Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

^^ right

surely y'all have listened to sad songs that sound happy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWmPfQ-9AXQ

xp it's just a wasted opportunity to me, great melody, production and delivery but the lyrics do nothing for it

'Cause everyone knows someone who kills the buzz
Every time they open up their mouth
^^hardly lyrics imo

I think placeholder "let's go dancing" lyrics had been preferable

Feeling targeted by that lyric huh

haha, nice

the lyrics are weird -- the song is thisclose to being a dog whistle (because "high horse" is usually associated with moralizing) but decides it wants to be "That Don't Impress Me Much" at the last minute

otm!

but That Don't Impress Me Much is funny

High Horse is great, obviously. I don’t know what’s wrong with you people.

get off that fucking horse

it's a fine horse, sir, and i can see quite far when sitting on it.

fuck a horse, ride a cowboy

Love Is a Wild Thing is the best track imo

popism means embracing the pop-adjacent music embraced by a bunch of nerds who stanned for art brut instead of the stuff actually marketed to america

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Tuesday, April 3, 2018 1:24 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark

yeah who can forget real america's wholesale embracing of "milf money"

milf money was a good song

what in god's name was good about milf money

xp I'm not saying High Horse isn't a good song, I just feel like the lyrics are a wasted opportunity, spending all that chorus energy dismissing some vague and indistinct character when it could have been about Kacey/me/us

I like this a lot. Thought her debut was overrated so I didn't even bother with Pageant Material but clearly I need to go back and reassess.

"Butterflies" always puts Genesis's "That's All" in my head.

*Shockingly* good this album.

why shockingly?

bc of the tingles

i dunno i thought it'd be more country-ish or sumthin. more like the Dixie Chicks.

dixie chicks? had you heard any of her music before this album?

no never, i just read she had been a country singer or something.

i gave this a proper second listen

there's a cluster of three tracks that are just amazing

mother
love is a wild thing
space cowboy

happy & sad is potentially a great track as well, which would make that four great tracks back to back, but it might be a grower

i'm a sucker for piano tracks so rainbow is a very nice outro

also what's the problem with smoking weed? she seems/sounds chill and would be cool to hang with

best track has to be love is a wild thing, though -- those keys after the music stops (at 2:56) reminds me a lot of future islands for some reason

stylistically it is a lot more varied than her previous albums i want to say, as well

xpost pretty sure she's still a country singer

xpost No problem with the weed smoke, it's just a little one note to me. All the "high" and "buzz" et al. puns just distract me a little.

And LOL at the song that references that Survivor ballad. Is that ... on purpose?

this is cool, but not quite as good as Little Big Town's comparable stuff

I feel like she didn't write these songs for her own voice... she keeps reaching for high notes that don't seem to suit her range.

(NB - I can't sing or write songs for @#$%.)

The pre-chorus of "Love Is a Wild Thing" really illustrates what I'm talking about, btw.

i can't even wrap my mind around negative reax to this record

this album is really great!

wow the lyric video for "high horse" is like vaporwave.

at first, i did think the "high horse" chorus melody felt stilted or forced somehow, but then i grew to love it. maybe in part because of the awkwardness?

on my 3rd listen of the day, stunning album

"mother" is such a weird little composition. its brevity catches me off guard every time.

in tennessee the sun's going down / but in beijing they're heading out to work

That's the line that reminded me of Neil Young

our reactions to 'slow burn':

me: 'this has a really stunning arrangement but i wish it changed up the basic bliss-out chord-sequence a bit more, we've heard it a zillion times'

tt: 'why not hear it another?'

it does modulate the third chord of the sequence nicely i guess

Oh come on that chord change in Slow Burn is amazing and completely elevates the entire song, I could hear it again and again for much longer than the song lasts.

Fair enough.

Butterflies is really lovely too. More as we get it

What I don't get is how Beck's Sea Change can get such a (wrongful) kicking in the recent poll of his albums, and yet this is widely lauded - they occupy a similar sonic space and vibe to me (this is more pop, and less orchestrated, obv)

I know this is one of my insane comparisons and Completely Rong etc but I can't shake it. It's a positive comparison at least!

Wonder Woman is another good song. High Horse less so

Rainbow might be better if another high-profile female US popstar hadn't put out a piano ballad called, uh, Rainbow just a year ago, and it be quite a bit better than this. You played yourself Kacey!

That aside (and High Horse), this is a solid album with a couple of grand highlights

'high-profile popstar' ok w/e

"high profile," is that some sort of weed reference?

clearly the word "the" is a weed reference, being one letter off from THC

Profile. Pro ... filé. Like, filé as in gumbo, filé aka powdered LEAVES. Profile=pro-pot.

Oh come on that chord change in Slow Burn is amazing and completely elevates the entire song, I could hear it again and again for much longer than the song lasts.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, 10 April 2018 09:49 (six days ago) Permalink

I'm not sure I get what you guys talk about : the 3rd chord of the 4 chords sequence is the one you enjoy particularly ? I don't really see what's special about it.

I think "Velvet Elvis" is my favorite song on this album... the lyrics are basic, but I really like the groove.