Monday, August 23, 2021

Kacey Musgraves returns with fourth studio album 'star-crossed'

Today's big music news update: Kacey Musgraves is set to release her fourth studio album early next month. The media release is below...Robert Kinsler


LET ME SET THE SCENE…

 

KACEY MUSGRAVES RETURNS WITH HIGHLY-ANTICIPATED

FOURTH STUDIO ALBUM

star-crossed

 

ALBUM AND FILM OUT FRIDAY, SEPT. 10, 2021


star-crossed : the film TO BE RELEASED

EXCLUSIVELY ON PARAMOUNT+

 

“star-crossed,” TITLE TRACK AND FILM TRAILER BOTH OUT NOW

 


Six-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves will release her highly-anticipated fourth studio album star-crossed on September 10, via Interscope Records / UMG Nashville. star-crossed : the film directed by Bardia Zeinali, stars Musgraves, and will be streamed exclusively via Paramount+ on the same day. The title track written by Musgraves, Daniel Tashian, and Ian Fitchuk along with the film’s trailer are both out nowstar-crossed is the first album of new material from Musgraves since releasing her groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed album Golden Hour in 2018. Check out title track “star-crossed,” here and check out star-crossed : the film trailer here.

 

Photo credit: Sophia Matinazad


star-crossed
, the album, found Musgraves collaborating once again with co-producers and writers, Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian, and was recorded in Nashville,TN earlier this year in just under 3 weeks. The 15-song collection, structured as a modern-day tragedy in three acts, tells an extremely personal journey of heartache and healing and displays Musgraves continued growth as one of the finest singer-songwriters of our time. Pre-order the album here.

 
star-crossed : the film, takes the music from the studio to the screen with gorgeous visuals and a sense of heightened reality envisioned by Musgraves and Zeinali and shot by Academy Award-nominated cinematographer Matthew Libatique (A Star Is Born, Black Swan). “We wanted it to feel cinematic and epic without compromising the heart and the emotion,” Zeinali says, “to feel fantastical and heightened and tell her story through the lens of art and fashion.” The 50 -minute movie was filmed over a 10 day shoot in Los Angeles and features cameos from Emmy Award-winner Eugene Levy, Victoria Pedretti (Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, You), singer-songwriter Princess Nokia, Symone (RuPaul’s Drag Race winner) and comedian Megan Stalter.  The global premiere of Kacey Musgraves’ star-crossed : the film will exclusively debut on Paramount+ in the US, Latin America, Australia, the Nordics and Canada beginning on Friday, September 10. Fans outside of these markets can watch on MTV across its worldwide network of channels in nearly 180 regions. star-crossed : the film is presented by Interscope Films and is an Anonymous Content Production in association with UMG NashvilleSandbox Entertainment and Golden Girl Productions.

This writer last caught Musgraves at Coachella in April 2019. Read my review of her amazing performance HERE.

 

Kacey Musgraves at Coachella on April 19, 2019.
Photo credit: Courtesy of Coachella
star-crossed track listing:

  1. star-crossed
  2. good wife
  3. cherry blossom
  4. simple times
  5. if this was a movie..
  6. justified
  7. angel
  8. breadwinner
  9. camera roll
  10. easier said
  11. hookup scene
  12. keep lookin’ up
  13. what doesn’t kill me
  14. there is a light
  15. gracias a la vida


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