Kacey Musgraves - 2013 Anticipation

hmm

I've been waiting for Country's The Elder

https://www.instagram.com/p/CS2C9j8FYIZ/

clip of a new track, single rumoured to be out monday

& album reportedly titled Star-Crossed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSIYQiLK-CE

album indeed Star-Crossed out sep 10!

01 Star-Crossed
02 Good Wife
03 Cherry Blossom
04 Simple Times
05 If This Was a Movie…
06 Justified
07 Angel
08 Breadwinner
09 Camera Roll
10 Easier Said
11 Hookup Scene
12 Keep Lookin’ Up
13 What Doesn’t Kill Me
14 There Is a Light
15 Gracias a la Vida

ok this sounds like muse's latin-tinged stuff lmao

but it's good!

like it could have straight up been on black holes & revelations???

Album art and vinyl preorder link below

https://linkstorage.linkfire.com/medialinks/images/cc756f4e-04e0-4289-a461-3d1b5c39e89a/artwork-440x440.jpg

https://kacey.lnk.to/starcrossedvinyl?utm_campaign=708788_Kacey%20-%20announce_247690_US&utm_medium=email&utm_source=dotmailer&dm_i=5B4A%2CF6WK%2C396C0A%2C1LSC0%2C1

There's also a trailer that's very weird

https://us.umusic-online.com/5B4A-F6WK-396C0A-D3L2Y-1/c.aspx

Not much of a song, but still looking forward to this album.

new song is excellent

production's still unbelievable. those breaths...

Looking forward to hearing the Violeta Parra's cover - always found the original impossibly sad

is this bj burton?

love the dramatic latin guitar, and the way it evolves into that sweeping cinematic final minute.

it does feel a little bit like she's playing it vocally too straight during that intro, would prefer her to lean into the campiness.

bj burton didn't produce this track, it was daniel tashian & ian fitchuk who produced all of golden hour & co-wrote half its tracks. burton has writing credits on a few tracks on the new album though apparently

so is this going to be her divorce album

based on those song titles, it looks like it

plus the album title and title track, of course

Hot-take clickbait article pitch for whoever wants it: Kacey's album progression is broadly following Kanye's.

looking forward to her yeezus in 6 years then i guess

And her album with Jay-Z in 3

There's also a trailer that's very weird

https://us.umusic-online.com/5B4A-F6WK-396C0A-D3L2Y-1/c.aspx

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Someone who knows film help me with the influences here. The church and car scenes feel like Tarantino knock-offs, but much of the rest has some familiar vibes that I can't quite place.

Hmm, I dunno, seems pretty boilerplate longform music video kitsch to me.

https://www.target.com/p/kacey-musgraves-star-crossed-target-exclusive-vinyl/-/A-84044473

lol the insert or something that comes with this would be a much much better cover than the actual one

I had the same thought. The actual cover is truly terrible. Looks like the front of the vinyl is going to gatefold open though.

the golden hour cover is awful so maybe this is a good omen. i saw someone say this one looks like the cover of a slayter single

if she's gonna embrace camp this time around, i don't think the cover is that bad

i mean, it's not "good," but it's maybe fitting

wtf the golden hour cover is gorgeous

i like this too tho

Yah golden hour cover is pretty generic, just reminds me of stuff like early 00s Michelle Branch covers. I like the new one tho.

She's dating a bro-poet slash advertising guru.

my extremely positive feelings about the golden hour cover have only been magnified by looking at it during an acid trip

haha well then thats that

her first two albums had pretty striking covers, the golden hour one is just like a normal photo w/ plain font. her sister took the photo so i'm sure it had sentimental value to her. this one is more memorable if not exactly great. that target insert is >>>> i agree

First two woulda been better without the type.

went to the country music hall o fame/museum in nashville a few weeks back and like the full first floor was dedicated to her. her exhibit is bigger than anyone elses there. i figured it was just put together for the album push but apparently its been there for two years
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUz-iaBdcjI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cu8ZqHRB20

the golden hour cover is quite good, captures the feeling of the album really well

absolutely it does!

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/arts/music/kacey-musgraves-star-crossed.html

Love Kacey, don't really want a "pop" Kacey (whatever that is), and kind of found that whole piece insufferable.

Hess's prose here is a love-it-or-hate-it kind of thing. I can see why someone like Josh hates it, but I think it's appropriate to its subject. When you're writing about someone who spends a lot of her time standing next to a neon cactus, some camp is to be expected.

a vast kitchen island punctuated with a confusing number of lemons

a kind of yee-haw Mona Lisa

aligning your brand so expertly with consumption that you start dressing like an actual cupcake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-0PaQanGBc

this is fine but i'm not really excited by it

I like it, I feel like it's a grower. Like I'll be happy for it to turn up in the middle of the album.

it's the sort of track that i'll probably enjoy more in context instead of as a single

I just watched the trailer anticipating something good, and I finished it sucking my teeth. hooooo boyyyyy….

idk i don't have any expectations either way about the film & if it ends up being bad it doesn't really matter

more craft than passion, the opposite of her other records, for me

i think "justified" is really rad, love how dynamic the arrangement is

production on "justified" is super messy, sounds terribly compressed