The Bobby Bones Show - FRI PT 2: Megan Moroney On Collaborating With Ed Sheeran And Kacey Musgraves

Episode Date: January 16, 2026

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.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Megan Maroney. Megan, good to see you. Good to see you. I was wondering if you had to go buy a bunch of new pink stuff. Yeah, I did. I had some, but, you know, stocking up. Yeah, sometimes you can tell ahead of time. And I wondered if people would have seen you at a store buying pink stuff if they'd be going

like, ah, we got it. We know her next era is going to be pink. For my birthday, before the color was announced in October, I got a lot of pink stuff. I got a pink purse, pink ugg slippers, and I couldn't post them or anything or be seen in them because my fans are really sneaky and smart. In a similar way, my wife is very pregnant. And when I post any sort of picture of, if I have like a stroller or 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 an Easterer. He's hinting. So I wondered if you had to hide all your pink stuff. Yeah, I did. Why did you choose pink? Well, once I started writing the album about 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 continued to write the rest of the

album. And there's a softness about Cloud 9 that isn't in my other albums. So I think I kind of chose like all shades of pink, but 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. I love pink. I wear a lot of pink anyway.

Real men wear pink. I'm also very colorblind. Okay. And reds I do pretty good with. And isn't pink just a version of red? Like a lighter red? With some white, yeah. Maybe that's why I like it. If red and white makes pink. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. What color do you think I'm wearing right now? I know you're, 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. That doesn't look like anything. They're all like a little bit different shades. They are all pink. I see where you struggle.

They are all pink. Not even a little purple, I don't think. Like in my head right now. You don't have to like double down on that. You can just be like, it's all pink. Go ahead, Amy. I keep having that line from, have you ever watched Steel Magnolius? No.

Okay. Actually, some of it. Yeah, I fell asleep. Oh, really? It's a movie thing. When it's dark, like I can only watch movies with the lights on

and it's like a whole other thing. Okay, well maybe turn the lights on and watch it. It's so good. Maybe turn the lights on and watch it. Because it's so good, but 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 are blush and bashful. And she's very specific. So you've got on your blush, your bashful, your different versions of pink. What was the first song in this album

that you wrote? Wedding dress is the oldest. How long ago? Three, four years. 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 going to happen, let's just see. The story of wedding dress is really interesting because I had posted the bridge and the chorus years ago and it's gone viral since then.

And 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 going to 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 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 past the situation. And I wrote down like, what is the most logical way that this makes sense? Because I think when I felt the whole song is,

don't let me miss him at a wedding dress. Like, let me miss him at the store. Let me miss him on his birthday. When I meet someone with the same name as him, but just don't let me miss him in a wedding dress. So that's pretty devastating. But 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. So it took a, me like getting over the situation, I think, to actually be like, what would a logical person say if they're feeling this way? So I woke up 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. So will you read it and just sit with a guitar and just kind of find the chords that fit? Is that how you'll do a lot of your songwriting? Do you write lyrics first? 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 9. So I'm like, why the heck did I pick Cloud 9, or why did I pick Isle 9 before Cloud 9 was even a thing?

So weird. Do you have any songs that you play only live that you've never recorded that your fans know, like the hardcore fans know? There's a song 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. But it's a song called haven't met yet. When you play that, do you hear like a pop in the crowd, and you know that's like the old, the OGs? 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 art 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 know wonder. Why are you here? You haven't been to 31 day Matthews band shows? That's what it feels like. Like you judge based on if they know the old school stuff. Yeah. Do when you play these shows

and you're having to invest more money in 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 under your state. So now you've got to pay more. You're always paying more and building up. You're doing bigger shows. You're doing bigger shows. Everyone gets more expensive. Yeah, 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? Definitely. Yeah. 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 2020 or early 2021, she told me you're going to be in stadium or you're

going to be in arenas in 26. So this has always been a plan. And even like the last tour, where there was a little bit more production than I think has ever been brought into the Pinnacle in Nashville. But that's just like, I like to give my fans a memorable set. But you have to pay for that.

I don't think that's what people realize. Yeah. The Pinnacle or whatever venue is not paying for that. No, yeah. You're the one paying for the trucks. Yeah. You're the one paying for all the buses.

True. I went from zero trucks to like four or five trucks this year. So next year would be even more. Wow, in a year. You went zero to four or five in a year? Yeah. So that's expensive. Yeah, they do have my face.

Actually, the Amount K graphic, there's like several of my faces. It's like a collage. So it was kind of like a jump scare every morning walking to get my breakfast. Did you have van days before bus days? I had rental car days before the van days. Walk me through that. Well, I didn't want to, I had a 2010 Mustang up until like last year. And I didn't want to put miles on it.

And 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 minivan. And that was before the church fan. We were actually, I had a, you know, a band dinner with everybody last night. And we were talking about how crazy 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-Haul. And you're like, we got legroom, a-o. And then we got into a bandwagon, which is not quite a bus. Like a sprinter van? 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 13 of us. So we were just talking about the evolution. and it's, I think it's necessary. It makes you grateful that you even have a bunk to lay in, even when it's like a 17-hour drive, like, not ideal, but it's like, we were in a rental car, so.

What about the last song you recorded, and how close did you record it to actually, when they had to, like, have it sealed? The last 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 mastered. 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. Was it one of those? No, actually, there was one weekend, and I can, like, go back and I'm sure my fans look into this, but it was when I played the Ohio State

Buckeyes Stadium with, like, Jelly Roll and Kane Brown, whatever festival that was. That weekend, we wrote Waiting on the Rain, Lires and Tigers and Bears, and Who Hurt You? And once we wrote those songs, I was like the album's done. And that was like, I didn't, I called it right then.

I called it. I said, it's complete. 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 margarita. 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?

I play it for everyone in person, though. there's been like fans that all meet at bars. I'm like, just listen to the bridge, please. And yeah, it's difficult because I want to share everything right away. But obviously there's strategy and yeah. The strategy, though, is not really for the creative. It's for them to enforce that you're doing the strategy that you've agreed on before you got creative. Right.

Have you had a song fall out of you where it's almost 20, 30 minutes or so? 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, which is... What was the first concert you ever went to?

I was talking to Luke Bryan about this the other day. It's either Luke Bryan Farm Tour at the Villarica V-Plex or it was Justin Bieber at Phillips Arena. And I can't remember which came first. Yeah, I think it must have been the same year. Have you met Bieber? No. He's like the one person when people ask me, who would you get star struck over? I genuinely think it would be Justin Bieber.

And you haven't like talked to him at all? No messages from him being like, I'm a big fan of your music. Nope. Nothing. And I still got Beaver fever. Who doesn't? I know. I think it's something that you contract and it never goes away.

Do you play piano? A little bit. Do you ever just sit down and play piano? like at a... 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 them. 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.

But for the most part I'm like not very good. So it requires a lot of brain power which is sometimes fun for me. Do you wish you would have committed more younger? 100% say something to small kids out there listening that are going through this that are like I hate piano I will give a message to the kids and the moms

kids which camera Eddie I want to look at a camera I do it which one which one? This that camera 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

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. And instead, I was learning these really classical pieces as like a, you know, however old I was, eight or something. So maybe a little mix. Less Chikovsky. Yes. More demon hunters.

Yeah. Let them learn demon hunters. Genius. Yes. A win is a win. A win. I don't care what I'm saying. Yep.

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Yeah. La La Land long. Does Megan Roney have to wait in line? I have waited in line before, yeah. 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. That's crazy. Will you just go to a workout by yourself?

Yeah. Really? Yeah. Nashville's fine, though, right? Yeah, and I go really early, so there's not that many people taking classes, which is nice. Do you like mornings? I do, yeah. I like, my mom called it the farm clock the other day.

We wake up with the sun. Have you always been that way? I think so. I just have, I can't, I've never been able to sleep past 10 ever. 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. I have an aura ring and they don't, 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. 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. Interesting. Yeah, so it's, you know, I try to go to bed at 8.30. We wake up very early. So 8.30. And it's like, if you go to bed before 10.30, you're not getting optimal output.

Even you could take less hours and go to bed later and feel better. Wow. Which is crazy. Okay. I think you need like three months of data for that to start working. 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 I look at the sleep score every morning Because I try to win Today mine was 80 Really? Yeah

I think I got a good I got a solid five last night Five hours That's a solid five though She got 80 you got five No 80 you got five No 80 score Oh god

I was like gosh The highest I've gotten was 94 And that was on like the flight home from Australia I took an Advil PM Oh well that'll do I was like, I've never gotten above 94 though. I've been shooting for the stars. I got a 71.

Okay. That's pretty good for me. Passing. I don't sleep well. Yeah, it's a C. It's a solid C. Yeah, I got a 71 sleep and a 71 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. So wait, what does readiness mean? It means how ready you are. Like how alert you are? Okay, but what does that mean? 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 what it knows about you. But I'm blown away that Apple watches and all of rings can just fill a pulse and tell you all this stuff. Yeah, I've been wearing this on stage at the end of like the year when I played in Australian 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 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, 178 calories.

And I'm like, no, was just at work. Was just at work, yeah. So I'm going to play, like, random hits of yours before we go and play six months later before we play beautiful things. So can you 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?

Me sending it to my mom for the first time and literally being scared because I'm like she's going to be so mad at me. because of what you're singing about? Because I'm saying I'm wearing Tennessee orange for him, yeah. What about I'm not pretty? I think about how the person that inspired it accidentally liked a photo at 2 a.m. or something like that. I think it was like 2 a.m.

And then I wrote a whole song. Accidental likes where they were just stalking and hit. That's tough because I'll scroll. Yeah, because it takes a push to scroll. It does take a push. And if you just push too hard, sometimes it likes. My favorite is, or I'm like showing my. mom and she's like getting, she's really being careless with the phone. I'm like, easy. Don't like anything. You don't want her to

accidentally like something. You can't explain that to somebody. It was my mom. And we're here talking about six months later. So give me a story about six months later. 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 the whole time. Which island? It was like the BVI somewhere, but it was like middle of the ocean so not sure um and um 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 do you have any songs you're holding on to now that you've held for so long that maybe at one point you'll do what you did

with wedding dress um i think there's possibility yeah yeah that you just haven't found it exactly but there's a reason you're holding on to it and maybe you don't even know why yet? Yeah, I think there's two like songs take on different meanings at different times in your life. So I keep everything. This is like something that I guess is kind of weird but I don't like pitch my songs.

They're all just locked up. For other artists. Yeah, they're all locked up on my phone. Amy, anything for Megan? 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 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 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 this is the day where I know that healing happened. 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. Yeah.

Like I was down astronomically bad and it did get better. And I think that there's strength in that, definitely. And hope. Yeah, and hope. So some of the best songwriters I know have given me the advice to just, like, hold on to songs. If there's like a little, like, sparkle in there that you think exists, like, don't give up on it. It might come back around and you never know. And with your pink, your current lip color.

Thanks. Do you know it? Yeah, so it's endless cacao by Make-Up Forever. I'm writing it down. You kind of overline the lips. How do you smoke a cow? I'm writing a nut. I'm just kidding.

It's kind of like a brown makeup forever. Okay. And then you fill in like I kind of overline that with wherever walnut. And then, oh gosh, it's a makeup. You can use any like gloss. But my makeup artist has posted it. It's something makeup by Mario lipstick and then a gloss. 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. It's perfect. Okay, but it's makeup by Mario. Yeah, I wear the same one every single day. Okay, well, then if you're a person's posted about it, we can find it online. Yeah, you could probably just look it up on TikTok.

I feel like we just did to get ready with me with Megan. Yeah, yeah. We should do that next time. I'll just come in, no makeup, no hair. I should put it in as I answer questions. Yeah. So the collab with Casey and Ed. So I don't know, that's a lot.

That's three of my favorites. Yeah, I, the Casey Muskraves thing is my Super Bowl. as anyone who's followed me for the past however many years would know. And the Ed Shearin thing is also just unbelievable. I don't know how I pulled that one off. So did 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? At first I was nervous to talk to Ed Sheeran, of course. But he's an 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 one. He's like, hey, I don't know. Oh, you guys did that. Yeah. Yeah. And we, 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. So I think we just really wanted to, like, collab together. What's great about that is 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. 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. But he wanted to go the opposite route and do a really traditional country song

with his like modern pop voice on it. So it made it 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? You send her a text? 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? 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 trailer, a different park. I think. and I was like, man, it would just be a cool talking point to have like, yeah, Casey Musgraves saying on one of my songs. And she ended up singing on it. I found out the day I found out I won a VMA award. And I was like, I was in the best mood ever and nobody knew why because I couldn't say anything. They just thought I was just like, woo. VMA's rule.

Best awards, however. 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. 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. Please don't feel like you have to use it, but I went ahead and sang the second verse. No way. Yeah. She was like, I've never done this before, and I really don't want you to feel like you have to use this. But I love the song.

Were you blown away at that? That, like I said, it's my Super Bowl. Like she, same to row, different part, made me want to start writing songs. And so to have her, first of all, just lend me her voice, which 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.

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 just like, I love you. I'm obsessed with our song and I'm like, all hail Queen Casey. That's a great story. It's definitely like a bucket list thing.

And I cried. I'm not a happy crier typically and I cried when I heard it because I just couldn't believe that she was singing with me. 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 2 p.m. sit outside the venue. I met her outside of her tour bus one time.

You met her as a fan. Yeah. Have you told her that? Yeah. Oh. And we shared her. dressing room at the CMAs 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 waited outside my bus for me, I get to share

a room with her. How lucky am I? But she was so sweet. And that's, to me, like, you know, award 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, it's, I'm like the number one case. That is a great story. Yeah, that's a great story. My final question is, Kenny gave you a dolly autographed guitar. What'd you do with it? It's like in the case in my bedroom right now.

I don't want it to get dust on it. You're still deciding? What do you mean? What to do? Is it always going to stay in the case? It's not a guitar you're going to play, is it? I'm going to write with it. Oh, that's cool.

Yes, it's going to be my new writing guitar. Because I feel like if it's got the Kenny 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. Well, congratulations on everything. Thank you. Thanks. 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 should. And I'll also get ready, but it takes me five seconds. Yeah, we can do each other's makeup. I'm already over here shopping.

I'm like, okay, found it. Endless cacao. Got it. Megamoroni, everybody. at Meg Maroney and yeah stream the crap out of the album when it comes out February 20th, right? So we're getting really close.

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