6 Months Later

"6 Months Later" is Megan Moroney's rather sunny-sounding account of a 2019 breakup so emotionally devastating it left her "barely alive."

The breezy kiss-off begins in "November, circa 2019," which gives it the pleasing feel of a historical event. From there, it plunges straight into the wreckage of a relationship gone wrong. Moroney delivers the line, "Put a hole in my heart, watched it bleed," with just enough country twang to make you forget you're listening to someone emotionally implode in real time.

Just when you think it's a good old-fashioned heartbreak song - something you could reasonably cry into a whiskey glass to - the twist arrives: six months later, the ex phones up. He's been to therapy. He's found himself. He's allegedly "stable." And, naturally, he wants her back. Moroney, however, has already done the emotional heavy lifting and moved on. Rather than swoon, she dismisses him with the line: OK well… your next girlfriend will be so lucky