Pageant Material Kacey Musgraves Album Poster

“Pageant Material Kacey Musgraves Album Poster” is a gift for those who love pop, country music. Buy it for yourself or relatives and friends who love the singer and this new album.

Pageant Material Album Kacey Musgraves Poster

Regardless of how you feel about Kacey Musgraves, her music, her politics, or the ideologies she espouses, she symbolizes nothing short of a victory in the effort to save country music. To have a major label artist release an album like Pageant Material, full of traditional country leanings and songwriter-based material, is a sizable leap forward for the genre. And this is not just from some 2nd or 3rd-tier star who is destined to be on the wrong side of seeing the attention she deserves come to fruition.

Forget about mainstream country radio, Musgraves is a perrenial Female Vocalist of the Year candidate now, and a former winner for Album of the Year and Song of the Year from the industry’s highest institutions.

Yet she’s still solidly an outsider, and an underdog, and nowhere does Kacey exemplify that more than in the semi-protest song “Good ‘Ol Boys Club”. With confidence and grace, she espouses her desire to not be the popular cash cow of country music, but to be herself and remain content with whatever that approach reaps. In “Pageant Material” she speaks about her inability to be fake on camera and play the game.

“I wish I could, but I just can’t wear a smile when a smile ain’t what I’m feeling”, she says, yet her words about never being good enough to wear the sash have already been disproved. In an industry where blockbusters reign, Kacey Musgraves has shown that quality can still win the popularity contests.

The full album would offer more variety, and now after listening to it, “Biscuits” and “Family is Family” might be the worst formulaic offenders. But still, where a song like “Somebody to Love” would be excellent standing alone, it’s similarity to other Musgraves material is palpable, and puts a damper on its impact, however slight. And “This Town” relies on Musgraves’ oft-used small town disillusionment tactic.

But Pageant Material remains an album that is only fair to characterize as well-written, and one that is underwritten by a traditional country approach throughout. Where Same Trailer, Different Park had to be a little more calculated and pragmatic, sneaking its traditional leanings between the lines, certain sections of Pageant Material are some of the most traditional-sounding material we’ve heard from a top tier star in memory.

Then the album ends with a hidden duet with Willie Nelson on his song “Are You Sure”. It’s great to hear Willie in this context, but it sure is a shame the track is “hidden”. Assign your favorite conspiracy theory to that decision.

Pageant Material feels like the album Kacey Musgraves wanted to make. No compromise, no half measures, and though the formulaic approach holds it back, there is some growth evidenced in spurts, and some very good songs. Many will assign this “Album of the Year” accolades, some for social reasons beyond the music itself, and some because not privy to all the music most active country listeners are. But Pageant Material remains a solid effort, and delivered slightly above expectations.

Product tag: Poster.

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Description

• 175 gsm fine art paper.
• Matte finish.
• For indoor use.
• NB! Due to the production process of these posters, please allow for slight size deviations with a tolerance of +/- 1/16″.
• Museum-grade paper is known to be archival, which means it can be stored for a long time without turning yellow.
• Bright and intense colors for your desired design that will not fade when exposed to sunlight regularly.
• If the poster does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, dry cloth.

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