'Follow Your Arrow' Singer Kacey Musgraves Shocked by CMA Success

Kacey Musgraves has been making music since she was 12-years-old, but it wasn't until she released her very first studio album, Same Trailer Different Park, that she finally found success...and it was worth the wait. Musgraves recently received an astonishing six CMA nominations for her debut record, tying her with the already well established Taylor Swift. Apparently even she was shocked by her sudden surge of success, as she told the London Evening Standard:

“I can’t wrap my brain around that. They tell me that no debut female has ever had that many nominations. I think people must be ready for unabashed, relatable songs.”

It's those same "unabashed" songs that fans love that makes Musgraves success such a mystery. She isn't cookie cutter country. Musgraves doesn't sing about trucks. Instead she sings about things that are typically taboo for country music. Things like pot and gay rights are constant themes of her songs. Her latest single, "Follow Your Arrow," includes the lyrics:

"Make lots of noise

Kiss lots of boys

Or kiss lots of girls

If that's something you're into

When the straight and narrow

Gets a little too straight

Roll up a joint, or don't

Just follow your arrow

Wherever it points"

It's those types of lyrics that help build Musgraves' fan base with like minded souls who relate to the life she sings about:

“What I’m singing about is a mindset. I get people in places like Glasgow coming up to me saying, ‘That’s my life!’”

And you don't have to be a country music fan to get into Musgraves' music. In fact many of her fans are cross over, as she recalls:

“I love it any time somebody comes up to me and says, ‘I hate country music but I love your music’.”