Between the thematic dressing, the dramatically different album eras, and the relationship speculation through song, it seems like Moroney has mastered the Taylor Swift career playbook. The next stop for her, though, won’t be a full pop crossover, or going exclusively country. “I just mainly didn’t want people to think I’m going off the deep end with it,” she says. “It was just not putting myself in a box.” She also deflects comparisons to Swift. Moroney is particularly inspired by Kacey Musgraves, an artist who’s balanced country success on her own terms with a pop-music-size audience. Musgraves’s first album, Same Trailer, Different Park, inspired Moroney to try songwriting. For Cloud 9, Moroney wrote “Bells & Whistles,” a song that sounded spiritually in tune with Musgraves’s debut. Then she got an idea. “I was like, This is nostalgic—maybe she’ll hear it too,” Moroney says. “I didn’t want to ask too much of the queen, just some background vocals. ‘Could you spare a few background vocals, so I can talk about it and die happy?’” Musgraves ultimately …