Megan Moroney Reveals She Wants to Collaborate with Olivia Rodrigo: ‘That Would Lean Sad and Angry’ (Exclusive)

Megan Moroney’s life has been hectic lately. Not only has she been in the midst of this year’s CMA Fest, but the country star also revealed her second capsule collection with Boys Lie on Tuesday, June 10. Now, Moroney, 27, is contemplating what her next album will look like following the success of her second record Am I Okay? last year —and who she wants to collaborate with in the future.

“I am definitely in the studio working on the next album,” she tells PEOPLE in a recent interview. “I’m giving myself a few more months to write some more songs, but it feels lighter and a little more carefree than my other albums.”

While Moroney notes that the sound is “definitely progressing,” she’s careful about never making the same album twice.

“I’m excited to be experimenting, even though I got the same producer and I’m working with a lot of the same songwriters,” she says. “It’s just been fun to be like, ‘Okay, what have we not really done yet, and what’s still on brand, but new and fresh?”

While Moroney plays coy when it comes to influences, she says the record feels “very me.”

“It’s more me than ever,” the “No Caller ID” performer says.

With new music on the horizon, Moroney is also contemplating who she’d love to write songs with in the future. At the top of her list is Olivia Rodrigo, who she listens to when she’s really sad.

“I would imagine that [our song] would lean sad and angry,” she says of working with the pop star, 22. “I think we would crush an idea like that.”

Another female pop artist she’d love to do a “more fun” collaboration with is Tate McRae, with whom she performed “Tennessee Orange” on stage last year.

“I’m a fan of them,” Moroney says of Rodrigo and McRae, 21. “I’ve gotten to briefly hang out with both of them, and I think we could come up with something really cool if the opportunity presented itself.”

There is one more artist whom she’d love to get in the studio with, too: Ed Sheeran.

“I became even a bigger fan after he asked me to perform at The Bluebird Café [in March] with him, because it was really cool to see someone be such a global superstar and still just care about the songs the way he did,” says Moroney of the “Shape of You” hitmaker, 34.

Moroney recalls seeing Sheeran light up when he was hearing songs he hadn’t heard for the first time.

“It was just very cool to see,” she says.

Moroney’s latest capsule collection for Boys Lie will be available on Tuesday, June 17.

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