Kacey Musgraves has never been afraid to say exactly what’s on her mind. She earned legions of fans by tackling previously taboo topics like recreational marijuana use (“High Time”) LGTBQ+ acceptance (“Follow Your Arrow”) and casual hookups (“It Is What It Is.”) Last year saw her turn that lyricism inward with Deeper Well, her Grammy-nominated sixth studio album. Recently, the “High Horse” singer, 36, debuted a brand-new song about a very special relationship.
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Watch Kacey Musgraves Debut “She’s My B—-” For Nashville Crowd
An intimate crowd of about 4,500 people filed into Nashville’s newest music venue, The Pinnacle, on Thursday (Feb. 27) to see Kacey Musgraves’ inaugural performance. Midway through her set, Musgraves decided to break out a brand-new tune.
“I was inspired the other morning to write this song about this really cute girl that I know,” the Grammy winner said. “So no one’s ever heard this. Should I play it?”
Responding to the crowd’s cheers, she said, “All right. Hope I don’t f— it up.”
Then Musgraves launched into “She’s My B—-,” a tribute to her Australian cattle dog, who is “so spicy, her name is Pepper.”
Nobody knows her like I do / No man could ever love me better, that’s true, the country musician sang. Who would’ve known when I took her home/That I’d fall so in love/Yeah, I’m her b—-.”
As always, Musgraves has a way with words. “I NEED this on Spotify,” one wrote on TikTok.
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The Song Producers Thought Was “Just Too Depressing”
In 2013, Kacey Musgraves introduced herself to the world with “Merry Go Round,” the lead single off her studio debut Same Trailer Different Park. Riffing on the classic nursery rhyme “Merry, Merry, Quite Contrary,” Musgraves ditched the rose-colored glasses for a more realistic look into small-town life: Just like dust, we settle in this town / On this broken merry go ’round.
A decade later, “Merry Go Round” is perhaps still the song most synonymous with Musgraves’ career. However, as she told The Pinnacle crowd, it almost never happened.
“I remember being told that it was just absolutely not going to work. It was just too depressing. It was just going to go down in flames,” she said. “And I was like, ‘Honestly, I guess that’s fine. I’d rather just go down in flames for something I really believe in.’”
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