Stars and Strings: Megan Moroney

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Megan Moroney joins us backstage at Audacy's Stars and Strings to talk about new Christmas music and contemplating touching turtles on vacation!

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00:00How many points are on the board?

00:04Are you guys rolling?

00:05What?

00:06Let's ask questions.

00:07Is this how we start?

00:08How many points are on the board?

00:09Before we answer anything.

00:10All right, the time is ticking.

00:11Points are on the board.

00:12Welcome to Stars and Strings, Megan Maroney.

00:13You're like, thank you.

00:14Buttery nipple.

00:15Ding, ding, ding, ding.

00:16Well, that would be the...

00:17What?

00:18No?

00:19That's how this is started?

00:20Good morning.

00:21I thought we were doing drinks that we will never drink again.

00:24It's called the slippery nipple, I think.

00:26Oh.

00:27It's not a buttery nipple?

00:28Buttery nipples.

00:29I don't know if it sounds like an act, an essay, an act.

00:33Sex on the beach.

00:34There you go.

00:35That's a good one.

00:36Peach schnapps and vodka and stuff.

00:39And that brings us to Tortuga.

00:40Hi.

00:41Let's talk about Tortuga.

00:42I can't wait.

00:43And you know, Tortuga is all about ocean conservation.

00:46And I want to know, what is your favorite ocean animal?

00:53Let's see.

00:54I just swam with sea turtles.

00:55Stop it.

00:56Really?

00:57In St. John.

00:58Yeah.

00:59Yeah.

01:00Yeah.

01:01Oh, wow.

01:02Look at that.

01:03It's perfect.

01:04I was like this close to them.

01:05Are you allowed to touch them?

01:06No.

01:07I don't know.

01:08I don't think there's rules.

01:09It was literally the ocean.

01:10Well, I think there's like a thing.

01:11Like, you can't touch this.

01:12I don't know.

01:13I think if you're swimming with them, you can pet them.

01:15Maybe.

01:16But I didn't want to piss anybody off.

01:17You know what I mean?

01:18Right?

01:19You don't know if a sea turtle has never been aggressive.

01:20But what if he...

01:21Maybe they have like a shark that rides for them.

01:22You know what I mean?

01:25We got to go shark tagging, and we got to pet a shark.

01:28It was terrifying, but it was phenomenal at the same time.

01:32Really?

01:33It was okay.

01:34Okay.

01:35Yeah.

01:36I don't like sharks.

01:37Was Kenny Chesney with you on this trip?

01:38He actually, like I said, he had left early, so he didn't make it to the sea turtles.

01:43But he was there before, yes.

01:45What do you think you've learned the most from Kenny with the time that you've been

01:47able to spend with him?

01:48Because it seems like y'all have gotten pretty close.

01:52I would say, like I said, as an artist, just his work ethic and how much he cares about

01:58his fans and the way he's just made, it almost feels bigger than just his music too.

02:06So aside from writing really good songs and being a great performer, it's like a thing.

02:09You know what I mean?

02:10And what he's created is like a world, and No Shoes Nation is just incredible.

02:15Like bigger picture.

02:16Yeah.

02:17That makes sense.

02:18It's like people go there, and they meet friends.

02:20It's just like an environment that I one day hope my shows will be like.

02:24You know what I mean?

02:25And I think too, on a smaller level, they are like that, which I've learned from him.

02:30But just also, he's a really good person.

02:33Like the way that he supported me, like he doesn't have to do that.

02:37But like the last night at Gillette where he brought me out, or actually all three nights

02:41he did it.

02:42He surprised me the last run of the tour though, and he let me sing Am I Okay with him in front

02:47of a sold out stadium.

02:49And I just sang it like four hours before, but I'm like, who does that?

02:52That's so nice.

02:53It's like, that's like a gift that I can't even like, you can't put like a dollar amount

02:59on that.

03:00That's like just, it's priceless.

03:01Is that overwhelming when you're like, okay, this is what I'm gonna do now, or we're gonna

03:04do this?

03:05Well, the first night I had pranked him, and he thought all the pranks were coming on the

03:09last night, but I was like, we're here all weekend, let's just start on a high note.

03:14So I did the tractor thing, and I was like about to walk off stage, and he like told

03:17the band to play it, and they started playing Am I Okay, and there's a recording on it that

03:21plays on No Shoes Radio, and you can hear me go, what?

03:25No!

03:26And that was like the most surprised I've been.

03:29It was my favorite weekend of the tour, and it's just like, he's a role model in that

03:35way where one day, hopefully if I'm playing stadiums, I can do that for the openers that

03:41I really love and believe in, and yeah, it's awesome.

03:43He's like that.

03:44He just goes, we're gonna do this all of a sudden, and there's like, let's jump on the

03:49guinea train, okay, here's what we're gonna do.

03:51I would want to be prepared for that.

03:52I would feel like, I would say, hey, look, if we're gonna do this, can you please give

03:54me a heads up?

03:55Is it better if you're not prepared, though?

03:58I think it was such a good, fortunately, I've performed that song a lot, so there was no

04:03choice to like, once they start playing, it's like, you better get ready, but I was laughing

04:07about it because I was dressed like him, so the first time I played Am I Okay in like

04:12a full stadium, I looked like a boy.

04:14You looked like a boy, yeah.

04:15So that was fun, yeah.

04:16I want to talk about some dance moves as well because I think that I saw-

04:20Oh, we need your help.

04:21Saw this one?

04:22No.

04:23I saw you were moonwalking, and I believe, were you wearing Crocs while moonwalking?

04:26Birkenstocks.

04:27Birkenstocks, okay, we couldn't tell.

04:29To me, it looked like you really knew what you were doing, though.

04:32Yep.

04:33Actually, more impressive that you're in Birkenstocks than Crocs.

04:35Can you teach us how to moonwalk, do you think?

04:37Like right now?

04:38What is it?

04:39Did you take dance?

04:40Do you want to?

04:41No, I didn't take dance.

04:42I don't remember where I learned how to do that, but it's really not that hard.

04:44So basically, you just take one foot up, slide the other one, do you see the-

04:52So I know the first step, right, is this goes up the same time you go back, right?

04:58Yeah.

04:59Boom.

05:00It's on the knees, I think, and the legs.

05:03But I can't continue it.

05:04I only have this move, and then I can't-

05:05I'm not that good at doing it in boots, but-

05:07On socials right now, we're cutting to you doing it in Birkenstocks.

05:11Perfect.

05:12Our Stars and Strings show here tonight, though, is also benefiting Folds of Honor, and so

05:18I wanted to know-

05:19We're going to talk serious now.

05:20I just wanted to know, for you, just tell us a little bit about your appreciation for

05:25our men and women in uniform.

05:27Yeah, well, I feel like our, well, I know our men and women in uniform, the sacrifices

05:33not only they make, but their families make for our freedom and to protect us is invaluable

05:39and so appreciative of our veterans and current military.

05:44Can we switch it up and talk about Christmas?

05:47Sure.

05:48Blue Christmas, duh.

05:50So I love this.

05:51Let's talk about Christmas.

05:52What do you love about Christmas, and when did you record this?

05:55Are you recording it in February or in the middle of the summer, like a lot of people

05:58are-

05:59I recorded it as soon as I landed back from the UK.

06:02I literally got off the plane and then went to the studio.

06:08We waited the last possible deadline.

06:10We had to beg DSPs to work with us because it was the last minute, but I had no other

06:15choice.

06:16So yeah, it was written maybe August, and then I recorded it.

06:21That sounds like end of September, maybe I got back.

06:23Okay.

06:24Yeah, that's actually close to Christmas.

06:26That's actually the first time.

06:27Can you tell us about All I Want for Christmas as a Cowboy?

06:29Sure.

06:30What do you want to know about it?

06:32When we do it behind the song, we ask three questions, right?

06:35Where were you?

06:36What were you thinking?

06:38When the song came about.

06:39Yeah.

06:40What was I thinking?

06:41Cowboys.

06:42Where was the first one?

06:43Where were you?

06:44I was with Mackenzie Carpenter, Micah Carpenter, and Ben Williams in their house.

06:46They have a little radish room.

06:48All right.

06:49And then what were you thinking?

06:50Cowboys?

06:51I wanted a fun, I don't know, something about Christmas.

06:56I love a boot scootin' song, and I love Christmas, so why not combine the two?

07:01I love how country it is.

07:02I love that, like, I think, too, my best friend grew up listening to Shania Twain to

07:07put up her Christmas tree, and she told me that, like, they didn't listen to Christmas

07:09music.

07:10They listened to Shania, and that was their Christmas music.

07:13And so I think that's been in my brain for so long that I was like, what if we had, like,

07:17a little party, super country moment with Christmas?

07:21That would be fun to put up the tree.

07:23And I actually thought of All I Want for Christmas as a Cowboy, who only wants me.

07:28I was, like, on tour somewhere, and that just came into my brain.

07:31I was like, that'd be a cool song.

07:32So I had it in my notes.

07:33But also, who doesn't want a cowboy?

07:34I know.

07:35Really.

07:36But the funny part is, who only wants me?

07:38Because the last one, I love, love Britney and Jessica, too, all at the same time.

07:44So yeah.

07:45Well, Am I OK?

07:46The album is out now.

07:47We're here at Stars and Strings with Megan Maroney.

07:49Thank you so much for being here with us.

07:50Thanks.

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