January 16, 2026 • 26 mins
Megan Moroney stops by the studio to talk about her new album Cloud 9. She shares how she got to live out a dream by recording songs with Ed Sheeran and Kacey Musgraves. She also talks about how her life has changed in the last year as she has skyrocketed into fame, life on the road and what went into her choosing pink as the color of her new era.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
On the Bobby Bones Show Now, Megan Marony, Megan, good
to see you, Good to see you. I was wondering
if you had to go buy a bunch of new
pink stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah I did. I had some, but you know, stocking up.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, sometimes you can tell ahead of time. And I
wonder if people would have seen you at a store
buying pink stuff, if they'd gone like, ah, we got it,
we know her next era is going to be pink.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
For my birthday, before the color was announced in October,
I got a lot of pink stuff. I got a
pink purse, pink ug slippers, and I couldn't post them
or anything or be seen in them because my fans
are really sneaky and smart.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
In a similar way, my wife is very pregnant, and
when I post any sort of picture of if I have,
like a stroller, I'm putting together a stroller, I make
them black and white because we're not saying what it's
going to be. And if I'm wearing blue shorts, oh
it's so. I wondered if you had to hide all
your pink stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Why did you choose pink?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well? Once I started writing the album about like three
songs in there was a song that was like really
like hot pink, and so that kind of was stuck
in my brain. And then I continue to write the
rest of the album. And there's a softness about Cloud
nine that isn't in my other albums. So I think
I kind of chose like all shades of pink. But
(01:18):
I guess there is that like staple hot pink. But
I think it's soft but also still confident and empowering,
and it just makes sense in my brain.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I love pink. I wear a lot of pink anyway, real.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Men wear pink.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I'm also very color blind, okay, and reds I do
pretty good with. And isn't pink just a version of red,
like a lighter red.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
With some white? Yeah, maybe that's why I like red
and white makes pink. There you go. And what color
do you think I'm wearing right now?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I know you well. I would have trouble with the pants, okay,
because the pants don't the shoes look purple. I can
tell you have a pink top on like a hoodie
or sweatshirt, and the pants, I don't know, doesn't look
like any.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They're all like a little bit different shades they all
see where you struggle. They are all pink, not even
a little purple. I don't think like say.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That, like you don't have to like double down on it.
You can just be like, it's all pink. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I keep having that line from have you ever watched
Steel Magnolius?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
No? Okay, actually some of it? Yeah, I can't sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh really, it's a movie thing when it's dark, Like
I can only watch movies with the lights on.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's like a whole other thing.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Okay, well, maybe turn the lights on and watch it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But maybe turn the lights on and watch.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It because it's so good. But her, her wedding colors
are pink and pink, and she's adamant. Her mom is like,
your colors are pink and pink. She goes my colors
a blush and bashful, and she's very specific. So you've
got on your different your blush, your bash different versions
of pink.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What was the first song on this album that you wrote?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Wedding Dress is the oldest?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
How long ago?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Three four years?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And is that a song you hold with intention of
at some point putting on an album or project or
you just write and go I don't know what's gonna happen.
Let's just see the.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Story of wedding dresses.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Really interesting because I had posted the bridge and the
chorus years.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Ago and it's gone viral since then, and.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Truthfully, it doesn't really fit the theme of the rest
of the album, Like there's some heartbreak songs on the album,
but none of them are truly like I'm devastated, I'm
never gonna get over it, and wedding dress is that.
So I included it on the album for my fans
because I know they wanted it. And what's interesting is
I didn't like the verses that I wrote, you know,
(03:30):
years ago, so the song was never good enough to
put out like last year for am I okay, I
hadn't rewritten it and Lucky hadn't rewritten it. So I
randomly woke up one day this year I felt like
I was finally passed the situation, and I wrote down, like,
what is the most logical way that this makes sense?
(03:51):
Because I think when I felt the whole song is
don't let me miss my a wedding dress, like let
me miss him at the store, let me miss him
on his birthday. When I meet someone with this same
name as him, but like, just don't let me miss
him in a wedding dress.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So that's pretty devastating.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, but I the verses were just not good to me,
and I feel like because I felt that way, and
I was just kind of distraught. When I wrote the song,
I couldn't even make sense.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So it took me like getting.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Over the situation, I think, to actually be like what
would a logical person say if they're feeling this way?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So I woke up.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Randomly on my first writer's trip of the year and
I wrote it in my notes app as a poem,
and then I figured out the melody.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So will you read it and just sit with a
guitar and just kind of find the chords that fit.
As that how you'll do a lot of your songwriting.
Do you write lyrics first?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Not typically, but for whatever, Like I always say, like
the songwriting stuff is like a god thing, Like I
have no idea why. I just woke up one day
and the whole song came to me, Like I have
no explanation. There's also a weird thing in the song
where I say at the store on Aisle nine, and
this was before I had written Cloud nine, So I'm like,
why the heck did I pick Cloud or why did
I pick Aisle nine before Cloud nine was even a thing?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So weird?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do you have any songs that you play only live
that you've never recorded that your fans know, like the
hardcore fans know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
There's a song.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
From like a long time ago that I released and
then took down and only a select few of my fans,
like back when I could still reply to everyone's dms,
I would send them a link, like a private listening link,
so that they could still have it and they wouldn't
be mad at me for taking it off platforms.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But is a song called Haven't Met Yet?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
When you play that, do you hear like a pop
in the crowd? And you know that's like the old
the Ogs?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You know, I really I don't play it, Oh you
don't play it anymore? I do play wonder, And that
kind of wonder was the first song I ever released.
I wrote it by myself, I made the cover up
by myself. It was a one man band there, and
I play that and it's become a staple in my
show because I think my fans. It's kind of one
of those things where my fans are like you don't
(05:52):
no wonder why are you here?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You haven't been to thirty one day Matthews Banchos. That's
what it feels like, like you judged basically if they
know the old school stuff. Yeah, do when you play
these shows and you're having to invest more money and
because the shows are getting bigger, and that is that
is a process to where when you're a new artist,
you just go on and you're performing with your guitar
and then it's like, hey, you have a hit, we
need to invest more into your state. So now you've
got to pay more. You're always paying more in building
(06:16):
up you're doing bigger.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Shows, everyone gets more expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, if you're doing Arenas now with this next tour,
is that again another one of those man I got
to invest even more now to get more because the
shows are bigger.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I think it's all like a part of the strategy
that we've always had. Like from the day that I
met my agent in either late twenty twenty or early
twenty twenty one, she told me you're going to be
in Stateia or you're going to be in Arenas in
twenty twenty six. So this has always been a plan
and even like the last tour where there's a little
bit more production than I think has ever been brought into.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The Pinnacle in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But that's just like I like to give my fans
like a memorable set, and.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You have to pay for that. I don't think that's
what people realize, Like, yeah, the Pinnacle or whatever venue
not paying for that. No, you're the one paying for
the trucks. Yeah, you're the one paying for all the buses.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
True.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I went from zero trucks to like, uh four or
five trucks this year.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So next year in the year you went zero of
four five and a year.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, that's expensive.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, they do have my face actually the amount key graphic.
There's like several of my faces. It's like a collage
shows kind of like a jump scare. Every morning walking
to get my breakfast.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Did you have van days before bus days?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I had rental car days before the van days.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I walked me through that.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, I didn't want to.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I had a twenty ten Mustang up until like last year,
and I didn't want to put miles on it, and
it obviously I couldn't like carry more than a guitar
in that So like suitcase and a guitar was a
big problem, and so we would rent like a mini
van and that was before the church van. We were
(07:53):
actually I had a you know, a band dinner with
everybody last night and we were talking about how easy
it is that like it went from rental car. We
thought we were living it up because we were like, oh,
we're on tour. This is like we're touring artists. Then
you get a church van with a U hole and
you're like, we got leg room ao. And then we
(08:15):
got into a bandwagon, which is not quite a bus but.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Like a sprinter van.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
No, it's like a semi truck with bunks on it.
It's like a rock tumbler. You hit a bump down
the highway and you about sends you through the roof.
But we got to lay down like there was bunks,
so we were like, okay, we've made it. And then
we all were on our first bus for about a
year and a half, all like thirteen of us. So
(08:40):
we were just talking about the evolution and it's I
think it's necessary.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It makes you grateful that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You even have a bunk to lay in, even when
it's like a seventeen hour drive, like not ideal, but
it's like we were in a rental car.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So what about the last song you recorded? And how
close did you record it to? Actually, when they had
to like it have it sealed.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Song I recorded, it would have been I guess probably
who Hurt You? I guess that was the last one.
And I finished up the album completely in July, so
like my I was done, it was mixed and master.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Was that a song though? You were like, we can't
shut it down yet because I have this one song
we need to record.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Was it one of those No, Actually, there was one
weekend and I can like go back and I'm sure
my fans like look into this, but it was when
I played the Ohio State Buckeye Stadium with like Jelly
Rowling came Brown whatever festival that was that weekend we
wrote Waiting on the Rain, Liars and Tigers and Bears
and Who Hurt You? And once we wrote those songs,
(09:42):
I was like, the album's done. And that was like
I didn't call it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I called it. I said it's complete.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
These are three songs that totally wrapped up the album
and things, and it was interesting because it's never happened
like that, you know, I've always been like a little unsure,
But as soon as we got done writing those, I
was like, we're done, let's drink a margaret.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Are you ever so excited about a song you just
wrote and you want to play it so bad but
you know you can't, and it's got to just sit
until it's horrible, right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I play it for everyone in person, though there's been
like fans that all meet at bars.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm like, just listen to the bridge.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Please, And yeah, it's difficult because I want to share
everything right away, but obviously there's strategy, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's the strategy. Though it's not really for the creative.
It's for them to enforce that you're doing this strategy
that you've agreed on before you got creative.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Have you had a song fall out of you where
it's almost twenty thirty minutes or so.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, a lot of them, honestly, one that comes to
mind six months later. I mean honestly beautiful things too.
Like basically every song that makes an album, it happened
pretty quickly. There's very few times where it's like wedding Dress,
where I love the chorus and the bridge so much
that I know it's worth going back and fixing one day,
but a lot of the times it just happens very naturally.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Which is what was the first concert you've went to?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I was talking to Luke Brian about this the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It's either Luke Brian Farm Tour at the Villarica Vplex
or it was Justin Bieber at Phillips Arena, and I
can't remember I each came first.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, I think it must have been the same year.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Have you met Bieber?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No, He's like the one.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Person when people ask me who would you get starstruck over?
I genuinely think it would be Justin Bieber.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And you haven't like talked to him at all, Like
no message from him being like I'm a big fan
of your music.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Nope, nothing, And I still got Bieber Feaver, who doesn't I.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Know, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I think it's something that you you contract and it
never goes away.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Do you play piano a little bit? Do you ever
just sit down and play piano and like it?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I do when I'm like, it's nice to just sit
down and like make your brain stop working for a second.
And I'm not good at playing piano, Like I took
piano lessons as a kid hated him. I had to
do a few piano recitals and I was mad at
my mom for making me do that. And now I
can like play chords and stuff, and I can figure
out stuff if I teach myself.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But for the most part, I'm like not very good.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So it requires a lot of brain power, which is
sometimes fun for me.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Do you wish you would have committed more younger? Say
something to small kids out there listening that are going
through this that are like I hate piano.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I will give a message to the kids and the
mom's kids which camera ready?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I wanted to look at a camera to which one?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Which one.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
That camera?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Okay, okay to the kids, listen to your mom and
take the piano lessons, because one day it'll be a
cool party trick that you're gonna You're gonna be the
coolest kid at the party. It might not seem cool
right now, but it will be one day to the moms.
Maybe if the kid has a suggestion of what it
would like to learn, just go with it. I wanted
to learn how to play high school musical so bad,
(12:47):
and instead I was learning these like really classical pieces
as like a you know, however, old I was eight
or something, so.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Maybe a little mixed like Tchaikowski. Yes, and more Demon Hunters.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, let them learned honors Janius.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yes on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, what's your coffee order?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Depends on the day, when it's when it's like Christmas time,
I've been trying everything. Am I give me that caramel
BRULEI latte, give me the gingerbread latte. But typically it's
a salted caramel cream cole brew with extra cold foam
unless you're at Lalla Land and I get a banana
cloud MATCHA.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Lala Land's tough because it's a long lined La La Land.
Long does Megan RONI have to wait in line?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I have waited in line before. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think we could probably call them ahead and get
something done. But there's been times where I've just like
gone after a workout and I'm like, I don't want
to be like a diva.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Will you just go to a workout by yourself?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Really?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Nashville is fine though.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Right Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And I go like really early so there's not that
many people taking classes, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Do you like mornings?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I do? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I like my mom called it the farm clock. The
other day, we wake up.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
With this on.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Have you always been that way?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I think so I just have. I can't. I've never
been able to sleep past ten ever.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And that was like even when I'm like hungover in college,
you know, like I'm still like the first one up.
I'm like getting everybody coffee and bagels.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I have an or ring and they don't advertise, but
it tells me there's like an update, and it tells
you what your natural body clock is. And because I
wake up so early, I would go to bed early.
I would try to, and it's telling me, do not
go to bed so early, Like, even though you're waking
up early, your body is not doing well, so you
need Yeah, so it's you know, I try to go
to bed at eight thirty. We wake up very early,
(14:34):
so eight thirty, and it's like if you go to
bed before ten thirty, you're not getting optimal output. Even
you could take less hours and go to bed later
and feel better. Wow, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Okay, So I think you need like three months of
data for that to start working.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, I've got like four days, so it's very micro
data right now. But I've been staying up late this
or ring, like really like, I look at it every morning.
I'm obsessed with that.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I look at the sleep score every morning because I
try to win.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Like today mine was eighty really, yeah, I think I
got a good I got a solid five last night,
five hours. Well that's a solid five. Though she got eighty,
you got no eighty four.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
The highest I've gotten was ninety four, and that was
on the flight home from Australia.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I took an ADVILPM. Oh, well that'll do it.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I was like, I've never gotten above ninety four, though
I got shooting for the stars.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I got a seventy one. Okay, that's pretty good for me.
I don't sleep well. Yeah, to see it's a solid sea. Yeah,
I got a seventy one sleep and a seventy one readiness.
I look at that readiness a lot because sometimes if
I get good sleep, my readiness is low. I don't know.
I don't know how this ring does it.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
So wait, what does readiness mean?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It means how ready you are, how you are?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Okay, well, what does that? What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I think it means based on the activity from the
day before, Okay, the sleep that you got, all the data,
how good your day is going to be physically just
based on that what it knows about you, right, But
I'm blown away that Apple Watches and ore range can
just fill a pulse and tell you all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, I've I've been wearing this on stage at the
end of the year when I played in Australia and stuff,
and it's really interesting, like my stress levels on show
days compared to non show days. It's interesting how this
little ring does all that mine.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Will give me a did you just cross train during
the show because I get so elevated on a live
show and it goes cross training one hundred and seventy
eight calories and I'm like, no, it was just at work. Happened,
was just at work. Yeah. So I'm gonna play like
random hits of yours before we go and play six
months later before we play beautiful Things. So can you
(16:30):
give me just like a random story about three of
these songs? If I say the song sure, okay, if
we go back to Tennessee Orange, like what comes to
mind about that song?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Me sending it to my mom for the first time
and literally being scared because I'm like, she's gonna be
so mad.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
At me because of what you're singing about.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Because I'm saying I'm wearing Tennessee orange for him.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, what about I'm not pretty?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I think about how the person that inspired it accidentally
liked to photo at two am or.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Something like that. I think it was like two am.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
One, and then I wrote a whole song accidental likes
where they were just stalking and hit Yep. That's tough
because I scroll, Yeah, because it takes a push to scroll.
It does take a put and if you just push
too hard sometimes it likes.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
My favorite is or I'm like showing my mom and
she's like getting she's really being careless.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
With the phone. I'm like, easy, don't like you don't.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Want her to accidentally like something.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You can't explain that to somebody. It was my mom.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And we're here talking about six months later, so give
me a story. About six months later.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I wrote that song in the middle of the ocean
on a boat and I was I was in the
island for about like seven days and we were supposed
to be writing songs.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
The whole time.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Which island It was like the BVS somewhere, but it's
like middle of the ocean, so not sure, and we
were writing. We're supposed to be writing all week. We
wrote six months later, and then all the following days.
I didn't like the songs as much as I liked
six months later. So that's the only song we got
the whole seven days. It's quite inefficient.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Do you have any songs you're holding on too now
that you've held for so long that maybe at one
point you'll do what you did with wedding dress.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I think there's a possibility, yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You just haven't found it exactly, but there's a reason
you're holding on to it, and you maybe don't even
know why yet.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I think there's two Like songs take on different meanings
at different times in your life, So I keep everything.
I this is like something that I guess is kind
of weird. But I don't like pitch my songs. They're
all just yeah, they're all locked up on my phone.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
A mean thing for Megan.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Well, I was just saying, I like what you said
about wedding dress, and I found it so interesting that
you're like, wait a second, I need to pause, Like
what would a rational person say, because you you had
the awareness of like I don't know that I'm thinking
rationally right now, and I want this song to be
from that place. So you had to to pause, and
then you woke up one morning, and so I wonder
if your ability to write it and finish it the
way you wanted was, like, oh maybe was there like
(18:57):
this is the day where I know that healing happened.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Right, And I think to like songs like Wedding Dress
and Girl in the Mirror to be able to sing
those live. I think it's inspiring to my fans to
know like I was in the trenches, like I was
down astronomically bad, and it did get better. And I
think that there's strengthened that definitely, even though hope, yeah,
and hope. So some of the you know, best songwriters
(19:21):
I know have given me the advice to just like
hold onto songs if there's like a little like sparkle
in there that you think exists, like, don't give up
on it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
It might come back around and you never know.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
And with your pink your current lip color, do you
know it?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So it's endless cacao by Makeup Forever? Do you kind
of overline.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's kind of like a.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Make up forever, Okay, and then you fill in like
I kind of overline that with whatever walnut and then
oh gosh, it's a makeup you can use any like gloss.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But my makeup artist has posted it.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
It's something makeup by Mario, lipstick and then a gloss.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Okay, Well, it's like the lip color that I'm most
intrigued by. It's like the perfect like light or pinkish.
I don't know you effect. Okay, but this makeup by Mario.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, I wear the same one every single day. Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, then if your person's posted about it, we can
find it online.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You could probably just look it up on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I feel like we just did to get ready.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
With me with We should do that next time.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I'll just come in, no makeup, no hair, should put
it in.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So the collab with Casey and Ed so, I don't know,
that's a lot. That's three of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I The Casey muskra thing is my super Bowl, as
anyone who's followed me for the past however many years,
would know. And the Ed Sheeran thing is also just unbelievable.
I don't know how I pulled that one off.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So do you send them songs and go, do you
want to be on this individually? Do you get nervous
they're not going to say yes.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
At first, I was nervous to talk to Ed Sheeran,
of course, but he's a emailer, so that takes kind
of the pressure off because I would just not check
my email for like two weeks and wouldn't worry about it.
But Ed and I would send back and forth songs
and then is it? Like we had said, he would
send me one and I'm like, I don't know if
this is it, I'd send him on He's like, Hey,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh you guys did that? Did the dance?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And we really just after the Bluebird Show, he told
me that his wife and kids love me and he
like loves my songwriting, and I'm obviously such a fan
of his.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So I think we just really wanted to like collab together.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
What's great about that? As you know, you're actually honest
about it, Because if both of you said I don't
know if this is it, that means when it is it,
you both are sincere about it.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
And I definitely trusted Ed after it's done, like he
made the right decision. The song that we cut is
a traditionally country song. It's not a pop song, I
think from what I know about collabing with pop artists,
usually it's like a tempo like kind of pop song
with a country voice on it.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
But he wanted to go the opposite.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Route and do a really traditional country song with his
like modern pop voice on it.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
So it made it.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Really interesting and that I'm very excited for everyone to
hear that. One the Casey club, I had just hail Mary,
will you just sing some background vocals? It was actually
my team my manager knows her manager pretty well, and
I remember them asking me like, is there anything that
would make this album like a little bit better to you,
(22:24):
Like if you could have any us request anything, what
do you want? And I was like, you know, bells
and whistles would sound really good with Casey. It sounds
like a song that maybe could have been on same Chailer,
different park, I think, And I was like, man, it
would just be a cool talking point to have, like, yeah,
Casey Musgraves sing on one of my songs, and she.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Ended up singing on it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I found out the day I found out I want
his VMA Award, and I was like, I was in
the best mood. Ever, and nobody knew wy because I
coudn't say anything. They just thought I was just like whoa,
which they were really really fun, I will say, but
I was on cloud nine that day and so that's
when I found out she was going to sing on it.
(23:06):
I was like, oh my god, Casey's singing on my song.
Life has never been better. And then when we finally
got the song, she had sent over a text that
was like, Hey, I've never done this before.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Please don't feel like you have to use it. But
I went ahead and sang.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The second verse no way.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
She's like, I've never done this before, and like, I
really don't want you to feel like you have to
use this.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
But I love the song.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And were you blown away at that that?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Like, like I said, it's my super Bowl, Like she
same to a different park made me want to start
writing songs. And so to have her, first of all,
just lend me her voice, which I've I always knew
we sounded good together because I've been harmonizing with her
in the car for a long time, but just to
hear our voices together, and then to know as a songwriter.
She liked the song so much she didn't change one word.
(23:50):
She didn't change a syllable, like she sang it as
it is, And to me, that's like the highest compliment.
We sat next to each other at Paul McCartney and
like the whole time, I was.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Just like, I love you. I still our song, and
I'm like all hill Queen Casey.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So that's a great story.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It's definitely like a bucket list thing. And my I cried.
I'm not a happy crier typically, and I cried when
I heard it because.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I just couldn't believe that she was singing with me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I used to make my parents anytime she was in
the Southeast, I would make my parents go with me
and we would get there at like two pm, sit
outside the venue. I met her outside of her tour
bus one time, a yeah, have you told her that?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And we shared her dressing room at the CMA's last year,
which was that I didn't know how it was going
to go, because I was like, she might be like,
oh great, the girl that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Waited outside my bus for me. I had to share
a room with her. How lucky am I?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But she was so sweet and that's to me, like,
you know, a ward shows are stressful anyways, so I
wasn't expecting her to even say hi, and she took
time to take pictures and stuff. So I'll always be
grateful for her just being so kind and just for
her music and her voice.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's I'm like the number in case.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That is great. I can tell yeah, that's a great story.
My final question is, can you gave you a Dolly
autograph guitar? What'd you do with it?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
It's like in the case in my bedroom right now.
I don't want it to get.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Dust on it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You're still deciding what do you mean? Just what to do?
It's is it always going to stay in the case.
It's not. It's not a guitar you're gonna play, is it?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm gonna write with it?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yes, it's gonna be my new writing guitar because I
feel like if it's got the Kinney touch and the
Dolly touch, like there's got to be some sort of
magic in that. Definitely not going to bring it on
the road or anything, because it's like one of my
prize possessions.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But well, congratulations on everything.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Thank you. It was great.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I can't wait for the full album. Congrats on Six
months later, We love when you come by, so great
to see you next time. We'll do it. Get ready
with me. We also get ready, but it takes me
five seconds.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, we can do each other's makeup.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I'm already over here shopping. I'm like, okay, found it
and let's cackl.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Got it Mega Maroni everybody at meg Moroon and yeah,
I streamed the crap out of the album when it
comes out February twentieth. Right, we're getting really close, all right,
there she has Mega Maroni. Everybody Yay.
On the Bobby Bones Show Now, Megan Marony, Megan, good
to see you, Good to see you. I was wondering
if you had to go buy a bunch of new
pink stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:09):
Yeah I did. I had some, but you know, stocking up.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
Yeah, sometimes you can tell ahead of time. And I
wonder if people would have seen you at a store
buying pink stuff, if they'd gone like, ah, we got it,
we know her next era is going to be pink.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
For my birthday, before the color was announced in October,
I got a lot of pink stuff. I got a
pink purse, pink ug slippers, and I couldn't post them
or anything or be seen in them because my fans
are really sneaky and smart.
Speaker 1 (00:35):
In a similar way, my wife is very pregnant, and
when I post any sort of picture of if I have,
like a stroller, I'm putting together a stroller, I make
them black and white because we're not saying what it's
going to be. And if I'm wearing blue shorts, oh
it's so. I wondered if you had to hide all
your pink stuff.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yeah I did.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
Why did you choose pink?
Speaker 3 (00:57):
Well? Once I started writing the album about like three
songs in there was a song that was like really
like hot pink, and so that kind of was stuck
in my brain. And then I continue to write the
rest of the album. And there's a softness about Cloud
nine that isn't in my other albums. So I think
I kind of chose like all shades of pink. But
(01:18):
I guess there is that like staple hot pink. But
I think it's soft but also still confident and empowering,
and it just makes sense in my brain.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
I love pink. I wear a lot of pink anyway, real.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
Men wear pink.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
I'm also very color blind, okay, and reds I do
pretty good with. And isn't pink just a version of red,
like a lighter red.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
With some white? Yeah, maybe that's why I like red
and white makes pink. There you go. And what color
do you think I'm wearing right now?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I know you well. I would have trouble with the pants, okay,
because the pants don't the shoes look purple. I can
tell you have a pink top on like a hoodie
or sweatshirt, and the pants, I don't know, doesn't look
like any.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
They're all like a little bit different shades they all
see where you struggle. They are all pink, not even
a little purple. I don't think like say.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That, like you don't have to like double down on it.
You can just be like, it's all pink. Go ahead.
Speaker 4 (02:12):
I keep having that line from have you ever watched
Steel Magnolius?
Speaker 2 (02:16):
No? Okay, actually some of it? Yeah, I can't sleep.
Speaker 3 (02:19):
Oh really, it's a movie thing when it's dark, Like
I can only watch movies with the lights on.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
That's like a whole other thing.
Speaker 4 (02:24):
Okay, well, maybe turn the lights on and watch it.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
It's so good.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
But maybe turn the lights on and watch.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It because it's so good. But her, her wedding colors
are pink and pink, and she's adamant. Her mom is like,
your colors are pink and pink. She goes my colors
a blush and bashful, and she's very specific. So you've
got on your different your blush, your bash different versions
of pink.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
What was the first song on this album that you wrote?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Wedding Dress is the oldest?
Speaker 1 (02:47):
How long ago?
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Three four years?
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And is that a song you hold with intention of
at some point putting on an album or project or
you just write and go I don't know what's gonna happen.
Let's just see the.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Story of wedding dresses.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Really interesting because I had posted the bridge and the
chorus years.
Speaker 2 (03:04):
Ago and it's gone viral since then, and.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Truthfully, it doesn't really fit the theme of the rest
of the album, Like there's some heartbreak songs on the album,
but none of them are truly like I'm devastated, I'm
never gonna get over it, and wedding dress is that.
So I included it on the album for my fans
because I know they wanted it. And what's interesting is
I didn't like the verses that I wrote, you know,
(03:30):
years ago, so the song was never good enough to
put out like last year for am I okay, I
hadn't rewritten it and Lucky hadn't rewritten it. So I
randomly woke up one day this year I felt like
I was finally passed the situation, and I wrote down, like,
what is the most logical way that this makes sense?
(03:51):
Because I think when I felt the whole song is
don't let me miss my a wedding dress, like let
me miss him at the store, let me miss him
on his birthday. When I meet someone with this same
name as him, but like, just don't let me miss
him in a wedding dress.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
So that's pretty devastating.
Speaker 3 (04:05):
Yeah, but I the verses were just not good to me,
and I feel like because I felt that way, and
I was just kind of distraught. When I wrote the song,
I couldn't even make sense.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
So it took me like getting.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
Over the situation, I think, to actually be like what
would a logical person say if they're feeling this way?
Speaker 2 (04:24):
So I woke up.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Randomly on my first writer's trip of the year and
I wrote it in my notes app as a poem,
and then I figured out the melody.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
So will you read it and just sit with a
guitar and just kind of find the chords that fit.
As that how you'll do a lot of your songwriting.
Do you write lyrics first?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Not typically, but for whatever, Like I always say, like
the songwriting stuff is like a god thing, Like I
have no idea why. I just woke up one day
and the whole song came to me, Like I have
no explanation. There's also a weird thing in the song
where I say at the store on Aisle nine, and
this was before I had written Cloud nine, So I'm like,
why the heck did I pick Cloud or why did
I pick Aisle nine before Cloud nine was even a thing?
Speaker 2 (05:02):
So weird?
Speaker 1 (05:02):
Do you have any songs that you play only live
that you've never recorded that your fans know, like the
hardcore fans know.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
There's a song.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
From like a long time ago that I released and
then took down and only a select few of my fans,
like back when I could still reply to everyone's dms,
I would send them a link, like a private listening link,
so that they could still have it and they wouldn't
be mad at me for taking it off platforms.
Speaker 2 (05:25):
But is a song called Haven't Met Yet?
Speaker 1 (05:27):
When you play that, do you hear like a pop
in the crowd? And you know that's like the old
the Ogs?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
You know, I really I don't play it, Oh you
don't play it anymore? I do play wonder, And that
kind of wonder was the first song I ever released.
I wrote it by myself, I made the cover up
by myself. It was a one man band there, and
I play that and it's become a staple in my
show because I think my fans. It's kind of one
of those things where my fans are like you don't
(05:52):
no wonder why are you here?
Speaker 1 (05:54):
You haven't been to thirty one day Matthews Banchos. That's
what it feels like, like you judged basically if they
know the old school stuff. Yeah, do when you play
these shows and you're having to invest more money and
because the shows are getting bigger, and that is that
is a process to where when you're a new artist,
you just go on and you're performing with your guitar
and then it's like, hey, you have a hit, we
need to invest more into your state. So now you've
got to pay more. You're always paying more in building
(06:16):
up you're doing bigger.
Speaker 2 (06:17):
Shows, everyone gets more expensive.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Yeah, if you're doing Arenas now with this next tour,
is that again another one of those man I got
to invest even more now to get more because the
shows are bigger.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Definitely. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I think it's all like a part of the strategy
that we've always had. Like from the day that I
met my agent in either late twenty twenty or early
twenty twenty one, she told me you're going to be
in Stateia or you're going to be in Arenas in
twenty twenty six. So this has always been a plan
and even like the last tour where there's a little
bit more production than I think has ever been brought into.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
The Pinnacle in Nashville.
Speaker 3 (06:50):
But that's just like I like to give my fans
like a memorable set, and.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
You have to pay for that. I don't think that's
what people realize, Like, yeah, the Pinnacle or whatever venue
not paying for that. No, you're the one paying for
the trucks. Yeah, you're the one paying for all the buses.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
True.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I went from zero trucks to like, uh four or
five trucks this year.
Speaker 1 (07:10):
So next year in the year you went zero of
four five and a year.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Yeah, that's expensive.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, they do have my face actually the amount key graphic.
There's like several of my faces. It's like a collage
shows kind of like a jump scare. Every morning walking
to get my breakfast.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
Did you have van days before bus days?
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I had rental car days before the van days.
Speaker 1 (07:30):
I walked me through that.
Speaker 2 (07:32):
Well, I didn't want to.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
I had a twenty ten Mustang up until like last year,
and I didn't want to put miles on it, and
it obviously I couldn't like carry more than a guitar
in that So like suitcase and a guitar was a
big problem, and so we would rent like a mini
van and that was before the church van. We were
(07:53):
actually I had a you know, a band dinner with
everybody last night and we were talking about how easy
it is that like it went from rental car. We
thought we were living it up because we were like, oh,
we're on tour. This is like we're touring artists. Then
you get a church van with a U hole and
you're like, we got leg room ao. And then we
(08:15):
got into a bandwagon, which is not quite a bus but.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
Like a sprinter van.
Speaker 3 (08:20):
No, it's like a semi truck with bunks on it.
It's like a rock tumbler. You hit a bump down
the highway and you about sends you through the roof.
But we got to lay down like there was bunks,
so we were like, okay, we've made it. And then
we all were on our first bus for about a
year and a half, all like thirteen of us. So
(08:40):
we were just talking about the evolution and it's I
think it's necessary.
Speaker 2 (08:44):
It makes you grateful that.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
You even have a bunk to lay in, even when
it's like a seventeen hour drive, like not ideal, but
it's like we were in a rental car.
Speaker 1 (08:52):
So what about the last song you recorded? And how
close did you record it to? Actually, when they had
to like it have it sealed.
Speaker 3 (09:00):
Song I recorded, it would have been I guess probably
who Hurt You? I guess that was the last one.
And I finished up the album completely in July, so
like my I was done, it was mixed and master.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Was that a song though? You were like, we can't
shut it down yet because I have this one song
we need to record.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Was it one of those No, Actually, there was one
weekend and I can like go back and I'm sure
my fans like look into this, but it was when
I played the Ohio State Buckeye Stadium with like Jelly
Rowling came Brown whatever festival that was that weekend we
wrote Waiting on the Rain, Liars and Tigers and Bears
and Who Hurt You? And once we wrote those songs,
(09:42):
I was like, the album's done. And that was like
I didn't call it.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
I called it. I said it's complete.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
These are three songs that totally wrapped up the album
and things, and it was interesting because it's never happened
like that, you know, I've always been like a little unsure,
But as soon as we got done writing those, I
was like, we're done, let's drink a margaret.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Are you ever so excited about a song you just
wrote and you want to play it so bad but
you know you can't, and it's got to just sit
until it's horrible, right.
Speaker 3 (10:09):
I play it for everyone in person, though there's been
like fans that all meet at bars.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
I'm like, just listen to the bridge.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Please, And yeah, it's difficult because I want to share
everything right away, but obviously there's strategy, and yeah.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
That's the strategy. Though it's not really for the creative.
It's for them to enforce that you're doing this strategy
that you've agreed on before you got creative.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
Right.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Have you had a song fall out of you where
it's almost twenty thirty minutes or so.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Yeah, a lot of them, honestly, one that comes to
mind six months later. I mean honestly beautiful things too.
Like basically every song that makes an album, it happened
pretty quickly. There's very few times where it's like wedding Dress,
where I love the chorus and the bridge so much
that I know it's worth going back and fixing one day,
but a lot of the times it just happens very naturally.
Speaker 1 (11:00):
Which is what was the first concert you've went to?
Speaker 2 (11:04):
I was talking to Luke Brian about this the other day.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
It's either Luke Brian Farm Tour at the Villarica Vplex
or it was Justin Bieber at Phillips Arena, and I
can't remember I each came first.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, I think it must have been the same year.
Speaker 1 (11:16):
Have you met Bieber?
Speaker 2 (11:17):
No, He's like the one.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Person when people ask me who would you get starstruck over?
I genuinely think it would be Justin Bieber.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
And you haven't like talked to him at all, Like
no message from him being like I'm a big fan
of your music.
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Nope, nothing, And I still got Bieber Feaver, who doesn't I.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Know, I don't think.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
I think it's something that you you contract and it
never goes away.
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Do you play piano a little bit? Do you ever
just sit down and play piano and like it?
Speaker 3 (11:42):
I do when I'm like, it's nice to just sit
down and like make your brain stop working for a second.
And I'm not good at playing piano, Like I took
piano lessons as a kid hated him. I had to
do a few piano recitals and I was mad at
my mom for making me do that. And now I
can like play chords and stuff, and I can figure
out stuff if I teach myself.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
But for the most part, I'm like not very good.
Speaker 3 (12:05):
So it requires a lot of brain power, which is
sometimes fun for me.
Speaker 1 (12:09):
Do you wish you would have committed more younger? Say
something to small kids out there listening that are going
through this that are like I hate piano.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
I will give a message to the kids and the
mom's kids which camera ready?
Speaker 1 (12:22):
I wanted to look at a camera to which one?
Speaker 2 (12:24):
Which one.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
That camera?
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Okay, okay to the kids, listen to your mom and
take the piano lessons, because one day it'll be a
cool party trick that you're gonna You're gonna be the
coolest kid at the party. It might not seem cool
right now, but it will be one day to the moms.
Maybe if the kid has a suggestion of what it
would like to learn, just go with it. I wanted
to learn how to play high school musical so bad,
(12:47):
and instead I was learning these like really classical pieces
as like a you know, however, old I was eight
or something, so.
Speaker 1 (12:54):
Maybe a little mixed like Tchaikowski. Yes, and more Demon Hunters.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yeah, let them learned honors Janius.
Speaker 1 (13:02):
Yes on the Bobby Bones Show. Now, what's your coffee order?
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Depends on the day, when it's when it's like Christmas time,
I've been trying everything. Am I give me that caramel
BRULEI latte, give me the gingerbread latte. But typically it's
a salted caramel cream cole brew with extra cold foam
unless you're at Lalla Land and I get a banana
cloud MATCHA.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
Lala Land's tough because it's a long lined La La Land.
Long does Megan RONI have to wait in line?
Speaker 2 (13:33):
I have waited in line before. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
I think we could probably call them ahead and get
something done. But there's been times where I've just like
gone after a workout and I'm like, I don't want
to be like a diva.
Speaker 2 (13:42):
That's crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Will you just go to a workout by yourself?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:45):
Really?
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Nashville is fine though.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Right Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:48):
And I go like really early so there's not that
many people taking classes, which is nice.
Speaker 1 (13:54):
Do you like mornings?
Speaker 2 (13:55):
I do? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:56):
I like my mom called it the farm clock. The
other day, we wake up.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
With this on.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
Have you always been that way?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
I think so I just have. I can't. I've never
been able to sleep past ten ever.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
And that was like even when I'm like hungover in college,
you know, like I'm still like the first one up.
I'm like getting everybody coffee and bagels.
Speaker 1 (14:13):
I have an or ring and they don't advertise, but
it tells me there's like an update, and it tells
you what your natural body clock is. And because I
wake up so early, I would go to bed early.
I would try to, and it's telling me, do not
go to bed so early, Like, even though you're waking
up early, your body is not doing well, so you
need Yeah, so it's you know, I try to go
to bed at eight thirty. We wake up very early,
(14:34):
so eight thirty, and it's like if you go to
bed before ten thirty, you're not getting optimal output. Even
you could take less hours and go to bed later
and feel better. Wow, which is crazy.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
Okay, So I think you need like three months of
data for that to start working.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
Yeah, I've got like four days, so it's very micro
data right now. But I've been staying up late this
or ring, like really like, I look at it every morning.
I'm obsessed with that.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
I look at the sleep score every morning because I
try to win.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Like today mine was eighty really, yeah, I think I
got a good I got a solid five last night,
five hours. Well that's a solid five. Though she got eighty,
you got no eighty four.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
The highest I've gotten was ninety four, and that was
on the flight home from Australia.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
I took an ADVILPM. Oh, well that'll do it.
Speaker 3 (15:17):
I was like, I've never gotten above ninety four, though
I got shooting for the stars.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I got a seventy one. Okay, that's pretty good for me.
I don't sleep well. Yeah, to see it's a solid sea. Yeah,
I got a seventy one sleep and a seventy one readiness.
I look at that readiness a lot because sometimes if
I get good sleep, my readiness is low. I don't know.
I don't know how this ring does it.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
So wait, what does readiness mean?
Speaker 1 (15:38):
It means how ready you are, how you are?
Speaker 4 (15:40):
Okay, well, what does that? What does that mean?
Speaker 1 (15:42):
I think it means based on the activity from the
day before, Okay, the sleep that you got, all the data,
how good your day is going to be physically just
based on that what it knows about you, right, But
I'm blown away that Apple Watches and ore range can
just fill a pulse and tell you all the stuff.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
Yeah, I've I've been wearing this on stage at the
end of the year when I played in Australia and stuff,
and it's really interesting, like my stress levels on show
days compared to non show days. It's interesting how this
little ring does all that mine.
Speaker 1 (16:10):
Will give me a did you just cross train during
the show because I get so elevated on a live
show and it goes cross training one hundred and seventy
eight calories and I'm like, no, it was just at work. Happened,
was just at work. Yeah. So I'm gonna play like
random hits of yours before we go and play six
months later before we play beautiful Things. So can you
(16:30):
give me just like a random story about three of
these songs? If I say the song sure, okay, if
we go back to Tennessee Orange, like what comes to
mind about that song?
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Me sending it to my mom for the first time
and literally being scared because I'm like, she's gonna be
so mad.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
At me because of what you're singing about.
Speaker 2 (16:47):
Because I'm saying I'm wearing Tennessee orange for him.
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Yeah, what about I'm not pretty?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I think about how the person that inspired it accidentally
liked to photo at two am or.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Something like that. I think it was like two am.
Speaker 1 (17:01):
One, and then I wrote a whole song accidental likes
where they were just stalking and hit Yep. That's tough
because I scroll, Yeah, because it takes a push to scroll.
It does take a put and if you just push
too hard sometimes it likes.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
My favorite is or I'm like showing my mom and
she's like getting she's really being careless.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
With the phone. I'm like, easy, don't like you don't.
Speaker 1 (17:21):
Want her to accidentally like something.
Speaker 2 (17:24):
You can't explain that to somebody. It was my mom.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
And we're here talking about six months later, so give
me a story. About six months later.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
I wrote that song in the middle of the ocean
on a boat and I was I was in the
island for about like seven days and we were supposed
to be writing songs.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
The whole time.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Which island It was like the BVS somewhere, but it's
like middle of the ocean, so not sure, and we
were writing. We're supposed to be writing all week. We
wrote six months later, and then all the following days.
I didn't like the songs as much as I liked
six months later. So that's the only song we got
the whole seven days. It's quite inefficient.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
Do you have any songs you're holding on too now
that you've held for so long that maybe at one
point you'll do what you did with wedding dress.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I think there's a possibility, yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 1 (18:11):
You just haven't found it exactly, but there's a reason
you're holding on to it, and you maybe don't even
know why yet.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
I think there's two Like songs take on different meanings
at different times in your life, So I keep everything.
I this is like something that I guess is kind
of weird. But I don't like pitch my songs. They're
all just yeah, they're all locked up on my phone.
Speaker 1 (18:33):
A mean thing for Megan.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
Well, I was just saying, I like what you said
about wedding dress, and I found it so interesting that
you're like, wait a second, I need to pause, Like
what would a rational person say, because you you had
the awareness of like I don't know that I'm thinking
rationally right now, and I want this song to be
from that place. So you had to to pause, and
then you woke up one morning, and so I wonder
if your ability to write it and finish it the
way you wanted was, like, oh maybe was there like
(18:57):
this is the day where I know that healing happened.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
Right, And I think to like songs like Wedding Dress
and Girl in the Mirror to be able to sing
those live. I think it's inspiring to my fans to
know like I was in the trenches, like I was
down astronomically bad, and it did get better. And I
think that there's strengthened that definitely, even though hope, yeah,
and hope. So some of the you know, best songwriters
(19:21):
I know have given me the advice to just like
hold onto songs if there's like a little like sparkle
in there that you think exists, like, don't give up
on it.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
It might come back around and you never know.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
And with your pink your current lip color, do you
know it?
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
So it's endless cacao by Makeup Forever? Do you kind
of overline.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
It's kind of like a.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Make up forever, Okay, and then you fill in like
I kind of overline that with whatever walnut and then
oh gosh, it's a makeup you can use any like gloss.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
But my makeup artist has posted it.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
It's something makeup by Mario, lipstick and then a gloss.
Speaker 4 (20:04):
Okay, Well, it's like the lip color that I'm most
intrigued by. It's like the perfect like light or pinkish.
I don't know you effect. Okay, but this makeup by Mario.
Speaker 2 (20:13):
Yeah, I wear the same one every single day. Okay.
Speaker 4 (20:15):
Well, then if your person's posted about it, we can
find it online.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
You could probably just look it up on TikTok.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
I feel like we just did to get ready.
Speaker 2 (20:21):
With me with We should do that next time.
Speaker 3 (20:23):
I'll just come in, no makeup, no hair, should put
it in.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (20:29):
So the collab with Casey and Ed so, I don't know,
that's a lot. That's three of my favorites.
Speaker 4 (20:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I The Casey muskra thing is my super Bowl, as
anyone who's followed me for the past however many years,
would know. And the Ed Sheeran thing is also just unbelievable.
I don't know how I pulled that one off.
Speaker 1 (20:48):
So do you send them songs and go, do you
want to be on this individually? Do you get nervous
they're not going to say yes.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
At first, I was nervous to talk to Ed Sheeran,
of course, but he's a emailer, so that takes kind
of the pressure off because I would just not check
my email for like two weeks and wouldn't worry about it.
But Ed and I would send back and forth songs
and then is it? Like we had said, he would
send me one and I'm like, I don't know if
this is it, I'd send him on He's like, Hey,
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Oh you guys did that? Did the dance?
Speaker 2 (21:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (21:15):
And we really just after the Bluebird Show, he told
me that his wife and kids love me and he
like loves my songwriting, and I'm obviously such a fan
of his.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So I think we just really wanted to like collab together.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
What's great about that? As you know, you're actually honest
about it, Because if both of you said I don't
know if this is it, that means when it is it,
you both are sincere about it.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
And I definitely trusted Ed after it's done, like he
made the right decision. The song that we cut is
a traditionally country song. It's not a pop song, I
think from what I know about collabing with pop artists,
usually it's like a tempo like kind of pop song
with a country voice on it.
Speaker 2 (21:53):
But he wanted to go the opposite.
Speaker 3 (21:56):
Route and do a really traditional country song with his
like modern pop voice on it.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
So it made it.
Speaker 3 (22:02):
Really interesting and that I'm very excited for everyone to
hear that. One the Casey club, I had just hail Mary,
will you just sing some background vocals? It was actually
my team my manager knows her manager pretty well, and
I remember them asking me like, is there anything that
would make this album like a little bit better to you,
(22:24):
Like if you could have any us request anything, what
do you want? And I was like, you know, bells
and whistles would sound really good with Casey. It sounds
like a song that maybe could have been on same Chailer,
different park, I think, And I was like, man, it
would just be a cool talking point to have, like, yeah,
Casey Musgraves sing on one of my songs, and she.
Speaker 2 (22:43):
Ended up singing on it.
Speaker 3 (22:45):
I found out the day I found out I want
his VMA Award, and I was like, I was in
the best mood. Ever, and nobody knew wy because I
coudn't say anything. They just thought I was just like whoa,
which they were really really fun, I will say, but
I was on cloud nine that day and so that's
when I found out she was going to sing on it.
(23:06):
I was like, oh my god, Casey's singing on my song.
Life has never been better. And then when we finally
got the song, she had sent over a text that
was like, Hey, I've never done this before.
Speaker 2 (23:16):
Please don't feel like you have to use it. But
I went ahead and sang.
Speaker 1 (23:19):
The second verse no way.
Speaker 2 (23:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (23:21):
She's like, I've never done this before, and like, I
really don't want you to feel like you have to
use this.
Speaker 2 (23:26):
But I love the song.
Speaker 1 (23:27):
And were you blown away at that that?
Speaker 3 (23:30):
Like, like I said, it's my super Bowl, Like she
same to a different park made me want to start
writing songs. And so to have her, first of all,
just lend me her voice, which I've I always knew
we sounded good together because I've been harmonizing with her
in the car for a long time, but just to
hear our voices together, and then to know as a songwriter.
She liked the song so much she didn't change one word.
(23:50):
She didn't change a syllable, like she sang it as
it is, And to me, that's like the highest compliment.
We sat next to each other at Paul McCartney and
like the whole time, I was.
Speaker 2 (24:00):
Just like, I love you. I still our song, and
I'm like all hill Queen Casey.
Speaker 1 (24:05):
So that's a great story.
Speaker 3 (24:06):
It's definitely like a bucket list thing. And my I cried.
I'm not a happy crier typically, and I cried when
I heard it because.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
I just couldn't believe that she was singing with me.
Speaker 3 (24:16):
I used to make my parents anytime she was in
the Southeast, I would make my parents go with me
and we would get there at like two pm, sit
outside the venue. I met her outside of her tour
bus one time, a yeah, have you told her that?
Speaker 2 (24:29):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (24:30):
And we shared her dressing room at the CMA's last year,
which was that I didn't know how it was going
to go, because I was like, she might be like,
oh great, the girl that.
Speaker 2 (24:39):
Waited outside my bus for me. I had to share
a room with her. How lucky am I?
Speaker 3 (24:44):
But she was so sweet and that's to me, like,
you know, a ward shows are stressful anyways, so I
wasn't expecting her to even say hi, and she took
time to take pictures and stuff. So I'll always be
grateful for her just being so kind and just for
her music and her voice.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
It's I'm like the number in case.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
That is great. I can tell yeah, that's a great story.
My final question is, can you gave you a Dolly
autograph guitar? What'd you do with it?
Speaker 3 (25:08):
It's like in the case in my bedroom right now.
I don't want it to get.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
Dust on it.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
You're still deciding what do you mean? Just what to do?
It's is it always going to stay in the case.
It's not. It's not a guitar you're gonna play, is it?
Speaker 2 (25:23):
I'm gonna write with it?
Speaker 1 (25:24):
That's cool.
Speaker 3 (25:25):
Yes, it's gonna be my new writing guitar because I
feel like if it's got the Kinney touch and the
Dolly touch, like there's got to be some sort of
magic in that. Definitely not going to bring it on
the road or anything, because it's like one of my
prize possessions.
Speaker 1 (25:37):
But well, congratulations on everything.
Speaker 2 (25:39):
Thank you. It was great.
Speaker 1 (25:40):
I can't wait for the full album. Congrats on Six
months later, We love when you come by, so great
to see you next time. We'll do it. Get ready
with me. We also get ready, but it takes me
five seconds.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
Yeah, we can do each other's makeup.
Speaker 4 (25:53):
I'm already over here shopping. I'm like, okay, found it
and let's cackl.
Speaker 1 (25:56):
Got it Mega Maroni everybody at meg Moroon and yeah,
I streamed the crap out of the album when it
comes out February twentieth. Right, we're getting really close, all right,
there she has Mega Maroni. Everybody Yay.
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