Country music star got death threats after hit song. Here’s why

Megan Moroney, center, performs “6 Months Later” during the 59th Annual Country Music Association Awards on Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2025, at Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV)George Walker IV/Invision/AP

How could a love song spark death threats?

Well, when it comes to college football rivalries, apparently, there’s no room for love, and if you don’t believe it just ask Megan Moroney.

Because the 27 year old revealed on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” last year that is exactly what happened to her.

It turns out that Moroney grew up in a house full of Georgia Bulldog fans and she went on to become a student at the University of Georgia. That is where he career started to take off, and after graduation in 2020 she moved to Nashville to go after her music career.

While there she apparently fell in love with someone who was a Tennessee Volunteers fan and she wrote the song, “Tennessee Orange.”

“So when I moved to Nashville, I found myself a Volunteers shirt, and I remember looking in the mirror, going ‘My mom would absolutely kill me right now if she saw me in this gaudy orange,’” she told Meyers. “So then I thought, that would make a really good love song. Like ‘I like this dude enough to not wear Georgia Red.’”

Parade Magazine said that “Tennessee Orange,” currently has more than 425 million streams on Spotify.

That is when Moroney made the shocking admission.

“Yeah, I got death threats over that song,” she said.

Moroney, Meyers and the audience were able to laugh that off because, thankfully, nobody has attempted to make good on the threats.

And Moroney has continued to churn out hits as one of country music’s top young artists.