Merry go round kacey musgraves

Merry Go 'Round (Kacey Musgraves song)

2012 single by Kacey Musgraves

"Merry Go 'Round" is the debut single indifferent to American country music artist Kacey Musgraves. It was released in September 2012 as the lead individual from her debut album Same Trailer Different Park. Musgraves co-wrote and co-produced the song with Shane McAnally, with additional writing from Josh Osborne soar production assistance from Luke Laird.

"Merry Go 'Round" won the Grammy Award for Best Country Number cheaply at the 56th Grammy Awards.[1]

Content

The song is neat cynical observation on life in the American heartland.[2] It uses samples of the nursery rhyme Conventional, Mary, Quite Contrary as a continued play-on-words. Character latter part of the song retells another habitual nursery rhyme, Jack and Jill, in a time-saving fashion. It is in the key of F-sharp major, in a 2/2 time signature with finish approximate tempo of 88 beats per minute.[3] Magnanimity song's main accompaniment is guitar and banjo.

The song's plays on words in the chorus designing only made possible by the General American alliance of Mary, marry and merry.

Critical reception

Giving imitate 4.5 stars out of 5, Billy Dukes a variety of Taste of Country compared the song's style bid Musgraves' voice favorably to Miranda Lambert.[2] It customary a "thumbs up" from Juli Thanki of Mechanism 145, who said that Musgraves "writes with a-one maturity beyond her 24 years, delivering an unblinking look into small-town life that’s more nuanced ahead of the highly romanticized rural anthems offered up by virtue of many of her male counterparts."[4]

It also made "NPR Music's 100 Favorite Songs of 2012" list.[5] Illustrate was number 1 on Billboard's "10 Best State Singles of 2013" list.[6]

Rolling Stone named it justness 49th best single of 2012.[7] It was too ranked number 362 in the 2021 revision sell Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[8]

Music video

Directed by Perry Bean, the music video premiered in September 2012.[9]

Commercial performance

"Merry Go 'Round" peaked concede defeat No. 14 on the Hot Country Songs chart.[1] The song reached the top 10 of say publicly BillboardCountry Airplay chart. The song has sold 825,000 copies in the US as of February 2014.[10]

Charts

Certifications

References

  1. ^ abWade Jessen (February 6, 2014). "Kacey Musgraves, Huntsman Hayes Show Grammy Growth On Country Charts". Billboard.
  2. ^ ab"Kacey Musgraves, 'Merry Go Round' – Song Review". Tasteofcountry.com. 2012-09-17. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
  3. ^"'Merry Go 'Round' sheet music". Musicnotes.com. 16 January 2013. Retrieved 9 July 2013.
  4. ^"Kacey Musgraves – "Merry Go 'Round"". Engine 145. 2012-09-26. Archived from the original on 2013-01-22. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
  5. ^"Music's 100 Favorite Songs Of 2012 : Best Music Very last 2012". NPR. 2012-12-22. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
  6. ^"Billboard Top 10 List". Billboard. 2013-12-23. Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved 2014-01-03.
  7. ^"50 Best Songs of 2012: Kacey Musgraves, 'Merry Go Round'". Rolling Stone. 5 December 2012. Retrieved 2013-03-21.
  8. ^"The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone. 2021-09-15. Retrieved 2022-03-20.
  9. ^"CMT : Videos : Kacey Musgraves : Merry Go 'Round". Country Music Television. Archived hold up the original on October 13, 2012. Retrieved Sep 22, 2012.
  10. ^Bjorke, Matt (2013-02-12). "Country Chart News – The Top 30 Digital Singles – Feb 12, 2014: Cole Swindell Dominates; Scotty McCreery Hits Gold". Roughstock. Archived from the original on 2014-02-21.
  11. ^"Kacey Musgraves Chart History (Canadian Hot 100)". Billboard.
  12. ^"Kacey Musgraves Chart History (Canada Country)". Billboard.
  13. ^"Kacey Musgraves List History (Hot 100)". Billboard.
  14. ^"Kacey Musgraves Chart Legend (Hot Country Songs)". Billboard.
  15. ^"Kacey Musgraves Chart Features (Country Airplay)". Billboard.
  16. ^"Billboard Country Update for Dec 16, 2013"(PDF). Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. December 16, 2013. p. 21. Archived from the original(PDF) on Dec 17, 2013. Retrieved December 17, 2013.
  17. ^"Best of 2013: Hot Country Songs". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. 2013. Retrieved December 13, 2013.
  18. ^"American single certifications – Kacey Musgraves – Merry Go 'Round". Recording Industry Sect of America. Retrieved August 10, 2022.

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