Girl (Maren Morris album)

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Girl
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Studio album by Maren Morris
Released March 8, 2019 (2019-03-08)
Recorded 2017–2019
Genre
Length 46:59
Label Columbia Nashville
Producer
Maren Morris chronology
Hero
(2016)		 Girl
(2019)
Singles from Girl (Maren Morris album)

Girl is the second major label studio album by American singer Maren Morris, released on March 8, 2019 through Columbia Nashville.[7] It was preceded by the single "Girl”.[8] The promotional single "Common", featuring Brandi Carlile, was released alongside the album pre-order on February 8. The track was later nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards, while the album's second single "The Bones" was nominated for Best Country Song at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.[9] Morris embarked on the Girl: The World Tour in support of the album.[10]

Release and promotion

The album's lead single "Girl" was released on January 18, 2019 and was described as "an upbeat, optimistic single with a strutting, indie-rock guitar sound". The album's first promotional single "Common" features Brandi Carlile and was released on February 8. The collaboration was nominated for Best Country Duo/Group Performance at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards.[11] "The Bones" was released on February 22 as the second and final promotional single of the album.[12] On August 16, 2019 the song was sent to radios as the second single from the album. It peaked at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming Morris' highest charting solo single to date, as well as hitting number one on the Country Airplay chart of February 2020, becoming Maren’s third number one for that chart. The song went on to earn a nomination for Best Country Song at the 63rd Annual Grammy Awards.[9] Maren later teased fans on social media that from having another consecutive hit, that GIRL will be having another single. In March of 2020 she released “To Hell & Back” as the third single from GIRL.

In support of the album, Morris embarked on Girl: The World Tour, which began on March 9 and concluded on November 16, 2019.[13]

Critical reception

Professional ratings
Aggregate scores
Source Rating
Metacritic 66/100[14]
Review scores
Source Rating
AllMusic 3.5/5 stars[15]
Exclaim! 8/10[16]
The Guardian 2/5 stars[17]
Paste 7.1/10[18]
Pitchfork 6.3/10[19]
Rolling Stone 3.5/5 stars[20]

Girl received generally positive reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream critics, the album received an average score of 66, based on 8 reviews.[14]

Melissa Novacaska from Exclaim! said, "What's impressive about Girl though is how strong Morris's vocals have grown, along with the maturity and uniqueness of each song. It's clear that Girl isn't a sophomore slump, but rather an album worth investing in."[16] AllMusic's Stephen Thomas Erlewine called Girl "bright, shiny, and big, an album designed to appeal to any imaginable audience", noting how Morris goes for a "pan-cultural pop" soundscape that draws from different genres and delivers straightforward messages that's backed by equally strong production. He concluded by finding criticism in the album's songwriting following that musical direction, "By foregrounding her lyrical intent and offering no room for interpretation, Morris winds up with songs that feel less imaginative than their execution, a flaw that is by no means fatal but does mean that Girl plays on a smaller scale than intended."[15]

Rolling Stone editor Rob Sheffield felt that fans of Morris's "scrappy attitude on Hero" will be oft-put by the "happy midtempo love songs" found in the album's second half but said that tracks like "All My Favorite People", "Flavor" and "Make Out with Me" will satisfy them, concluding that, "She might be on her best behavior on this LP, but the liveliest moments come when she gets out of line."[20] Laura Snapes of The Guardian felt the record goes for "neither gutsy grandstanding nor Vegas-adjacent pop" throughout its track listing, criticizing the "biographical sincerity ("Great Ones", "Gold Love", "Make Out with Me")" for lacking conviction and the misuse of Morris's "compellingly hardbitten voice" on songs that don't involve fractured romances, saying that Morris should take inspiration from fellow country artist Kacey Musgraves when recording her third album.[17]

Awards and nominations

Awards and nominations for GIRL
Year Organization Category Result
2019 Country Music Awards Album of the Year Won
2020 Academy of Country Music Awards Album of the Year Nominated
Billboard Music Awards Top Country Album Nominated

Commercial performance

Girl debuted and peaked at number four on the US Billboard 200 with 46,000 album-equivalent units, of which 25,000 were pure album sales in its first week. It is Morris' second US top-five album.[21] The album broke the record for the largest streaming week ever for a country studio album by a woman, with approximately 24 million streams in its first week.[22] On February 26, 2020, the album was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) for combined sales and album-equivalent units of over 500,000 units.[23] The album has sold 91,000 in traditional albums,[24] and has earned at least 636,000 equivalent album units as of April 2020.[25]

Track listing

Credits adapted from Tidal.[26]

No. Title Producer(s) Length
1. "Girl"   Kurstin 4:10
2. "The Feels"  
3:07
3. "All My Favorite People" (featuring Brothers Osborne)
  • busbee
  • Morris
 3:19
4. "A Song for Everything"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 3:14
5. "Common" (featuring Brandi Carlile) Kurstin 4:05
6. "Flavor"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 3:16
7. "Make Out with Me"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 2:16
8. "Gold Love"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 3:23
9. "Great Ones"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 3:41
10. "RSVP"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 3:34
11. "To Hell & Back"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 3:15
12. "The Bones"   Kurstin 3:17
13. "Good Woman"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 3:31
14. "Shade"  
  • busbee
  • Morris
 2:51
Total length:
 46:59

Personnel

Credits adapted from liner notes.[27]

Musicians

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  • Charlie Bisharat – violin
  • Jacob Braum – cello
  • busbee – percussion, programming, bass guitar, keyboards, piano, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer, electric guitar
  • Brandi Carlile – duet vocals (track 5)
  • Kathleen Edwards – background vocals (track 13)
  • Alma Fernandez – viola
  • Ian Fitchuk – piano, Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer, percussion
  • Natalie Hemby – background vocals (track 14)
  • Ryan Hurd – background vocals (tracks 3, 9, 12)
  • Greg Kurstin – drums, percussion, bass guitar, piano, keyboards, synthesizer, organ, omnichord
  • Songa Lee – violin
  • Rob Moore – violin, viola, octave viola
  • Maren Morris – lead vocals, background vocals
  • John Osborne – electric guitar
  • T.J. Osborne – duet vocals (track 3)
  • Aaron Sterling – drums, percussion, programming
  • Laura Veltz – background vocals (tracks 4, 11, 12)
  • Patrick Warren – string arrangement (tracks 7, 13)
  • Derek Wells – acoustic guitar, electric guitar, mandolin
  • Ben West – Hammond B-3 organ, synthesizer

Technical

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  • Julian Burg – recording
  • busbee – producer (all tracks except 1, 5, 12), recording, mixing
  • Maren Morris – producer (all tracks except 1, 5, 12)
  • Dave Clauss – digital editing, recording, mixing
  • Michael Freeman – assistant engineer
  • Mike "Frog" Griffith – production coordination
  • Greg Kurstin – producer (tracks 1, 5, 12), recording, mixing
  • Rachel Kurstin – production coordination
  • Randy Merrill – mastering
  • Rob Moose – violin, viola (tracks 7,13)
  • Maren Morris – producer
  • Zack Pancoast – assistant engineer
  • Alex Pasco – recording
  • Nathan Spicer – recording
  • Mark "Spike" Stent – mixing
  • Matt Tuggle – production assistant (track 5 only)
  • Brian David Willis – digital editing

Imagery

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  • Marwa Bashir – hair
  • Samuel Burgess-Johnson – Maren Morris font design
  • Joseph Cassell – styling
  • Tracy Fleaner – creative director
  • Nicki Fletcher – cover design
  • Jamie Nelson – photography
  • Lorrie Turk – makeup

Charts

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
United States (RIAA)[23] Gold 525,000[39]double-dagger / 91,000[24]

xunspecified figures based on certification alone

Release history

Region Date Format Label
Various March 8, 2019
Columbia Nashville

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