Morgan Evans is sharing his side of the story.
The 37-year-old Aussie-born country singer has dropped a new docuseries which centers on the release of his hit heartbreak single “Over You.”
He released a series of five videos focusing on his return to his home country. But the videos also focused on something else – his side of things during his split and then divorce from Kelsea Ballerini.
He told CMT about the docuseries:
“The whole idea was to document the biggest show of my career, playing the CMC Rocks Festival in Australia and headlining it. The original focus (of the documentary) was on the music and coming home, and that’s what it’s about.”
Morgan went on to add:
“But it’s not like I could pretend like something wasn’t going on. That’s the journey of what happened in that moment of my life.”
One episode even focused solely on the unplanned performance Morgan did of “Over For You” – which he stated that he had absolutely no intention of playing:
“It was unpracticed, and I actually played it in the wrong key. There was just something about that moment. It was the moment in the show where I was going to sit at the piano and play a song solo anyway. I had planned to play a different song, but in that moment, it just felt like something that I needed to do and needed to say.”
He revealed that the song is the most authentic one that he has written in his career so far and was nervous about releasing the track because of its contents. He shared:
“It sort of became everyone else’s for their own situation in life. The most rewarding part of having released this song is the connection that I’ve had with people going through something or that it’s helping them through or helping them to explain a time in their life or any of those things. When I woke up the next day and realized that the song had made its way into a lot of other people’s lives already, I felt like it sort of became a responsibility to.”
Morgan’s new docuseries seems to be a response to Rolling Up The Welcome Mat, Kelsea’s own short film and EP that she dropped earlier this month.
