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Megan Moroney Is Floating High Above ‘Cloud 9’ In Title Track To Third Studio Album
Floating above cloud nine… I’d say that’s a pretty good place to be. Today, Megan Moroney released the title track to her forthcoming third studio album Cloud 9, which features a tracklist of 15 songs, including two features from Ed Sheeran and Kacey Musgraves.
She has released several songs from it already including the lead single and radio hit “6 Months Later,” as well as “Wish I Didn’t” and “Beautiful Things,” and “Cloud 9” is the last song she’ll put out before the full album is released.
Megan described “Cloud 9” as “for the lover girls,” and it’s a much softer, sweeter song than what we’ve heard from the tracklist thus far, which finds her very happily in love and higher than cloud 9.
She opens by saying that she’s so in love, in fact, that doesn’t even care that she’s having to get a Pepsi instead of a Coke… and that’s really saying something, I think:
“Waitress asked me, ‘Is Pepsi fine?’
I wanted a Coke but said, “It’s more than alright”
And the rush-hour traffic, no, it can’t get to me
The TV’s talking, some more bad news
And the neighbors upstairs always party ’til 2:00
But who cares? Oh well
I woke up next to you
I’m walking on sunshine, holding your hand
You’re putting stars in my eyes like no one else can
You get me high, high, high
You give me that look, I’m floating on air
No, nothing else matters with your hands in my hair
I never want to leave where we are now
It’s a long, long way, way down
Down to cloud nine”
It’s certainly not the women scorned like what we heard on “Wish You Didn’t,” for example, and of course, Megan does those kinds of songs very well, but it’s a nice change of pace to hear a love song from her, this song feels easy breezy, just how you would expect to feel while floating around a fluffy pink cloud.
It’s very pretty and easy to listen to, and you can check it out here:
“Cloud 9”
Megan has shared quite a few teasers of songs from Cloud 9, but the one I already love and can’t wait to hear in full is her duet with Ed Sheeran “I Only Miss You,” which is much more traditional and country than a lot of the other songs on the album we’ve already heard:
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Cloud 9 is set for release on February 20th.
“Wish I Didn’t”
Cloud 9 Tracklist
1. “Cloud 9” (Megan Moroney, Luke Laird, Jessie Jo Dillon, and Ernest Keith Smith)*
2. “Medicine” (Megan Moroney, Connie Harrington, Jessie Jo Dillon, and Jessi Alexander)*
3. “6 Months Later” (Megan Moroney, Ben Williams, Rob Hatch, and David “Messy” Mescon)*
4. “Stupid” (Megan Moroney, Amy Allen, and David “Messy” Mescon)*
5. “Beautiful Things” (Megan Moroney, Connie Harrington, Jessie Jo Dillon, and Jessi Alexander)*
6. “Convincing” (Megan Moroney, Connie Harrington, Jessie Jo Dillon, and Jessi Alexander)*
7. “Liars & Tigers & Bears” (Megan Moroney, Luke Laird, and Jessie Jo Dillon)*
8. “I Only Miss You (ft. Ed Sheeran)” (Megan Moroney, Ben Williams, Mackenzie Carpenter, Micah Carpenter, and Ed Sheeran)*
9. “Wedding Dress” (Megan Moroney, Ben Williams, and Colin Healy)+
10. “Change of Heart” (Megan Moroney, Ben Williams, Mackenzie Carpenter, and Micah Carpenter)*
11. “Bells & Whistles (ft. Kacey Musgraves)” (Megan Moroney, Ben Williams, Mackenzie Carpenter, and Micah Carpenter)*
12. “Table for Two” (Megan Moroney, Ben Williams, Mackenzie Carpenter, and Micah Carpenter)^
13. “Wish I Didn’t” (Megan Moroney, Emily Weisband, Hillary Lindsey, and Luke Laird)*
14. “Who Hurt You?” (Megan Moroney, Luke Laird, and Jessie Jo Dillon)*
15. “Waiting on the Rain” (Megan Moroney, Luke Laird, and Jessie Jo Dillon)*
* Produced by Kristian Bush
+ Produced by Luke Laird and Megan Moroney, additional production by Kristian Bush
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