LOS ANGELES — Megan Moroney is posted up in the bar of the London West Hollywood hotel on a recent afternoon, enjoying a second round of spicy margaritas as she and her team go over the details of the busy week for which they’ve just flown into Los Angeles.
Tomorrow the country singer will play her first late-night show with a performance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”; two days later, she’ll headline a sold-out gig at the Troubadour where Olivia Rodrigo will turn up to sing along and snap a cozy backstage photo. Before all that, Moroney has an appearance at the Grammy Museum scheduled for this evening, but that’s still a few hours away — just enough time to shake off what remains of her hangover from the Jonas Brothers concert she caught last night in Nashville, Tenn., to celebrate her 26th birthday.
“I think I ended up drinking vodka-crans,” she says with a baffled-looking expression. “I don’t know what that was about.”
Moroney, who starts every show by telling her audience that she has “absolutely horrible taste in men,” never takes more than a sip or two onstage. Anything more is “really scary,” she says. “I would overshare — might name-drop first and last: ‘So this song is about …’”