She has some controversial viewpoints but backs them up by facts. This chick is well on her way to stardom soon and we can’t be more excited about it!

Since her debut album Same Trailer Different Park (2013), Kacey Musgraves has been the most talked about progressive voice in mainstream country music. The song for which Musgraves is most celebrated is “Follow Your Arrow”, an ode to independence that has become an LGBT rights anthem and won the Country Music Award for Song of the Year in 2014. With lyrics like “make lots of noise/ kiss lots of boys/ or kiss lots of girls if that’s something you’re into”, “Follow Your Arrow” sends a powerful message that not everyone in the country music industry discriminates against the LGBT community, despite the many fundamentalist politicians in the South who do.

This is significant when we remember the states in the US that banned same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court’s June 2015 decision (Obergefell v. Hodges) to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states. The majority of the opposing states make up the South, such as Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, and Musgraves’ home state of Texas. These states significantly encompass the country music community, including the “home of country music” in Nashville, Tennessee.

Given this cultural context, what explains Musgraves’ success? Some have tried to answer this question. Hollie McKay, for example, reports that the country music community is less conservative than it was when it banned the Dixie Chicks after lead singer Natalie Maines criticized the Bush regime’s invasion of Iraq in 2003.Randy Lewis, on the other hand, reports that the country music establishment’s approval is no longer necessary in an Internet age that makes country music more accessible to other parts of the world, and when mainstream country music in particular “is a little less country, and a little more pop”. Both McKay and Lewis bring up fair points, but they don’t tell the full story.

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