Kacey Musgraves revealed a lyric she’s “always felt bad about,” after playing a show at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona.
The Deeper Well star sings, “driven through New Mexico where the saguaro cactus grow,” in her song, “Dime Store Cowgirl,” which appears on Pageant Material , her second studio album that arrived in 2015. Musgraves said it was between her debut album, 2013’s Same Trailer Different Park , and Pageant Material that a moment inspired the lyric she now feels “bad about.”
Musgraves said she “was taking a nap on the bus on a very long midday desert drive. I woke up and looked out the window and said, marveling at all the extremely tall cacti: ‘Wow. Where are we?’ Someone said ‘New Mexico!’” The Grammy-winning artist admitted she “never thought to fact check. Took their geographic miscalculation at face value but the moment eventually became immortalized in song. Whoops. Sorry to all the botany baddies and prideful Saguaro fans out there who know that they ONLY grow in Arizona. 😐 Was reminded of their beauty this past week.”