The Rise of Megan Moroney, Emo Cowgirl

“I don’t write a whole lot of love songs,” Megan Moroney said last month, onstage at Radio City Music Hall. Fortunately, that’s not exactly true. Almost all her songs are about love, although she sings mostly about coping with its absence, or its failure to be respectfully reciprocated by various dudes, including one who had a Chevrolet and a sneaky smoking habit, and who is now known, to millions of Moroney fans, as Noah. Moroney is a country singer, though not one who is unduly burdened by the genre’s venerable history, and she has honed her approach on a pair of delectable albums: “Lucky,” from 2023, and “Am I Okay?,” which arrived last summer, and which includes “Noah,” a song that builds to a plaintive confession.