Megan Moroney Talks Inspiration Behind 'Cloud 9' & CMA Nominations | CMA Awards 2025 - video Dailymotion

Megan Moroney caught up with Alexandra Kay & Rania Aniftos at the CMA Awards 2025.

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00:00really you look incredible oh my god i mean we were just saying how earlier this year

00:10you won the rule breaker award at billboard women in music which was so fun to see you perform then

00:16and like your star was already shockingly bright then and it is crazy just how it just keeps on

00:24getting brighter and it is beautiful to see you leading tonight with six nominations and

00:29performing i mean how does it feel to get that validation from your peers i mean it's definitely

00:35amazing i um grew up watching these awards so to be even in attendance is always so cool and then

00:43obviously nominations are just the cherry on top um but it's amazing i feel like tonight especially

00:49with like an album of the year nomination and like the single and even the one with kenny it's like

00:54we're celebrating not just me but everyone that i collaborate with so it feels like a big team

00:59celebration there'll be a lot of tequila involved later girl you deserve it you're a machine like

01:03how are you how are you writing and touring as much as you are it's it's insane caffeine yeah a lot of

01:11no sleep and tequila after it's crazy and you're someone like we were just saying you create worlds

01:19around your albums i mean where do you find the inspiration like where do you know okay this album

01:24sounds like this to me this is how we're gonna pair it with the visuals so it's definitely like

01:30i don't i tried this time to go in with a vibe and i'm like i'm gonna write a lot of songs that are

01:35like this and when once the album you know the track list is out i will elaborate on that but it

01:40could not be farther than what i tried to plan so it wasn't until i wrote cloud nine the title track

01:45and the these songs are confident in a new way they're like softer in a new way and so just like pink

01:52really like made sense for me and um yeah so i i tried i thought i could get ahead of it i'm like

01:58i'm so smart i'm just gonna plan ahead i'm gonna have it all planned out and then cloud nine came

02:03along and i was like oh okay sometimes it just decides for you and you switch it up yeah put it

02:08in your lap girl you are like so many people have been talking about what were you're gonna wear

02:12tonight and everyone thought they were gonna see you in pink we could have been twinning what is that

02:18well okay so this is custom harbison and if you look at my jewelry i've got rings for each album

02:24oh my gosh i knew it i knew you were gonna play into the color so how there is some album

02:31representation here but i will say um as a little teaser there is enough pink in the performance look

02:36to last me until next year okay okay since we're celebrating am i okay tonight um i don't want to

02:42go crazy on the pink yet right but don't worry i will be no that's amazing that's amazing

02:47and i mean congratulations megan it is always awesome catching up with you and just being so

02:52happy to be here along on your journey and i am excited to see you here next year with even more

02:57success i mean thank you so much thanks girl nice to officially meet you i know nice to meet you too girl