Kacey Musgraves Writes Her Very Own Taylor Swift Diss Track


Country singer Kacey Musgraves may have written a diss track about country-turned-pop singer Taylor Swift. Kacey just dropped her new album, Pageant Material, and the media has been abuzz about it, including her alleged Taylor Swift diss track.

Musgraves, 26, released her new album on Wednesday, June 24. Although her second album is packed with unique and interesting tunes, but her track “Good Ol’ Boys Club” is the only song that’s getting attention on the album so far. Both fans and the media believe that Musgraves is singing about Swift, 25, on the song.

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The line that everyone is talking about says, “Another gear in a big machine don’t sound like fun to me.” That line could be a reference to Taylor Swift’s Big Machine record label.

But wait, there’s more. Kacey also sings the line, “Favors for friends will get you in and get you far, shouldn’t be about who it is you know, but about how good you are.”

Ouch. Some are saying that Musgraves is also singing about Swift’s girl posse. She has hinted about her diss track in her recent interview with Fader.

“I’m talking about a lot of different people … any industry has its shoo-ins and people that get in because they know somebody, or their dad worked here, whatever. But yeah, there is a wink.”

Kacey Musgraves is talking about Taylor Swift’s father investing money into Big Machine when she released her debut album. Musgraves is also reportedly good friends with Katy Perry, who already has own her “Bad Blood” with Swift. That could mean that Musgraves has some bad blood with Swift has well, but take it how you will.

Kacey doesn’t need to drop Taylor’s name in her songs to garner attention. She’s exactly what country music needs these days, according to the Nashville Scene. In an industry that’s filled with mostly men, Kacey’s willing to shake up the scene with songs that aren’t about drinking beer or getting your heart broken.

“With her second album, Pageant Material, 26-year-old Musgraves further cements her necessity, from the clever, catchy ready-made hits like ‘High Time,’ to the more musing ballads like ‘Somebody to Love.’ All in all, the follow-up to 2013’s critically acclaimed Same Trailer, Different Park takes place in, well, the same park. Even after winning a Grammy and touring with Katy Perry, the Texas native is still the same old charming, rough-and-tumble cool girl who celebrates the fact that she’s not ‘pageant material’ on the title track (though with her light-up cowgirl boots, we beg to differ).”

She also takes cue from other singers by writing love songs on her second album, as noted by Taste of Country.

“Some of the songs are songs Taylor Swift (Egad!) would have written had she grown up middle class with a saltier circle of friends and family. ‘Die Fun’ is one example. The lilting ballad is performed over an acoustic guitar for 30 seconds before a thin arrangement surrounds her. The song asks Musgraves to carry it, and she’s more than capable of selling her message about living in the moment.

‘Somebody to Love’ and ‘Late to the Party’ are two more honest love songs that separate Pageant Material from Same Trailer, Different Park. ‘I’m never late to the party if I’m late to the party with you,’ she gushes. This is what’s new on the Texan’s second album — songs about being in love right now.”

Kacey Musgraves is very well aware of her peers. On her track, “Die Fun,” Musgraves makes a play on Del Rey’s sad songs by making it more “lighthearted” and fun.

That’s not all she sings about though. Musgraves also croons about being yourself in much of the album. She even sings about being “higher than her hair.” To some fans, it’s obvious that the point of Pageant Material shows that Musgraves will never change, no matter how much attention and fame she gets.

“Musgraves’s sturdy second album, Pageant Material, finds the 26-year-old retrenching in her own brand of normal. Set to a series of svelte, mid-tempo country songs, she sticks to a message that’s both important and banal: Be yourself.”

Amid love songs and diss tracks, Kacey’s Pageant Material is proving everyone that she’s still very much her own person.

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