Reviews (page 7 of 8)
(2.5) sounds like the soundtrack to a 2010-2015 mushy american romance film set in a european country that I would watch and then give 3.5 stars to on letterboxd and then see the reviews that say it was the shallowest worst film ever and so i change my rating to 2.5 because the reviews are right and i’m wrong, obviously but secretly i still quite liked the film on a slightly more sane note, i didn’t have any faith in it at all at first but it got better
Well that's 45 minutes of my life I'll never get back... This really reminded me of 'real women vote for trump' How has she got 16m monthly listeners. 1.5 rounded up
I've decided to give this one the benefit of the doubt with a 2 but might change my mind later on... The songs themselves were pleasantly mellow and easy-going, I just had issue with that ol' country twang that still seemed to creep into this comparatively modern album. I'm also of the opinion that some of these lyrics are somewhat brainless and nonsensical in an irritating kind of way - especially in the first song 'slow burn' which I definitely liked the least. Like what is this first verse!!!! Texas is hot, I can be cold Grandma cried when I pierced my nose Good in a glass, good on green Other than that, I enjoyed parts of it but probably not a relisten from me.
The slew of country albums lately has made me more adverse to them. This wasnt yeehaw cowboy country as much but it still had it's moments. The blend of country and pop was kinda weird. 2.5 rounded down
Not really my thing but I can see the appeal. The first few songs I was thinking it would be a lot better stripped down and less pop, but then the best song is Velvet Elvis which is pretty much pop. Butterflies is the other standout, but the rest isn't my jam, and High Horse was just awful
Je sais pas si je réécouterai ça un jour, mais c'était LOIN d'être nul.
I'm partial to a bit of Taylor Swift so I'm open to country pop. Unfortunately I found the pitch of Kacey's Texan twang super irritating so I was unable to emotionally connect with any of the songs. I quite enjoyed some of spacey/ epic production - like on Space Cowboy so a point for that. But then a point deducted for the banality of the lyrics that were laugh out loud in many places - worst offender being Oh What a World.
just really not my thing
Slow Burn - 3/5 Lonely Weekend - 3/5 Butterflies - 3/5 Oh, What a World - 2.5/5 Mother - 2/5 Love is a Wild Thing - 2.5/5 Space Cowboy - 2.5/5 Happy & Sad - 2.5/5 Velvet Elvis - 2/5 Wonder Woman - 2.5/5 High Horse - 3.5/5 Golden Hour - 3.5/5 Rainbow - 2/5 This album isn't bad per se, it's just incredibly generic. Too pop-y of a pop country album. There were very few actual country tracks, and the ones that I liked steered clear of that genre. She's a good singer, but the lyrical composition and production just aren't there for me. Not my cup of tea Overall: 2.5/5 Favorites: High Horse, Golden Hour
This is fine. I’m not sure I needed to listen to this before I died… but it’s clearly a huge record and she’s very popular. Her voice is great but the album is produced within an inch of its life and all sounds a bit bland. Musically not that interesting but a few nice songs on there. I’m reluctant to edge-lord it with a 1 star, so give it a 2 but it’s not far off.
Country, 2018 -> 2
GENERIC, IM SORRY, I DON'T GET IT.
I don’t think I needed to listen to this one before I died
Ich weiß nicht, ob ich nicht genug aufgepasst habe, aber da ist leider nicht viel durchgedrungen. Klang nach einer richtig guten Produktion.
War nicht schlecht, war schon schön aber war auch nichts was ich nochmal anmachen würde
I could have easily gone the rest of my life without hearing this generic album.
Painful - first album I didn't finish
The most milktoast thing this side of Taylor Swift.
unexciting generic guitar singer songwriter
Perfectly mediocre. loses a star for being overly generic
The opening track is actually decent “Slow Burn”, the rest I lump in with the rest of bad modern country music.
Not a fan of country
More like 'Golden Shower'! It's a massive "NO" from me... Heard before ❌️ Listened this time ❌️ in part Revisit ❌️ Pointless ★★☆☆☆ (3/10)
Meh, modern country but a bit better, def not my cup of tea
No standouts
Generic country pop from another Taylor Swift clone. This is safe, bland and forgettable. Even 24 hours later, I couldn’t hum one of the songs, but I remember not hating it. It’s was too boring to remember. She should be called Kacey Meh-sgraves!
Country rubbish
I love Slow Burn but the rest of the album is too repetitive for me and lovey dovey/sad girl.
Meh
What the pop country fuck is this doing here? Let's see, better artists that scratch the Kacey Musgraves itch (like an STD) but are significantly better and far more deserving of a spot on the list: Taylor Swift, Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood. I don't even like country and I did that off the top of my head. Influence 1. Hits 2. Quality 2. Intangibles 1. Pop country might be the worst country 1.
Feels very..average.
Not my jam
Best Track - "Space Cowboy"
it's alright for what it is but rly not my thing
Bore off mate
Sounds like Taylor Swift. Maybe a little less poppy and sung a little better. But still, it's a boring sound for me.
Listened. Mellow country pop. Pleasant voice, but I was left feeling dulled by the experience. Could be a mood mismatch.
Only prior knowledge of Kacey Musgraves is the fantastic Zach Bryan tune "I Remember Everything". I knew walking in that Kacey has a fantastic voice so my expectations were reasonably high. And a great voice she has, but that's where the praise largely finishes. The album admittedly starts out strong with Slow Burn. It's followed by Lady Antebellum/early Taylor Swift regens that didn't grab my attention as much as I was hoping. The album largely continues in this mushy country pop nature. Despite her great vocals (which I have no doubt could make great country music), this album just wasn't that interesting to me. Also confirmed for me that I very much fall on the country-folk side of the fence rather than the radio-friendly country pop. Not offensively bad by any means but just not something I'll be revisiting. 4/10 Favourite: Slow Burn, Least Favourite: Lonely Weekend
Medium pop
Contemporary country definitely isn't my thing. I actually recognized one of the songs from the album though! It wasn't absolutely terrible, but definitely won't be revisiting. Did a couple of interesting things musically here and there. Lyrics were generic and god-awful throughout -> "I'm not wonder woman, I can't lasso the truth out of you". 2/5
A bit immature and twangee. Not for me.
Kacey Musgraves seems to have a box for her music: inoffensive lyrics with the occasionally clever or occasionally clumsy twist; inoffensive backing tracks with never a surprise or an interesting musical twist; nice vocals which risk nothing, etc. It adds up to a boring album.
Pap. Absolutely nothing original or exceptional about it. Her debut album is MUCH better.
You And Your High Horse. 1001 Albums Generator 149 (10/28/2025) If I wanted to listen to an album where nothing happens, I would throw on John Cage's 4'33". Golden Hour is a boring piece of pop "country" that just completely fails to stand out in any way. High Horse is fun and the title track is okay, while the opener Slow Burn has hints of Sufjan inspiration, which is great. However, I really wanted more from this album, since I get excited to see newer albums on a list like this, hoping to find the artists of today that are making music worth hearing. When it comes to Ms. Musgraves, it feels like I'm missing something. 1.5/5, rounded up to a 2 because it wasn't necessarily unpleasant in any way. Favs: Slow Burn High Horse Golden Hour Least Fav: Love Is A Wild Thing
country album from a young woman who recently got engaged. floaty and pleasant, according to wikipedia this has influences from disco, yacht rock, electronica? i don't know, that's what it says but i can't hear it at all. i'm sorry, it's not for me. straight up. i don't like country a lot of the time. this music is uninteresting to me, there's nothing special when it comes to vocal or instrumental variety, a lot of the songs are about love... it's just nothing. i'm not hooked. i don't know how this album is significant.
2.5/5
MAGA brain rot music
Not a must hear!
Ugh, country pop is the worst. These songs are so generic and unmemorable. It's not horrible, but there are so many other albums that aren't this drab and joyless.
Nada interesante
Genuinely surprised to see an album made after the early 2000's. It's unfortunate that they didn't choose a better one.
It’s not bad but everything sounds the same.
It was fine, I guess? Melodically it was easy listening. Breezy country-pop with a few frills but nothing that seemed especially interesting. Lyrically it was drab. I didn't find much that jumped out to me on listen number 1, and more regularly I felt it was quite basic and lacking in emotional heft. I don't know, I didn't hate it. It was a decent enough album to listen to on a drive, I just don't think it will get any replay value from me.
Acceptable countryish pop music. I found it fairly bland.
Oh please. Nobody has to hear this paint by numbers country pop before they die, unless you happen to be a teenage girl with terminal cancer. Some songs are well written (probably with major input from established songwriters) but it’s just bang average pop fayre.
Did not like this one. A couple cute songs but it all felt so insincere. Mall crawler music. Denver Colorado cowboy outfit music. Not good.
I tried to like this but just couldn’t really. It just didn’t really do anything of note and by the end felt like it was just dragging to its inevitable conclusion.
Kacey Meh-graves. There’s some nice elements of indie, soft rock, disco and electronica but it is all delectably swished into a basically yucky corny girly country pop album. Not even a golden minute on this. Worst Cowboy Bebop episode ever because tracks like Space Cowboy I will not wanting to be ‘seeing again’.
What a beautiful album cover. Oh shit is this country? Yeah sorry. 2 stars.
This is alright but not really my kind of music
First third of the album I was into. I just can't do 30-40min of this type of music in one go.
Temu Taylor Swift completely over-produced vocals highlight dead plain lyrics
Perfectly pleasant and listenable, but also completely inessential for me
Can’t get past the 3rd song
Reminds me of saccharine coffee shop fare from the late 1990s. It's fine, but I'm not understanding how it won all these awards.
I found it very boring.
I’ve always enjoyed Slow Burn, but as a whole this type of country pop just isn’t very appealing to me
I like this one. Slow Burn sounds like a Sufjan Stevens song. …actually, there’s a bunch of stinkers in the middle. It's not as good as Madvillainy.
Not 4 mee
High end modern female country, just not my style
Slightly better then the garbage country today. But I still don't like it at all
She's good, but I had to turn it off part way because it was making me sad.
Pop country is definitely not in my wheelhouse. I didn't hate this album, as much as I found it kind of boring. She's arguably a great vocalist, but I just don't like the style.
Middle of the road.
OK.
Man, they really letting anything through on this list, huh…
This album is like an endurance test of all my least favorite music cliches. First off, I cannot stand country music, I know this is barely country, but that accent and style of singing just gets right under my skin. Secondly, I just find pop music that leans more towards singer-songwriter to be some of the most boring music out there. Ok so, this album isn't unlistenable, but I find it incredibly tedious and repetitive. As soon as a new song would start I would immediately forget whatever played before. There was a lot of really good music released in these past 10 years, but apparently whoever picked these albums hasn't heard them. All of the albums that were picked for the 2010's are always whatever won some award, and they are always the most boring, inoffensive, opposite of boundary pushing album ever. Low 2.
Í can hop over this one
Not my cup of tea
Another decent album that not my cup of tea. Too popish and indie. Its like the formula for making decent songs. 2 songs were really good all others are average
A few years ago I would have dismissed this album immediately. Traditional American Country Music does nothing for me at all. But Taylor Swift has educated me not to be so rash. Listened and gave this album a chance in hope, considering it was on this list at all, that it would appeal to my inner Swifty. Pleasant enough I suppose but not deep or meaningful like you get from Taylor Swift. 2/5 18/7/25
I don't ever listen to country music, so have little to compare this to. Nothing here interests me, it's poppy and bland. Not unpleasant, but feels so contrived.
Not for me, sounds like generic pop country nonsense
Bland. Kinda reminds me of early Taylor Swift.
To me it's just your everyday love/break-up album with cliché text
I saw this pop up on a list of best albums to get high to on 420 and still don’t understand why.
Inoffensive I guess. The kind of thing I'd expect to hear at Barnes & Noble. Bring on Napalm Death! 2/5 #117
This is dull as can be. 100% should not be on the list unless the list is saying "let's find an example of everything music can do". This has the depth of Starbucks. Man, this is so generic it finished and I didn't even notice it had moved to shuffle similar music and had gone through four other artists. All five of them sounded the same in every way.
These lyrics are doing nothing and the music sounds like a Sears catalog. No idea why this is something special. It is fine. Franchise coffee shop music.
this wasn’t very special, is was decent but i don’t feel it adds much to anything in the genre, i won’t be going back to it
Not for me, almost every song sounded the same. A really boring album
I get why it deviates from normal country but also feels extremely dated for 2018 and this convinced me that country music is like 20 years behind the times culturally, and also that it's very easy to get a Grammy if you're a country musician. This feels like Miley Cyrus meets Death Cab For Cutie and I mean that in the most derogatory way possible. Sounds like Radio Disney music from 2005. I truly don't get it. It's not as bad as Taylor Swift but I still don't like it.
Is this country music in disguise?
Terrible
Vapidity perfected
Yay! A modern album, I'll enjoy listening to ... Oh, hang on, it's country. Or is it pop?
I'm confused with this entry, as there's no reference in the 1001 book or even the ex-1001 list. So I'm unsure why it's on this website. 🤷 As for the album, it invokes the same feeling as when my daughter puts Taylor Swift on in the car, it's bearable, but can we change the CD yet?
Zensko country pevanje tra la la
2/5 I was uninspired by this record lyrically and thought it lacked creative exploration. The songs to their core had solid structures with well written melodies. Not a bad record, just not a very interesting one. Top 3 Songs: Slow Burn Butterflies Golden Hour
Sounds like a Natalie Merchant wanna be.
Most palatable country I've listened so far on this list. That doesn't make it great in my book, it's just average poppy stuff that is catchy and -fine- to listen to. I'd give it a 2,5 for sheer okayness, but, alas. I guess it's because I don't drive a Silverado.
Pop music steeped in country tropes. Simple lyrics and predictable progressions make this all very digestible radio friendly pop. And while it may push the envelope in that country sphere a bit, anyone who's not been living with musical blinders on has already heard this stuff elsewhere 20 years ago.
She has a nice voice. The production is good. I do not really connect.
Middle of the road - life has been produced out of it. A few nice lyrics and ideas beneath the polish.
This was a tough listen. Just the exact type of country music I dislike. Sounded very generic
Not awful, but pop-country is not my thing. I just found this boring and forgettable
Not my jam. Soft poppy....could no get thru much of it.
No horrible for country .
Oh "modern" country. The faint sound of a banjo or slide guitar here or there and we've got country music. This is a bowl of vanilla ice cream. Not the good kind with real vanilla, but the fake vanilla kind that you buy at a gas station. Not terrible but nothing to go back for seconds. High Horse is a banger though.
Just kind of bland pop country.
At first I thought it was going to be cool, by the end I was bored. The songs all just merged into one.
Not without some sweetness, but beige, bland, and utterly banal. I'm sure it was wildly popular.
Inoffensive but not my jam.
It is fine, not really a sound that makes me excited
I bet this is great if you love country pop music, all the feels ⭐⭐
Firstly, I was like ‘what, this album is only 2 years old?’ before I realised actually no, 2018 was 7 years ago now. I’m still not convinced that’s enough time to merit inclusion and also I just found it rather dull. She has a pretty voice and I’ve heard she’s a cool person but to me it was all a bit generic. The song Butterflies had a cool sound though. (2.5 stars)
Influential on what, exactly? Its just another poppy plastic album with country overtones (is she channelling Dolly?) cashing in. Nothing awful, nothing special. 2
There are a couple songs on here that are alright, but most of the album sounds like commercialized country that has been stripped of its soul produced purely for the sake of making it as commercially wide-appealing as possible. Combine that with the overdone vocal post processing and auto-tuning and it was almost too much to take. I found the album hard to finish, though the latter half seemed less unbearable than the first.
Оно в целом приятно, если звучит глубоко на фоне, пока голова занята чем-то совсем другим. Но как только начинаешь вслушиваться в текст, это просто кромешный пиздец (кринж). Без обесценивания и оценок отдельной Кейси Масгрейвз и её талантов. Удача тоже требует труда и всё такое. И не каждая песня должна быть мистической, многоуровневой, с тридцатью тысячами отсылок, ага, ага. Но всё же кринж. Лучшая песня - Slow Burn.
Perfectly pleasant and inoffensive. Can listen while working. But proof 1000 albums is too many.
Hoi Kacey, du! Da fallt mer grad sehr fest uf wie unterverträtte wiiblichi künstlerinne sind da bim Album Generator. Nonie vode Kacey Musgraves ghört zum ehrlich sii. Und ich weiss au biz wieso. Fühl mich bi dere zuckersüesse Stimm wie ade erstkommunion vode cousine wenn s 16 jährige teenie meitli ihres biblische lied ide chile dörf vorsinge. Oder ide RomCom wenn min Jugend-crush grad de Altar zu ihrem zuekünftige ma lauft, obwohl mir beid wüssed das mer scho sit 15 jahr inenand verliebt sind ohni dases je öppert gseit het. Chani mit beidne situation ned viel ahfange. Gueti Stimm, aber singer-songwriter + chli country vibes git mer alles anderi wie e goldni Stund. Das ganze nach 20 bronze Minute abbroche und schnippe lässig zwei goldmünze in wunschbrunne und wünsche, das bald wider e banger-album chund. Zweit wunsch isch en filet-o-fish
Sehr popig und wieder mal überrascht wini es 2018 album e künstlerin nöd cha kenne. Aber glichzitg halt gmerkt dass isch au nöd würki nötig. Vill zu generische pop gedünsel. 2 sternli für 2 mässig entertainty ohre
also so moderne cköntri hani ezt gar nöd ufem bingo board gha und ehrlich gseit hani da au chli duregskippet... mir laufts chalt de rugge durab wenni banjos ih dene songs vernoh han da falltmer nume eis ih: cyber bullying und rassismus uf facebook ich glaub das isch eifach ih mim hirn ihbrennt und mer bechunts nüme los nöd min moonshine alkopop whiteclaw wiemer so schön seit das isch en klare Kacey vo 2 puntos
Nee, gewoon nee. Dit klinkt alsof een John Mayer fangirl een popalbum heeft gemaakt, maar er soms even een banjo (en een hintje slide gitaar?) doorheen gooit zodat je niet vergeet dat ze écht country is. Ik zou dit alleen kunnen luisteren als een vrouw zegt dat ze me dan helemaal afslobbert, en dan gaat het nog met tegenzin.
- competent but so absolutely derivative ... 2.5 -
I can understand that this list will have albums I don't like, because of their genre, importance or historical value. I do not understand why this is here. It's pleasant enough in places, but totally formulaic and auto tuned to hell. The only bits that are memorable are because the lyrics are so bad. A couple of the short single instrument songs are kind of OK, but it really doesn't stick. A low 2 - only avoiding a 1 because it's too bland to be awful.
easy listening, breathy female voice, ok, but nothing grabs me
I don't know what it was about this album that just really didn't not vibe with me, maybe because it's more recent so I just hear more music like it in my day to day life, but it had a generic sound to me.
It's just okay, nothing earth shattering or particularly interesting.
Super weak sauce. Who listens to this?
Too smooth for me. The lyrics to Space Cowboy were funny.
Country died in the 80s
2 sterne
Meh.
1. burn - 1.5 2. lonely - 1.5 3. butterfliez - 1.5 4. uuorld - 1 5. mother - 2 6. uuild - 1.5 7. zpace - 1.5 8. happy - 1 9. velvet - 0 10. uuoman - 1 11. horze - 1 12. golden - 1.5 13. rainbouu - 1.5
I didn't like this one. It was trying to be super plane/understated. But the lyrics were just not good in my opinion, so it felt really flat. There are so many better country artists. A couple of the songs had a bit of pop charm, but overall as an album it was just not worth it.
Great production with a few stand out tracks. But this kind of music isn't really my thing
Lovely voice and the album is well produced. Otherwise, this is generic country-pop that could just as well have been Taylor Swift or one of many others, as far as I'm concerned. So inoffensive and bland. I was going to go for a 3 listening to the first song, but got so bored throughout the album that it's a 2.
Too country for me
nagyon szep vokalok, nagyon nem az en vibeom.
Pretty bland
..
Mostly white noise
Didn’t mind this but nothing mind-blowing. Eno-country.
This is way too recent and way too bland to be considered for a list like this.
Not my kind of thing. Wasn't bad but wouldn't go back to it
Acceptably average modern country.
A couple uptempo songs, but country doesn’t do it for me
This is well made, but I'm just not the target audience for it. I don't really want to rate it, it's good, just not my thing.
I’ve always ignored Kacey Musgraves because a sleazy guy who was forever trying to play in my park was obsessed with her. Assumed I wouldn’t like her music if she attracted dudes like that. I was mostly right. She has a little girl voice and her lyrics are immature. The album is overproduced for her stripped down sound. Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it.
Country pop moderno. No sé qué pinta aquí. No hay nada que destacar de este disco.
Every bit as nothing as I'd remembered (it did win the Grammy for best album), but "Velvet Elvis" is a jam so there's that
I think that Bo Burnham’s “Pandering” has ruined a lot of modern country music for a lot of people. Righteously and justifiably. This album basically felt like “Pandering: the Tween Girl Version! <3” It’s all butterflies and wildflowers and horsies and “rivers running to the sea” and blah and yadda and so forth. You could madlip the whole thing just using LiveJournal icons from 2004. I liked “Same Trailer Different Park” but obviously this album is more marketable. Which means it’s more bland. I dunno. It’s not for me. It feels hollow and dumbed down in a calculating sort of way. I’m just struggling to believe a thirty year old woman claim that she “didn’t know she could feel happy and sad at the same time!” Really, Honey? Cuz. Not to be mean but the main character in Inside Out was 11.
There are probably 1000 more deserving albums from 2018 to put on this list.
Fluffy pop record of which I may ask: Why exactly is it listed, here? I mean: not bad, well produced, good songwriting etc. But all in all still generic radio stuff that shouldn‘t be jamming a spot in the „b4 u die“-list…really, so far I nearly always understood the decisions apart from my liking. But with this one everything seems meaningless.
Bland. Doesn't sound any different to the hundreds of country pop singer/songwriters. 2/5
This was a fine listen but didn't blow me away. Her voice is nice and she wastes no time getting into each song. Most are quick (13 songs on a 45 minute album), but overall just average. As others have noted, there are some really cringey/weird lyrics. 4.5/10 (2.25/5)
Never heard Of Kacey Musgraves. Although I dont mind some Country and some Pop, never liked the two together. While this album had a couple of songs I thought were ok, the album as a whole dragged for me. Couldnt really see why this is a must hear.
Auto tune Claire de lune Dark side Of the moon Billy Joel She's lost control Corporate rock Rubber Soul E-Z-E The Oh Sees Napalm Death Screaming Trees Blurry Face Picked up the pace Rita Hayworth Gave good face 33 rpm God bless R.E.M. sophisticated Minutemen Psycho Killer Album filler Browser wars Fake Gorillaz Deep thoughts Parquet Courts Now who's wearing Denim shorts Ride on time Number eight Come as you are Don't be late Nonsense reviews blue suede shoes Kacey Musgraves I give her two
I've only recently become privy to how overproduced modern country is becoming. One would think that autotune and all of the other modern pop sensibilities would run contrary to what the genre represents. Still, as an enjoyer of musical junk food, unplugging my mind to this one wasn't all that bad. Whatever slot that this album occupies could have very easily gone to Emergency & I. No, I'm not being a petty asshole because one of my favourite album didn't make the list
# 357 : I could listen to it, but it's bland and boring. Bland modern country pop with terrible teenage diary lyrics. I won't listen again and I feel like sometimes this list mistakes "you must listen to this ALBUM before you die" with "Hey, this was popular during 20xx, or had a couple hits on it" with importance. High Horse is worth a mention though.
This was fine, 2.5 probably
A bit dull
Soulless, boring, country-pop.
Pretty, but unremarkable. I'll keep it on the main system for Shuffle but it won't go on a mobile device for choosing to listen to while on the go.
Not offensive, but like listening to an episode of the OC
Sockersött men inte särskilt bra.
Inoffensive, unexceptional, but goes down sweet and easy. 2.5 rounding up for the banjo frog. Oops then Spotify played some Tom Petty and I was reminded how good this kind of thing can actually sound when it is a little less slick.
Bland pop country with cheesy lyrics. Meh.
Country pop moderno. No sé qué pinta aquí. No hay nada que destacar de este disco.
Now, I’m a big fan of good pop music and keep up with what’s current and trending. When this popped up today I got excited to see what it’s all about, but got pretty disappointed pretty quickly. None of the melodies felt original, the music is all toned down and over-produced, her vocals, while pleasant, have little variation and the lyrics are oftentimes very simple and uninteresting. To not be compared to better pop artists out there, I would’ve liked to have heard more country here. Wish I had more to say, Kacey!
Pretty standard pop/C&W teen starlet affair. 2.5 stars.
It's like she recorded the same song over and over again.
So so and not my taste
2 stars - dig the folkier elements on some tracks, but not the overall style.
oh god, she has millions and millions of streams and clearly it's my fault, but I wanna die after this.
Probably a 2.5 but I’m rounding down. Slow burn is great! I just don’t like country music so the rest isn’t a hit for me. Plus some of the rhyme scenes are reallyyyyyyyy predictable
Country pop moderno. No sé qué pinta aquí. No hay nada que destacar de este disco.
It's quite pleasant but not really one of the greatest albums ever produced? Am I wrong?
Way too much of a repetitive sound and includes very cheesy lyrics. Not really my cup of tea, as it is very forgettable for me.
2.5, country taylor swift for sure, liked Slow Burn and Space Cowboy
Pretty standard pop country that I didn't know I needed to listen to before I died.
I wasn't crazy for the singles from this album cycle when they were new, but now that I've listened to the full album...I REALLY don't get it. This is like the blandest, dullest, most boring album, I swear. I get pleasant "vibe music", I listen to that a lot. So Kacey going "dream pop" should work, but it doesn't help that it has the flattest production I've ever heard in my life, uninspired arrangements, and surprisingly weak vocals across the board. I do like Kacey, the singles from Same Trailer Different Park are so good, and I'm even partial to some of the songs from Deeper Well (and Justified from Star Crossed was good too). But I cannot wrap my head around what people see in this one, it's easily the most uninteresting thing she's ever released.
Minimal production, singer/songwriter country. Feels a little like Taylor Swift - just barely disguised songs about something or someone in real life. Not my thing.
Meh, seemed like a pretty one note kinda album.
Many many years ago I tried some country albums to try to be open-minded since a bunch of my friends loved country, but it just isn't for me 99% of the time. Spotify still thinks I want country in my daily/weekly rollups. Anyway, Kacey Musgraves vocals kind of remind of Dolly, but the music itself feels more folksy/indie (like early 2000s female vocalists). She's a good vocalist, but I'm not sure this album belongs on this list. Dentist office music.
Not bad but also blah. Nice voice for one song but they were all so dumb. 2 stars for the song about mothers. Haha
Kinda catchy but mostly forgettable.
[No me considero un fan del pop ni menos del country, por lo que esta reseña realmente no tiene valor para alguien que busca introducirse en este género o esta artista] Primer acercamiento a Kacey Musgraves. Aunque siendo sincero, la primera pequeña conexión que realicé con la artista (y en especial con este trabajo) es el hecho que fue destacado cómo el Mejor Álbum del Año 2019 por los Grammy's (lo cual no dice mucho hoy en día). Entonces, ¿Qué encontramos en este trabajo? Nada que no fuese esperable. Golden Hour se trata de un álbum esencialmente popero, el cual lamentablemente no destaca especialmente en nada. Esto no quiere decir que sea necesariamente insultante al oyente como muchos tildan. Este trabajo es sencillo de digerir, sonoramente bello e ideal para personas que no buscan desafíos musicales. No obstante, personalmente las letras me generan un problema bastante notorio. Mi idioma por defecto es el español, por lo que al escuchar música en ingles nunca voy a estar realmente pendiente de qué es lo que dice un artista no hispanohablante. Sin embargo, si la artista en cuestión hace el intento por rimar "fly" con "butterfly" entonces no hay mucho que se pueda salvar. Se trata netamente de un trabajo flojo de escritura, aunque fiel a su esencia digerible. FAVTRAXS: Oh, What A World / Happy & Sad / Rainbow LEASTFAV: Lonely Weekend / Wonder Woman
Mid Album.
Much too pop-oriented to grab me. I find the lyrics and the musicality a bit too simplistic. The musicianship is studio top-notch, no feeling allowed. I couldn't listen to the whole album--I heard the first few then started skipping ahead for the next few. Just not my thing.
Twee chill out music. Clever and artful but a bit too saccharine for me.
Not as bad as I thought it’d be!
music to pick up a grand half-caf hazelnut macchiato by
Lovely voice but not my thing.
This wasn't horrible, but it was too popish for me.
Way too syrupy for me
Never heard of this before and I would have been happy if I never had to listen to it in my lifetime. Oh well.
Very well produced album, with an impressive attention to details for the genre, nice variations along the way, sometimes being country, other times being groovy pop, soft rock or even dream pop. Otherwise, this is still your average pop album that nobody will remember a few years later.
Cotton wool in music form - superficially pretty but lacking in ballast or substance. Musgraves's singing is the vocal equivalent of Switzerland - maddeningly neutral. "Texas is hot, I can be cold Grandma cried when I pierced my nose" Now there's a couplet for the fucking time capsule.
Country pop moderno. No sé qué pinta aquí. No hay nada que destacar de este disco.
sadly fenced in
Rainbow is good. The rest of the album is just too fuckin happy.
I have no idea why this album was included in the 1001, but now I can say I've listened to it. Deeply unremarkable.
Meh. 2/5
I feel like a white teenage girl listening to this. 4.5/10
Taylor swift reskin
She has a nice voice and writes pretty songs, but this fell kinda flat for me. Nothing about it was very interesting or moving, almost had a generic feel or something. Can’t quite put my finger on it, it just wasn’t really my thing.
My favorite song was High Horses.
I get why this album in on the list, but it's not my jam.
Country Pop, where there hardly is any Country, leaving mostly Pop. Which is a problem, considering what Pop has become in the last 10 - 15 years. The lyrics are especially bland (just listen to the opener Slow Burn for a prime example). 2/5
The most basic of basic pop
Nice voice, decent music, but boring
This is the first album that I know reasonably well and feel is pleasant enough - that I am absolutely going to pan. There is nothing special here. This is off-brand Taylor Swift with a country twang. I personally love pop music and have come to accept that some syrupy music is actually lovely when the mood strikes. This is not it. The lyrics are trite, the production is limp, the songwriting is pedestrian. I don't hate it for what it is, I despise it for what it tries to do and fails to be.
Lyricism criticism mysticism fanaticism
failure swift
Hmmm ... modern country music. Sounds ok. Bute leaves nothing behind. One wonders why Kacey Musgraves is so popular but you probably have to be more into this kind of music to understand that.
white girl fantasy
It's very well produced pop, but the songwriting is a bit too middle-of-the-road for my tastes. Slow Burn sounds like a Tesco value Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens. It's not terrible, by all means, just a bit bland.
I thought the first couple of songs were actually decent and held my attention, but from there the album slowly descends to cringe levels of well…..cringe, lyrics wise, and also blandness musically, which is a bit of a shame because Kacey has a lovely voice, and the album’s production is actually kinda nice. I feel this could’ve/should’ve been better.
Tää poppiscountry on vähän vaikeeta mulle. Ei tää nyt aktiivisesti ärsyttänyt, mutta en mä oikeen lämmennyt. 2/5
I found this was trying to be everything with the country sprinkled in, I guess thats not a bad idea but it just didn't mesh for me. The production was over the top trying very hard to capture a pop audience i could not make it through the whole thing
Not really something in my library
You can't go TOO wrong with a pretty voice and a guitar, but it's normie af
I quite liked the first track, once I got over the fact that it's basically "Old Man" by Neil Young with different words. The rest of the album was pleasant enough, in a "this is definitely a 2 star album" way.
Must hear? Not really. It was basic and bland
2,5
Her voice is beautiful. But every single song on the album is the same. I remember how popular this album was when it dropped, and I can see why. But it's also a good explanation as to why I'm so rarely drawn to recent pop releases. Favorite track: High Horse
Unsure why this is praised so highly. It’s got done good lyrics, but the music is rather one-more. Each song blends into the next. Meh.
OK, inoffensive soft country. Personally think Jewel does it better
It’s interesting but I don’t like country and by interesting I mean county music discovered Wilco and Phil Elverum
1001 albums to listen to before you die template. Genre: country Instruments: 2/5 Modern Translation: 2/5 Dance Potential: 1/5 Listening Location: driving home from various holiday plans Favourite Song: Wild Horses Made me feel: ambivalent. Most of the songs sounded the same and that wasn’t necessarily a good thing for this album.
Kacey Musgraves walked so Taylor Swift can fly. Still boring. Still basic. 5/10
Okay, that was actually a pretty nice album, boring, but it didn't sound anything as your typical country music, more like a positive pop star, which is nice to hear. I would give it a nice and average note of 3/5, but I was definitely lied to by Kacey. Song "Space Cowboy" is not about Cowboys from the Space, or about Cowboy Bepop. Instead, it should be named Space COMMA Cowboy. Terrible advertisement, which made me dislike this album. Very disappointed, 2/5.
jos jollain radio hedille menee pelkkiä vitosia, niin pakko antaa tällekin. täysin sama asia tässä pienellä kantri twistillä..Hey man, slow down Slow down Idiot, slow down Slow down... sad shit.... 2010 popitustahan . gneeristä (generic) PÄÄHÄNPISTOSANA... TARVI PELÄTÄ TOLLASIA... respektfullia respektfullia propsit annetaan...tarvi pottuilla.. slow burn
A Swift-wannabe writes generic boring country pop ballads with shitty tasteless hooks and lyrics that lack any expressive form of emotion. The most interesting songs is shit like "High Horse" which is nothing more than a country-infused basic disco beat. It's consistent, the production is nice and spacey, and there are some ok songs on here. But it's mostly trash.
It was fine - all the songs had a similar sound. I won’t run to listen to it again, but I wouldn’t shut it off.
Bland and overproduced.
Not really my bag soz
This is a fairly anodyne country pop album with an overly tuned, saccharine vocal. Musically fine if not particularly interesting. The songwriting is notably bad. I hope I had more interesting things to talk about when I was 20. Fave Songs: None. Favorite comments from another reviewer: "Too much time rolling around in the satin sheet production, not enough time on the writing. When they aren't outright clunkers, they're pap. And when when they're not pap, the drippy aesthetic makes them sound like it."
doesn't stand out
This seems like a pretty average country album. I don’t really like country.
pas ma tasse de thé mais jolie voix
2. Reminding me of early Taylor Swift. Not terrible, bu not my cup of tea.
this really has got the "popular music" vibe to it huh. very much not a fan of that vibe myself, bores me to tears. she does have a really nice voice though, so even if the songwriting and general sound does nothing i won't give it a 1
Not interested
Wie langweilig kann ein Album sein? Musgraves: Ja. 2 Sterne weil man es bis zum Ende hören kann. Aber es bleibt von der Reise nichts hängen außer einige fragwürdig und/ oder lächerliche Lyrics
It's good but far from something I would enjoy returning to. Gets samey pretty quickly for me but I'm not really a fan of country so there's that.
Well, it sounds nice at least. Even if the sound is reductive, the engineering is overdone and the writing and vocals lack heart. The real issue here is that this record feels really artificial–it's as if Weyes Blood and early Taylor Swift fused into one person and decided to make an album under the condition that it was written in one day with the goal of being superficial and winning awards.
Is this what's become of country music?
Pop country, I suppose. I knew one song but I find this music completely uninspired.
Slow burn is OK Lonely weekend is not my jam Butterflies is OK Space Cowboy is OK Mother is not my jam Love is a wild thing is not my jam Happy & Sad I didn't notice Velvet Elvis - disgust Wonder Woman - bored High Horse - this is neat Golden Hour - didn't notice Rainbows- OK 2/5
If this is considered one of the "1001 albums you must listen to before you die", I'm questioning the legitimacy of the people making this list. Problem just grabbed it randomly from a pile of albums to fill a spot on the list? Pretty boring pop with a slight country feel. Nothing really stands out on the album and it definitely not memorable.
Snap niet waarom deze in deze lijst staat? Niks bijzonders aan
Algun día le daré otra chance
Decent songwriting but boring trite lyrics and very sickly sweet style, def not my thing
Yeah, its country pop. I don't hate it, but it's just a million miles from my style of tunes. Production isn't bad, and there is some interesting electronic additions to some tracks, but overall it's very samey songs to my ear.
Some nice pop songs
Ah I don’t like it. It’s fine. It’s well produced? It’s fine? I just find it a bit annoying really.
Definitely overrated pop album that does have some nice moments but also some generic weaker moments as well. She has a good voice but the lyrics are hit and miss. I definitely prefer her two previous albums.
Nice voice but it got old pretty quick. Last song was the best of the bunch
Well produced norm-core pop centred on a young woman longing for connection, meaning, romance and magic. Longing is one of the best lyrical themes for pop and i am cautiously curious after the first track. But it soon becomes obvious that the album is dominated by very basic and unoriginal lyrics. Tasteful but safe and boring music production. First previously unknown artist for me in this project
good modern day country. nice voice.
Taka słabsza Taylor Swift
Pop-Country that just didn't do a thing for me.
I’m not hearing anything transcendent whatsoever. It’s bland and uneventful at least up to track 10, I’ll fast forward trough the rest and get over it
To be honest I’m not really much into pop so I was a bit sceptical when I saw this album come up as it is a bit more country pop and I think I was right to be. There are a good handful of enjoyable snippets throughout the album and I appreciate the singing as well but none of the songs really do much for me, at most I find some of them okay such as ‘Golden hour’ and ‘Lonely weekend’ but then a fair few, especially in the middle of the album, just seem very boring and I can’t really shake the feeling of how similar some of the songs sound. I guess also Kacey’s country accent and constant use of the acoustic guitar are a reminder that this does have country elements to it but I feel it also holds it back instrumentally as well as I think this could be a good pop album with more interesting production and a change in pace every now and again. However, I probably won’t return to this and if I do it’ll only be for a small collection of songs
meh
Didn't like it, bad lyrics, surprised it's on this list
i really, really don't like this music. i'm also loathe to dish out 1* reviews so i find myself trying to find some kind of hook. i think i need to be from rural US to enjoy this. ugh
So I'm fighting hard against my prejudices against country pop to give this a fair crack before dismissing it. First 3 tracks or so I'm thinking so far, so formulaic. Somewhat incredulous that Rolling Stone have this around halfway in a list of 500 greatest albums OF ALL TIME, but most of those lists are bollocks anyway, so moving on... A couple of tracks do stand out as actually interesting, Space Cowboy, Oh what a world. There is an interesting soundscape going on. The rest, well yeah sure its nice to listen to. Accomplished pop. The sort of thing I imagine gets played on stations like Smooth FM 24/7. Will I ever listen to it again, or do I think it's essential? Absolutely not.
...yawn so boring. Is it really an album I had to hear before I die?
Moins pire que je m'attendais, mais ça reste du pop country assez insipide et générique. Ça ne se démarque aucunement de tout le country pop que j'ai entendu, du style de voix typique au son ultra commercial. 3/10
Not bad, but also not interesting. Don’t feel the need to come back. 1 - bad 2 - average 3 - good 4 - great 5 - outstanding
I'm sure this is fine if you're into this kind of thing. I'm not.
Just wasn't feeling this one on this particular day. Tapped out about 1/3 of the way through. Just not my taste.
While this is not for me, I had a feeling this would be something my beautiful wife would like. So before I sent in my review, where I basically say this is terrible, I asked Mindy if she knew Kacey Musgraves. Well, paraphrasing her answer, She is awesome and her songs are great. She married a guy from Michigan and a lot of her songs reference the beauty of Michigan. She is great! They say opposites attract and she has certainly attracted me, but this is an example of our opposition. Maybe I was blinded by the upcoming Prince album, but I didn't hear anything about Michigan. I did not hear her great songs. I thought it was person with some pretty basic, similar sounding songs where she was torn between country and soft pop, without hitting either. I remembered Velvet Elvis because who doesn't love Elvis? Did nothing for me. Again, maybe because I have a 5 star review coming up! 2 Just because Mindy likes her and I love Mindy
1/27/2023 songwriting was good, definitely not my usual dose of country music, but not awful. not a huge fan of the music itself, though. "rainbow" stood out to me, looks to be the most popular song on the record at the time of recording. this song definitely was the most musically appealing to me personally.
Back in the day this would have been cut to 8 tracks. Too much filler not enough original content, saved by a pretty voice, but still generic country/pop.
I started out surprised at such a new album on the list, then realised that 2018 was 5 years ago. I enjoyed to begin with, it was country pop like early Taylor Swift, but a bit more country. Then I got called into a meeting and by the time I’d come back the spell was broken and I found it grating yet dull. Sorry hun.
Un disco liso. Segunda vez que lo escucho y nada. Buena voz de Kacey, pero es muy similar a la combinación entre lorde y taylor. Si tuviera 13 años me encataría este disco, tiene todo para hacerlo, lamentable tengo 20 y soy hombre por lo que no me llega ni llena nada. Los sonidos ya los escuché, las letras son más de lo mismo, el concepto es que no hay concepto, un sólido 4/10
Her voice is seriously good (if a bit overproduced) and the songs are seriously well constructed. The problems emerge after the first couple of tracks. I discovered she was helped by a crack team of hired hands in writing these songs. No matter, after all Morrissey couldn’t write a song to save himself, Marr gift wrapped him all of those pop gems. So what remains of Kacey when all is said and done? “Love is a Wild Thing” is about how love is wild? “Space Cowboy” is about how this jerk guy needs space? How clever. You can essentially reduce all of the lyrical prowess on offer here to the most surface level reflection on relationships with a handy sprinkling of new age sophistry which in essence boils down to a statement as profound as, “I like/dislike this person”. At the end of the day, no amount of production or slick songwriting can mask how little artistic ambition remains once you’ve stripped away the hired studio hands. It’s pathetic that this be included in a list that celebrates both historically significant albums and accomplished songwriters when this record is the antithesis of both do these things. It will be forgotten and it is a sad reminder of how much potential was lost during this generation of budding songwriters.
Just doesn't do it for me. Lyrically it doesn't reach me and musically I find it fairly bland.
Inoffensive. She’s got a great voice and the songs are well written and produced. It’s just not my thing.
Ekki minn stíll en þétt, eitt og eitt ágætt lag, mjög kántríað.
Not for me
Na 3 dagen weet ik gewoon niet meer wat ik vond van dit plaatje. Dat zegt genoeg.
Mooie stem, maar wel erg zoetzappig
Oei, dit was even doorbijten. Hoe zoetsappig!
I don't generally like country music. I don't generally like pop music. I don't generally like this.
Vocal agradável, um country pop bem executado.
Nice voice. Too country.
This is the kind of music you get jammed down your throat because you told Spotify that you liked one Taylor Swift song. Just a lot of nothing.
Radio friendly pop/country. Was technically fine, but I'm not planning to listen again.
so it’s like Taylor Swift but even MORE country? not that great, pretty boring imo feeling a strong 3/10 from this album but I’ll round it up to a 4/10 simply because this isn’t Taylor Swift
Honestly not the fan. I think her voice sounded immature. It literally reminded me of kids bop which I do realize is an exaggeration however I also felt like her lyrics were childish???? You can tell she has potential and her sounds are good though.
Call emergency, the curator of this list seems to have slipped on banana peel, which caused them to pick an album that really doesn't belong here! [Then again, this is such a frequent occurrence, I wouldn't bother the emergency services]
Something about this didn’t work for me. It’s like the album is trying to hard to be light and carefree.
Please no more country tinged pop. Slightly more interesting than Aimee Mann but still very very bland
A quick spot of research shows this to be country pop. Completely out of the realms of music I’d choose to listen to, but let’s keep an open mind and discover something new. Songs I already knew: none Favourites after listening: Space Cowboy, Velvet Elvis Perhaps it’s just that my ears aren’t acclimatised to the nuances of country music, but I’m not sure why this warrants being on a list of albums I must hear. I think I don’t really understand country pop in general. I can totally understand how somebody like Merle Haggard is country, but this is just generic pop music sang in a Texan accent. Sonically, it sounded fine. There was nothing wrong with it at all, it was just generic pop music that (to me) gets diluted within all the rest that sounds the same.