This insightful look at her own music came from taking psychedelic mushrooms. As she tells the A Slight Change of Plans podcast, the drug trip resulted in a “massive explosion of creativity” and inspired her latest album.
She recalls how listening to a curated playlist during the high helped her channel those same sensations even after the drug’s effects had worn off. “The next day after the thing, I was laying on my bed listening to this playlist and [the composer] Bach came on and it was this sorrowful tragic number. And the word tragedy popped in my head,” Kacey explains. “It was like, ‘Boom, tragedy,” and then I was like, ‘Wait, what if the new album is formulated like a modern tragedy?'”
She continues, “I’ve been through a tragedy, and so has America. From there, it was off the rails.”