The story behind “Am I Okay?” Megan Moroney scored her second chart topping hit with her single “Am I Okay?” earlier this year, which was the title track to her 2024 sophomore album. It was written by Meg alongside Jessie Jo Dillon and Luke Laird, and is certainly a far cry from her typical self-described “emo cowgirl” sad songs she loves so much, and finds her shockingly content and happy in a relationships for the first time in a long time. Megan explained to CMT how it came to be: “When you look at the title ‘Am I Okay?’ know that I’m the emo cowgirl, I knew my fans were gonna be like, oh, it’s gonna hurt, I can’t wait to listen. This is gonna be my crash out song. And then it’s actually a happy song. It’s about being happy for once, and you’re like, I don’t wanna sabotage this. This guy is treating me really great, I think I might need to be put in rice. Something is wrong. Oh my god, am I okay? When I wrote it, I actually had Kenny’s tour in mind. I wrote it in January of 2024, and I knew that I would be on tour with him in the summer, and I was like, I need some sort of song that feels really big and fun to sing and stadiums, because I don’t want my whole set to just be sad. So I brought it into the writers room with Luke Laird and Jesse, Jo Dillon, and I was like, guys, I don’t feel like writing a sad song today. And they were like, ‘Huh?’ I actually haven’t said that I fell really hard, And I thought everything he did was fantastic, wonderful, amazing, never been done before.” Well, as fate would have it, the day she went into the recording studio to cut vocals, things ended guy she wrote the song about, leaving her in a much different emotional state than she was in when she wrote it. Megan says she was “crying” while singing the vocals, though now, she can appreciate the song as a special moment in time with her fans when life was going really great, even if she wasn’t in a romantic relationship: “I think we wrote it in like 45 minutes, maybe. It’s just like such a fun song to jump up and down and sing to, and I remember liking it but I had no idea that it was gonna be the title track when we wrote it. And I had no idea that it was gonna be a hit, but I guess everyone liked it, which is great. So funny story, me and that guy had broken up the day before I went to sing vocals. He was love bombing me. I was literally crying while I was singing these vocals, which is crazy to look back and think that I almost didn’t put the song out because I was like, I’m so sad right now. How am I gonna sing this song about this guy being so great, like, name a whole album after it, name a whole tour after it, like, how am I gonna get through this? And I’m here to tell everyone I got through it. I got over it, and now when I think of the song, it’s kind of like a song of me and my fans and where I’m at in life just being happy and wanting to stay.” Megan also talked about co-directed the music video, winning winning the first-ever Best Country award for the song this year. She says that it’s really just about being honest about her life in her music, because that’s what she admires in her favorite artists and what she knows fans connect with most in her music too: “I try to be really honest about situations I’ve gone through, because I know that the artists I look up to and love have done that in their music, and they’ve helped me throughout my life. And I hope that I can just be an artist that people can go to for any emotion, whether it’s happy or sad, and my music can just be an outlet for my fans” Considering Megan admits she cried through the recording process, I would never, ever have guessed that when I listen to it so she did more than okay I would say… Here’s the clip: @cmt The power of an #emocowgirl anthem knows no bounds #CMTHitStory #meganmoroney #amiokay #amiokaytour ♬ original sound – CMT I’m pretty sure I said it at the time, but this is easily my favorite song on the album and I wasn’t surprised at all to see it become such a big hit… turn it up: “Am I Okay?” The post Megan Moroney Broke Up With The Guy She Wrote “Am I Okay?” About The Day Before She Recorded It: “Literally Crying While I Was Singing” first appeared on Whiskey Riff.