Here’s Why Fans Are Convinced That Morgan Wallen’s Viral New Song, ‘TN’, Is About Megan Moroney

As Morgan Wallen’s widely lauded new studio album, I’m the Problem, continues to dominate the charts in the US, UK, Australia and more, a handful of tracks from the Tennessee megastar’s 37-song opus are starting to set themselves apart.

One such offering, ‘TN’, has been going viral across TikTok, with around 2K videos already being made using that sound, despite the song only being out for just over a week.

When you look at the kind of videos the song is being used for, you uncover country's latest fan-theory. Over the past few months, CountryTok has been preoccupied with the prospect of a love triangle starring Riley Green, Megan Moroney and Ella Langley.

But ‘TN’ has shifted the’ focus back to a long-mythologised romance - Morgan Wallen and Megan Moroney. An array of fans are convinced that Wallen’s ‘TN’ was written about Moroney.

Now, before we fall too far into this rabbit-hole of lyrical lore, it’s worth underlining that this isn’t, by any means, the first time fans have attempted to shoehorn one of Morgan Wallen or Megan Moroney’s songs into their fabled love-story.

Last summer, the slew of fan-theories claiming ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’ - which Wallen didn’t even write - was penned about Moroney picked up such a head of steam that Call Her Daddy’s Alex Cooper even asked the ‘Tennessee Orange’ singer-songwriter about it during her podcast appearance a few weeks after the song’s release.

Admittedly, the supposed link between Moroney and ‘TN’ feels somewhat less tenuous than ‘Lies, Lies, Lies’, with fans pointing to similarities between Wallen’s new track and ‘Tennessee Orange’. Moroney has confirmed the latter was written about Wallen’s Volunteers sweatshirt, with the Georgia native hinting that they shared a brief romance before going back to being friends on Call Her Daddy. What’s more, Moroney’s 2024 ode, ‘Mama, I Lied’, is largely viewed as the broken-hearted sequel to the rose-tinted (or rather, marigold-tinted) ‘Tennessee Orange’.

There are the obvious ties with ‘TN’, such as the fact that the girl Wallen sings to shares the same home-state as Moroney, as well as parallels to the storyline of ‘Tennessee Orange’.

The lyric in ‘TN’, “It’s the letters on my hat, the dust on my dash”, has fans particularly excited, pointing out how Megan Moroney dons a Tennessee Volunteers cap in the ‘Tennessee Orange’ music video as she sings, “I wore the hat on his dash to the game”. Some fans are highlighting another of Morgan Wallen’s lines in ‘TN’, “There ain’t enough sad songs in Nashville”, as a possible (and very subtle) nod to Megan Moroney’s much-loved 2023 track, ‘Sad Songs for Sad People’.

If you want to go even deeper into the lore, a few fans theorised that one of the many stand-outs from Wallen’s 2023 opus, One Thing At A Time, ‘Tennessee Numbers’, was about Moroney. It finds the ‘Love Somebody’ chart-topper lamenting how an ex won’t accept any calls coming from the TN area code, in case they’re from him.

There’s a line in ‘TN’ that definitely feels like a callback to this song, as Wallen references the girl not responding to a Tennessee call - “It’s the number she ain’t gonna pick up”.

As for the line, “It’s CO, or CA, or back home, in GA”, one fan has gone as far as finding what appear to be two old, back-to-back Instagram posts of Megan Moroney sharing that she was in Colorado (CO) and then in California (CA) shortly after.

Of course, it's worth stressing at this point that fans have been doing their best to keep the Me-Mo narrative (did we just make that up?) alive for a long time now, and this could just be the latest example of listeners trying to keep the fantasy of two of the biggest country artists in the game today being star-crossed lovers.

But, on the other hand, there are a lot of followers commenting on how they’d never really bought the idea that Wallen and Moroney were singing about each other post-‘Tennessee Orange’…that is, until they heard all the supposed Easter Eggs in ‘TN’.

Megan Moroney has always maintained that she will never publicly share who her songs are about, and Morgan Wallen is known for being similarly tight-lipped about his music - which, inevitably, only adds to the intrigue from their respective fanbases.

Regardless of whether ‘TN’ was indeed inspired by Moroney, or is simply a made-up tale of the one that got away from a good ol’ boy in the Volunteer state, it’s undoubtedly an infectious earworm, and we’re not mad that it’s having a viral moment.

When college football season rolls around once again this Fall, you can surely expect to see a plethora of TikTok videos soundtracked by ‘TN’, with tantalising clips of a packed-out Neyland Stadium interspersed with idyllic images of Knoxville in Autumn.

We like to think Wallen and Moroney are laughing together about how fans are reading too deeply into their lyrics, when in reality, they both just like singing about cross-state romances. Or perhaps these TikTok investigators really are onto something.

We'll let you be the judge. All we know, is that we’ll be keeping ‘TN’ - along with the other 36 songs on Wallen’s stellar new album - on repeat for the foreseeable future, while we keenly look forward to Moroney's momentous Am I Okay? follow-up.

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