Finally speaking out on his seemingly buzzed diss track posted back on the same day as Megan Moroney’s Cloud 9 album release, Riley Green is attempting to set the record straight that “POS Like Me” was not about his rumored country music fling.
If you recall, on February 20, Moroney gifted her fans with her third studio project, “Cloud 9,” which marked a career-high for the Georgia-native, debuting at Number 1 on the US Billboard 200 albums chart and at the time accomplishing the biggest sales week for a female country album in almost two years. The 15-track record also included none other than Moroney’s fierce break-up anthem, “Who Hurt You,” which fans couldn’t help but immediately draw comparisons to her speculated situationship with Green.
Moroney was pretty open about the fact that she did not hold back when writing this album, telling radio host Elaina Smith in a previous interview, “Bar for bar, didn’t lie, said everything so that I don’t have to answer interview questions about the situation.” With the 14th track featuring pretty spelled out lyrics that point an obvious finger towards the Alabama native, such as, “I was blinded by the lies and the manufactured smile. The devil went down to Georgia, then he crossed the Bama Line,” the “Worst Way” singer immediately started taking the heat.
Stirring the pot later that Friday night following the release, Green took to Instagram to post his latest, still yet to be released, “POS Like Me.” The snarky, tongue-in-cheek tune has some pretty hilarious jabs with Green calling out, “You hated my dog, guess you hated my songs.” Of course, the real kicker is the chorus, “You ain’t ever gonna find another low-down, no good, rusted truck driving, waffle house eating, overall wearing, piece of sh** like me.”
Now, with the scorned lyrics and the almost non-coincidental timing of its posting, many immediately took the song as a response to Moroney’s “Who Hurt You,” and fans of the emo-cowgirl were not too happy in the comment section of Green’s alleged response video. Luckily, today Billboard has come to the rescue, asking the question that’s been on everyone’s mind: whether or not this post-breakup song battle was real or not.
Sitting down with the publication as Billboard’s May cover-star, executive editor Melinda Newman asked about the song to which Green explained, “What I was doing was I was playing this song that I’d written, you know, for my fans. And I wrote ‘POS’ like six months before that.” In true media-trained fashion, he continued, “It just happened to be that day I was at home, and I was wanting to post a song, and it got talked about a lot.”
Newman hilariously clarified that while giving his slow explanation, “he can’t totally keep a straight face as he says it.” While I’m not sure I can personally get behind this sporadic story of Green just so happening to post a sassy call-out track on a random Friday night, he clarified that he’d prefer if people don’t speculate his life beyond the music.
He shares, “There’s nothing about my personal life that I feel like is anybody’s business.” Adding, “What would you tell a stranger about your personal life in your everyday life? I kind of look at it like that. What I do on social media or [in] interviews is more of what the entertainer Riley Green would be doing and what I think somebody would like to hear about.”
Unfortunately, sometimes the music still speaks for itself, and people are bound to make their assumptions either way. Lucky for the Duckman fan base and nosey country music lovers, Green also announced today that his fourth studio album, That’s Just Me, will be released on September 18, with plenty of new tracks to dissect.
The latest single from the project, his Thursday, May 28, release, “Think As You Drunk,” not only ushers in this new era of music since his previous 2024 Way Out Here album, but also features a shout-out to country music legend, Toby Keith. Given the song’s “Big Dog Daddy” influence, Green showed the track to Keith’s family, who also saw it as a “tip of the cap to Toby” and granted permission to include his vocals from his 2006 hit, “As Good As I Once Was,” to round out the track.