER and not the song . Impressive approach . Overall , I’m interested and I think we all should be . However the reverb-bathed production will NOT be welcomed by radio stations used to tighter tracks and in-your-face vocals designed to compete with LOUD over-compressed commercials.
An encouraging debut , in my humble estimation , if , perhaps , improperly produced for mainstream radio .
January 18, 2016 @ 12:40 pm
I think Morris and her label are deliberately triangulating with this single, the EP and Morris’ remarks in interviews about genre.
And I can’t say I blame her. In the age of Tomatogate, if you have your sights set on greater commercial success, you have to fire on more cylinders. And when she’s already being tirelessly compared to Kacey Musgraves (though I think the comparison only stands up thus far in terms of the attitude they show in the press)……………Morris and her label are surely aware of how radio has since shunned Musgraves (which, let’s be honest, has as much to do with Musgraves having no interest in courting radio than discrimination).
It is for that reason why I can’t get worked up much over the slick commercial strategem underpinning her single and EP. But as a whole, I’m skeptical when we do get a full-length effort from her that it’s going to resonate with me. Especially if it goes for a Cam-esque stylistic line buffet vibe.
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But for “My Church” itself……….eh, it’s not bad. It’s not something I’ll actively seek, but it’s unlikely I’ll change the station from either.
Some may argue the song’s title is sacrilege. I honestly don’t get that impression. I think it’s a well-intentioned way of saying how great music is a religious experience for her. The name-dropping is gratuitous, but even there it would be hypocritical to deduct points off this song for that since, well, countless independent and non-commercial artists name-drop Jones and Hank as well.
So yeah, I’m agreeably neutral on this: beyond the obvious “Admit it, songs like this instantly make the mainstream better!” postulating. I certainly don’t dislike this but I hardly love this either. It shows some signs of promises, but it doesn’t remotely hold a candle to the songwriting excellence and all-around poignancy of Musgraves’ debut single “Merry Go ‘Round” (which was followed by four singles I found underwhelming to ridiculously overrated before winning me over again big time with “Dime Store Cowgirl”). And if this seriously is Morris’ “Merry Go ‘Round” moment, then the bar has already been set WAY too high for her in terms of expectations.
I’m thinking a Decent to Strong 6 out of 10 for this.
January 18, 2016 @ 1:33 pm
It’s nauseating how incredibly similar all of this is transpiring to Cam, Mikey Guyton, Jamie Lin Spears, and others. It’s like Music Row has one playbook for all of these girls, and despite it failing more times than not, they keep going back to it.
January 18, 2016 @ 2:16 pm
Right. And that they express so little faith in their female acts that they tepidly “test the waters” with EPs.
The remaining tracks on her EP suggest we’ll likely wind up with something along the lines of Cam’s “Untamed”. I mean, “Burning House” has been a massively successful single and even that didn’t have much sway in the artistic development of the album as a whole.
Based on Morris’ remarks in interviews, she seems keenly aware one’s best bet at marketability is by beginning through country radio. “My Church” is at least identifiably country enough, but she’s basically exploiting the temperamental state of the format just like countless others have that have reached overdrive under the metro-bro regime.
January 18, 2016 @ 4:35 pm
Frankly, as a Christian, I find it very sacrilegious, as she is taking a fundamental part of my faith and using it as a metaphor for a secular feeling. I hate to appear as an easily offended person, but I draw the line at this type of usage. As I said on Country Universe, I sincerely doubt titles as “Take Me to Mosque” or “My Synagogue” would be acceptable.
Just my two cents.
January 18, 2016 @ 11:24 pm
Dude…do you know any Jewish people?
My Orthodox friends, including a guy who’s stirred up so much shit at Brandeis that he’s swung pieces in the Times and WSJ out of it, would crack up at the idea of anyone being offended by a song with the title “My Synagogue,” and tell the offended party to get the fuck over themselves.
My Muslim friends would point out that no one would ever write a song like “My Mosque” or “Take Me to Mosque” because of the fundamental differences between Muslim spirituality and the Protestant Evangelical tradition of camp revivals and individual communion with God, rather than Islam’s focus on submission to Him, that informs the lyrics of this song.
My U-U and UCC friends would applaud the idea of trying to find spirituality in the mundane, and looking for God’s love in the world beyond the Church’s walls.
They, too, would tell anyone offended by the song to get over themselves.
My Episcopalian pastor would likely be skeptical of the song’s theology…but she’d tell anyone offended by it to get over themselves, and focus on their own relationship with God rather than sitting in judgment on other people’s. She and her wife are pretty big fans of Matthew 6.
January 19, 2016 @ 8:50 am
Damn. This is a sheer an absolute lambasting.
Rocked.
January 20, 2016 @ 1:19 pm
Nice response.
Apparently, Christianity remains an acceptable target and none of us are allowed to speak out against any of our core principles being taken for secular reasons, or else someone will throw up Matthew 6 and think they scored a major point.
And your knowing friends argument is just anecdotal evidence.
January 20, 2016 @ 1:31 pm
Understanding the fundamental differences between the Revival tradition, that is both unique to the American West and directly referenced in this song, and the spirituality of other religions is “anecdotal”?
K.
Not to mention that most of Matthew, Mark and even John consists of Jesus lambasting the opulent but mindless dogma of the Pharisees in favor of a more personal relationship with God.
Seriously. This mentality led the Pharisees to cry sacrilege when Jesus dared heal someone on the Sabbath, rather than resting.
January 19, 2016 @ 11:07 am
Hey CountryKnight,
How does it feel to be part of the easily offended crowd? Get over it.
January 20, 2016 @ 1:20 pm
It feels strange since it is my first time in it.
Remind me to use this post if you ever feel offended.
February 29, 2016 @ 12:57 pm
Right but the term “church” according to the bible isn’t the building, it’s the group of people, so it’s not comparable to a synagogue.
Did anyone notice that it’s The Highway XM, not FM as said in her song? Found that kind of funny!
April 6, 2018 @ 3:14 pm
Kate,
I am curious, there is a 24/7 music streaming service called the highway FM, how do we know which one she meant?
January 18, 2016 @ 1:34 pm
reading the description and hearing the start of the song, I thought, Ooh! This might be right up my alley! But then it fell flat for me mostly because the idea of the lyrics is awesome, but the actual lyrics are shallow and disappointing. Driving around the county listening to Country music is one of the great pleasures of my life (yes, I am quite the exciting woman, lol.) This had so much unfulfilled potential.
January 18, 2016 @ 2:21 pm
Musically, I thought it wouldn’t sound too out-of-place on NPR’s ‘The World Cafe’ alongside the likes of the Lumineers and Shovels & Rope; but the lyrics seemed more like pandering to older country listeners than describing a truly personal experience… (Do Hank Sr. and George Jones actually get FM airplay anymore? Maybe if she had sung about listening to CDs, mp3s or satellite radio in her car because she can no longer stand most of what’s on the AM/FM dial, I imagine it might have made for a fresher approach.)
January 18, 2016 @ 11:26 pm
“The Highway” is a satellite radio station that occasionally plays non-pop country
The entire song is pretty much a sneaky piece of product placement.
Sounds decent, though.
January 18, 2016 @ 3:09 pm
” Driving around the county listening to Country music is one of the great pleasures of my life (yes, I am quite the exciting woman, lol.) ”
Stephanie ….I couldn’t agree more . I LOVE having the uninterrupted time and the space to really digest music …particularly country music in all of its current incarnations . Its sheer joy for me to drive to our local valley listening to the latest by whomever and then strapping on the mp3 player for a 2-3 hour hike on the local trails where I can continue to soak it in, consider it and break it down . Actually listening to music has , it seems , become a lost art . It’s mostly accepted that it’s purpose is as background to shuttling kids , fighting traffic to work , soundtracks to a video games ,or as a common experience at a loud over-the-top festival or concert. There doesn’t seem to be the same appreciation (with most youth ) for that quiet time to connect with and relate to a well-written song . More and more often the song has to be so in-your-face that it can’t be ignored ….but that doesn’t ensure a good experience for the listener whatsoever.
January 18, 2016 @ 1:40 pm
Speaking of Mickey Guyton, does she still have a shot?
Obviously, pop-country is not my bag, but I thought she deserved a legit chance at being a singing star. I mean, she certainly has the chops.
January 18, 2016 @ 2:04 pm
I agree — I really liked that one song she did (“Better Than You Left Me”), and I hoped we would hear more from her in the past year or so… 🙁
January 18, 2016 @ 2:22 pm
Not a bad song, total Lindy rip off in the beginning, however I do like her voice. I, however, get really tired with the Hank, Cash references. I agree with Albert above. Is there really nobody else that can be referenced? George Strait comes to mind. It’s just so damned cliche. I certainly understand Hank and Johnny’s role in country music, but seriously folks let’s move on. I don’t believe for one moment that this young lady every drove around listening to Hank on her FM radio.
January 18, 2016 @ 6:26 pm
I give kudos to Blackberry Smoke’s shout out to Ray Wylie Hubbard on “Good One Comin’ On” (which was co-written by Lee Roy Parnell). Any time Hank and Cash or Waylon or Haggard are listed in a song it immediately gets points docked from me because of the pandering aspect. At least show some imagination! Garth called out Chris LeDoux and look what it did for Chris’ career. And even Dierks gave a shoutout to Cross Canadian Ragweed, raising their profile.
More artists should be supportive of each other. Shoot…get some insta-cred by finding something that rhymes with Sturgill or Isbell! (Actually, you could make those rhyme with each other if ya try!)
January 18, 2016 @ 10:45 pm
Well said! That’s part of what I like about “Girl in a Country Song” — while I imagine Conway Twitty may be a little bit before Maddie & Tae’s time, they still seemed somewhat believable when they sang “Conway and George Strait never did it this way!”
January 18, 2016 @ 4:40 pm
Any name-dropping of Cash and Hank, be it in a mainstream or underground song has grown stale for me.
I’m surprised, for as much as Trigger rightly decries the commercialism in country music, he did not mention the blatant appeal for radio play, when she sings about the Highway on Sirius XM in her song.
January 18, 2016 @ 6:15 pm
I did mention how the song panders to radio:
“…it”™s the equivalent of country radio catnip since it references radio specifically””something the good ”˜ol boy radio programmers love because it affirms their radio format is still relevant, even if it isn”™t.”
January 20, 2016 @ 1:13 pm
Sorry Trigger, I guess I was looking for the Highway FM mention.
January 20, 2016 @ 3:21 pm
Since she says Highway ‘FM’, I guess I just didn’t correlate it between the satellite station. I took it to mean a generic country station. There are a lot of Highway radio stations beyond the satellite channel.
January 18, 2016 @ 10:37 pm
“when she sings about the Highway on Sirius XM in her song”
Funny, because if she actually listened to that particular channel, she would know that it’s all New Country — she’d be more likely to hear the hits of Blake Shelton than of Johnny Cash. (Perhaps Willie’s Roadhouse or Outlaw Country would’ve been a more appropriate shout-out.) 🙂
January 19, 2016 @ 6:33 am
Willie’s Roadhouse has too insular of a playlist for me. It’s early Ray Price and all the people who ripped him off stylistically: Johnny Bush, Johnny Rodriguez, Tony Booth, Joe Stampley… And not enough of people like Kenny Price, David Frizzell or Buck Owens.
June 5, 2016 @ 3:42 pm
Would y’all rather listen to Kid Rock (poser) name-drop Hank Jr.? (Another poser)
January 18, 2016 @ 4:42 pm
This is my original comment on Country Universe, I was surprised that I was not torn apart by the staff/ readers there for taking the opposing view. Another user suffered that fate when he disagreed with the review on “Fix.”
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Just like “The BBQ Bible”, another secular usage of Christian concepts. I”™m tired of this trend. “Take Me to Church” was downright offensive and now this tune turns country legends (who were Christian) into expressions of religious icons on a musical scale. I can only imagine the outcry if a song or a book used another religion”™s traits as a metaphor or as a vehicle to express secular spirituality. The BBQ Koran or Take Me to the Synagogue, anyone?
But I digress. Frankly, the lyrics just describe another rebel in country music. Cussed, cheated and lied. Time to insert the “look out, we have a badass over here” meme. The song needs another verse. We have two stanzas and repeats of the chorus. She namedrops Cash and Hank (never heard of those two mentioned before!) and sings copy and paste. It sounds like a teenager experiencing rebellion and furiously writing down lyrics in her diary. But hey, it is not from a radio star (though it has reached #59 on the charts), so I can dig the namedropping of two Mount Rushmore legends.
Finally, the Highway FM reference is a blatant cry to “play me.” The amount of branding in country music has grown larger than a Wal-Mart Supercenter. Here it is especially apparent. Good thing our speaker has a subscription to Sirius/XM or she might have to use the standard dial like the rest of us believers.
From a songwriting standpoint is it better than most of the songs on the radio? Sure, but so are Lonestar”™s album tracks.
January 18, 2016 @ 6:20 pm
Though I can definitely see the rationale behind the idea of how the song could be taken poorly by actual church goers, I think the song is more just an exercise in symbolism and parallels. I don’t think at any point is she actually criticizing church itself. But if this was one of my pet peeves, I definitely can see how that would get someone’s dander up.
What I will agree with is that the song is yet another “badass” female song, which is quickly becoming the female equivalent of Bro-Country, though it’s not as overt or bellicose in this particular offering.
February 26, 2016 @ 8:49 am
I’m getting in a little late on this–I don’t think it’s Maren trying to be as “badass” as, say, Miranda Lambert. In feel and tone, to me, I think this sounds like some of Linda Ronstadt’s left-of-center cover songs of the mid-1970s like “Willing” or “Roll Um Easy”, which are tough without being “badass”.
January 19, 2016 @ 8:20 am
I can only imagine the outcry if a song or a book used another religion”™s traits as a metaphor or as a vehicle to express secular spirituality. The BBQ Koran or Take Me to the Synagogue, anyone?
Another religion? We’re talking about country music, right? The most overtly Christian of all American mainstream genres? And that’s exactly why using “church” as a metaphor works to some extent and would not work at all in a country song if a metaphor associated with a minority religion was used. Also, a mainstream country singer using an Islamic metaphor in a positive way would have to be out of their minds. Using a Jewish one would probably puzzle a lot of mainstream country fans.
I have to admit that this comment made me think of former commenter Clint, who would describe his love for country music as something like a religion.
January 19, 2016 @ 6:44 am
While i don’t really see this falling much under the badass woman song cliche, that is where it went wrong for me. That aspect feels really shallow and canned. (That, by the way, is an area where Kacey Musgraves does a great job of delivering nuanced, believable lyrics that I love.)
January 19, 2016 @ 11:22 am
is there producer info for this?
May 22, 2016 @ 7:54 pm
This song is awful and Maren has a really bad attitude. The reason she became on “On The Verge Artist” is because she was shacking up with Radio Dj Bobby Bones. She is a big part of ruining country music. If you listen to her song “Rich” its straight pop and even has swearing on it. Her and her music are not fit for radio and she should be blasted to the moon never to be heard again. Her pitch in “My Church” is awful and you can tell its been autotuned over and over it also sounds like she trying to sing like Carrie Underwood. The song worships country music as a religion which I do not agree with and can also be considered sack religious. It also has a pop beat to it with a clapper on the upbeat. Shes just NOT a good artist and NOT what country music is looking for at this time. Shacking up with a radio DJ is not a reason to play The Opry.