When we think of meeting our celebrity idols, we picture waiting in a long meet-and-greet line or standing outside a concert venue late after a sold-out show. Maren Morris has a completely different story about meeting country icon Carrie Underwood for the first time.
On a recent clip of her interview from The Howard Stern Show, Morris revealed how she first met the country singer: in a writer’s room.
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When asked who the first big star she got to work with was, Morris replied that her publisher received a call from Underwood’s team asking to work with the young singer/songwriter.
“That was my first big, like, artist to be in the room with,” Morris said. “And I had never even had a song recorded by her. So I felt like that was a really great sign that she just had heard something I had written and loved and was like, ‘I want to know who wrote this and write with them.'”
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Despite writing two pieces, Morris and Underwood’s songs from that day were never recorded, though according to Morris, this was probably for the best.
“I’m kind of relieved she didn’t record them because I just would have gotten even more arrogant if I, on the first bat artist co-write, had gotten two cuts,” Morris joked.
Before her own breakthrough with her album Hero, Morris co-wrote songs for household-name country singers, including “Last Turn Home” for Tim McGraw and “Second Wind” for Kelly Clarkson.
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