Album: Megan Moroney – Lucky
Megan Moroney’s debut album opens with a wry smirk of a song. At first listen, opening track “I’m Not Pretty” sounds like another variation of the common enough country trope of reminding listeners that they’re beautiful, haters be damned. But Moroney, a swiftly rising star in the genre with a firebrand personality, takes it a step further when addressing an “ex-boyfriend’s new girlfriend”, based on an incident that happened to her: “Keep on telling yourself I’m not pretty.” “The whole thing that I think is great about this song is that everyone has been on both sides,” she tells Apple Music’s Kelleigh Bannen. “I think it's funny because everyone can relate to it.” Such bold assertions populate the rest of the LP, which the Savannah, Georgia-born singer-songwriter recorded alongside producer Kristian Bush, also known as one half of Sugarland.