Kacey Musgraves Brings Bittersweetness and Balm to a Commanding Forum Show: Concert Review
variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Serenity and arena-rock are two great tastes that don’t really go great together, for the most part.
And so, even if you came away admiring Kacey Musgraves‘ latest album, “Deeper Well,” which came out this past March, you might have had some reasonable questions about whether its tranquil qualities were really apt as the crucial basis of an international tour in 15,000-seaters.
This is not her first time doing arenas, and it’s not as if Musgraves’ last couple of albums were banger-based, either. But “Deeper Well,” excellent as it is, was so meditative that it felt like it might really be testing the mass audience’s willingness to think: Let’s go be tranquil… en masse.
So here’s to having possibly underestimated the Cult of Kacey. (Being a charter member, I should know better.) Headlining the first of two nights at the Kia Forum going into the weekend, Musgraves played to a full house in Inglewood but, more importantly, to a house that valued being on her wavelength because there’s no one else in pop creating this exact waveform.
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