#same trailer

Backstage Live performance @ Glastonbury 28 Jun, 2014 facebook.com/KaceyMusgravesOfficial

Genre: Country, Singer-Songwriter Description: Remember when The Dixie Chicks came out against President Bush? That was the first time I remember thinking... hey... maybe country music can be progressive! Well flash forward to many years later and it seemed like that sentiment had been washed away by a tide of radio-friendly, dime-a-dozen, bland country superstars. Enter Kacey Musgraves. Same Trailer, Different Park has a bunch of great songs, but its most powerful track is unequivocally "Follow Your Arrow." Mackelmore and Ryan Lewis' "Same Love" got most of the attention, but "Follow Your Arrow" also argues for same sex relationships. The three major differences are: 1. "Follow Your Arrow" is a better song 2. The genre is freaking country music 3. Musgraves doesn't treat her song with an overtly serious tone This last point is super important. I've heard it said before that racism/sexism, etc. will only end once we stop continually dividing people into subsets. Though Musgraves does talk about homosexual relations in "Follow Your Arrow," it is within the context of many other scenarios in which one is made to feel ashamed of acting like who they really are. This subject allows for some hilarious couplets, my favorite being: "If you save yourself for marriage, you're a bore If you don't save yourself for marriage, you're a whore-able person" The point is that Musgraves doesn't delineate between the many ways in which one might have to hide themselves from the world. Everyone should be allowed to be who they truly are, whether they are homosexuals, "whores," fat people, crackheads, whatever (and no I'm not equating homosexuality with being a crackhead!!) The fact that this song became a hit in the country music world says a lot about the changing times. To hear a country artist come out in support of same sex marriage in the press is a big enough deal, but to have it be addressed in a song that actually charted is something entirely different. Here's the chorus in all its beauty: "Make lots of noise. Kiss lots of boys. Or kiss lots of girls if that's something you're into. When the straight and arrow gets a little too straight, roll up a joint (or don't / I would), and follow your arrow wherever it points"