Megan Moroney

One Liner: Georgia sorority girl whose biggest hit is about wearing the wrong school's colors

Wikipedia Genre: Country
Home: Savannah, GA (now Nashville)

Sunday

Thoughts:  I just reminded myself how to spell her name by saying "moron" out loud.  So, I've got that going for me.  Sort of reminds me of Kacey Musgraves without the top tier lyrics and a little bit more gravel in her voice.  She actually says in one article that Musgraves was her inspiration to start writing music.

She started singing while a student at the University of Georgia (pretty sure this is the third person on this poster who went to UGA) when she got to open for something named Chase Rice.  She also "interned" for someone in Sugarland - not sure how you "intern" for a singer, but whatever, it helped open some doors for her once she moved to Nashville.  Her first big hit became viral, in part, because she was spotted wearing a Tennessee Volunteers shirt that supposedly belonged to mega-star Morgan Wallen, leading to speculation that they were dating, and blowing the song up.  The track popped up into the charts, and she got signed to Arista Nashville.  She later got to perform the track on ESPN's College Game Day, and the streaming numbers went off the charts.  "Tennessee Orange" has 158.6 million streams.

Clever tune for sure - taking advantage of the insanity of college sports fandom and tying it in to falling in love.

I like this paragraph as an explainer of her past: "Moroney played her first gig while she was a student at UGA, warming up a crowd for country singer Chase Rice, whom she’d met at a philanthropy event for her sorority. Afterwards, “Chase was like, ‘You don’t even need to go to college — just come to Nashville,’” she remembers with a laugh. “I told my parents he said I was ready, and they were like, ‘That’s cute.’” She completed her degree, which involved an internship with Kristian Bush of Atlanta’s hitmaking Sugarland, before moving to country music’s capital, where she initially supported herself as an influencer hawking CBD gummies and “hair products that kind of worked” on Instagram."  haha.  Sounda about right.

"I'm Not Pretty" is a solid tune, going through how she knows that an ex's new girlfriend is scrolling her Instagram and cutting her down.  Likely 100% true, which makes it a good set of lyrics.  That one has 33.6 million streams (actually, up to 35.5 since I started this post a week ago - blowing up!).  It is a good example of how she is making traditional-sounding tunes, but with modern themes.

Another really well-done song.  My brain doesn't want me to like her - too picture-perfect and put-together, and yet these are well-done tunes.  Feels like she might be a star in the making that you can see now before she blows up.