http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2015/06/kacey_musgraves_new_album_pageant_material_reviewed_the_follow_your_arrow.html

The arrival this week of Kacey Musgraves’ second album, Pageant Material, as well as my disappointment with it, has me casting fondly back to Sept. 21, 2012, when a friend’s email tipped me off to Musgraves’s then-brand-new first single “Merry Go ’Round.” I quickly wrote back a message along the lines of Holy shit, who is she? The record blew my ears off with its triple-layered wordplay and its incisored, insider’s view of small-town life-cycle letdowns—all delivered like a mercy killing by a singer who’d just turned 24. It’s still one of the songs I’ve loved most in the last five years.