Line #19 Music/KaceyMusgraves


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3	->''You're damned if you do\
4	And you're damned if you don't\
5	So you might as well just do\
6	Whatever you want\
7	So, make lots of noise\
8	Kiss lots of boys\
9	Or kiss lots of girls\
10	If that's something you're into\
11	When the straight and narrow\
12	Gets a little too straight\
13	Roll up a joint, or don't\
14	Just follow your arrow wherever it points''
15	-->--'''"Follow Your Arrow"'''
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17	A CountryMusic singer from Golden, UsefulNotes/{{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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19	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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21	Her third album, ''Golden Hour'', was released in 2018 to great critical success. It won her the 2019 Grammy for Best Album (along with three other awards), making her the first country artist to win the top prize of the night since Music/TaylorSwift won for ''Fearless'' in 2010. In 2019, she contributed a song entitled “All Is Found” to the ''WesternAnimation/FrozenII '' soundtrack. Her fourth album, ''star-crossed '', was released in September of 2021. Also in 2021, she would perform the English version of “Don't Disturb Me“, the theme song to ''Anime/EarwigAndTheWitch''. She also voiced Erica's mother in the English-dubbed version of the film.
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24	She was married to fellow country artist Ruston Kelly from 2017 to 2020.
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27	!! Discography:
28	* ''Same Trailer Different Park'' (2013)
29	* ''Pageant Material'' (2015)
30	* ''[[ChristmasSongs A Very Kacey Christmas]]'' (2016)
31	* ''Golden Hour'' (2018)
32	* ''star-crossed'' (2021)
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35	!Tropes present:
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37	* AlbumTitleDrop: ''Same Trailer Different Park'' is name-dropped in the first single "Merry Go 'Round".
38	* AscendedFangirl: She's been a Creator/StudioGhibli fan since childhood and it was announced in December 2020 that she will be voicing a character and singing the song in the English dub for their upcoming release, ''Earwig and the Witch''.
39	* BeYourself: Multiple:
40	** The moral of "Follow Your Arrow":
41	--->Make lots of noise\
42	Kiss lots of boys\
43	Or kiss lots of girls\
44	If that's something you're into\
45	When the straight and narrow\
46	Gets a little too straight\
47	Roll up a joint, or don't\
48	Just follow your arrow\
49	Wherever it points, yeah\
50	Follow your arrow\
51	Wherever it points
52	** Also, "Pageant Material:"
53	-->I'd rather lose for what I am than win for what I ain't.
54	* {{Bowdlerize}}: "Follow Your Arrow" censors the line "Roll up a joint, or don't" in the chorus.
55	* ChristmasSongs: Her 2016 album ''A Very Kacey Christmas''.
56	* BreakUpSong:
57	** "Dandelion" is about her new partner who leave her heartbroken just like her previous one.
58	** "It Is What It Is" is about a couple who didn't love each other anymore but stay together because they don't have any better options.
59	** "Space Cowboy" is about a woman who let her boyfriend go because they don't love each other anymore.
60	** Most of ''star-crossed'' is about her divorce.
61	* DarkerAndEdgier:
62	** 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 notoriously conservative country music community wanted her burned at stake for writing such a blatantly liberal song.
63	** "Back On The Map" is this compared to most of her songs. The SignatureStyle mentioned below is replaced by a sad, somber tone as the singer reflects on her regrets and wishes for a better future.
64	** ''star-crossed'' is her darkest album yet, especially compared to ''Golden Hour''.
65	* {{Deconstruction}}: "Merry Go 'Round" is a deconstruction of the myriad country songs celebrating small town life. Not only the people in the town experience crushing SmallTownBoredom, the lifestyle actively stifles their potential that compel them to [[DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife keep looking for distraction from their boredom]] and can't seem to escape.
66	* DeconReconSwitch: "Space Cowboy" is written from the perspective of the girlfriend who let her own lover goes using the imagery the old Western TheDrifter cowboys riding off to the sunset. Said imagery is portrayed in a bittersweet manner: On one hand, the relationship between them is over and they likely will never see each other again... but both of them no longer love each other and is moving on with their lives.
67	* DownerEnding: ''Same Trailer, Different Park'' ends with "It Is What It Is," a somber number about a couple who is no longer sure that they still love each other but are staying together, possibly out of boredom with their lives. ''Pageant Material'' ends with a very depressing Music/WillieNelson duet about a loved one who has given up on life and now spends his days at a bar populated by depressed and bitter has-beens.
68	* EarlyBirdCameo: Before her debut single, she sang guest vocals on "Oh, Tonight" by Josh Abbott Band.
69	* EthicalSlut: "Follow Your Arrow", see above.
70	* EverythingIsAnInstrument: "Biscuits" appropriately has the drummer playing a biscuit pan.
71	* GayAesop: "Follow Your Arrow", again; see above. (Cowriters Shane [=McAnally=] and Brandy Clark are both gay.)
72	* GoingCommando: She [[https://people.com/country/kacey-musgraves-performed-without-underwear-at-the-cmas/ admitted]] that she performed this way at the 2014 Country Music Association awards because they [[WardrobeMalfunction fell off]] and wouldn't stay on.
73	* IronicNurseryTune: In "Merry Go Round":
74	-->Jack and Jill went up the hill\
75	Jack burned out on booze and pills\
76	Mary had a little lamb\
77	Mary just don't give a damn no more.
78	* LastSecondWordSwap: "Follow Your Arrow" is somewhere between this, SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion, and MidwordRhyme:
79	-->If you save yourself for marriage, you're a bore\
80	If you don't save yourself for marriage you're a hor...rible person
81	* MiseryBuildsCharacter: "Silver Lining" has this as a theme:
82	-->If you're ever gonna find a silver lining, it's gotta be a cloudy day, it's gotta be a cloudy day.
83	-->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.
84	* MsFanservice:
85	** She shows off a lot of skin for a country singer.
86	** She performed nude on ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', wearing only boots and using her guitar to obscure her naked body.
87	* NewSoundAlbum: ''Golden Hour'' is considerably poppier than her first two albums and ''star-crossed'' is even more so.
88	* PrefersGoingBarefoot: She loves being barefoot and exhibits this by doffing her shoes at most if not all of her concerts.
89	* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: "Miserable" is one of these, directed at someone who simply refuses to be happy, no matter what happens.
90	* 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]].
91	* TheRunnerUpTakesItAll: She placed ''seventh'' on the 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.
92	* SavedForTheSequel: “Rainbow” was written in 2012 for ''Same Trailer Different Park'' but didn’t make the cut. It was her grandmother’s favorite song that happened to be the last one finished before she passed away. She even sang the song at the funeral so she didn’t want to put it on ''Pageant Material'' because of its recency. The song finally found its way onto ''Golden Hour''.
93	* SiblingTeam: Her photographer sister, Kelly, shot the cover for “Golden Hour” and they share the art design credit.
94	* SignatureStyle: Her production is usually very light and loose with lots of acoustic guitar, and her lyrics often introspective and deep yet still displaying a fun and playfulness to them, especially when it comes to plays on words.
95	* SillyLoveSongs: "Butterflies," "Love is a Wild Thing," "Velvet Elvis," and "Golden Hour" off ''Golden Hour'', no doubt inspired by Kacey's then-recent marriage. "Golden Hour" in particular is sufficiently soppy as to work well as as a slow dance at a wedding. (Which isn't a bad thing, to be honest.)
96	* 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".
97	* 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.
98	* {{Vaporwave}}: Although the song itself is not an example, the lyric video for "High Horse" uses very vaporwave-inspired graphics. Moreover, "Oh, What A World" off the same album ''does'' exhibit some vaporwave influences in its use of synthetic vocals. Finally, some of her official social-media accounts (e.g. her official [=YouTube=]) render her name as "K A C E Y M U S G R A V E S", suggesting she has more than a passing familiarity with the style.
99	* WanderlustSong: "My House" is about life in an RV, traveling from campsite to campsite.

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