Maren Morris Calls Out Fan Who Grabbed Her Butt During Meet And Greet: “Don’t Override Someone’s Personal Space”

Not cool…

I know it’s exciting to finally get to meet your favorite artist. I’m a fan just like anybody, and I remember the feeling when I first got to meet some of the guys and gals that I’ve been listening to for years. Getting a meet and greet can feel like a golden ticket, even if it only means a brief encounter and getting to snap a picture before being quickly ushered along.

But artists are people too, and just because they’re famous doesn’t mean you can lose your mind and forget how to act like a decent human being.

I can’t even imagine some of the wild stuff artists have to deal with when it comes to meeting fans, whether that’s out in the wild, at events, or during meet and greets before shows. But Maren Morris is giving fans a reminder of how to behave after a disturbing encounter at a recent meet and greet.

The country singer turned pop star took to Instagram recently to reveal that she was groped by what sounds like an overly-eager fan before a show on Friday, August 22 at Ravinia Festival in Highland Park, IL:

“Hi y’all. Tonight’s show was so fun, but someone grabbed my ass during meet and greet before the show. I’m going to continue them because one person shouldn’t ruin it for everyone, but please know I’m there to connect, share, hug, all the things but please don’t override someone’s personal space. Love you.”

I mean, it goes without saying that’s not ok. Maren didn’t specify whether it was a male or female fan, but it doesn’t really matter either way. And we’ve also seen incidents like this happen with both male and female artists, including back in the day when Faith Hill scolded a female fan for trying to grab her husband Tim McGraw’s crotch.

Like I said, I get being excited, but it seems like whether it’s throwing beers or other things onstage or trying to grope an artist in a way that they would never do to somebody they actually know, fans seem to forget that artists are people too, and too often we see basic etiquette go out the window.

Just be a decent person. If stuff like this happens too often, it’s going to ruin it for the rest of the well-behaved fans who want the chance to meet their favorite artist.

Maren’s Latest Album Fails To Chart

It’s fair to say that the “My Church” singer has “played the hokey pokey” with the country music genre, constantly putting herself in and then back out of the classification of country music (no word on if she’s turning herself around). Morris has said in the past she no longer wants to be a country music artist… just as much as she’s backtracked and said country music is a part of her.

And it’s that confusion that likely led to her newest album, Dreamsicle, being the lowest performing major label album of her career. It entirely missed the Billboard 200 ranking after it’s first full tracking frame, which is the first time that’s ever happened to her in her music career. Just for perspective, her 3 previous studio albums charted 5th, 4th and 21st, respectively, on the Billboard 200, and 1st, 1st and 2nd on the Country Albums chart.

To not even land on either with Dreamsicle… a total flop.

Though I believe it’s very easy to point a finger at Morris choosing to not sit in one genre with her latest album (Dreamsicle is more contemporary pop than it is country), she believes that the project’s struggles stem from the music industry changing the way people consume music.

Maren Morris told Vulture that it might just take time for Dreamsicle to gain traction, since she didn’t go the traditional “single route” with her album, and didn’t emphasize social media marketing all that much:

“I didn’t really have ‘singles’ from this record. The album rebuilds from the way I’ve been doing things in the past. The world of marketing has changed so much with social media, TikTok, and streaming versus radio. Everything’s almost like a slower, more organic way of building something. I’m fortunate I’ve got a fan base and I can tour, but it’s a different way than I’ve been used to doing things.

Which was: You put a single out three months before the full record comes out, you work it at radio, you watch it rise — hopefully — and then everything’s a perfect storm on album-release day. I’ve done that, and that’s the way people, I guess, still do it. But now it’s a lot different.”

I gotta ask the question… is Maren Morris really just now finding this out?

If she is, at least she’s accepting that she’ll have to adapt to the new direction the music industry is moving towards. Morris went on to say that she’s choosing to avoid looking at charts and numerical graphs for her latest album, and the struggles of Dreamsicle are acting as a bit of a wake up call for her:

“I have to be adaptable to new things and humble myself to a new way of releasing music. Radio is obviously important, but it’s not the first thing on the docket anymore. I’m trying to embrace a more independent way of doing things. I still think every song has so much worth.

But, yeah, I had to resign myself from looking at any sort of numerical graph or chart, because that wasn’t going to be my directive on this. I’ve got to almost start over, in a way.”

If you ask me, the back-and-forth nature of Maren Morris’ country music career is very much to blame for her latest project not ranking in the Billboard 200.The post Maren Morris Calls Out Fan Who Grabbed Her Butt During Meet And Greet: “Don’t Override Someone’s Personal Space” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.