{"id":88811,"date":"2024-04-30T20:06:14","date_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=88811"},"modified":"2024-04-30T20:04:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T20:04:11","slug":"kacey-musgraves-grazia-spring-2024-cover-story","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/kacey-musgraves-grazia-spring-2024-cover-story\/","title":{"rendered":"GRAZIA USA Spring Cover Star: Kacey Musgraves"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Words by Marshall Heyman<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

In \u201cFollow Your Arrow,\u201d one of Kacey Musgraves\u2019 most well-known songs<\/a> from her 2013 album breakout album Same Trailer Different Park<\/em>, she sings about the impossibility of pleasing everyone all the time. \u201cYou\u2019re damned if you do, and you\u2019re damned if you don\u2019t\/So you might as well just do whatever you want.\u201d<\/p>\n

In the refrain, Musgraves continues to offer more sound advice. She tells us to \u201cmake lots of noise,\u201d to \u201ckiss lots of boys\u201d or \u201ckiss lots of girls (if that\u2019s something you\u2019re into).\u201d \u201cRoll up a joint, or don\u2019t,\u201d she says. The only imperative is that you \u201cfollow your arrow wherever it points.\u201d<\/p>\n

If there\u2019s one thing you can say about the Texas-born singer-songwriter, Musgraves certainly follows her own arrow and beats to her own banjo.<\/p>\n

That comes up in so many aspects of Musgraves\u2019 life and personality. She believes in UFOs and is afraid of being abducted by aliens. She\u2019s had, she says, \u201cat least four different sightings, though there have definitely been more than that.\u201d One of her unusual guilty pleasures: egg rolls from the fast-food chain Jack in the Box. And yes, she has won yodeling national championships.<\/p>\n

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Musgraves\u2019 unique individuality has earned her a loyal fan base, even outside of the Country genre. It has also garnered her seven Grammy Awards<\/a>, including one this year for \u201cI Remember Everything,\u201d a song she sang with Zach Bryan. Side note: Musgraves recorded \u201cI Remember Everything\u201d with an angry sore throat. \u201cIn the moment I was frustrated because I couldn\u2019t tap into my normal tone,\u201d she recalls. An immediate trip from the studio to her doctor\u2019s office confirmed that she did, indeed, have strep.<\/p>\n

A Grammy for a song recorded while suffering with strep throat? That\u2019s pretty impressive for anyone, let alone a woman who was awarded seventh runner-up, in 2007, on the fifth season of the reality competition show Nashville Star<\/em>. (Miranda Lambert didn\u2019t win either when she competed on season one. She finished in third place, though.)<\/p>\n

Most recently, Musgraves\u2019 arrow pointed her up to New York City where she recorded her latest album Deeper Well,<\/em> out now<\/a>.<\/p>\n