Maren Morris WroteWild RobotSongs for Her 4-Year-Old Son: He's Watched the Trailer 'Probably 80 Times' (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Maren Morris attends the premiere of “The Wild Robot”.Photo:Emma McIntyre/EveryStory2024/WireImage

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Maren Morrishad her son in mind when writing music forThe Wild Robot.

While chatting with PEOPLE at theToronto International Film Festivalpremiere of her new animated movieThe Wild Robot, the musician, 34, revealed that her sonHayes Andrew, 4, already can’t get enough of the film.

“I think my son’s watched the trailer on my phone probably 80 times,” the mom of one told PEOPLE on Sunday, Sept. 8. “He thinks it’s the movie.”

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“The Middle” singer continued to share the analogy she used to explain what a movie trailer is to her little one. “I’m like, ‘No, this is like the appetizer to the movie,’ like trying to describe it to a 4-year-old.”

“But no, he’s so proud because he’s putting connections together that like I’m singing in it,” she shared, adding, “I definitely wrote these two songs for the soundtrack, like with him in mind as his mother.”

Morris shares Hayes with her ex-husbandRyan Hurd. The former couplefinalized their divorcein January, just five months before the singercame out as bisexualin June.

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With so many recent changes in Morris’s life, the proud mom told PEOPLE in August thatHayes has “definitely brought me through a lot of this year.”

“Whether he knows it or not,” she continued, “I doubt he does, but I just want to be a good mom to him.”

Being on the road for herRSVP Redux touronly made their mother-son bond stronger, Morris explained.

“He loves being on the road, which has been so much fun this summer, having Hayes out. I don’t know, we feel like partners in crime a little bit, and we’re going to be on this bus journey for forever,” she shared with PEOPLE. “It just makes me so happy when he’s out and the fact that he loves it out here so much.”

“I think he’s gone through a lot and there’s. I’m sure, a lot of confusion because he’s so little,” she said, “But also, I feel like Ryan and I have done a really great job at just being great parents for him.

source: people.com