“Biscuits” singer Kacey Musgraves is set to release her second album on June 23 titled Pageant Material. She is very excited about this release, however the growing artist is already looking ahead to her third album.
“The next one will be completely different,” Musgraves tells Rolling Stone Country, “because I don’t think this one is very far off from Different Trailer. I would really like to write to a concept next time. I’d really like to do a reggae record or a surf-rock record.”
If Musgraves were to dabble in a different genre than country, she wouldn’t be the first. Taylor Swift famously started out country and crossed over to the pop world, much to the dismay of some of her fans.
“I like Taylor’s new album, 1989. It’s really fun to listen to when you’re working out. I think it’s great that she’s doing what she wants on her own terms. But she’s way more exposed than I’d ever want to be,” Musgraves says. “That’s not a slight to her. I like my life the way it is.”
Musgraves has built her career on being a little shocking in her lyrics while wrapping the package in a retro-country sound and look. Now as she has proven her staying power, her fans might wonder if she will let more of her rebellion show in her writing, even if the powers that be still try to censor the Texas-native.
Her label originally asked her to change the line “P**sing in my yard ain’t gonna make yours any greener” in “Biscuits” to “spitting in my yard …” but the singer held her ground.
“I’m like, ‘Sorry, no.’ People are so worried about offending that they water down everything,” she says. “Come to a show, and that’s the line everyone loves. Don’t take that away from me!”
“People always like to pull these handfuls of talking points that I have in my songs and call those out and really focus on those, but to me, these things aren’t very progressive issues. I just, I chuckle a little inside when that happens,” Musgraves says.
“People say, ‘She’s so progressive,’ or, ‘She’s a rebel,’ or whatever and I think it’s cool because it’s just, it is the way the world is moving, the human race is moving. Look at the laws that are happening … You know, all these things that people are pulling out of my songs won’t be that crazy anymore [in the future], and the truth is that the songs are just about life.”
Watch the video for “Biscuits” below!
