Maren Morris and Ryan Hurd are releasing music on the same day this week following their split.
Just over a year after filing for divorce in October 2023, the exes individually announced that they have new tracks coming this Friday (Oct. 25). While the “The Middle” singer drops new single “People Still Show Up,” the country songwriter will release a song titled “This Party Sucks” at the end of the work week.
Hurd was the first to announce his new project, sharing a photo of himself holding up a cardboard sheet bearing his song’s title on Instagram Monday (Oct. 21). The next day, Morris shared her single’s colorful cover art, which features the title printed in a retro font.
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The new songs will come more than eight months after the musicians — who share 4-year-old son Hayes — finalized their divorce. According to court documents obtained by People, Morris will pay Hurd $2,100 a month in child support as the pair evenly split time with their son.
Morris first spoke publicly about the breakup in December, when she told Howard Stern that she wanted her divorce to “sort of wrap up” before she started dating again. “I don’t have the headspace for that yet,” she added at the time. “But I’m writing so much right now, that’s kind of been my way of dating is just through song.”
Since then, the “The Gold” singer has come out as bisexual and released her EP Intermission in August. In an interview with Billboard that month, Morris opened up about exploring both her sexuality and her post-divorce life on the five-track project, noting, “[Songwriting] was an amazing distraction from the dumpster fire that was my life last fall.”
See Morris and Hurd’s separate song announcements below.
