Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

agree that of her post-STDP songs, "love is a liar" is miles better and more interesting

Like the songs on STDP it's simple yet gets better with every listen and of course it includes the hilarious line If love wore pants they'd always be on fire

there was something about "Follow Your Arrow" that always fell short for me, so this is an improvement imo, especially melodically

"Follow Your Arrow" sounded facile and pat -- lyrically and melodically. This is better (e.g. the banjo and pedal steel solos), but it plays as if the songwriters were so in love with the title concept that they failed to imagine an accompanying song.

It's closer to "Step Off' than "Follow Your Arrow" IMO, though all that really means is that "mind your own business" is a recurrent lyrical motif for Kacey.

Musically/arrangement-wise it's not really much like either (or anything else from the debut).

musically it is basically a facsimile of "follow your arrow" tho

I don't like it - sounds overproduced and generic. Not every one on the debut is a keeper though.

"Biscuits" is catchy, fine, but it also feels like pandering to me -- in a way that nothing on the first album really did, for all its homegrown cornpone.

new album june 9th, pageant material

1. "High Time" (written by Kacey Musgraves, Luke Laird and Shane McAnally)
2. "Dime Store Cowgirl" (Musgraves, Laird, McAnally)
3. "Late to the Party" (Musgraves, Brandy Clark, Josh Osborne)
4. "Pageant Material" (Musgraves, Laird, McAnally)
5. "This Town" (Musgraves, Laird, Clark)
6. "Biscuits" (Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne)
7. "Somebody to Love" (Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne)
8. "Miserable" (Musgraves, Osborne, Clark)
9. "Die Fun" (Musgraves, Laird, McAnally)
10. "Family is Family" (Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne)
11. "Good Ol' Boys Club" (Musgraves, Laird, Natalie Hemby)
12. "Cup of Tea" (Musgraves, McAnally, Osborne)
13. "Fine" (Musgraves, Ashley Arrison, Shane McAnally)

promising titles all around

i wonder if any of them will be about how people should mind their own business

don't you worry your pretty little head about that

lol

i am kind of excited though, the wait won't be very long at all

considering that i have not heard her new single on the radio even once yet (like i even heard "keep it to yourself" ~5 times and that was not exactly a big radio smash) i was worried they might hold off giving the album a release date but thankfully not. (not that i am aching to hear "biscuits" on the radio or anything, i still am not a big fan.)

has anyone else heard this album yet?

i am...a little disappointed. it's fine, i guess. her songwriting has taken a turn for the trite :/

all the same cowriters?

can't remember offhand but largely, yeah

hmm that is disappointing. will check it out tho

i wonder if any of them will be about how people should mind their own business
― Premise ridiculous. Who have two potato? (forksclovetofu), Sunday, April 26, 2015

don't you worry your pretty little head about that
― j., Sunday, April 26, 2015

"Trite" is precisely the word I'd use.

I blame all the dang pot smoking.

i blame the touring and limelight, her twitter is just so POSI it's sad : /

What's the ratio of detached ironic kacey to sincere kacey?

i'm glad we can all preemptive dogpile on the presumed Bad Album based on a couple sentences from the only person here who's heard it

"Trite" or "cute?" Either way, I'm looking forward to this. Country weathers trite just fine.

that's why some of us who've heard the album can say it's trite

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http://www.thefader.com/2015/05/28/kacey-musgraves-cover-story-pageant-material-interview

terrible headline imo

terrible lede, terrible sentences

don't think this is a dogpile so much as it is people taking easy shots at the artist who has been putting out multiple singles that sound very much alike
i'm looking forward to hearing this, as much as to gauge where mcanally and osborne and brandy clark are headed.
Does clark have music on this album?

"Musgraves’ already-trademark brand of kitschy, catchy country tunes"

this is some "I come to bury Caesar not praise him" shit.

i don't mean to take shots, i haven't heard the record, but i love the last one so much i am looking forward to the new one with apprehension

I want to love it so much that i can't accept that it will me less than awesome.

lol/smh at the title line of "biscuits" having been written while they were writing "follow your arrow"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AK3siVvUT5A

slow-waltzing closing track, “Fine.”

maybe this was written at the same time as "it is what it is"?

ok i'll stop, i still have hope i will enjoy this album

OK, I've given it a quick listen and yeah, sometimes trite isn't far off the mark. It's also a little too ... gentle? Safe? A little too campfire on the beach? But her vocals/melodies are fine, and it's got a nice, chill vibe all the same. I look forward to spending some quality time with it.

now i'm gentting sad. three people saying (almost) the same.

i mean when i heard her play "high time" live i described it as having a "polynesian feel" but i meant that as a compliment

"Biscuits" is a better song than "Follow Your Arrow" idc idc

lol @ the fader story, if this means hipster music writers are gonna start getting into country after ignoring it all these years...

i really love "follow your arrow" for many reasons but i doubt i'd have become as enamoured of kacey if STDP had been that level of songwriting x 12

"Musgraves’ already-trademark brand of kitschy, catchy country tunes"

the thing with this album is that it feels like she's getting into the box that's been created for her; even its better songs feel like pandering, to an extent

ugh @ all of this

follow the money wherever it points

I like how "Biscuits" is basically the same song, but different. When I saw her play it live, for some reason I didn't think of "Arrow." And when she did "High Time" live, I definitely got the Hawaii vibe, too, which is one reason why I described the feel of the album as kind of beachy. That could potentially position it for a summer crossover, but it's so mellow and not rock the boat that it sort of smooths itself into a corner. Again, not bad, often lovely, lots to like, sounds like her, just not assertive enough to make an impression other than the fact that it doesn't make much of an impression. That is disappointing, even if little on the record is objectively sub-par.

Will I curse things if I concede I've got high hopes for the new Ashley Monroe?

OMG, I was playing the album for my wife, who is a HUGE fan of the last album - like, a weekly listener - and she mentioned this morning that "one of the new songs is the same as one of the old songs, just with different lyrics!" She meant is as a complement, actually.

http://www.stereogum.com/1804629/shamir-merry-go-round-kacey-musgraves-cover/mp3s/

also, via factcheckingcuz:
http://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2015/05/27/sexist-tomato-barb-launches-food-fight-music-row/28036657/

(also too much time on ilx but i could only think of http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?action=showall&boardid=77&threadid=72829 )

The lettuce is Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, Keith Urban and artists like that.

Yeah, lame-ass fast food iceberg lettuce.

shamir is such an irritant

dunno about that but i'm not feeling that cover