

The grand album offers 46 minutes of sunlight before fading into the horizon. Buzzy with pink-orange comfort, its cohesion is satisfying and enveloping, from the affectionate nostalgia of "Slow Burn" to the soft solace of "Rainbow."īut what makes Musgraves' Golden Hour so monumental is its pure acceptance of love's ephemerality - and ironically, this embrace of fleetingness is what makes the album beautifully timeless.
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) A free-falling, saccharine infatuation colors the album's prismatic perimeter, and it's tinged with a distinct warmth that crawls over your skin and fills your heart. ("It was nice to know that you didn't have to suffer to create good art," she said in a 2021 interview with The Guardian. This rush of falling in love saturates Golden Hour. "Songs just immediately started pouring out." "I had just cleared my schedule to get back to writing when I went to that show and I met him," Musgraves said in an interview. Her inspiration for Golden Hour came to light upon meeting Ruston Kelly, her now ex-husband (more on that later), when he played a set at Nashville's Bluebird Cafe in 2016.

I also want to honor the relationship we had and the love we have for each other, because it's very real." "I want to honor the huge range of emotion that I've felt over this past year, past six months. "It's a therapeutic outlet for me, you know? I can't help but to write about what I'm going through," she told the magazine. Last week, the country-pop star released the music video for the album's lead single, "justified." In her February cover story for Rolling Stone, Musgraves said star-crossed is inspired by the heartbreak and healing that followed her 2020 divorce from singer/songwriter Ruston Kelly. News of Musgraves' tour follows the announcement of her upcoming album, star-crossed, which is due out Sept. The upcoming tour, Musgraves' first string of shows since her two-year Oh, What a World: Tour in 20, will feature King Princess and MUNA as supporting artists. 19, 2022, in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and ends Feb. Her 15-city North American trek, dubbed star-crossed: unveiled, kicks off Jan. As Parliament fiddles, the true power-brokers pull the levers of society – with a small and capital S.Six-time GRAMMY winner Kacey Musgraves is heading on tour next year to support her forthcoming fifth studio album, star-crossed. Just take Sanjay and Anu Hinduja, the new king and queen of Whitehall. Old Empire has given way to international money. Montague to Birley’s Capulet, Richard Caring cared not a jot, as the inner circle sparred to secure the central table at his new restaurant, Bacchanalia.

On coronation eve, Robin Birley brandished his social power when the cream of European royalty strode into Oswald’s, his ultra-fashionable club.

Meanwhile, in Mayfair, two star-crossed rivals pull the strings. Some, however, remain immune: so socially powerful is the Duke of Beaufort – king of Badminton, the house everyone wants to stay in – that he didn’t even apply to partake. King Charles III wielded his axe and thousands of aristocrats wept, no longer bidden to the Abbey and rendered socially irrelevant with one sweep of a leaky pen. Because, when it comes to who holds true social power, bloodline might matter less than philanthropy, but it’s still a game of chess. But all hail to the eternal clout of monarchy. Private speeding courses and sword-bearing ministers touted as future premiers: welcome to today’s politics of trivia.
