Musgraves is taking inspiration from Greek tragedies, and is potentially dividing the album's songs into multiple acts.
“This last chapter of my life and this whole last year and chapter for our country — at its most simple form, it’s a tragedy,” she says in the piece. “And then I started looking into why portraying a tragedy is actually therapeutic and why it is a form of art that has lasted for centuries. It’s because you set the scene, the audience rises to the climax of the problem with you, and then there’s resolve. There’s a feeling of resolution at the end. I was inspired by that.”
Personal #1 album of 2019: Golden Hour
Personal #1 album of 2020: her ex-husband, Ruston Kelly’s Shape and Destroy
And 2021 could see her claim #1 again. (Current #1 contenders I have listened to in full are: Arlo Parks, Healy, Passenger, You Me At Six and Daniel Knox.)
drooling for this album
“This last chapter of my life and this whole last year and chapter for our country — at its most simple form, it’s a tragedy,” she says in the piece. “And then I started looking into why portraying a tragedy is actually therapeutic and why it is a form of art that has lasted for centuries. It’s because you set the scene, the audience rises to the climax of the problem with you, and then there’s resolve. There’s a feeling of resolution at the end. I was inspired by that.”
Personal #1 album of 2019: Golden Hour
Personal #1 album of 2020: her ex-husband, Ruston Kelly’s Shape and Destroy
And 2021 could see her claim #1 again. (Current #1 contenders I have listened to in full are: Arlo Parks, Healy, Passenger, You Me At Six and Daniel Knox.)