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Air Date: Tuesday, Oct 23 @ 10am LA/1pm NY/6pm LDN
Repeats: Tuesday, Oct 23 @ 6pm LA / 9pm NYC / 2am LDN
Wednesday, Oct 24 @ 1am LA / 4am NYC / 9am LDN
Check out some highlights from the episode below:
Kacey Musgraves on Sade:
Sade is another artist that I grew up listening to around my house. I heard her all the time and I think her low key, laidback delivery of things really made an impression on me. I’ve never really considered myself to be an acrobatic singer. I don’t use a lot of vocal tricks. It’s kind of more just about the what the song means, and she’s an artist who does that. It’s soothing and her music is like a Xanax for your ears. It just feels really good and she has stood the test of time, too. It’s like, where is she? What is she doing?But everyone still loves her. You walk into Urban Outfitters and her vinyls are for sale — it says something. So, I know it’s one of her top songs, but it’s still a fave. I’m going to pick “By Your Side” by Sade.
Kacey Musgraves on the Spice Girls:
Spice Girls, the ultimate female power group. I mean, if you grew up in the ’90s, you were loving the Spice Girls. They were just so outlandish. Obviously, it was a time of musical groups being popular, but damn, I love that it was like a powerful group of women, who just wore what they wanted to wear and sang all these really funny songs. I never got to see them live. It’s like my biggest regret in life. How can you pick a favorite Spice Girls song? “Wannabe,” “Say You’ll Be There,” “Spice Up Your Life.” I think I’m going to have to go with “2 Become 1″… legendary.”
Kacey Musgraves on Avril Lavigne:
Avril Lavigne. When she came out, I was just taken aback by this chick who wrote these songs. And again, she was just this different perspective, stylistically and lyrically. I had never heard anything like that. I guess she was the Alanis Morissette for my generation, kind of. I just loved everything about her. That first record, Let Go — “Complicated” is still one of my favorite songs of all time. It’s walking the line between a catchy pop song I guess, but it has darker undertones and it feels really real. I was also going through a major emo phase at the time, so maybe that’s why it resonated with me so much. I just felt like she understood.
Kacey Musgraves on “Slow Burn” Song and Video:
“Slow Burn” is I think my favorite song on Golden Hour. It’s kind of poking fun at myself a little bit, in several ways. I just have always thought it was funny that I have a time management issue, sometimes. And yet, I was born a month early and that’s the last time I was ever early for anything, is ’88. I wanted the record to open up with kind of an inward look at myself like that and it’s kind of a nod to the things and inspire me. I thought it was a really nice way to open up the album in an autobiographical sense, talking about myself, Texas, where I’m from, a little bit about my personality. The fact that my grandma throws me shade every time she sees me because I have a nose ring… just little pieces about myself. Also, and just in general, the song is just kind of a testament to where I feel like my mind was at, going into making this.
I was at the very end of my 20s looking into my 30s, getting married and just kind of feeling like everything is happening in its own timeframe and I don’t need to feel like it’s a race or rushed for any reason, whether it comes to my career or personal life. What sparked the song was me sitting on my porch one night and the words “Slow Burn” came into my head and I thought, ‘man, all the best things in life are a slow burn.’ You know, relationships that grow slowly and grow into something strong, careers that are around for the long haul and maybe don’t hit the top the fastest and fizzle out. A drink is amazing, like, sipping and savoring a drink or whatever joy with whatever your thing. It’s like, I want it to be. I want to savor every moment and focus on that, rather than just getting to the finish line. For the video for Apple Music, I was really excited at the chance to play the song with my band and I just had this vision of a sweaty neon jungle. When they asked, ‘what are you seeing for this?’ I was like, ‘just think sweaty jungle. Maybe there’s a modern element thrown in there with different colored neon.’ They were thousands of plants surrounding us… huge, amazing jungle plants, and it was really fun.