Kacey Musgraves Ponders a New York Pied-à-Terre
The country chanteuse dishes on her latest release, finding inspiration in the city that never sleeps, and her Zillow-browsing habits.
While crafting her transcendent new album Deeper Well, Kacey Musgraves found herself utterly bewitched by the unparalleled magic of New York City. The seven-time Grammy winner recorded the acclaimed record at Manhattan’s iconic Electric Lady Studios, luxuriating in the creative dynamo that courses through the city’s streets.
“There’s something kind of electrically charged about New York, with humanity being so stacked on top of each other,” Musgraves rhapsodized to Vogue. “Emotions are really magnified in an environment like that, where there are millions of people all trying to figure out life together.”
It’s no wonder, then, that the 34-year-old has been idly exploring real estate listings in the Big Apple as of late. “Girl, I’m always browsing Zillow late at night, acting like a fool—it’s my favorite,” she confessed to People with a self-deprecating chuckle. While the Tennessee native has no immediate plans to flee her beloved Nashville community, she’s certainly open to establishing a pied-à-terre amid the city’s electrifying chaos.
“I wouldn’t rule it out,” Musgraves shared, “but I do have a community in Nashville that I know I couldn’t find anywhere else.”
After parting ways with the whimsical Nashville home that graced the cover of Architectural Digest last year, the “Breadwinner” singer sought solace in nature, purchasing a rustic cottage ensconced in a Tennessee forest. It was this woodsy respite that ultimately inspired the rustic serenity of Deeper Well’s “Heart of the Woods.”
Yet Musgraves’s artistic wanderlust seems to inextricably lead back to the world’s cultural capital. On the album’s tender “Too Good to be True,” her narrator dreams of exploring New York’s wonders through the wide eyes of a newcomer: “In my mind, we’re in New York / You had never been before / But, baby, now it’s our town.”
Could a permanent New York address be on the horizon? “I think New York City is a very special place, and I feel really inspired to create there for sure,” Musgraves mused to People.
Regardless of where she lays her head, the almost-EGOT winner (she’s one Oscar away) has already etched her name into the annals of country music iconography. Deeper Well’s lush musicality and poignant storytelling reinforces Musgraves’s mastery, while hinting at an artist unafraid tocolor outside the genre’s lines.
