Kacey Musgraves Is Tired of Affliction T-Shirts & Truck Songs
Say what you want about Kacey Musgraves, but you have to give the young songstress credit for speaking her mind. In a recent Q&A with GQ Magazine, the Texas-born songwriter had some spicy things to say about a few of Nashville’s current infatuations. When GQ asked her what musical trend needed to die out immediately, Kacey responded,
Anyone singing about trucks, in any form, in any song, anywhere. Literally just stop – nobody cares! It’s not fun to listen to. I thought dubstep was cool for two seconds – but that can go away now too. It sounds like a malfunction of some kind.
Beyond bagging on truck songs, Kacey also took to task the current favorite fashion attire of truck song artists like Brantley Gilbert when asked what the best dressed men in Nashville are wearing these days.
Nothing by Affliction. Just burn the warehouse down. It’s just douchey and really gaudy.
So what does Kacey like to see guys dudded up in?
I like when people have Western style but it’s throwback Seventies-ish. I like pearlsnap shirts and a bow-tie like the KFC man. I like Katy K’s: it’s kitschy in a good way. It’s not trying to be like cool cowboy which is lame. They have the western bolo ties for men and button-ups with cacti on them. Go there.
This isn’t the first time Kacey Musgraves has spoken out about the direction of country music. In April, Musgraves appeared on CBS’s Sunday Morning show and also bemoaned truck songs, saying in part, “…[you] don’t have to sing about trucks and tailgates to be a country artist.” Then in May when talking to American Songwriter, Musgraves said in part, “…I love country. Do I love what it’s turned into? No…”
Read: Album Review – Kacey Musgraves’ Same Trailer, Different Park
August 28, 2013 @ 9:17 am
I have pearl snap shirts and a KFC western tie!
Maybe she’ll see me at one of her shows and we can go out together 😛
September 30, 2013 @ 2:35 pm
I feel sorry for all the guys that go out wearing Affliction. I wore it for a hot minute about 5 years ago but it”™s over. They really don”™t realize how silly they look. As Maxim would say, “slay that dragon off your chest”. Guys, you don”™t want to look like you”™re trying too hard and that”™s how Affliction makes a guy look. Sorry Affliction folks but that”™s reality!
November 6, 2013 @ 12:37 pm
If you really meant it, you wouldn’t have to apologize for it. 😉
August 28, 2013 @ 9:21 am
Finally a country artist not afraid to say what everyone else is thinking.
August 28, 2013 @ 9:36 am
Sexy, talented and smart a perfect woman perhaps ?
August 28, 2013 @ 7:18 pm
Hold on there a second, we have yet to see or taste her skills in the kitchen…..
August 28, 2013 @ 12:19 pm
What a coincidence, I was listening to her album this morning. She is such a breath of fresh air. I love that she is not afraid to speak her mind, the truth about the direction and state of country music today. I’m a bit bummed she’ll be opening for Lady A but hopefully I can catch her in between shows at a smaller venue.
August 28, 2013 @ 12:38 pm
i bet these are the types coming to her shows yelling ‘show your tits’, after all she is on tour with kenny cheesey frat doosh extraoridinaire. Thats what she gets for being a pop act. I guarantee you these people are not at a real country show like lindi ortega <3 Doesnt she have an upcoming album you could write about =D
August 28, 2013 @ 1:40 pm
People also criticized Jesus for breaking bread with sinners. His comeback was they needed his teachings more than people who already believed.
As for Lindi Ortega’s new album, I spoke to her about it in this extensive interview. Maybe you missed it while you were formulating your ideas of how all I do is cover pop music to make money.
https://savingcountrymusic.com/lindi-ortega-frida-kahlo-meets-wonder-woman-meets-johnny-cash
Trigger: Speaking of that, is there any hints of new stuff that you can tell us? Do you have a new album coming out?
Lindi Ortega: I do. I have a new one coming out hopefully in the fall. I”™m really excited about it. Dave Cobb was the producer. He did Secret Sisters and Jason Isbell. We had a blast, it was a lot of fun. Everyone that played on it was awesome.
Also just featured her in in this article:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/6-canadian-artists-helping-to-save-country-music
And then of course, I nominated her last album for 2012 Album of the Year:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/2012-saving-country-music-album-of-the-year-nominees
More Lindi Ortega articles:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/9-women-who-could-immediately-make-country-better
https://savingcountrymusic.com/nashvilles-new-independent-nucleus
https://savingcountrymusic.com/women-at-forefront-of-country-music-evolution
https://savingcountrymusic.com/how-nashville-surprisingly-tackled-the-talent-glut-in-2012
https://savingcountrymusic.com/lindi-ortega-breaks-out-with-cigarettes-truckstops
August 28, 2013 @ 2:35 pm
She just became my favorite crush. She shall be mine! 😐
As for her opinions, finally someone actually just went out and said it. Some artist beat around the bush, but she laid down the law. God bless her. Definitely one of my favorite artist on country radio right now.
August 28, 2013 @ 5:16 pm
Hipster country meets pop country
August 28, 2013 @ 10:30 pm
And does that somehow make her statements any less true?
August 28, 2013 @ 6:03 pm
Glad she is being so direct. I was forced to listen to truck yeah today while it was being played on the overhead at the dentist. Made me literally feel nauseous.
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August 28, 2013 @ 6:26 pm
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August 28, 2013 @ 8:48 pm
The female Eric Church.
August 28, 2013 @ 10:58 pm
I’ve got the kitchen handled it’s another skill set I am betting she has I am interested in !!!
August 29, 2013 @ 6:50 am
I bet she hates David Allan Coe since he said the perfect country and western song has momma, trains, trucks, prison, and getting drunk.
August 29, 2013 @ 8:52 am
So there’s really traditional country fans out there that don’t know what Kacey Musgraves is referring to? Fascinating.
August 29, 2013 @ 1:24 pm
That was written by Steve Goodman and John Prine, and they were not being serious.
September 4, 2013 @ 4:53 pm
If you doubt Kacey’s knowledge of country music, one of her songs is about John Prine.
August 29, 2013 @ 2:06 pm
I’m willing to bet that the truck songs David Allan Coe was talking about are quite different than the shit on the radio
August 29, 2013 @ 3:11 pm
We are all tired of that, I just wish that Kacey Musgraves would put country instruments in her music more.
August 29, 2013 @ 4:40 pm
Same Trailer, Different Park is a flat out great country album. The stories on it are well-written, she’s got a great voice and an interesting perspective. The fact that she’s a young attractive female gets her compared to Taylor Swift, but Kacey’s lyrics are unashamedly based in the traditional country oeuvre, while Swift’s are pop oriented. I have been listening to Jason Isbell’s latest record and Kacey’s about equally, and there’s no doubt in my mind which album has the better lyrical acuity and storytelling flow. And that’s high praise for Kacey because Isbell is a real talent.
And I see your point about the condescension of ‘Merry Go Round’ Trigger, but most of the album is about being unhappy in a small town and wanting something more, and the simple fact that the album has overarching themes beyond getting drunk and going down to the lake to party is something to rejoice.
August 29, 2013 @ 6:46 pm
I bet she really liked “Titties Beer”.
August 29, 2013 @ 8:53 pm
I’d probably be a Kacey Musgraves fan if I hadn’t been forced to listen to “Merry Go Round” and “Silver Lining” multiple times a day every day at my previous job. Wasn’t crazy about either song to begin with, and after being force-fed them a few hundred times?
Yeah, I’m just not a fan, I don’t understand all the hype about her either.
August 29, 2013 @ 10:22 pm
“Do I love what it”™s turned into? No, not all the way.”
I couldn’t agree more. How many pop pushing, devolving morons will pop up and say she’s a “traditionalist,” “purist” or “country has to evolve”? Kacey and similar artists are evolving country and keeping it country!
August 29, 2013 @ 11:16 pm
Trigger, what do you think of Lee Brice’s song “I Drive Your Truck”? Personally, I like the lyrical meaning behind the song but it almost chokes to death on the cliches.
August 30, 2013 @ 11:46 am
These mawkish songs about Cancer and military deaths are becoming way too frequent, and even though many of them are good songs (including Jason Isbell’s “Elephant” which some are calling song of the year caliber), they smack of a money-grabbing trend, preying on the emotions of people. Not saying Isbell’s, or even Lee Brice’s is specifically, but when Music Row songwriters see a successful trend, they try to capitalize off of it until they completely run it into the ground.
August 30, 2013 @ 8:23 am
If she doesn’t like her tee-shirt, I would not be remotely offended if she were to take it off.
August 30, 2013 @ 8:30 am
Someone wife that girl!
August 30, 2013 @ 2:25 pm
Even tho she’s still my third fave from the current crop, I’m thankful for her telling ppl what everyone has been thinking all this time. Music Row will never listen tho, sadly. 🙁
September 3, 2013 @ 12:17 pm
I like Kacey a lot, but sometimes I think she sounds too much like Miranda Lambert in her singing style. Thought “Merry Go ‘Round” was Miranda the first two times I heard it.
September 5, 2013 @ 9:21 am
I still can’t tell anybody from anybody on the radio.
I can identify Kenny Chesney simply because his whiney voice just grates on the very fiber of my soul–I am sure an endless loop of KC music awaits me in hell.
Other than that any of the new artists all run together.
September 4, 2013 @ 4:57 pm
Miranda and Kacey are good friends. Miranda gave Kacey a good career boost several years ago when Kacey opened Paws for the Cause.
September 15, 2013 @ 9:45 am
Wade Bowen’s new “Songs About Trucks” is actually a good song…. about not wanting any more songs about trucks! 🙂
September 15, 2013 @ 10:27 am
That’s a great song. I wrote a review for it a while back:
https://savingcountrymusic.com/wade-bowen-takes-truck-songs-to-task-with-trucks
September 14, 2018 @ 11:41 am
“I like pearl snap shirts and a bowtie like the KFC man.” You think Colonel Tyler Childers also spends his late night hours reading articles from 2013, learning the newest trends in fashion from Kacey Musgraves.