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English Comp. 1201
Mrs. Adrienne Cassel, Ph.D.
28 January 2021

Slow Burn
In the article written by Lizzy Goodman in “The 25 songs that matter right now.”

for “Meet Me in the Bathroom,” an oral history of music in New York City from 2001 to

2011. Lizzy is talking to the artist Kasey Musgraves and her song “Slow Burn,” a song

that has a free spirit vibe. In the article Lizzy and Kasey dig down into the way Kasey

was feeling when she wrote the song. She began writing her “Golden Hour” when

Trump was making names for his republican counterparts. By the time he was in office

she was recording that album. The year 2020 was a crazy year for everyone, including

music artists, this gave Kasey the chance to work on another album this past year while

on the tour bus. While working on the album, she was also getting her wardrobe ready

for the Grammys that were coming up. She is an artist that can turn any issue or

problem into a hit song by twisting the words and adding her Texas twang to it.

Kasey is a huge supporter for the LGTB community and her unabashed love of

weed. She continues to elaborate on how this album is a love song to her husband and

to the world around us. This album is more connected to Carl Sagan then to Willie

Nelson. She can bring the light and stillness to a world full of dark and anxious moments

in this time where chaos is common. As the article progresses it describes how she

destresses from the world and is able to see the beauty in it. This beauty of the world is

a great inspiration to her songs. Kasey is breaking down barriers with the voice she has
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and the music she has created since 2013. She is a big believer in doing what ever the

heck you want because people will talk about it either way.

She goes into explaining her background and history of her life. Then continues

on to say how she was in “Nashville Star”, the show that help make her a star. Kasey is

able to look back at her life and give reasons to every experience she had and brings it

into her songs. She is just a normal human living a crazy life, even though it is a crazy

life, it’s the life Kasey wanted when she decided to start singing. Kasey wanted to bring

back the hard-core stories and songs of John Prine and Loretta Lynn — big-hearted,

sharp-tongued, storytelling pillars of country’s outlaw roots who had risen up in the ’70s

by staging their own insurgency against the bubble-gumming-up of the genre. That is

the music she grew up on and wanted her music to last like those from the 70’s did.

Kasey is able to bring herself back down to the humble life she lived before she became

famous while being able to do this, it is like a meditation for her that helps her.
 Work Sited

Magazine, The New York Times. “The Top 25 Songs That Matter Right Now.” The New York
Times, The New York Times, 7 Mar. 2019,
www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/03/07/magazine/top-songs.html.