Kacey Musgraves Gives Us Butterflies

Switched on Pop

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Music Interviews, Music History, Music, Music Commentary

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2018

⏱️ 28 minutes

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On her single 'Butterflies,' Kacey Musgraves demonstrates a tour de force of songwriting. This song is a wild success because it incessantly reinforces one core emotional concept: that queasy anxious feeling in your stomach. No we're not talking about your leftover lunch, we're talking about love. But this is not just a simple little love song. It is a masterclass of creativity. Musgraves uses every element of music to reinforce her core idea. The lyrics fold back onto themselves with dual meanings as the harmony, melody, orchestration and rhythm all interweave to literally give the listener butterflies. Caution: this song may induce feeling of tender sorrow and longing for mutual crushes and anxious kisses. Songs Discussed:Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go RoundKacey Musgraves - Butterflies Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.2	Welcome to Switched On Pop. I am songwriter Charlie Harding and I'm musicologist Nate Slone.
1:06.7	Oh Nate, I am excited for this one. Oh I'm excited that you're excited.
1:11.2	Today we're going to get to talk about Casey Musgraves who has literally been with us from
1:15.9	the beginning of our show, the very first episode. And I absolutely adore her music. She has a new
1:21.3	album called Golden Hour and today we're going to talk about her song Butterflies. It is a tour
1:28.7	de force of songwriting in which every element is splendidly interroven into a single theme,
1:34.7	Butterflies. And if listening to the chorus right now doesn't give you butterflies, I promise
1:39.0	that by the end of our conversation that your stomach will be churning once you realize all
1:43.5	of these just wonderfully beautifully intricately tied together elements of the song. It's so good.
1:50.1	Let's take a listen.
2:09.1	Cloud knows always out of reach. Now I remember what it feels like to fly.
2:18.2	It gave me butterflies. Butterflies. Nate, what are butterflies?
2:26.3	I mean if you want me to name like a genus, I am rough but these are beautiful creatures that
2:33.8	are born from caterpillars and fill our lives with fragile beauty and serve as excellent metaphors
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