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The country music relationship tennis match between Megan Moroney and Riley Green continues.
There have been holiday snaps, reflections in sunglasses, suspicious lyrics and two songs landing on the same day. Megan has since confirmed that her track - ‘Who Hurt You?’ was indeed about Riley. Riley continues to insist the other, ‘P.O.S’, wasn’t about her.
The interest continues as Green has been asked who ‘P.O.S.’ is actually about.
With Green’s new album That’s Just Me arriving on 18th September, one particular track is bringing with it several months of speculation. The track ‘P.O.S.’ appears on the eagerly awaited project, after Green first teased it on the same day Moroney released Cloud 9. Speaking during a newly released interview with Sirius, The Highway, Green explained that he and Randy Montana did not write the song about any particular person. Instead, it came from the kind of character they enjoy creating. A man some people might look down on but who is completely unapologetic about his beer drinking, hunting, dog loving way of life.
It is self-deprecating, defensive and extremely Riley Green. But there is a reason fans thought Moroney was the woman it was edging towards.
Green and Moroney performed ‘Don’t Mind If I Do’ together on stage in November 2024 when Megan stepped in to sing Ella Langley’s part. A few months later, fans became convinced they had travelled to St. Barts together after comparing their holiday photographs. Then came the sunglasses. The internet did what it does best and zoomed into the reflection in a pair Green was wearing and believed they could see Moroney was the one taking the photograph.
Neither confirmed they were in a relationship and by March 2025, Green was describing himself as “pretty damn single”. And maybe the story did end there. Or did it? In January 2026, Moroney released ‘Wish I Didn’t’, a warning to a man with a reputation.
Fans immediately noticed her singing that everything might be “sunshine and blue skies” but she could also “make it rain”. Green has a song called ‘Make It Rain’. Moroney then put on a pair of reflective sunglasses during the teaser. Advantage Moroney. For now!
Then, on 20th February, she released Cloud 9. The album included ‘Who Hurt You?’, which sounded considerably less like a discreet nod to that era and more like the story told honestly from her experience in a song.
Although Moroney didn’t use his name, she has since admitted she wasn’t exactly trying to make it difficult. “I made it so obvious who it’s about that you could Google it,” she told Cosmopolitan.
Then, hours after Cloud 9 arrived, Green returned the serve and he posted a previously unheard song called ‘P.O.S.’, singing from the perspective of a man whose ex could drag his name through the mud, call him a liar and blame everything on him, but would never find another overall wearing, Waffle House eating man quite like him.
The woman in the song also hated his dogs, his music and living “way out here” Moroney does however, love dogs, so either weakens the theory, or it’s a fine dummy shot by Green!
There is nothing within ‘P.O.S.’ that specifically identifies Moroney. It was the timing that did most of the talking. Fans immediately interpreted it as Gren's answer to ‘Who Hurt You?’. It looked less like a reply to her entire album and more like him defending himself. According to Green, it wasn’t. Green has consistently said he wrote ‘P.O.S.’ around six months before Cloud 9 was released and simply happened to be at home wanting to share a song that day. When Pat McAfee recently questioned whether anybody could arrange timing that perfect by accident, Green laughed: “I don’t think I’m smart enough to pull something like that off.”
To be fair, writing the song six months earlier means it could not have been created as a response to ‘Who Hurt You?’ - unless he saw it coming. However, writing it six months earlier and choosing to post it on the exact day Moroney released the song are two slightly different things.
Either way, Green is sticking firmly to his answer. ‘P.O.S.’ was not written about Moroney or anybody else. It began with a character he and Montana found funny and relatable, then became one of the most talked-about unreleased songs of his career.
Now, although The Highway interview naturally focused on ‘P.O.S.’ because it is the most defensive song in this back and forth, it isn’t the only track on Green's new record that could keep fans playing detective.
In ‘That’s Just Me’, Green wonders whether an ex still drives past his house, thinks about how things used to be or pours a little too much wine while remembering him.
He is left calling her, alone, trying to find a way to get over her. Then, on ‘Imagine That’, he calls an ex late at night, admits he is sorry about the things he did and didn’t do and says he is desperate to get her back.
‘Go Again’, his duet with Hannah McFarland, tells the story of two people who know they should say goodbye but remain tempted to repeat the same theme. So for now, we’ll have to keep guessing who hurt him, the songs are so honest they clearly come from somewhere.
And heard alongside Moroney's confirmed account in ‘Who Hurt You?’ and what comes across as a defensive song in ‘P.O.S.’ it all creates a rather interesting possible sequence.
But the facts remain. The relationship was never officially confirmed. Green says the reply was never a reply. But, it’s hard to ignore that nearly seven months later, the Megan and Riley ball is somehow still in play.
