“I Got Death Threats” – Megan Moroney Says She Ruffled Some Serious College Football Feathers When She Released “Tennessee Orange”

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College football really is that serious down South…

Of course, Megan Moroney’s first #1 hit was “Tennessee Orange,” which she released in 2022 and first went viral on TikTok, ultimately helping secure her first record deal and launched her onto the path to becoming the country superstar she is now.

The song was co-written by Megan, Ben Williams, David Fanning and Paul Jenkins, she sings about falling for a guy who’s seemingly converted her into a Tennessee Volunteers fan, as she admits she’s now wearing “Tennessee Orange for him,” and even finds herself going to games at Neyland stadium.

On top of that, seeing as she’s a diehard Georgia Bulldogs fan, he has her committing the most egregious of sins that her daddy would never approve of, like “learning the words to ol ‘Rocky Top,’” and even forgetting that she’s “always looked better in red.”

Many speculated that the Volunteer fan she referenced and that inspired the song is Morgan Wallen, and coupled with that buzz, it became a massive hit, and Megan has obviously become one of the premiere mainstream country artists, playing sold out shows all over the country, and just last year, she won her first New Female Artist of the Year at ACM Awards.

But it wasn’t all sunshine and rainbows with that song it sounds like…

During an interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night, Megan talked about her inspiration for that song, saying she knew if her mom had seen her wearing that “gaudy orange” shirt she would have freaked, but it proved how much Megan really liked said “mystery man” the wrote it about:

“Yeah, so, when I moved to Nashville, one day, I found myself wearing a Volunteers shirt. And I remember lookin gin the mirror going, ‘My mom would absolutely kill me right now if she saw me in this gaudy orange.’

And so then I thought, that would make a really good love song, like, I like this dude enough to not wear Georgia red.”

But then she revealed she got “death threats” over that song from some angry college football fans:

“And yeah, I got death threats over that song.”

I mean, sheesh… these rivalries run DEEP but that’s even a lot for SEC fans. Megan seemed to think it was funny, and seeing as she obviously knows what college football is like in the South, I’m sure she wasn’t all that surprised. Those fans are a different breed.

It remains one of my favorite Megan Moroney songs to this day, and it just hits different during football season: