Biscuits
The lead single of Pageant Material, an anthem about minding your own business.
Kacey Musgraves, from Pageant Material (2015)
Musgraves, McAnally and Clark, the trio behind "Follow Your Arrow", wrote it. It went out as a promotional single on March 2, 2015 and to country radio on March 16. Songfacts says the title phrase came from McAnally and Clark completed the idea, and that she began performing it in late 2013; another account has Clark coming up with the line during the "Follow Your Arrow" session, and we found no primary interview for either. She called it just good ol' plum country fun that may inspire a square dance, and told Paste it was a hoe-down of a number. The Los Angeles Times's Randall Roberts called the lyrics a treatise on privacy, and Spin the album's perkiest outlier.
Marc Klasfeld directed the video, which premiered on BuzzFeed Music on June 10, 2015 as an homage to vintage television variety shows; she described it as an explosion of rhinestones and puppets, and Hee Haw meets Pee Wee's Playhouse meets Wes Anderson. It reached 28 on Hot Country Songs and 41 on Country Airplay, and went Gold. Billboard ranked it the best country song of 2015, and Rolling Stone placed it 46th on its 50 best songs of the year. Setlist.fm shows 83 plays. McAnally and Clark later wrote the music for the musical Shucked. Our upload is the studio album track.
Sources
- Biscuits (song), Wikipedia
- Biscuits, Songfacts
- Kacey Musgraves owns her crazy, Paste (2015-06-23)
- Kacey Musgraves, Biscuits, Time (2015-03-03)