Chris Willman Music WriterComing into 2020, Maren Morris had already been a massive crossover artist — but with a massive asterisk attached to that.
The country star’s previous pop success had been as the featured vocalist on Zedd’s ubiquitous 2018 smash “The Middle.” Could she cut out the middleman, as it were, and strike gold at pop formats on her own?Sony’s New York and L.A.
offices stopped biding their time on that question when they got ahold of “The Bones,” a track from her sophomore album, “Girl.” So while the company’s Nashville division was taking that record’s title song to No.
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