by hanshotfirst1138 » Fri Jul 25, 2014 11:06 pm
Same Trailer, Different Park- Kacey Musgraves album which lives up to the achingly melancholy lead-off single which first interested me, "Merry-Go Round," a tale of Americana with a darker edge than the usual "small towns rule" shtick from lots of pop-country. Sort of like Taylor Swift with a bit more edge. She's not a great singer or dynamic performer, and the production is clean if unremarkable, but the songwriting is refreshingly frank. Musgraves tiptoes around topics like homosexuality, existisitential malaise, smoking weed, and even (Gasp!) casual sex with tactful frankness with is fairly surprising for a someone with such a mainstream bent. Some blues-tinged stuff, a little bit of folksy charm, some slightly overproduced pop, and some nicely sparse country. First mainstream album I've bought in a long while, and surprisingly damn good.
"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."
Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death