Ordinary Country Song Analysis

“Merry Go Round” by Kacey Musgraves sounds like an ordinary country song but once the lyrics are read and analyzed listeners realize that it is nothing but. Ordinary country songs would be praising the small towns that the artist grew up in and displaying it in a good light but Mugraves’ song describes rural towns as boring and explains how fake the residents are, “Mamas hooked on Mary Kay/ Brothers hooked on Mary Jane/ And Daddies hooked on Mary two doors down”. In comparison Holcomb at first sight looks like an ordinary small town “with hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West that Middle West” (1) but once Truman Capote describes it with more detail the audience realizes that it is not a normal