Megan Moroney’s Billboard Near Riley Green’s Bar? Totally Intentional, She Says

The Drew Barrymore Show

Clearing the air on the whole billboard situation. When Megan Moroney released her third studio album Cloud 9 in February, the tracklist included a song called “Who Hurt You?” that fans are convinced is about Riley Green.

There’s been speculation about that one for months, and Moroney says writing it was a cathartic moment, that finds her being incredible honest about this elusive situation. She explained that she tried to include “every possible detail” so she never has to talk about it again:

“I remember coming up with that song and trying to include every possible detail that rhymes, so that I could put it out into the world and never have to talk about that situation again.

Songwriting is always therapeutic for me—but with ‘Who Hurt You?’ in particular I released so many emotions, and it feels really great not to have that all pent-up inside me anymore.”

That she did… it’s pretty ruthless, opening with a line that seemingly gets straight to the point about who it’s about, and while I’m sure she’ll never say for sure, it’s one of those “read between the lines” moments, I think… Really, where she sings “the devil went down to Georgia, then he crossed the Bama line” says a LOT about who the subject of this song might be.

She goes onto reference “hometown happy hours” and “hand-delivered flowers,” explaining that she “tried to run” while it was still a fun fling, alleging it was the man who “cosplayed someone with feelings” and convinced her to stay:

The last verse is really the most scathing, where she calls this person out for dating 21-year-olds and constantly needing his ego fed… she admits that even though she fell for it, she knows she’ll eventually move on, and he won’t. He’ll “stay the same forever”:

“You said you needed less flashy, more fun
Oh, of course she’s 21
On your arm through the bar
God, I hate how gross you are
And how did I not see it?
Your ego, it needs feeding
Endlessly, relentlessly
At the cost of me
And I’ll move on and
I’ll find better But you’ll stay the same forever”

Ultimately, she boils it down to the fact that this guy has a lot of unresolved issues from someone who hurt him before, and honestly, scathing doesn’t feel like nearly a harsh enough word to describe this song.

Riley seemingly had something to say about it too, putting out his own song called “POS Like Me” that same evening, which tells his side of this supposed breakup story:

And just when it seemed like both sides had said their piece, an interesting graphic popped up on The Nashville Sign several weeks ago, which is a 38-foot-tall digital billboard located in downtown Nashville at 1616 Broadway, situated at the intersection of Broadway, West End Avenue, and 16th Avenue, which isn’t far at all from Riley’s Midtown bar, Duck Blind… it’s literally less than a ten minute walk from one to the other.

All that to say, it’s a very prominent location, and Megan’s promotional Billboard, which also featured a Spotify logo, read:

“You said you needed less flashy, more fun. Oh, of course she’s 21…”

They also put a pink animal print background on it to advertise the theme of Cloud 9, and Megan shared it to her millions of followers simply saying in the caption:

“Hahaha.”

I assumed it was mostly Spotify’s doing since they do a ton of promotion for big releases like this, and their logo is on it, but it sounds like Megan had a lot to do with it too.

During her appearance on Drew Barrymore’s show recently, she brought up the fact that both of them have “vandalism” stories of sorts, which led to Megan sharing a story about a different ex, and then she also explained that she put the billboard up in “a very relevant location,” which she doubled down on, and so it seems like she actually had a lot to do with the billboard, and certainly the location, which is incredibly petty but also kinda funny:

“And even more recently, I put up a billboard in a very relevant location in downtown Nashville that says, ‘You said you needed less flashy, more fun. Oh, of course she’s 21.’ Super relevant location, really big, and that was like, four days ago.”

Barrymore pressed on whether the relationship, or whatever it was, ended because this guy was going for a younger girl, saying she had the same thing happen to her before, and Megan replied:

“For sure.”

Well, she’s definitely not being shy or all that coy about any of it, that’s for sure too: