Single Women: Maren Morris knows how you feel.
The country pop singer provided some behind-the-scenes stories to famous celebrities and Hamptons locals about the creation of her new album, Dream Secrets, at an intimate Sohon Session concert at Amagansett’s iconic Stephen Talkhouse on Monday night.
“I started dating a bit (after the divorce) and met some f*cking bums that I couldn’t pay for the tab,” she said of the inspiration behind the song “Too Good.” “I brought this idea to the cowliter. “I’m dating a few losers. I think it’s just bad luck. It’s going to end soon.”
The song includes “It was always so good for your ass anyway” and “The bed felt big. It’s fine for me / I hope you’re doing the same / And the couch you’re in is fine.”
Morris told audiences that include Howard and Beth Stern, Jason Biggs, Don Lemon and Bobby Frey that the new album was inspired by songwriter Ryan Heard’s 2024 divorce from “it’s aftermath.”
“It’s a gift I learned, not just a tragedy,” she said of the heartbreak. “I learned to write it. This is like the point of songwriting. I didn’t want to write about them, but I’m so happy because I learned that I and myself really like writing and just really like it.”
Morris and Heard have a five-year-old son. They got married in 2018.
She first filed for divorce in October 2023. Completed in January 2024.
“We’ve been away now for over a year… We’ve got along well now and we’ve gotten through that a lot,” Morris recently said on a podcast. “We are neighbors. I’m so lucky that I left my son on each other’s sh*t.
“American Pie” star Bigs hosted the night of the SoHo Session, an exclusive concert series founded by Greg Williamson and Nicole Retch.
Biggs said he was involved because he “slid into Greg’s DMS” after reading an article from a concert he went to with Paul Simon.
He is also a Morris fan.
“‘The Bones’ is now on my playlist,” Biggs told Page Six. “I listened to it on my bike today.”
Also performing in the evening when he raised money for the will of the music, singer Yora shook the cover of Prince’s “Let’s Go Crazy” when radio star Stern collapsed into his seat.
Stern, whose $500 contract with Sirius ends in the fall, leads to speculation about his future, was all smiling on the show, holding his hand sweetly with his wife Beth.
“Law & Order: SVU” star Chris Meloni was also in the crowd and said he was a huge fan of the Soho sessions.
“My wife, Shaman, and I were experiencing this ‘event’,” Meloni said, “From the beginning, and the sense of giving, goodwill and community is unique and gives life.”
