Megan Moroney is opening up about tour life.
The 28-year-old Cloud 9 singer-songwriter got candid in conversation with Cosmopolitan, out now.
During the interview, Meghan spoke about selling out arena shows and playing larger and larger venues, embracing her look and style, the idea of a dream collaboration with Taylor Swift, her relationship status, and much more.
See highlights from Megan Moroney inside…
On her ascent and how it feels to be selling out arena shows:
“It’s ‘Oh, wait, this isn’t just a fun little concert.’ I always hoped that I would make it to arenas and that my fan base would continue to grow, but I try to not focus on the next step because when you keep your head down and you’re in the moment with your fans and you do whatever your gut is saying is right, that leads you to the bigger rooms and bigger everything.”
On how fan interactions feel different in larger venues compared to when she played local bars early in her career:
“It feels more intense. When I look out and I’m up in a window, 30 feet up in the air and everyone is singing ‘Beautiful Things,’ when I focus on certain groups of people, they’re hugging their mom and crying. It all feels the same because even some of my earliest songs, I could tell it really hit [the fans] in their hearts. But now it’s just crazy because it’s like that on steroids. But the root of everything still feels the same. I still feel like I’m in it for the right reasons.”
On having a large fan base of young girls:
“I didn’t even really realize I had younger fans until after the club level. For the Lucky Tour, you had to be 21 and up to get in for most venues, so I didn’t even know that there was a fan base of younger people….It wasn’t on purpose to try to have younger fans, but I think it’s really cool that I can look out and see literally an 80-year-old woman with her husband and then you can look out and see a 6-year-old’s first concert with their mom.”
On whether she’s felt pressure to switch up her signature style:
“I think depending on the music, my style will obviously change over time. I’ve jokingly thought about dyeing my hair brunette, but I’m gonna save that for later down the road. For whatever reason, the blonde seems to be working. Whenever I’m feeling sad, I either need a spray tan or I need to dye my hair blonder. I dyed my hair blonde for the first time at 16 after my first heartbreak. My mom didn’t let me touch my hair before, but when I wouldn’t stop crying, she was like, ‘Okay, fine.’”
On embracing a natural look:
“I would love to have an era where I wear my hair natural and less makeup because offstage, this is what you’re gonna see, and my fans know that. What is cool about my career and my fans is they feel like they know me through social media and they know that I don’t always look like this—having pounds of extensions on my head. I always say, too, if you can recognize me when I’m natural, you deserve a picture. I’m never gonna be mad at you for asking me for a photo if you can recognize me without all the makeup and hair. You’re a true fan.”
On writing songs that leave little to the imagination:
“In ‘Who Hurt You,’ I made it so obvious who it’s about that it was, like, you could google it, and that was the point of ‘Who Hurt You.’ In the past I got frustrated with people. I was trying to hint at things, and then people would be like, ‘Who is it about?’ And I was like, ‘You know what? I’m just gonna lay it out there. I might as well put his first and last name in it.’ Songwriting is fun, and it’s not meant to be taken so seriously.”
On what she tells herself during moments when people are questioning whether she should put her business out there in her music:
“It’s confidence that has grown over time, but it’s not being ashamed of how you felt. If you think it’s wrong, then okay. But this is how I felt, so here’s the song about it. I always try to explain to people that I’ve written songs about these big emotions, so they can feel huge in a song. But I could have felt that way really intensely for 10 minutes and wrote a whole song about it. And so in your head, you’re like, Oh, this must be her whole life. And it’s like, ‘Well, actually, I was just heated, and I wrote the song.’ Songs can be written from a few minutes of a feeling. So sometimes it’s not that deep. Other times, it is that deep.”
“When I get scared of putting out a song because it’s too personal, I think about how it might help somebody, because every time I’ve done it and I’ve taken the risk, people have come up to me and they’re like, ‘This song made me dump this guy’ and ‘This song is making me never want to go back to him.’ It’s just one of those things where you have to be like, ‘F-ck it. What’s the worst that could happen?’”
On what she looks forward to learning about herself on this tour:
“It’s really nice that this is one of the first tours I’ve been on where I’m not dating anyone, so I literally have no distractions. And that sounds really silly, but there have been a lot of big moments and fun times that have been ruined by a guy for me. It’s nice to just have a clear head. I’m learning what I like and what I don’t like and what my goals are. It’s been cool to be so disciplined with my routines, to see what I’m capable of when everything is going like it’s supposed to.”
On being single right now:
“There is something about having a crush that’s exciting, and when my tour wraps up in October, when I’m back from Europe, I’ll maybe be on the prowl again. Yeah, it’ll be fall. It’ll be cuffing season, but right now, it’s been so nice to have my friends and family out [with me] and that not be an aspect of my life that is any sort of problem for me….Life is peaceful. I got a dog in February. That’s what I needed all along—no man, a dog.”
On how she imagines the vibe of a dream collaboration with Taylor Swift would be:
“I would pass out. I’ve not met her, so I feel like if we got to hang out, we would figure that out. I love her entire Red album, so I bet it would be something like that or even ‘Picture to Burn.’ We could crush an idea like that. But she’s happy and in love now, so maybe I could go out on a limb and write a love song with her. I’m gonna be like, ‘Girl, you’re gonna have to tell me what it’s like.’”
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