When I first listened to Kacey Musgraves’s star-crossed, I felt dyed in the fabric of sadness. The album is based on the love story Musgraves shared with her now ex-husband, Ruston Kelly. (The two singers announced their divorce in 2020.) It chronicles the peaks of new love to marriage to divorce to solo acceptance. Find me this fall, curled up in a corner with a warm whiskey (yep, just straight, warm whiskey), listening to “camera roll” on repeat. But beyond the gorgeous melancholy of star-crossed is hope. It arrives in one truly remarkable, extended moment: the flute solo the dance-adjacent cut “there is a light.” The 14th song on the album, by the time you make it to the track, you’ve bathed… Click below to read the full story from Esquire
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I Can’t Stop Thinking About the Flute Solo on Star Crossed
