Kacey Musgraves has revealed that her anticipated new album is titled star-crossed and will arrive in only a few weeks. Set for release on September 10, the lead single and title track debuted today. star-crossed is the follow-up to the Country/Pop singer-songwriter’s 2018 Grammy-winning Album of the Year Golden Hour.
There will also be a 50-minute short film accompanying the 15-track album. Directed by Bardia Zenali, it will debut on Paramount+ exclusively on September 10. “We wanted it to feel cinematic and epic without compromising the heart and the emotion,” Zeinali said in a statement, “to feel fantastical and heightened and tell her story through the lens of art and fashion.”
In an interview with Apple Music, Musgraves said, “[Tragedy is] the most popular art form across time and I think it always will be. And yeah, it was like, ‘Man, tragedy, it’s a modern tragedy in three acts.’ But for a while I was kind of freaked out. I don’t have a concept, I don’t have an album title. What is this going to be? It’s just going to be a bunch of sad songs, you know what I mean? But then ‘star-crossed’ happened. It was the 14th song we wrote and actually funny that it’s the first song on that opens the album. I just really liked the definition. And I kind of came up with my own sort of too, because all the definitions that are out there are pretty antiquated from the old Bill Shakespeare days. But it’s to be f***ed by love or luck.”
Watch the trailer for the star-crossed film below:
