Megan Moroney, Hitmakers Storyteller of the Year, on Her Narrative Hits

Megan Moroney ’s most recent country hit, “6 Months Later,” is like an answer song to Kelly Clarkson (or, sure, Nietzsche), with its great lyrical hook: “What doesn’t kill you calls you six months later” — followed by a bridge that declares, “What doesn’t kill you / Makes you stronger and blonder and hotter / Makes you wonder what you even saw in him at all.” The unspoken corollary to all that survival talk is: What doesn’t kill you can make for a top 10 country hit that positively slays.

Moroney is coming off a sophomore album, “Am I Okay?,” and a tour that felt like a genre-specific equivalent to a Taylor Swift show, with audiences of mostly young women shouting Moroney’s breakup lyrics back at her at venues like L.A.’s Greek Theatre, where she easily sold out two nights and could hav