Megan Moroney has no problem with fans shouting about their exes during her concerts. Her advice afterward is considerably less sentimental: “don’t call them.”
The country singer, 29, described the exchange during a September interview with ABC’s Nightline at London’s Eventim Apollo. PEOPLE shared a preview on Oct. 13, ahead of ABC publishing the segment the following day.
Moroney said she sometimes invites audience members who miss a former partner to scream. When one fan told her she was going to call him, the singer immediately objected.
Her Cloud 9 tour began in May and is scheduled to continue into July 2027. The interview also covered her songwriting and admiration for Dolly Parton.
Her Advice Comes With an Admission of Her Own
Moroney admitted that she once called an ex after writing a song, a decision she said she would not recommend. Neither the former partner nor the track was identified in the published excerpt.
She said getting older has made her less concerned about how people will respond to her lyrics. Writing down what she actually felt remains useful even when the other person remembers the situation differently. “It helps me kind of put those emotions into art, and then I can just move on,” she said.
In a separate February interview with Esquire, Moroney said friends call her when they are ready to get over someone. She credited her mother with a blunt approach to breakups: allowing “48 hours” to cry before encouraging her to move forward.
She also described fans treating her like an older sister and her concerts as “group therapy,” with space for love songs, heartbreak and shared frustration.
“No Caller ID” Began During a Break From Touring
Moroney wrote “No Caller ID” with Jessi Alexander, Jessie Jo Dillon and Connie Harrington during a free day in July 2023. They had finished another song quickly enough to keep working, and she began explaining what was happening in her personal life, according to an artist statement reported by iHeart.
She described the resulting track as being about an ex who continues finding ways to make contact after being blocked. The song follows someone trying to move on while an unwanted late-night call threatens that progress.
Before its January 2024 release, Moroney performed it on her Lucky Tour. She told Apple Music that she initially treated the unreleased song as something special for concertgoers. Audience recordings then spread on TikTok, and the response exceeded what she had expected. It later appeared on her second album, Am I Okay?.
Cloud 9 Includes Two Duets and a Fictional Revenge Hotline
Released Feb. 20, Cloud 9 contains 15 tracks, including “I Only Miss You” with Ed Sheeran and “Bells & Whistles” with Kacey Musgraves. Other songs include “Wish I Didn’t,” “Who Hurt You?” and “6 Months Later,” according to Sony Music.
The record became Moroney’s first No. 1 album on the Billboard 200, earning 147,000 equivalent album units in its opening week, MusicRow reported.
For the “6 Months Later” music video, released in July 2025, Moroney and co-director CeCe Dawson built a fictional revenge service called the Karma Now! Hotline. Moroney’s character sees its television commercial and calls from a decorated rotary phone. The ex in the video subsequently encounters a series of unpleasant surprises, including an ice-cold shower and expired milk, Country Beat reported.
The album’s Songwriter’s Edition offers another view of its creation: the vinyl arranges the tracks in the order they were written, rather than the standard album sequence.