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PEOPLE & ARTS Friday 5 July 2019
Kacey Musgraves’ museum exhibit allows her time to reflect

By KRISTIN M. HALL pantsuit designed by Ate-
Associated Press lier Versace that she wore
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — at the 2018 CMA Awards.
Kacey Musgraves’ career The exhibit has her Mos-
has been moving and chino Barbie-inspired pink
changing fast over the last leather outfit complete
couple of years, leaving with a blonde wig from the
little time for reflection until 2019 Met Gala that Jeremy
she saw her life chronicled Scott helped design.
behind museum glass. “I didn’t grow up with any-
Musgraves is the subject of thing designer ever, not
a new exhibit at the Coun- once. Nothing luxurious
try Music Hall of Fame and like that of any kind,” Mus-
Museum that opens Tues- graves said. “There’s also
day and runs through June this other side of me that is
2020. The exhibit follows like really enthralled with all
the critically acclaimed of that.”
“Golden Hour” in 2018 that Musgraves’ stylist Erica
earned Musgraves four Cloud said the singer’s style
Grammys this year includ- is a mix of nostalgia and
ing country album of the playfulness.
year and album of the “Kacey’s style is unique be-
year, beating fellow nomi- cause she stays grounded
nees Drake, Cardi B and in her roots & is classic but
Brandi Carlile. we add playful, elevated
“I think a lot of people that This July 1, 2019 photo shows country singer Kacey Musgraves posing in front of her new exhibit, elements to keep it cur-
night were like, ‘Who is “Kacey Musgraves: All of the Colors,” at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in Nashville, rent,” Cloud said in a state-
this girl?’” Musgraves said. Tenn. ment. “She’s nostalgia with
“Which is a funny conun- Associated Press a modern twist. She’s relat-
drum to be winning album “Too often I can just speed and cowboy hats, through “Follow Your Arrow,” song able meets aspirational.”
of the year, and to have onto the next thing without her early years in Nashville of the year winner at the Lyrics that she wrote with
people saying, ‘Who are really soaking in what just as a songwriter penning 2014 Country Music Asso- Lambert, Shane McAnally,
you?’ But in a way, I kind of happened,” Musgraves songs with Miranda Lam- ciation Awards. Ian Fitchuk and Daniel
love that.” told The Associated Press bert and to her Grammy- Musgraves has also be- Tashian are interspersed
The exhibit called “Kacey after seeing her memora- winning major-label de- come one of modern between the awards and
Musgraves: All of the Col- bilia on display for the first but album in 2013, “Same country music’s new style outfits, alongside a letter
ors” comes as the 30-year- time Monday evening. “It Trailer, Different Park.” icons, mixing country and she wrote to one of her
old Texas singer has blos- really did hit me in an emo- Early in her career, Mus- Western embellishments songwriting heroes, John
somed into a cross-genre tional way and I didn’t think graves established herself into her red carpet outfits, Prine.
star whose emotional and it would.” as a unique artist willing to stage wear and music vid- “I love that you can pretty
clever lyrics and inventive The exhibit starts with pho- challenge radio program- eos. The exhibit features a much dress anyway you
style, blending country with tos of Musgraves as a child mers with songs like “Merry rhinestone studded dress want, but if you strip it away
electronic, disco and spac- performer singing and Go ‘Round” — which won designed by Enrique Urbina and there are real songs
ey pop sounds has earned yodeling classic Western a Grammy award for best for the 2014 Grammys and there, that’s what matters
her plenty of new fans. songs and dressed in jeans country song in 2014 — and a Western-inspired black to me,” Musgraves said. q

Hip-hop star Nicki Minaj to perform in Saudi Arabia

By AYA BATRAWY to criticism and disappoint- cast globally and covered
Associated Press ment. In a profanity-laced by MTV. Other performers
DUBAI, United Arab Emir- video posted on Twitter include British artist Liam
ates (AP) — Saudi Arabia and viewed more than Payne and American DJ
said Wednesday that hip- 37,000 times, a Saudi wom- Steve Aoki. The kingdom is
hop star Nicki Minaj will an wearing a loose heads- also promising quick elec-
perform in the ultraconser- carf accuses the Saudi tronic visas for international
vative kingdom as it sheds government of hypocrisy visitors who want to attend.
decades of restrictions on for inviting Minaj to perform Over the past several
entertainment. but requiring women who months, the kingdom has
The female rapper is known attend the concert to wear seen performances by
for her outlandish, provoc- the modest full-length robe Mariah Carey, Enrique Igle-
ative style and hits like “An- known as the abaya. Most sias, the Black Eyed Peas,
aconda,” where she raps Saudi women also veil their rapper Sean Paul, and DJs
about her “big fat” back- In this Sunday, Nov. 4, 2018 file photo, Nicki Minaj performs on hair and faces. David Guetta and Tiesto.
side. Her lyrics are often stage during the MTV EMA’s 2018 at Bilbao Exhibition Centre in “She’s going to go and That’s despite the wide-
laced with profanities and Bilbao, Spain. shake her ass and all her spread international back-
her skin-bearing music vid- Associated Press songs are indecent and lash since October over
eos often include twerking. ers announced she would to people 16 and older and about sex and shaking ass the killing of Saudi critic
Christian groups criticized be the headline act at the will take place at the King and then you tell me to and writer Jamal Khashog-
her 2012 Grammy Awards Jeddah World Fest on July Abdullah Sports Stadium in wear the abaya,” the Sau- gi by Saudi agents close
performance, which in- 18. The concert, which in the Red Sea city. di woman says. “What the to the crown prince in the
cluded dancing priests and line with Saudi laws is alco- Reactions on social media hell?” Saudi organizers said kingdom’s consulate in
an exorcism. Saudi organiz- hol and drug-free, is open ranged from shock and joy the concert will be broad- Turkey.q