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During a recent appearance on the A Slight Change of Plans podcast, Kacey Musgraves opened up about her upcoming fifth studio album. While her previous album Golden Hour detailed Musgraves' love story with her ex-husband Ruston Kelly, this next outing will see the Grammy-winning artist tackling their divorce.
Musgraves describes her new set of songs as "pretty raw." She plans to share "a lot about my inner feelings" on the record, which Musgraves admits is "not always easy for me."
"I think my whole life, I'm the older sister, the performer, and I think being that strong, kind of unfazed person was just kind of a go-to for me," she continued. "And I realize now as I get older that that's the least strong thing that you can do."
"There was a period where I was like, 'I am crumbling inside,'" Musgraves reflected. "'I'm not worthy of love. I suck at it. I'll never, I don't wanna get attached to anybody ever again.' I felt really burned by it, you know what I mean? And so I have to remind myself that those feelings are even more relatable to people than this fuzzy, blissed-out, dopamine love album. That's more of a rarity to feel, sadly, than the other. So I think it'll be even more relatable to people."
Musgraves even shared a few snippets from two tracks featured on the album. The first, a track titled 'Camera Roll,' recalls a night Musgraves spent scrolling through old photos of happier times. Here are the lyrics she revealed:
"Don't go through your camera roll / So much you don't know that you've forgotten / What a trip / The way you can flip / Through all the good parts of it / I shouldn't have done it/Chronological order and nothing but torture / Scroll too far back, that's what you get / I don't wanna see him, but I can't delete him / It just doesn't feel right yet / Not yet..."
She also shared a snippet of lyrics from a track called 'If I Was An Angel':
"If I was an angel, I'd never have to change / I'd never have to change / But something's gotta change."
Though this next album will be a departure from Golden Hour, Musgraves sees a connection between the two projects. "One thing that's interesting to me is, what comes after golden hour? Nighttime. And so, like, I'm in a nighttime period," she explained. "What's cool about that is there will be light again."