Kacey Musgraves has spoken about her upcoming new album in a major Rolling Stone cover story. The new era is IMMINENT, ladies!

The singer-songwriter had enormous success with 2018’s Golden Hour; winning across-the-board acclaim and, ultimately, Album of the Year at the Grammys.

Since then, a lot has happened: in addition to, yaknow, the global pandemic, she’s also had to go through the end of her marriage.

In the new interview (behind a paywall), she reveals she has 39 songs ready to be assembled into some form of Greek tragedy-influenced narrative, and it sounds like the general vibe is pretty eclectic.

“I mean, looking at the list of songs, we have some that venture into, like, a Bill Withers land. We’ve got that synth stuff that we always loved,” she teased. “And we’ve got some Eagles or America territory.

“There’s a little bit of a dance vibe.”

On the whole Greek tragedy thing, she said: “This last chapter of my life and this whole last year and chapter for our country – at its most simple form, it’s a tragedy.

“And then I started looking into why portraying a tragedy is actually therapeutic and why it is a form of art that has lasted for centuries.

“It’s because if you set the scene, the audience rises to the climax of the problem with you, and then there’s resolve. There’s a feeling of resolution at the end. I was inspired by that.”

So are we looking at ‘sad songs, then sadder songs, then optimistic songs’ as a general tracklisting trajectory? Into it. Bring it on.

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