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Megan Moroney Is the Gen Z Country Queen We Need Now
Megan Moroney has a smoky voice and an inimitable way of telling stories about love in the internet age. Amazingly, she got kind of a late start
Moroney, 27, may have built an audience by posting TikToks of herself singing in the car, but now, she’s learning how to feed the genre’s old-school radio machine, crafting songs that fit seamlessly on FM airwaves: “Like a 6’2″ dream, heaven-sent/He says what he means, and he means what he says/And he’s funny, and he’s smart/And he’s good in—” she coyly croons on the radio hit “Am I Okay?” So far, she’s released a pair of excellent albums, won CMA and ACM awards, and has collected fans the likes of Tate McRae, Lana Del Rey, and Olivia Rodrigo, who came to her 2023 show at the Troubadour in L.A. and sang along to every word of her songs. “Lies can break q fragile heart, and doubt can crush your dreams/But, honey, just take it from me,” she sings, “the world is hard on beautiful things.” Moroney’s 21st-century blues shine through in a different line: “There’s a party, you didn’t know/You just found out from your phone/ Do they not want you to go?” It’s hard to look at Moroney’s ever-growing career and not think of a young Taylor Swift: the glittery guitars, the sharply detailed lyricism, her clear point of view, and the public’s nosiness into her personal life.
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