Kacey Musgraves, new country star, pulls a fast one on the conservative country market

[graham4anything]

I can't recall any mainstream country single sung by a female (maybe not since Loretta Lynn's The Pill but Loretta was no liberal.

Kacey is 100% liberal.

Lyrics on the youtube video "Follow your arrow", her second single with a major label

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I will post her debut mainstream single in the next thread
"Merry-go-round" which also takes a pro-pot stance, and a very anti-church, in a very clever and cynical way.
So much so that probably the vast majority of regular country music listeners don't realize she is pulling one on them.

[graham4anything]

1. Kacey Musgraves- Merry Go Round, debut mainstream single. Lyrics on youtube video

This is definitely not your typical country single.
A very cynical look at church, and life in general

Might just be the most liberal song about small time life since Tom T Hall wrote "harper valley PTA" and Hall is one of the most liberal Nashville country signers ever

[oldhippydude]

4. dont forget Drop Kick Me Jesus

0f course the Evangelicals sometimes don't grock satire

[corkhead]

2. I suspect she might find getting airplay a little challenging in this post-Dixie Chicks world

but it is catchy and I like it.

[Dawson Leery]

3. Reminds me of the small town where I grew up.

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I left of course.

[Squinch]

5. She's great. I love this! I'm giving it to all my nieces. Thank you!

[Deuce]

6. "Step Off"

[graham4anything]

9. Step Off (accoustic)

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[NBachers]

7. Wow, I love that song- Thanks for posting it with the lyrics

Best one I've heard since Iris Dement's Wasteland of the Free

http://wastelandofthefree.com/

Click the link on the right to hear the song

[Viva_La_Revolution]

8. I am from a small town

this speaks to me. It's totally why I left.