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Fan Base: Kacey Musgraves
Member Since: 5/9/2012
Posts: 38,050
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Originally posted by BlueMoon77
YES!!! It's in my top 5
Btw, I got the Ashley Monroe cd Friday, and all I got to say is Kacey Musgraves>>>>>>>>>>
Although there are definitely some great songs on it, but You Got Me is the best song on the cd
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I've yet to get it Ashley's. I want it though! Just no stores around here have it. I may have to order it from Amazon if I have too. :/
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Member Since: 3/15/2013
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I really like her! She's like a more mature Taylor Swift - whom I only like her more mature songs - and Merry Go 'Round is some type of lyrical genius (dat chorus!!!). I need to check out the rest of her album, because that and Silver Lining are really good.
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
Posts: 21,227
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I purchased a physical copy today.
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Member Since: 8/25/2012
Posts: 20,985
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Originally posted by Hunter_13
I've yet to get it Ashley's. I want it though! Just no stores around here have it. I may have to order it from Amazon if I have too. :/
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It's really really country. The steel guitar is one of the main instruments used. Although I love the steel guitar, it's just used way too much, therefore the fast songs tend to run together. You Got Me, Used, and Two Weeks Late are reason enough to buy the album though. Don't even bother with the BS duet, it's scary Kacey's melodies and lyrics just really stand out to me, they are very much her own, just like The Lords
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Member Since: 8/25/2012
Posts: 20,985
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Originally posted by August
I really like her! She's like a more mature Taylor Swift - whom I only like her more mature songs - and Merry Go 'Round is some type of lyrical genius (dat chorus!!!). I need to check out the rest of her album, because that and Silver Lining are really good.
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You will not be dissapointed
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Originally posted by Mezik
I purchased a physical copy today.
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I love the desert feel in the artwork
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Member Since: 7/23/2012
Posts: 8,113
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just got around to buying this album. (although i've been obsessed with it since its release)
Blowin' Smoke is the next single
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Member Since: 8/25/2012
Posts: 20,985
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Between the lunch and dinner rush
Kelly caught that out bound bus for Vegas.
And we're all out here talkin trash, makin bets,
Lips wrapped round our cigarettes.
She always thought she was too good to be a waitress.
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Member Since: 7/23/2012
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Kacey tweeted the link to this:
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Simply put, Kacey Musgraves is the anti-Taylor Swift.
The 24-year-old Texas singer-songwriter is country's “It” girl. Her critically acclaimed major-label debut, “Same Trailer Different Park,” is filled with quiet, highly personal, scarcely produced songs. They aren't Auto-Tuned, and they're not about her latest ex-boyfriend.
Songs such as “Merry Go 'Round,” “Follow Your Arrow” and “It Is What It Is” touch on edgier themes of self-identity, sexuality, casual sex and recreational drug use, heralding an indie folk vibe in country music with influences that connect to Bob Dylan and Elvis Costello as well as Loretta Lynn.
It feels honest.
“Anything that made its way onto the record, whether it was a weird sound, a song, a picture, any of that, it never got even close to being there if it didn't feel like it was completely me or right or real,” said Musgraves, who opens for Kenny Chesney at the new Austin360 Amphitheater in Austin on Friday.
She returns to the city where she lived briefly and played solo shows out of high school at the old Momo's and Threadgill's before moving to Nashville.
Musgraves hails from Golden, north of Tyler, and has been singing professionally — including in Branson — since she was very young. Like the young, similarly groomed Alanis Morissette, her poise is evident.
“I've grown up singing in every scenario you could imagine,” Musgraves said. “So it really set the stage, pun intended, for me to be comfortable in any scenario. It gave me time to really figure out who I am.”
The New York Times, Rolling Stone and NPR have raved about the often conversational debut record. The buzz is deafening — partly by design. Musgraves acknowledges that she's deep inside the Nashville star-making machine.
“It's weird,” she said. “It's awesome. It's just kind of all surreal and kind of mind-blowing. I've been preparing for it for a long time, and it's finally here. So now I'm just trying to enjoy it. I'm constantly bewildered by everything that's happening around me.”
For example, Katy Perry has tweeted how much she loves the music.
“It kind of came out of the blue,” Musgraves said. “She decided to give me some love. I think it's really cool. I love country music and I'm a big fan, but outside of that I'm inspired by lot of other kinds of things.”
Musgraves, who confidently says she can “sit in a room with my guitar and get my point across,” says she's grateful she wasn't a Music Row teenybopper, though she was courted.
“Yeah, a lot of people, especially since Taylor Swift has come along, think that the younger that happens, the better for you,” she said. “But I kind of think the opposite. Because the older you get, the closer you are to figuring out what you are.”
Being yourself is the message of “Same Trailer Different Park.”
For a songwriter, that means a shaky love life can be helpful. And so can a still youthful spirit. Musgraves' Twitter page offers the little message, “I believe in karma. And glitter.”
Taylor Swift fans might relate to that, even if their music is worlds apart.
“I enjoy depressing songs. I like darker material, usually,” Musgraves said. “There are some, like, happier songs on the record. But I do love good ol' depressing songs, a lot of what makes up country music. Having a happy love life kind of kills the writing life, but who wants to be martyr?”
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I wonder how she feels about being the anti of her fave.
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
Posts: 43,847
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Kacey Musgraves's Top Listeners on Last.fm
castleswift13 (Me)
Top Listener
atishvaze
Top Listener
dtrain75
Top Listener
GABIWINKS
Top Listener
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Member Since: 8/27/2012
Posts: 8,678
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Originally posted by castle13
Kacey Musgraves's Top Listeners on Last.fm
castleswift13 (Me)
Top Listener
atishvaze
Top Listener
dtrain75
Top Listener
GABIWINKS
Top Listener
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Can't believe that I am one of the top listeners.of Kacey Musgraves
Congrats castle for being the top listener
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
Posts: 43,847
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Originally posted by atishvaze
Can't believe that I am one of the top listeners.of Kacey Musgraves
Congrats castle for being the top listener
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I'm just like 50 plays ahead of you.
And I see you're trying to close the gap.
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Member Since: 8/27/2012
Posts: 8,678
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Originally posted by castle13
I'm just like 50 plays ahead of you.
And I see you're trying to close the gap.
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Just 50 plays. I am coming to top you then
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
Posts: 43,847
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Originally posted by atishvaze
Just 50 plays. I am coming to top you then
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Nnnnnnn;
*Opens Iscrob on iPod, WinAmp, Itunes and WMP and simulatenously play them*
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Member Since: 8/27/2012
Posts: 8,678
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Originally posted by castle13
Nnnnnnn;
*Opens Iscrob on iPod, WinAmp, Itunes and WMP and simulatenously play them*
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Can Last.fm really scrobble from all the players simultaneously
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
Posts: 43,847
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Originally posted by atishvaze
Can Last.fm really scrobble from all the players simultaneously
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Yes. I've tried it when I was playing Red a lot and I felt guilty for paying her other bibles dust.
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Member Since: 10/31/2011
Posts: 16,937
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Seeing her in concert on Monday.
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
Posts: 21,227
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I wanted to see her this summer, but the tickets are so expensive.
$150 for General Admisiion.
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Member Since: 10/31/2011
Posts: 16,937
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Originally posted by Mezik
I wanted to see her this summer, but the tickets are so expensive.
$150 for General Admisiion.
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What? My ticket was £15.
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Member Since: 5/22/2011
Posts: 21,227
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Originally posted by Great Username
What? My ticket was £15.
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http://www.ticketliquidator.com/tix/...?evtid=2024840
So stupid.. The prices on there aren't real either. They respond and say "All the $60 General Admission tickets are sold out, and there's only the $100+ ones" Even though the site says there's seats left.
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Member Since: 3/31/2012
Posts: 43,847
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Oh my God it's you, I never thought I'd see you here.
Looks like all is well, like you're having a hell of a good time.
Me? Not gonna lie.
Got the sunshine on my shoulders
Got a fistful of four leaf clovers
Yeah my cup runneth over
My sky is blue
Been kissed by Lady Luck,
The stars are all lined up,
Every arrow that I aim is true
But I miss you.
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