Kacey Musgraves Songs Ranked
Kacey Lee Musgraves (born August 21, 1988) is an American singer and songwriter. She has won six Grammy Awards (including the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2019), seven Country Music Association Awards, and three Academy of Country Music Awards. Musgraves self-released three solo albums and one more as Texas Two Bits, before appearing on the fifth season of the USA Network’s singing competition Nashville Star in 2007, where she placed seventh. Her fourth studio album Golden Hour (2018) was released to widespread critical acclaim and won all four of its nominated Grammy Award categories, including Album of the Year and Best Country Album. The album’s first two singles, “Butterflies” and “Space Cowboy”, won Best Country Solo Performance and Best Country Song, respectively. Golden Hour also won the Academy of Country Music and the Country Music Association Award for Album of the Year, making Musgraves only the fifth artist to win all three major Album of the Year (Grammy, CMA, and ACM) awards for the same album as well as the second artist to win the Grammy, CMA, ACM and all-genre Grammy Album of the Year. Here are all of Kacey Musgraves’ songs ranked.
Don’t miss the music of the true icon. Click below and experience Kacey Musgraves’s timeless songs.
10. High Horse (Golden Hour, 2018)
“This whole album made me realize how stupid I am for judging a whole genre before actually giving it a listen. Legit cannot stop listening to the whole album. This is coming from a hardcore trap fan.”
9. Rainbow (Golden Hour, 2018)
“This song is truly an achievement for it genre. She can arrange and mix styles effortlessly. Glad she’s been recognized by all platforms of music because of this album.”
8. I Miss You (Same Trailer Different Park, 2013)
“This is my favorite song by her, mostly because I’m always day dreaming about seeing my crush in the same place then having a great day with him. I’m a hopeless romantic, I know, but still.”
7. Step Off (Same Trailer Different Park, 2013)
“Such a AMAZING song!!! Love her!! She has a stunning voice and what she writes is so out of the box and not so cliché like ever other country song!! Keep up the awesome job Kasey!!!!”
See more: Kacey Musgraves Albums Ranked
6. Dandelion (Same Trailer Different Park, 2013)
“My interpretation of this song is she is comparing a guy to a dandelion. She has been with him a few times and things haven’t worked out, yet she keeps going back. She wishes that things would work out but she never gets her wishes. Same with the dandelion, she always tries again, yet her wishes never come true, Its a waste of time and breath to her because both are just going to leave her feeling empty inside.”
5. The Trailer Song (The Trailer Song, 2014)
“This song is awesome! Very amusing and very true to life. Kacey Musgraves always tells it like it is, and I wouldn’t have it any other way.”
4. Biscuits (Pageant Material, 2015)
“Kacey Musgraves is my favorite country artist, and this song is emblematic of why this is the case. Not only is she an immensely talented singer and song writer, but the substance of her songs is unique in modern mainstream country – a genre of music that seems to be infatuated with portraying rural life as a care free, morally unblemished utopia. She actually flips this way of thinking on its head. She is honest about the realities of country life, highlighting all the problems that exist in rural America.”
3. Silver Lining (Same Trailer Different Park, 2013)
“Kacey Musgraves has a way with simple and uplifting imagery, and I find “Silver Lining” a fun and calming song to listen to when I’ve had one of “those” days. She proves you can make country that’s not too twangy but not just another flavor of pop.”
See more: The Best Albums of 2018
2. Merry Go ‘Round (Merry Go ‘Round, 2013)
“Before January of 2018, I never would have imagined that I’d find one of the most depressing, incisive, almost cruel bits of satire and social commentary I’ve ever discovered couched within a catchy, all-American country-pop sung by one of the sweetest voices I’ve ever heard. And then I discovered “Merry Go Round”. And then I realized the sheer scale of disillusionment and despair in these words, how utterly disaffected, dispirited, and defeated its characters are, how savagely this slashes the throat of the American dream that rich coast-dwellers have sold to the country’s impoverished heartlands. (That some critics living in these rich coastal areas actually thought this was meant to be an attack on small rural towns, rather than on them, speaks volumes about how deep this problem runs and how vital this song’s message is.) And then I discovered the rest of the Kacey Musgraves discography, and realized that I’d just uncovered one of my all-time favorite songwriters – and yet I also found that, as close as she’s come, she’s never bettered this.”
1. Follow Your Arrow (Same Trailer Different Park, 2013)
“Such a lovely, inspirational song. I keep playing it and playing it, I can’t get enough! It’s a message everyone needs to hear I think. The music is great too, and Kacey Musgraves’s voice is sweet and lovely. Wonderful.”