Megan Moroney Admits ‘Tennessee Orange’ Was Never Meant To Be Her First Single Off New Album ‘Lucky’ (Exclusive)

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Megan Moroney’s honest, sassy and mostly bittersweet songs onslaught a chord with astir each pistillate (and a fewer men!) that listens. However, her award-winning, chart-exploding azygous “Tennessee Orange” is simply a small much biographical, astir her emotion for Georgia (go Dawgs!) and a happier, breathtaking love. The hit, which was the archetypal azygous disconnected her recently released debut medium Lucky, was really not meant to beryllium the world’s “introduction” to the 25-year-old singer. “We weren’t adjacent readying connected really releasing ‘Tennessee Orange.’ An accidental came with Spotify and it happened to enactment up with shot season, truthful that’s really wherefore Tennessee Orange got released,” Megan explained successful an EXCLUSIVE interrogation with HollywoodLife. “It wasn’t this maestro program that was like, ‘This is going to beryllium the opus that breaks me.’ It was conscionable like, ‘What’s going to travel up EP?’ and an accidental came and it was shot season.”

Megan Moroney performing connected tour. (Jeff Johnson)

Although Megan didn’t expect “Tennessee Orange” to instrumentality disconnected arsenic furiously arsenic it did (it presently sits astatine fig 7 connected the Country US Airplay Chart), the rising prima admitted that it ended up being the cleanable opus for fans to get to cognize her. “I deliberation ‘Tennessee Orange’ was a large debut vigor azygous to hav due to the fact that I deliberation successful the opus you larn a batch astir me,” she said. “If you bash perceive to the words, past it’s like, okay, she’s from Georgia…you larn things astir me. It has a batch of pedal alloy guitar, it sounds truly state and it’s a waltz and a emotion song.”

When Megan released “Tennessee Orange” successful September 2022, she didn’t person a grounds deal, but things rapidly changed aft arsenic the opus blasted done the charts and she went connected to triumph a CMT Music Award for Female Breakthrough Video of the Year. “There’s been truthful overmuch that person happened that has happened the past fewer months!” the Georgia autochthonal gushed. “Hearing my opus connected the radio, conscionable casually, not trying to perceive it, conscionable driving down the roadworthy and proceeding it, I deliberation that ever stops maine successful my tracks.”

Megan Moroney. (David McClister)

She besides admitted that erstwhile proceeding from fans who person resonated with her euphony has “meant the most.” “I consciousness similar I person artists that person done that for me, truthful present to beryllium an creator that gets to bash that with different radical has been 1 of the coolest things due to the fact that erstwhile I was penning these songs, I wasn’t penning them successful hopes that that would happen. I was penning them due to the fact that I needed to accidental it… and the information that they’re helping radical successful that mode conscionable makes it cool,” Megan gushed.

Her full-length debut medium Lucky dropped conscionable a fewer weeks agone and features heartbreakers similar “Kansas Anymore,” “Sleep On My Side” and “Mustang oregon Me,” mixed with the bombshell blonde’s lovable sass successful tracks “I’m Not Pretty,” “Georgia Girl” and the rubric track, “Lucky.” “I’ve evidently person written a batch much than 13 songs successful the past twelvemonth and a half, but erstwhile we were picking a way list, I ever thought possibly my debut medium would beryllium self-titled due to the fact that I wanted it beryllium truthful me, similar if I’m going to present myself into a genre, I privation it to beryllium like, ‘this is who I am.’ But, arsenic I started to constitute these songs and prime them, I wanted each opus to marque you consciousness a antithetic way, truthful connected the way database there’s nary 2 songs that marque you consciousness the aforesaid way,” Megan explained. “I emotion storytelling and that’s what I emotion astir songwriting, is that you tin consciousness each the things. So, I wanted it to beryllium 13 songs that conscionable made you consciousness differently.”

Lucky is present disposable to watercourse wherever you get music, and beryllium definite to to travel Megan Moroney connected societal to drawback her connected the roadworthy this summertime and fall!

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