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!! Discography:
* ''Same Trailer Different Park'' (2013)
* ''Pageant Material''(2015)
* ''[[ChristmasSongs A Very Kacey Christmas]]'' (2016)
* ''Golden Hour'' (2018)
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Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack. In 2014, she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("Merry Go 'Round") and Best Country Album for ''Same Trailer Different Park''. Her second album, ''Pageant Material'', was released in 2015.

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Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack. In 2014, she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("Merry Go 'Round") and Best Country Album for ''Same Trailer Different Park''. Her second album, ''Pageant Material'', was released in 2015.
2015. Her third album, ''Golden Hour'', was released in 2018 to great critical success.
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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas, Kacey Musgraves (born August 21, 1988) was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of ''Series/NashvilleStar''.

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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas, Kacey Lee Musgraves (born August 21, 1988) was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of ''Series/NashvilleStar''.
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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas. Musgraves was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of Series/NashvilleStar. Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack. In 2014, she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("Merry Go 'Round") and Best Country Album for ''Same Trailer Different Park''. Her second album, ''Pageant Material'', was released in 2015.

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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas. Texas, Kacey Musgraves (born August 21, 1988) was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of Series/NashvilleStar. ''Series/NashvilleStar''.

Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack. In 2014, she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("Merry Go 'Round") and Best Country Album for ''Same Trailer Different Park''. Her second album, ''Pageant Material'', was released in 2015.
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* ChristmasSongs: Her 2016 album ''A Very Kacey Christmas''.
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* {{Deconstruction}}: "Merry-Go-Round" is a deconstruction of the myriad country songs celebrating small town life.
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* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Miserable" is one of these, directed at someone who simply refuses to be happy, no matter what happens.

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* BeYourself: The moral of "Follow Your Arrow":

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* BeYourself: BeYourself:
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The moral of "Follow Your Arrow":


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** Also, "Pageant Material:"
-->I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't.
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* RereleaseTheSong: After "Dime Store Cowgirl" failed to crack the airplay charts, it was sent to radio a second time... [[StatusQuoIsGod and failed to chart again]].
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* SignatureStyle: Her production is usually very light and loose with lots of acoustic guitar, and her lyrics oftten introspective and deep yet still displaying a fun and playfulness to them.

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* GayAesop: "Follow Your Arrow", again; see above.

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* GayAesop: "Follow Your Arrow", again; see above. (Co-writer and co-producer Shane [=McAnally=] is openly gay.)



* LastSecondWordSwap: "Follow Your Arrow" is somewhere between this and a SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion:

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* LastSecondWordSwap: "Follow Your Arrow" is somewhere between this this, SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion, and a SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion:MidwordRhyme:


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* TakeThat: "Good Ol' Boys Club" is a take-that against the tight corporate mentality of Nashville, including the line "another gear in a big machine", an obvious jab at Big Machine Records, a large independent country music label.
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* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "Biscuits" appropriately has the drummer playing a biscuit pan.
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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas. Musgraves was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of Series/NashvilleStar. Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack. In 2014, she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("Merry Go 'Round") and Best Country Album for ''Same Trailer Different Park''.

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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas. Musgraves was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of Series/NashvilleStar. Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack. In 2014, she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("Merry Go 'Round") and Best Country Album for ''Same Trailer Different Park''.
Park''. Her second album, ''Pageant Material'', was released in 2015.
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* WanderlustSong: "My House" is about life in an RV, traveling from campsite to campsite.
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* EthicalSlut: Follow Your Above, see above.

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* EthicalSlut: Follow "Follow Your Above, Arrow", see above.
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* EthicalSlut: Follow Your Above, see above.
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* GoingCommando: She [[http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20316530_20869770,00.html?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag admitted]] that she performed this way at the 2014 Country Music Association awards because they wouldn't stay on.

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* GoingCommando: She [[http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20316530_20869770,00.html?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag admitted]] that she performed this way at the 2014 Country Music Association awards because they [[WardrobeMalfunction fell off]] and wouldn't stay on.
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* GoingCommando: She [[http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20316530_20869770,00.html?xid=socialflow_facebook_peoplemag admitted]] that she performed this way at the 2014 Country Music Association awards because they wouldn't stay on.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Her music, in general, is quite edgy compared to most other country music. See the lyrics for "Follow Your Arrow" for details - MANY people in the often highly conservative country music community wanted her burned at stake for writing such a blatantly liberal song.

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* DarkerAndEdgier: Her music, in general, is quite edgy compared to most other country music. See the lyrics for "Follow Your Arrow" for details - MANY people in the often highly notoriously conservative country music community wanted her burned at stake for writing such a blatantly liberal song.
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* DarkerAndEdgier: Her music, in general, is quite edgy compared to most other country music. See the lyrics for "Follow Your Arrow" for details - MANY people in the often highly conservative country music community wanted her burned at stake for writing such a blatantly liberal song.
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* IronicNurseryTune: In "Merry Go Round":
-->Jack and Jill went up the hill\\
Jack burned out on booze and pills\\
Mary had a little lamb\\
Mary just don't give a damn no more.
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-->If you don't save yourself for marriage you're a hor�rible person

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-->If you don't save yourself for marriage you're a hor�rible hor...rible person

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Before her debut single, she sang guet vocals on "Oh, Tonight" by Josh Abbott Band.

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* EarlyBirdCameo: Before her debut single, she sang guet guest vocals on "Oh, Tonight" by Josh Abbott Band.



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* MiseryBuildsCharacter: "Silver Lining" has this as a theme:
-->If you're ever gonna find a silver lining, it's gotta be a cloudy day, it's gotta be a cloudy day.
-->If you wanna fill your bottle up with lightning, you're gonna have to stand in the rain, you're gonna have to stand in the rain.

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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas. Musgraves was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of Series/NashvilleStar. Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack.

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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas. Musgraves was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of Series/NashvilleStar. Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack.
soundtrack. In 2014, she won the Grammy Award for Best Country Song ("Merry Go 'Round") and Best Country Album for ''Same Trailer Different Park''.


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* GayAesop: "Follow Your Arrow", again; see above.
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* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: She placed ''seventh'' on the last season of ''Series/NashvilleStar'', but fared much better than that season's winner Angela Hacker, who put out only one album full of demos and was never heard from again.

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* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: She placed ''seventh'' on the last fifth season of ''Series/NashvilleStar'', but fared much better than that season's winner Angela Hacker, who put out only one album full of demos and was never heard from again.
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Wherever it points\\

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* BeYourself: The moral of "Follow Your Arrow":
-->Make lots of noise\\
Kiss lots of boys\\
Or kiss lots of girls\\
If that's something you're into\\
When the straight and narrow\\
Gets a little too straight\\
Roll up a joint, or don't\\
Just follow your arrow\\
Wherever it points, yeah\\
Follow your arrow\\
Wherever it points\\
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A CountryMusic singer from Golden, Texas. Musgraves was first exposed to the world in 2007 when she placed seventh on season five of Series/NashvilleStar. Although she had been recording since 2002, she did not get her breakout until she appeared on Josh Abbott Band's 2011 single "Oh, Tonight". After that, she signed with Mercury and released her album ''Same Trailer Different Park'', which has produced three country singles: "Merry Go 'Round", "Blowin' Smoke", and "Follow Your Arrow". She also co-wrote and sang backing vocals on Music/MirandaLambert's "Mama's Broken Heart", and has written songs for the ''Series/{{Nashville}}'' soundtrack.

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* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Same Trailer Different Park'' is name-dropped in the first single "Merry Go 'Round".
* {{Bowdlerize}}: "Follow Your Arrow" censors the line "Roll up a joint, or don't" in the chorus.
* EarlyBirdCameo: Before her debut single, she sang guet vocals on "Oh, Tonight" by Josh Abbott Band.
* LastSecondWordSwap: "Follow Your Arrow" is somewhere between this and a SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion:
-->If you save yourself for marriage, you're a bore
-->If you don't save yourself for marriage you're a hor—rible person
* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: She placed ''seventh'' on the last season of ''Series/NashvilleStar'', but fared much better than that season's winner Angela Hacker, who put out only one album full of demos and was never heard from again.
* StatusQuoIsGod: "Merry Go 'Round" mixes this with SmallTownBoredom, while "Blowin' Smoke" is about a group of waitresses who want to quit their job and go off to bigger and better things, but they're just "blowin' smoke".
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