Megan Moroney revealed the songwriting story behind an infectious revenge anthem
The award-winning country star caught up with Bobby Bones, who asked her about “Medicine.” The track appears on Moroney’s latest studio record, Cloud 9, along with “6 Months Later,” “Beautiful Things,” “I Only Miss You” with Ed Sheeran, “Bells & Whistles” with Kacey Musgraves, bonus track “Sorry… I Meant Tonight,” and more. Moroney teamed up with Connie Harrington, Jessie Jo Dillon and Jessi Alexander to write the sassy revenge anthem.
“I was with Connie Harrington, Jessi Alexander and Jessie Jo [Dillon]. We were in the East Tennessee mountains, and I had the ‘how you like the taste of your own medicine’ [lyric] in my notes app,” Moroney recalled during her conversation with Bobby. “And it’s so easy writing with them, and especially, too, when it’s just like, you know it’s the day that great things are going to happen. It was one of those days. And I was just talking about how (we should) write a song about how when you treat a man, like, 1% of how they treat you, sometimes they just freak out. And they’re like, ‘this is horrible. This is the worst thing to ever happen.’ And I’m like, ‘oh, you don’t like it, do you?’ Like, ‘oh, imagine that.’ ...It was just a really fun song to talk about. we were all giggling the whole time.”
Moroney opens “Medicine” with, “I ain't heard from you in three long days/ You won't hear from me for five/ Oh, you gave your number to an L.A. blonde?/ Well, I gave your quarterback mine.” She goes on to sing, “Is it bitter going down, down, down?/ You don't like it too much, do you?/ Coming back around, round, round/ Ain't as fun when it's happening to you/ Oh, poor, poor you, now, who's the fool?/ Say I'm messing with your head again/ Well, how you like the taste of your own medicine?”
Moroney also talked with Bobby about her headlining “Cloud 9” arena tour, which is slated to kick off next month, how Musgraves “changed the trajectory of my life,” her dream of meeting Taylor Swift, and more. Find the full episode on iHeartRadio or watch on Netflix.