Rising country star Megan Moroney is playing a sold-out show at Terminal B in Buffalo on July 19. Here’s a review of her most recent release, “6 Months Later.”

(Above: Cover art for Moroney’s “6 Month’s Later.”)

By Matt Volz

No matter how a relationship ends, it’s common to experience feelings of hurt, anger, sadness, jealousy or anything else on the wide spectrum of emotions.

It can take a long time to get over someone, especially if you once saw them as “the one.”

But what happens when you’re moving on and feeling better, only for your ex to try and win you back?

That’s the theme Megan Moroney highlights in her recently released single, “6 Months Later.”

The music video for “6 Months Later” released on Wednesday (July 16).

Moroney is a relatively new artist to the country scene. Her debut EP, “Pistol Made of Roses,” was released in July of 2022.

Her popularity soared with the September 2022 release of “Tennessee Orange,” a ballad about how the singer finds herself loving a man in ways she never thought possible, such as wearing Tennessee Volunteers gear despite being a lifelong Georgia Bulldogs fan.

When she sings “In Georgia, they’d call it a sin,” she’s not kidding. College football fans are extremely territorial, and going against the hometown team is a major no-no.

While “Tennessee Orange” might make fans think she’s found the partner of her dreams, her newest single sends a different message.

For starters, “6 Months Later” is noticeably faster than “Tennessee Orange.” The theme of “6 Months Later” is also more focused on self-worth and realizing you don’t need a toxic man to be happy.

The beginning of the new single paints an all-too-familiar picture of heartbreak. She insinuates that at the time, she felt the breakup was going to be the death of her with lines such as “I was barely alive, out of six feet deep, I was five” and “Pretty sure they called a hearse outside.”

The ending of the relationship sounds pretty harsh, too, as Moroney sings that her ex said they would be “better off as strangers.”

He doesn’t even have the decency to say they’d be better off as friends? Ouch.

The chorus of the song describes a phone call in which Moroney’s ex is drunk and acknowledges that breaking up with her was a mistake.

I see some red flags here.

For starters, he’s saying all of this while drunk. Lots of people have said or done stupid things while under the influence, so how do we know (and how does Moroney know) that he really means what he’s saying?

Also, the man starts the phone call by saying, “Hey Meg, I think I want you back.”

He thinks he wants her back or he knows he wants her back, which is it? The audacity of making this call while not even being sure what he wants is appalling, to say the least.

Not to mention, he talks about letting Moroney walk away and letting her go as if she was the one who left.

I’m sorry, who ended the relationship? Oh right, he did.

The song’s hook, “What doesn’t kill you calls you six months later,” puts an interesting spin on an old cliche.

Normally, you’d hear someone say “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” as a way to lift someone’s spirits after enduring something difficult.

Or, in Kelly Clarkson’s case, she might sing it.

Moroney, however, is singing to remind her audience that sometimes, the one who breaks your heart comes back around.

In the second verse, we learn that the unnamed ex has undergone a personal transformation to try and be a better person, or at least he says he has.

While he’s focused on how he’s feeling better, he fails to take Moroney’s feelings into account.

Who says the singer even wants this man back? She has clearly grown in the six months since the breakup, evolving to a point where she’s done with him for good.

But now that he’s okay, he’s expecting her to fall all over him and take him back, ignoring the fact that he’s the one who destroyed her heart half a year before.

That’s clearly not going to happen, as Moroney tells him he is “a little too late to the party.”

The song’s bridge carries a message of empowerment, as Moroney sings that “what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger and blonder and hotter.”

I’m a brunette, so I can’t comment on the “blonder” part of her statement, but I can comment on the others.

Again, Clarkson will tell you that what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger, and who am I to argue with her?

As far as hotness is concerned, there may be some truth there.

A 2022 article from online publication Ex Boyfriend Recovery argues that breaking things off with an ex can make you more attractive.

Sometimes, not being able to have something — or someone — makes the desire much stronger.

But no matter how much this man may want Moroney back in his life, she’s already moved on to bigger and better things, including a trip to Buffalo this summer.

Moroney continues her “Am I Okay? Tour” at Outer Harbor Live at Terminal B on Saturday, July 19.

Entertainment groups AEG, Bowery and Funtime Presents are putting on the event, which will be hosted by Town Ballroom.

It’s a chance for country music fans in Western New York to see the “Georgia Girl” for themselves.The show is sold out, but more information is available at https://www.tixr.com/groups/outerharbor/events/megan-moroney-am-i-ok-tour-116274.