Single Reviews

  MEGAN MORONEY - Am I Okay? - Columbia Records Nashville

Though “Tennessee Orange” introduced her to the mainstream audience, Megan Moroney has continually upped the ante ever since, achieving high standards through an expert utilization of social media to connect with the core 20-something demographic while delivering songs that speak directly to them; “I’m Not Pretty,” “No Caller ID,” “indifferent,” etc. 

Embracing her emo cowgirl persona, she’s connected with the broken hearted, the lonely, the self-doubters, and the self-proclaimed messes. However, her newest single “Am I Okay?” sees her swerving her normal essence of the growing pains of bad relationships, to instead see her swooning over the good guy who’s come into her life and has her feeling a racing heartbeat like she’s never felt before.

Co-written by Megan, Jessie Jo Dillon, and Luke Laird, though expectation of a blissful lyric would be that the melody matches the feeling with an upbeat vibe, laced in a soft, pop laden backbeat she flows her normal moodiness, intriguingly pitting her natural vocal rasp against the confused wondermint of whether this feeling can even be real.

Tracking the noticeably “weird” things that are making her heart beat faster as her mind goes into overdrive, she travels through the verses in a checklist like flow that tallies how she doesn’t know how to act or what to say, that he’s unexpectedly brought her flowers and called her before it was the last call hour, and how she’s positively taken aback in knowing there are still guys who can communicate…cause who knew?

With a steady lift through the chorus that sees her heart gushingly explode as she drives her thoughts into the reality check that this is for real, she flutters her emotionally swarmed excitement and floating butterflies against questioning whether this is normal or if something’s wrong with her.

“'Cause oh my God, he walked in
Like a 6'2" dream, heaven-sent
He says what he means and he means what he says
And he's funny and he's smart and he's good in (good in)
Maybe love ain't always what it was
Not crying and dying and messing me up
I think I'm really happy, I think I want to stay
Oh my God, am I okay?”

Whether it’s a light-hearted song like “Am I Okay?” or a heavier and emotionally drained atmosphere like others in her catalog have been, Megan Moroney speaks loudly to her peers through song, relating to every tricky emotion of life’s growing years by transparently sharing excerpts of her own diary alongside her core audience turning the pages of theirs, matching story to story and heart to heart.

(Review Written By: Jeffrey Kurtis/Cover Photo by: CeCe Dawson)

 

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