Megan Moroney Shares Inspiration Behind Her Songwriting

Megan Maroney Megan how you been great good to see you good to see you we haven't seen each other since probably like fall of last year and I feel like since then it's been a rocket ship just I mean you're just crushing it now does the last five six months seem like a blur 100 yeah I don't even know what day it is today but we're here and I'm excited yeah congratulations thank you that's that's when you like are starting to make it when it's so blurry you can't even see what it is yeah but you're blowing up new album about to hit as well every time I look on Instagram somebody's like you know got some Megan Maroney tea that I've already heard three times but everybody just keeps posting it because they know people are like searching for your name and hashtags and stuff yeah so congratulations on all that thank you so much how has Tennessee orange been when you play alive does everybody just sing it like crazy yeah I um played my first Festival this weekend which was Tortuga and I played the next from Nashville stage um I think that's what it's called and it was insane it was the loudest I've ever heard people sing it so it's awesome would you for the sake of this show here would you give us some Tennessee orange and this is how a long time ago I was flipping through social media I mean last fall before that and I was like damn this sounds really good let's get Megan she came over we did an hour-long Bobby cast and from that now I think it's like 13 this week on the chart and still flying up the chart so here it is the song that kind of started it all this version of you play number one to be known by people for Tennessee it's got to be weird when you're such a Georgia Bulldog fan because if you don't just listen if you have to listen to every part of the song to even know really what you're saying because I bet you a lot of people just think you're a huge Tennessee fan yeah and you gotta be like yeah no not at all and your whole Bulldog contingent like what's we can write as a bulldog song now or what um actually in one of my songs on my record God plays Gibson I'm talking about God and I say this year it's pretty clear he's a Georgia Bulldogs fan you still get those in here so we're still plugging Georgia um I was looking at the calendar tonight's the 21st and you'll be in Knoxville you're gonna play that song in Knoxville where they're all crazy Tennessee fans where our show's on at Knoxville too like they're probably gonna sing that back louder than any version of a crowd you've ever seen in your whole life yeah I've never played Knoxville so they're nuts really oh yeah we they we I go over there and they sing Rocky Top the whole time and they beat us some most of the time it's they're nuts because they're just a very passionate Group which I can respect right and they're gonna love they're gonna be foaming and the mouth for that song you need to play first middle and the end I am wearing a Tennessee Jersey there which leads me to a different thing my wife and I are both rabid fans me Arkansas Razorbacks are Oklahoma Sooners neither one of us were the other people's still and we've been married almost two years at this point well it's fair I will never wear Oklahoma red or OU and she will never wear Arkansas so the fact that you could even sing that song like I commend you no one else the way Megan will be in Knoxville tonight Eddie's Attic in Georgia in Decatur which is out near Atlanta tomorrow night and then Fayetteville Arkansas you kind of you know my neck next week in the 27th and Hattiesburg Mississippi on the 28th on the pistol made a Rose's tour uh the pistol made of roses where did that come from so that's a line in my song I love me which is on the EP it just says I'm a pistol made of roses I don't keep up with the Joneses your record comes out uh May 5th it's called lucky you just put out girl in the mirror which we're going to talk about in a second but there's a song called I'm not pretty that's on the record uh will you explain kind of the premise of I'm not pretty yes okay so I kind of laid out in the lyrics but what had happened was is it was like 2 A.M I'm awake and so is my ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend she accidentally liked a photo from 2016 from Panama City and I'm sure she thought it's 2 A.M there's no way she saw it um but obviously not only did I see it I wrote a whole song about it so I just thought it was funny because um it's what it was 2022 then I'm like 2016 was a long time ago why are you digging that deep it's got to be like she's trying to dig up something or something it's got to be right yeah um and so yeah it's just a light-hearted song about that situation it doesn't feel very light-hearted I've heard lighthearted songs you know uh let me play a clip of that and I want to get into something specifically about that here is a little bit of I'm not pretty so Morgan I don't know if you know Morgan here this is Morgan Morgan Megan Megan Morgan Morgan so Morgan this recently happened to you kind of yeah I'm straight up living this song my ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend and her friend although not subtly have been like trying to troll me in my DMs oh perfect as themselves as themselves like you can click on their profile and it's them yeah we checked them out wow I didn't I thought they had like uh usually it's a dog Instagram or something yeah like a burner nope and I it must have been bad because then I got blocked by my ex on Instagram I was like something happened what were they saying to you they were telling me that I need to fix my hair and I look fake and I'm very basic oh my gosh why would they do it under their own name I'm not even like why would they do that they were throwing accounts yeah oh just like straight up I don't know if they just had you know no filter with everything and they just didn't care drunk maybe was it late no it was like eight o'clock maybe on a Thursday and then maybe really drunk 8 A.M uh so what did you do did you respond to them I haven't but I thought about it because I I listened to Megan's song it became after this happened your song went on repeat I was like this is my life right it's not on your story and tag them right they want to be bold and only it's only their tag like that's only yeah those two I may do that now that may be the response I have you can blame me all because of Megan Megan said to do it in your songwriting Megan I feel like you and Luke comb to somebody who does this really well like Luke Combs knows who he's singing to and about and why he's singing to them and about them and for them I feel like you do this as well like you know who you're singing to you know what you're singing about and you know why you're singing it to them when you're writing songs and you're like this is exactly where I want to go because they will know they'll feel it like this you know most it feels like it's like you know women 20 30s like I feel that do you feel like that's accurate at all yeah definitely I think um and like when I'm writing songs like this I went through that situation and I'm like what would make me feel better and I'm like taking this and having this song that makes girls feel confident and it's like it happens everybody so everybody gets it and it's just like I could have gotten mad and said something but I'm like instead I'm just gonna write this and which is like a bigger investment that pays off right far greater far later yes uh one of my dear friends is Christian Bush who is one half of Sugarland and so how do you know Christian and how did that get you here so I went to UGA obviously I made that my whole personality but um I was an intern for him in the music business program so him and his brother I was a publishing intern and Georgia in Atlanta Georgia and Atlanta you'd have to drive from Athens to Atlanta and um I didn't really say anything about being I wasn't an aspiring songwriter because at that time I had written like two songs so um I didn't really say anything and then once I moved he had reached out now so everything was going and stuff and then he offered to help so it's just that's crazy from then you didn't even tell them well I walked in and I saw Grammy on the wall and I was like okay I'm not an aspiring songwriter like I'm an intern and I'm gonna go get your coffee now when you won the CMT award uh do you have a speech planned already no you didn't no I was so scared I was so scared I didn't even when I got off stage I was like did I just speak English I have no idea so you that you did not think you're gonna win at all so you didn't even think about a speech no were you watching the math or they go like because you always know when the first like syllable I do and you're much like that you can say Bobby when they go club like dang it wasn't me well yeah the only reason I knew is because my manager was sitting next to me and she got up and was jumping and screaming I couldn't hear anything I was just like it feels like a blur really I and when I saw videos from like my um friend's perspective there were cameras like in front of my face the whole I don't know how I didn't see them you know like they were ready to get my reaction and I was like how did I miss that they're literally right in front of her the only person and she didn't see that I think I was a little star struck by Parker McCollum honestly that's funny how would you do it differently now if you knew you'd go into the awards you're gonna win they're good they're okay Megan you're gonna win so we need you to be prepared what would you do differently up on stage in your speech I wouldn't say holy crap because I did say that and that's embarrassing but um and also I like said something about my mom in the her like driving me through the night but I didn't explain that well so everyone thought that my mom drove me to the uh CMT Awards overnight but it was to the music I just I I couldn't think straight so I'm surprised they even like said words uh Megan moroney is here if you don't mind would you because lucky comes out on May 5th and I mean so you've already got four songs now right Tennessee orange I'm not pretty lucky girl in the mirror right there's the four girl in the mirror just came out so really like I know you're celebrated a lot now I get it and you should be but it's it's powerful stuff you're a really great songwriter thank you so it's also not my first time to hear you but look it's awesome I'm glad you came by um thank you for having me she's doing her pistol made of Roses tour we talked about a lot of those um early shows and then she's in Geneva Alabama on the 29th but again tonight in Knoxville all my Knoxville listeners everybody out there if there are any tickets left I don't even know that there are there probably aren't a lot of these shows are sold out but go it's worth buying a scalper tickets I don't know if that's true or not I don't know let's do the um awkward questions from listeners real quick five questions who's the most famous person that follows Megan moroney on Instagram most famous that follows you uh I don't know it can be Karen Fairchild from Little Big Town okay I don't know I'm just picking somebody I don't know any of Like Your Heroes she's looking at somebody for help it's like it's like Family Feud Gwen Stefani Gwen Stefani follows you on Instagram what the heck what the heck is right how did you not get that okay here we go next who is the I heard her room yelling Gwen Stefani who is the last celebrity to DM you guy or girl doesn't matter blue check mark we'll call it a blue check mark [Music] just like Gwen Stefani we'll be doing that that's the answer to all of them this is so this is so I'm like I can't remember the last time I was on Instagram I'm being told we have a um to your room here uh the Old Dominion guys oh yeah Matt Ramsey just called me so well you know what count it we'll count it um does Megan Maroney get close for free yes isn't it the best part yes these boots are free oh I was gonna say those are so cute yes and this vest yeah they're paid for the jeans though does Megan Maroney dye her hair of course and finally does Megan Maroney fabricate stories about X's to have better stories about her songs fabricate stories about her exes to have better stories about her songs for her songs I think they meant I think as a songwriter um obviously not every single line is going to be true but the core of these stories that I tell are true I love it there she is n't she great yes yes let's be honest isn't she great the record comes out May 5th it's the debut album but full album we already we already have some good stuff but the full album is coming out and you guys check it out we'll talk about it the day it comes out but it's called lucky and that's it congrats on everything thank you yeah I'll see you when the world spins back around and you're back around there she is Megan moroney everybody [Applause] hey