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Morgan Wallen has stated goodbye to his signature mullet and mustache — however just for now.
“Proper earlier than everyone apparently began pondering I’m staying clean-shaven eternally lol,” Wallen, 30, wrote by way of Instagram on Saturday, August 12, sharing a behind-the-scenes pic from his live performance one evening earlier.
At the beginning of Wallen’s Friday, August 11, present in Columbus, Ohio, followers seen that his trademark look was no extra.
“Earlier than we get any additional, I didn’t like my lengthy hair anymore, so I shaved it off,” Wallen stated through the present, per social media footage. “Again to enterprise as regular, this subsequent music’s referred to as ‘One Factor at a Time!’”
Wallen sported a “Laborious Dwelling” tee with a pair of denims to the present, together with an orange baseball cap to cowl up his quick locks.
Wallen’s followers instantly began speculating concerning the motive for the sudden change. “He will need to have misplaced a wager or SOMETHINNNN … proper?” one social media person wrote by way of TikTok remark.
Others, nevertheless, gushed that he was “extra enticing” with out the mullet and ‘stache.
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Whereas the nation singer is finest recognized for his lengthy locks, he took inspiration from his father Tommy Wallen’s personal mane. “I went again house for Easter [two years ago] and I used to be wanting by my mother and father’ photograph albums and I obtained to once they obtained married and my dad had a mullet,” Morgan recalled throughout a November 2019 look on The Bobby Bones Present. “Me and my dad are very comparable folks, like looks-wise [and] acts-wise, the whole lot. … They have been 25 once they obtained married and I used to be 25 once I was wanting on the photograph.”
He added on the time: “I assumed it regarded good, so I figured I’d give it a shot!”
Wallen later retold the story to The Tennessean in January 2021, noting he selected to repeat the coiffure to “present some respect” to his dad and “do one thing a little bit bit totally different.” He continued: “It simply caught on, man. That was it. That was ‘Recreation Over.’”
Wallen has been on the street touring for a lot of the yr — excluding his medical depart. Moments earlier than considered one of his live shows in April, he canceled the gig because of a “doctor-ordered vocal relaxation.” After injuring his vocal cords and being recognized with vocal fold trauma, he was compelled to take a step again from performing for six weeks.
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“The doc cleared me to speak and sing… we again,” he later wrote by way of Instagram on June 6.
