After the week Megan Moroney\u2019s had, the fact that resale tickets to her sold-out Charlotte show were going for north of $400 apiece in the hours beforehand was probably no big deal to her.<\/p>\n
The buzz around the 27-year-old country singer, indeed, has been building for a while. She\u2019s been having one long moment since breaking out with her debut single \u201cTennessee Orange\u201d coming up on three years ago now. But lately, she\u2019s been having A MOMENT in all-caps.<\/p>\n
I mean, how\u2019s this for a week?<\/p>\n
Last Sunday, Moroney won the MTV VMAs Best Country award<\/a>, beating out genre heavyweights like Jelly Roll, Morgan Wallen and Lainey Wilson for the first-of-its-kind honor. Less than 24 hours later, Moroney scored six CMA Awards nominations<\/a> \u2014 tied for the most of any artist \u2014 including for female vocalist of the year and album of the year. Then on Thursday, she popped up at pop star Tate McRae\u2019s show for a duet of \u201c6 Months Later\u201d<\/a> in Nashville; the very next night, Kenny Chesney (whom she opened for at Charlotte\u2019s Bank of America Stadium last year) popped up at Moroney\u2019s Charleston show<\/a> for a duet of \u201cYou Had to Be There.\u201d<\/p>\n The show here in Charlotte on Saturday night, meanwhile, had no surprise celebrity guests. There were no mentions of her impressive accolades. She didn\u2019t break down and cry, like she\u2019d done the night before in Charleston, while singing one of her newest songs.<\/p>\n She did open her set just over an hour after her alma mater the University of Georgia edged Tennessee in OT, prompting a \u201cGo Dawgs!\u201d shoutout from her early on; but it was otherwise a rather typical Megan Moroney concert. Which is to say:<\/p>\n As has been the case since shows last summer, there was a sea of royal-blue-clad teenage girls and early-twentysomething women, so dressed in the shade as a nod to it being the official hue of her \u201cAm I Okay?\u201d album.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n As has become the norm at Moroney shows, the crowd \u2014\u00a0of 7,000 strong in this case \u2014 sang along loudly, passionately and tirelessly. (I was, by this, about equally awestruck and exasperated, the latter mainly whenever the well-meaning but tone-deaf girl directly behind me got particularly worked up).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n And as has been the case throughout this current tour, the singer with just two albums so far to her name filled the bulk of her 105-minute set with what under normal circumstances be a bunch of B-sides … yet they all mostly felt like radio-friendly singles, if for no other reason than nearly every last one seemed to inspire a \u201cSweet Caroline\u201d-at Fenway-Park-level singalong. (So even \u201cSleep On My Side,\u201d a song that wasn\u2019t a radio hit, becomes a certified banger in a live setting, with Moroney calling \u201cI sleep on my side,\u201d everyone waiting a beat, then the crowd responding at full volume, \u201cAND YOU SLEEP WITH EVERYONE!\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Megan Moroney performs at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte on Saturday night.<\/p>\n This is all pretty remarkable, considering that not even two years ago she was headlining Coyote Joe\u2019s.<\/p>\n Even so, she seems a natural fit for an arena stage \u2014 backed by giant LED screens, perching herself on heart-shaped setpieces, pulling off multiple costume changes (although mostly based on a dazzling baby-blue minidress and white knee-high cowboy boots), playing half a dozen different guitars.<\/p>\n Moroney looked at ease whether she was tossing back a shot of liquor; tossing a drumstick she\u2019d just beaten a crash cymbal with into the first few rows; tossing what looked like a very expensive acoustic guitar six feet high and six feet across to a fortunately-not-butter-fingered stagehand; or tossing each side of her blond hair with each hand as she danced to the instrumental break in \u201cLucky.\u201d<\/p>\n She also tossed off more than her fair share of messages geared toward empowering her core fans mentally, spiritually and emotionally.<\/p>\n In calling \u201cGirl in the Mirror\u201d \u201cone of my favorite songs I\u2019ve ever written,\u201d she said: \u201cI wrote it as a reminder to never love the boy more than I love me. … I knew that if I really loved myself, it wouldn\u2019t be staying with him. It would be walking away. … If this is something that you\u2019re going through … don\u2019t worry, I\u2019ve been there. But it does get better. You just have to choose yourself. And there\u2019s so many other fish in the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n In winding the show to a close, Moroney said: \u201cAt all my shows … I like to encourage … any big dreamers that might think that the thing that they really want to do is so far away and so unattainable that you don\u2019t even try. This is me encouraging you to try, because I was the same way. I went to college to be an accountant because (although) I love to play guitar … I was scared to dream big. So I just want to encourage you guys … whether you want to be a doctor or start a business or whatever it is, just go for it.\u201d<\/p>\n Perhaps the thing she said that resonated with me the most, though \u2014 and I imagine I\u2019m not alone in this, after the week we\u2019ve<\/i> had \u2014 was the comment she made about her newest song, \u201cBeautiful Things.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think this,\u201d Moroney said of the song she dedicated to her niece through tears in Charleston, \u201cis just a good reminder that everybody\u2019s going through something. So just be nice.<\/p>\n \u201cJust be nice to each other.\u201d<\/p>\n And with that, I take back what I said earlier about the girl behind me.<\/p>\n She actually sang beautifully.<\/p>\n Megan Moroney performs at Bojangles Coliseum in Charlotte on Saturday night.<\/p>\n 1. \u201cMan on the Moon\u201d<\/p>\n 2. \u201cIndifferent\u201d<\/p>\n 3. \u201cI Know You\u201d<\/p>\n 4. \u201cNoah\u201d<\/p>\n 5. \u201cThird Time\u2019s a Charm\u201d<\/p>\n 6. \u201cNo Caller ID\u201d<\/p>\n 7. \u201cI\u2019m Not Pretty\u201d<\/p>\n 8. \u201cHair Salon\u201d<\/p>\n 9. \u201cGirl in the Mirror\u201d<\/p>\n 10. \u201cSleep on My Side\u201d<\/p>\n 11. \u201cLucky\u201d<\/p>\n 12. \u201cHell of a Show\u201d \/ \u201c28th of June\u201d \/ \u201cAin\u2019t Nothing \u2018Bout You\u201d<\/p>\n 13. \u201cHope You\u2019re Happy\u201d<\/p>\n 14. \u201cMama I Lied\u201d<\/p>\n 15. \u201cMiss Universe\u201d<\/p>\n 16. \u201cBreak It Right Back\u201d<\/p>\n 17. \u201cBless Your Heart\u201d<\/p>\n 18. \u201cBeautiful Things\u201d<\/p>\n 19. \u2018Wonder\u201d<\/p>\n 20. \u201c6 Months Later\u201d<\/p>\n 21. \u201cThe Girls\u201d<\/p>\n 22. \u201cTennessee Orange\u201d<\/p>\n 23. \u201cI\u2019ll Be Fine\u201d<\/p>\n 24. \u201cAm I Okay?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After the week Megan Moroney\u2019s had, the fact that resale tickets to her sold-out Charlotte show were going for north of $400 apiece in the hours beforehand was probably no big deal to her. 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Megan Moroney\u2019s setlist<\/h2>\n
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