Megan Moroney has a new collaboration out today with Kenny Chesney, she stopped by The Bobby Bones Show to share how it all came together.
In 2024, Moroney was on Chesney's tour and it was a pivotal moment of her career. She went on a writer's trip following the tour and Moroney shared she will always write things that are important to her. One of the co-writers started writing a song that sounded like a Chesney song. She had already wrote the title "You Had To Be There," and that was how she described the tour to anyone who asked about it. It was the best summer of her life. While in this particular writing session, they decided to write Chesney in on the second part. She was debating what to get him for Christmas already, so she decided this would be her gift to him with written out lyrics. Moroney also admitted that her end of tour gift was a scrapbook she made because she didn't know what to get a man who already has everything.
Moroney and Chesney had a trip planned to the island after Christmas. She was so nervous the first three hours because she knew she was going to have to show him this song she wrote and ask him to be on it. When she finally worked up the courage, she prefaced it by saying if he hated it, this was just from her heart and she's very appreciative of him regardless. He ended up loving it and now it's been released out into the world today.
Chesney isn't the first man in country music Moroney has had a special connection with, Kristin Bush is another one. He's been producing her records, but their relationship started when she was an intern as a senior at Belmont at a publishing company. Moroney said he's so smart and creative, sometimes he will have a crazy philosophical thing and he will just lose her.
Moroney is having the best time ever on the road, she said her fans are the best. She hasn't really noticed the blow up happening, but when she hears her fans sing her entire record word for word, she knows something is going on. Noting that them singing along is "more than it used to be." She also doesn't have any regrets with her songwriting and being very specific about her life details. She admitted she wasn't sharing details on purpose, she just wasn't afraid to be specific about her experiences. Moroney was really grinding when she first moved to Nashville. She was going to every social event, writer's round, and writing every single day. She admitted it was hard to not see any results for years, but now it's been worth all of the grind.
Heartbreak was actually the thing that got Moroney into songwriting. She wouldn't stop crying over her first boyfriend when he broke her heart, so her dad took her to a guitar center over Labor Day for a big sale. She picked out a guitar that wasn't on sale, and told him that she had already had her heartbroken this week so she can handle another heartbreak if he can't buy her the guitar. Well, her dad bought it for her and she still has it to this day. She has since retired it from the road because it's so sentimental to her, she learned her first song on it "Strawberry Wine."