Welcome to Sleeper Hit Support Group, a column diving into the song currently occupying the bottom spot of the Billboard Hot 100.

In a pop landscape that asks more questions that it answers, I'm setting out to answer three questions about each of these songs: how it got here, if the song is good, and where it's going. In this 100th spot we'll find unlikely ascents, falls from grace, and resurgences of hits from bygone eras.

After a couple weeks of you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love album tracks occupying the #100 spot, we're back discussing the women of country again with Megan Moroney's "Medicine."

How did it get here?

29-year-old Megan Moroney hails from the Atlanta suburb of Douglasville, Georgia. She had a pretty typical upbringing as the youngest of three, living a cheerleader/theater kid double life in high school. Moroney was wheelchair-bound for two months after a cheerleading-induced injury, so she took the newfound free time to learn guitar. While pursuing a degree in marketing from the University of Georgia, country artist and Survivor runner-up Chase Rice asked Moroney to open for him at the Georgia Theater after being impressed by her performance at a sorority philanthropy event. Graduating during the thick of COVID, she moved to Nashville with a vital connection in Sugarland's Kristian Bush – whom she interned for in college – with hopes of becoming a songwriter.

Bush didn't know Moroney wrote songs until her mostly administrative internship ended, though. "When I was his intern, I kept my mouth shut. I walked in, saw a Grammy on the wall, and I was like this is not my place to be like 'check out my music,'" she recollected on Ross Golan's And The Writer Is... podcast.

One of the demos that Moroney sent out to publishers and other songwriters was "Wonder," which would become her debut single after it caught people's attention in a TikTok she posted singing it in her car. Bush would produce her first string of singles and eventual debut EP as she found her bearings in Nashville.

However, Moroney's proper breakthrough came from her second single "Tennessee Orange," which earned her both her first Hot 100 entry (peaking at #30 in May 2023) and a record deal with Sony, who won her over the 17 other labels racing for her signature. The swaying country love ballad revolves around betraying her Georgian roots by wearing rival University of Tennessee merch for a man (the man in question is Morgan Wallen, whom Moroney was entangled with around the time she wrote the song).

"Tennesee Orange"'s chart peak came in tandem with the release of Moroney's debut album Lucky, which saw Moroney get in the studio with Nashville heavy hitters to hone her style of sarcastic, whip-smart songwriting. After touring the record, she followed it up a year later with Am I Okay? whose titular opener stood to become its biggest hit, peaking at #34 in June of 2025 after nearly a year of climbing the chart. The track's poppy, chant-along chorus sees Moroney freaking out over a competent love interest after a string of lousy losers.

Part of her tour behind Am I Ok? was in support of former column subject Kenny Chesney, who she joined forces with on the one-off single "You Had To Be There." The song is just about what you'd expect a Kenny Chesney song to sound like these days. It hit the chart for one week at #86. "I thought [Megan] was very smart, that a lot of the things she wanted to do were very creative, and that she was wise beyond her years," Chesney told Rolling Stone.

Immediately after her headline tour concluded, Moroney went back to work to write her third album. The rollout spanned nearly a year with de facto lead single "6 Months Later" landing in June 2025 (which peaked at #29 the following January), 11 months before Cloud 9's eventual release. "Medicine" was pushed as a release week focus track, with Moroney debuting the track on Fallon after she'd snatched a #1 debut on the Billboard 200.

So with all that said...

Is the song any good?

"Medicine" sounds like a song that should have already existed. There's a timeless element to its composition: the way the melodies wrap up neatly along with the thoughts they express, the chugging '50s-inspired bass, the classic "taste of your own medicine" turn of phrase the song is based around. But even with those vintage proclivities, Moroney doesn't hide the modernity of her troubles. "You're re-reading my texts acting obsessed / Feeling just a little bit crazy."

The track brims with personality as she returns an ex's shady and passive behavior, suggesting "You should try crying in the shower, it's really great" as a sarcastic kiss-off before the final chorus. It's a great sampler of what seems to be Moroney's M.O., serving a pleasantly surprising introduction to my previous blind spot to the rising star.

Where is it going?

I'm far from the first person to make this comparison, but Moroney feels like an alternate universe version of Taylor Swift that never left country. She is unabashedly feminine with her wavy blond extensions and Cloud 9's hot pink branding. If this video is any sort of a proper sampling, Moroney is very popular amongst young girls, and the confidence and self-assurance she exudes in her music make her a great role model.

Considering how strong the competition is in the country categories for the upcoming Grammys, I don't see Moroney going home with many (or potentially any) wins, but I'd be delighted to be proven wrong. Sue me; I've been bitten by Southern charm.