Believe it or not, Morgan Wallen was once on a reality singing competition before he became a bona fide country badboy. American Idol was the first reality TV series to make singers into superstars, but was the "Cowgirls" singer one of them?
Morgan has seemingly always been a hot commodity, as he left the show on Team Adam after the Maroon 5 frontman stole him from Usher during the battle rounds.
The "Confessions" artist chose Morgan's opposing duet singer to stay on his team, which left the "Wasted on You" singer vulnerable and kicked off of the competition. However, Adam saved Morgan at the last minute when he slammed his "Steal" button.
"My mom actually signed me up for The Voice , the TV show, [I] went on there. I didn't even know what it was [because] I never even heard of it," he said during a November 2022 episode of Drury Outdoors. "And I was like, 'Yeah I guess I'll go, you know, if you drive me to St. Louis. I'm actually willing to try it out, and made it on there, made like top 20.'"
Morgan later admitted that he "wanted to sing country music, but they wanted [him] to sing pop music."
"I was just like I guess these people are really smart people, I guess I'll try it," the Grammy-nominated artist continued. "And I sang some pop songs and then they finally let me pick a song, and I picked a country song and they kicked me off."
Morgan waved goodbye to his hometown and moved to Nashville in 2015. He released his first studio album, If I Know Me, just three years after moving to Music City.
Morgan was at the top of his career after releasing Dangerous, which included songs "Sand in My Boots" and "Wasted on You." However, his world turned upside down in February 2021 after he was recorded drunkenly yelling the n-word outside of his home in Nashville.
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