Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Musgraves
Kacey Lee Musgraves is an American country music singer and songwriter. She self-released three albums before appearing on the fifth season of the USA Network's singing competition Nashville Star in 2007, where she placed seventh. She signed to Mercury Nashville in 2012 and has released two critically acclaimed albums on the label, Same Trailer Different Parkand Pageant Material...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCountry Singer
Date of Birth21 August 1988
CityMineola, TX
CountryUnited States of America
A lot of what gets on the radio isn't saying anything other than somebody wants to be famous and will do whatever they're told to get it.
When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
I don't push buttons to push buttons. Throwing the rebel card out there is really cheap.
I do try to shop online and support people who hand-make their stuff, and because you can find stuff that nobody else has.
Fame freaks me out. Do you just wake up different? I don't know how to scale it back if it gets too crazy.
If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
I realize that I'm not going to be everybody's cup of tea, and that's okay. I think that's the point of music.
A label's typical plan would be to put something out that's safer and get fans, and then push buttons, but my idea is to push buttons first, scare off the people who are gonna be scared off, and then the right people will like you for who you really are, and stay with you.
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it.
A lot of times, I'm singing things that are observational and am definitely including myself.
When something comes to my brain, I don't ignore it. You never know what it's going to turn into.
Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
Obviously, I don't live and die by it, everything my horoscope says. But I feel like there's definitely something to it.
I wouldn't ever do a radio edit because I feel like it would totally go against the point of 'Follow Your Arrow.' I just think you're going to like it or not like it.