Had to get the tempo right. It’s officially release week for Megan Moroney‘s third studio record, Cloud 9, and fans can’t wait to hear the tracklist in full. Of course, fans have gotten a taste of what’s in store for the record with her singles “6 Months Later,” “Cloud 9,” “Wish I Didn’t” and “Beautiful Things.” “6 Months Later” has been a massive success for Moroney since its release, earning her a third number-one hit on country radio. THANK YOU COUNTRY RADIO!!! https://t.co/pv2HVtMjNq — Megan Moroney (@_megmoroney) January 18, 2026 Written by Moroney with Ben Williams, David “Messy” Mescon, and Rob Hatch, like many of her songs, “6 Months Later” focuses on heartbreak and how she’s coping in the wake of a breakup, and obviously, I’m biased, but her lines in the bridge about how she only got stronger, blonder and hotter go so hard… It’s a total summer jam, featuring an extremely catchy melody and all-too-relatable lyrics that detail how a relationship went sideways. However, the guy keeps popping back up now and then when she’s just about over it. Classic, am I right, ladies? “6 Months Later,” a summer jam, makes total sense after learning that Moroney wrote the track while on a yacht. During a recent conversation with Katie Neal, host of Katie & Company, Moroney shared a bit about the day the song came to life and how it was the only song she wrote on the trip where it was born. Neal asked Moroney to walk listeners through the day that she wrote “6 Months Later.” “On a boat. This seems to be the theme. We were in the middle of the ocean on a boat. We take our writers’ trip every year down on a friend’s yacht, and we wrote it the first day we were on the trip. So we were supposed to write songs the whole time, and usually you leave those trips with like eight songs, or ten, or something like that. We only wrote ‘6 Months Later’ that trip because it was so good that anything else we tried to start, I was like, ‘It’s not as good as “6 Months Later.”‘ The track is a stellar tune, so I can see how she felt nothing compared to creating that concept and lyrics. Moroney also shared that the tempo of this song was very important to her and that she wanted it to be one you could run to (which is always good therapy when a man is frustrating you). “And when we wrote that, we went on a run, and the tempo was too slow, and I wanted to be able to run to ‘6 Months Later.’ So now the tempo you hear on the radio is running approved. That’s why sometimes you have to figure out… I’m like, ‘Something is not right with this. I’m like lagging right now, and I need to be hyped up.'” “6 Months Later” definitely gets her fans hyped up, and it’s become a quick favorite from her catalog. I am sure that even with new songs being gifted to them in the next few days, it will remain a hit. But now I’m curious what the lower-key tempo of the tune sounded like… Maybe one day we will get that from Moroney. Check out the entire interview while you’re here: “6 Months Later” The post “When We Wrote That, We Went On A Run” – Megan Moroney Shares She Made Sure The “6 Months Later” Tempo Was Running Approved first appeared on Whiskey Riff.