Country Superstar Megan Moroney Rings In The Holidays With Surprise Release Of Blue Christmas …Duh
COUNTRY SUPERSTAR MEGAN MORONEY RINGS IN THE
HOLIDAYS WITH SURPRISE RELEASE OF BLUE CHRISTMAS …DUH
Sony Music Nashville/Columbia Records
singer/songwriter Megan Moroney kicked off the holiday
season with Blue Christmas …duh — a surprise EP
featuring two all-new original songs and a heart-melting rendition of the
timeless holiday classic “Blue Christmas.” Go here(preferred music
platform) to check out Blue Christmas …duh now.
With its title nodding to the signature color for Moroney’s blockbuster
sophomore album Am I Okay?— a summer 2024 release that
marked the year’s third-biggest Billboard 200 debut from a female
Country artist — Blue Christmas …duh begins with
a glorious bang on “All I Want for Christmas is a Cowboy.” Written
by Moroney, Ben Williams, Mackenzie Carpenter, and Micah
Carpenter the hip-swinging anthem serves up a bit of feel-good
holiday honky-tonk, laying down hard-thumping rhythms and saloon-style
piano melodies as Moroney reveals what’s at the top of her wishlist.
Meanwhile, the track’s handclap-backed chorus shows off the whip-smart sass
that’s made her one of the brightest new stars in Country (“Put him in
some new Luccheses/Make him call me baby/'Cause swear I’ve been good all
year/Oh please Santa please/All I want for Christmas is a cowboy/Who only
wants me.
Produced by her frequent collaborator Kristian
Bush, Blue Christmas …duh next drifts into the
slow-burning ache of “Christmas Morning” — a gorgeous new
addition to Country’s time-honored lineage of holiday heartbreak songs.
Also written by Moroney, Ben Williams, Mackenzie Carpenter, and Micah
Carpenter, the mandolin-laced ballad tells the tale of a Christmastime
breakup (from the chorus: “'Tis the season, you’ve got reasons/I know
I’ve got mine/We’ve been falling apart all year and today I can’t ignore
it/Baby when did our love stop feeling like Christmas morning”). In the
latest example of the Emo Cowgirl’s phenomenal gift for giving words to the
most painful of feelings, “Christmas Morning” offers up plenty of
one-liners that cut right to the heart (e.g., “What a bad day for the
truth”).
In a breathtaking finale, Blue Christmas …duh closes out
with Moroney’s unforgettably lovely cover of “Blue Christmas,” bringing
soulful steel-guitar tones and a softly stunning vocal performance to her
update of the Billy Hayes/Jay Johnson-penned tune made famous by Elvis
Presley. With each song accompanied by a specially created lyric video, the
EP follows the recent arrival of Am I Okay? (I’ll Be Fine)— the deluxe edition of Moroney’s
critically acclaimed and massively successful sophomore album. A No.
1 hit on Apple Music’s Top Country Albums chart (and No. 3
hit on Apple Music’s all-genre Top Albums chart), Am I
Okay? (I’ll Be Fine) features three brand-new tracks: “Bless
Your Heart,” “I'll Be Fine,” and “Break It Right Back” —
a piano-laced ballad streamed over 1 MILLION times on its very first day of
release.
Tracklist for Blue Christmas …duh by
Megan Moroney:
“All
I Want for Christmas is a Cowboy” (Megan Moroney, Ben Williams,
Mackenzie Carpenter, Micah Carpenter)
“Christmas
Morning” (Megan Moroney, Ben Williams, Mackenzie Carpenter,
Micah Carpenter)
A Country phenomenon with major star power and massive talent to match,
Megan Moroney is the rare artist to earn icon status soon after breaking
onto the scene. With nearly 2 BILLION total global streams to date, the
Georgia-bred singer/songwriter kicked off the latest era of her formidable
career with her critically acclaimed sophomore album Am I Okay?:
a July 2024 release that debuted at No. 9 on the Billboard 200, emerged as
the year’s third-biggest debut from a female Country artist, and won rave
reviews from many of the music world’s leading publications
(including Rolling Stone, The New York Times, Variety, Billboard, American
Songwriter, and more).
Featuring the Emo Cowgirl’s post-breakup ballad
“No Caller ID” — a track that shattered the record for the biggest Country
female song debut in streams in the U.S. — Am I Okay? continues
the meteoric rise first set in motion with “Tennessee Orange,” a 3X
PLATINUM #1 hit included on her 2023 blockbuster debut Lucky.
Soon after Lucky’s arrival, Moroney began amassing a steady
stream of accolades, including winning Breakthrough Female Video of
the Year at the 2023 CMT Music Awards, MusicRow’s Breakout
Artist of the Year at the 2024 CountryBreakout Awards, and New
Female Artist of the Year at the 59th ACM Awards (where she
reigned as the most nominated female artist with SIX NODS). Now up for
three categories — Female Vocalist of the Year, New
Artist of the Year, and Music Video of the Year (“I’m
Not Pretty”) — at The 58th Annual CMA Awards (airing November 20), she’s
previously earned nominations for People’s Choice Country, iHeart, CMT
Music, and Billboard Music Awards.
The latest in a hot streak of headline
tours, Moroney’s AM I OKAY? TOUR launches in March 2025, following wildly
successful runs like THE LUCKY 2.0 TOUR (a spring/summer 2024 trek that
sold out in just five minutes) and the GEORGIA GIRL TOUR (a sold-out
15-date tour of UK/Europe). Bringing her notoriously dazzling live show to
audiences all over, she’s played stadiums across the country as support for
Kenny Chesney, in addition to taking the stage at high-profile festivals
like Stagecoach and Lollapalooza.
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