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graham4anything

(11,464 posts) Sat Mar 9, 2013, 04:57 PM Mar 2013

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

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.

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Kacey Musgraves, new country star, pulls a fast one on the conservative country market (Original Post) graham4anything Mar 2013 OP

Kacey Musgraves- Merry Go Round, debut mainstream single. Lyrics on youtube video graham4anything Mar 2013 #1

dont forget Drop Kick Me Jesus oldhippydude Mar 2013 #4

I suspect she might find getting airplay a little challenging in this post-Dixie Chicks world corkhead Mar 2013 #2

Reminds me of the small town where I grew up. Dawson Leery Mar 2013 #3

She's great. I love this! I'm giving it to all my nieces. Thank you! Squinch Mar 2013 #5

"Step Off" Deuce Mar 2013 #6

Step Off (accoustic) graham4anything Mar 2013 #9

Wow, I love that song- Thanks for posting it with the lyrics NBachers Mar 2013 #7

I am from a small town Viva_La_Revolution Mar 2013 #8

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)

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

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 05:00 PM

Mar 2013

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

(2,514 posts)

4. dont forget Drop Kick Me Jesus

Reply to graham4anything (Reply #1)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 05:15 PM

Mar 2013

0f course the Evangelicals sometimes don't grock satire

corkhead

(6,119 posts)

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

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 05:04 PM

Mar 2013

but it is catchy and I like it.

Dawson Leery

(19,580 posts)

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

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 05:07 PM

Mar 2013

Last edited Sat Mar 9, 2013, 10:32 PM - Edit history (1)

I left of course.

Squinch

(60,067 posts)

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

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 05:18 PM

Mar 2013

Deuce

(960 posts)

6. "Step Off"

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 05:21 PM

Mar 2013

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)

9. Step Off (accoustic)

Reply to Deuce (Reply #6)

Sun Mar 10, 2013, 01:14 PM

Mar 2013

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NBachers

(19,570 posts)

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

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 08:22 PM

Mar 2013

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

(28,791 posts)

8. I am from a small town

Reply to graham4anything (Original post)

Sat Mar 9, 2013, 09:19 PM

Mar 2013

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

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