Kacey Musgraves makes heartbreak ballads feel like arena anthems at D.C. show

On Thursday night, Kacey Musgraves made one promise to the capacity crowd at the Capital One Arena: “We’re gonna have fun tonight, even though this album is depressing as hell.”

While the album in question, last year’s “Star-Crossed,” has its share of melancholy moments — it’s chiefly about her 2020 divorce and its aftermath — it doesn’t quite need the “trigger warning” that Musgraves joked about. Instead, the Grammy-winning singer-songwriter turned the somber material into a night of country-yacht rock-disco more focused on the light at the end of the tunnel than the darkness within.

Read more in The Washington Post

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