Kacey Musgraves is facing backlash from some fans after she showed support for immigrant families during a birthday performance.
The Grammy-winning country singer celebrated her 38th birthday on Friday by marking the opening night of her Middle of Nowhere tour in Chicago. At one point during the performance, she paused the show and urged the audience to donate to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights as her “birthday wish.”
“It’s a wonderful organization, and they help give aid — legal aid — and money to children whose parents have been deported unfairly,” Musgraves said on stage. “It’s not a political thing. It’s just, these kids need help.”
She continued: “They have no guidance and no way to get through this thing without their home base or their parents. So anyway, 50 cents, whatever the hell, I don’t know, whatever you want to do, but that would mean a lot to me. If you don’t want to, that’s totally fine too.”
The plea was met with applause and cheers from her crowd at the United Center. However, once videos of the moment started circulating online, conservative political commentators were quick to unleash their wrath on the “Follow Your Arrow” singer.
Fox News commentators might want to check their family history…
One fan countered in the comments of her latest post: “We love you Kacey! People upset and surprised she would support the Young Centre clearly know nothing about her: she’s always been a progressive, and not quiet about it.”
This is not the first time that Musgraves has upset conservatives. She has spent her career backing progressive causes, from supporting immigrants to gun control and LGBTQ+ rights.
Her pick of charity also does not come out of nowhere: Musgraves has repeatedly championed the Young Center, a national nonprofit that advocates for children separated from their families. Earlier this year, she partnered with Depop to sell pieces from her music videos and her personal wardrobe to raise money for the organization.
Reminds me when fascists / fascist enablers were surprised rage against the machine were left leaning
Left “leaning” in the sense of seizing the means of production, arming the homeless and openly calling for the revolution to do away with capitalism.
In my experience white Christians genuinely believe that everyone who looks like them also thinks like them.
That’s because they live insular lives where they get no pushback. Of course they would think that when their entire lives they rarely meet people that shows them otherwise. The fact that in the US people are allowed to homeschool their children and isolate them from their peers means that will continue to be a fact.
Kacey Musgraves is an amazing artist. She has been beloved by the LGBTQ+ community for a decade now.
If you’re not familiar with her music, I would recommend starting with the song “Follow Your Arrow”, which is about living your life as authentically as possible and very explicitly supports the queer community. Here’s the chorus:
So, make lots of noise (hey)\
Kiss lots of boys (yup)\
Or kiss lots of girls, if that’s something you’re into\
When the straight and narrow gets a little too
straight\
Roll up a joint, or don’t\
Just follow your arrow wherever it points, yeah\
Follow your arrow wherever it points
“Golden Hour”, which is her Grammy-nominated album, is an absolute masterpiece and played a significant role in my first queer relationship. The song “Rainbow” still makes me tear up and look back fondly on my coming out years. I have seen her a few times in concert and she always dedicates it to the LGBTQ+ community.
My spouse was obsessed with Space Cowboy for a while, which is an amazing song. But at some point, I was genuinely worried I was about to get divorced since she’s listening to this saddest song ever about a breakup. Nope, just a super-captivating song, which I realized when I was also listening to it for the 5th time in a day.
Speaking of which…
Wait. You mean to say when she said something reasonable in real life, people supported it? And when it went online, bad faith actors used it as target practice? Say it ain’t so.
Like when the Dixie Chicks roasted their careers criticizing a war that chud got elected by criticizing. We’re among very stupid, thoughtless people. And they vote.
Even before I clicked the post I knew exactly who it was. Kacey Musgraves is awesome and anybody who doesn’t know her views just from her music just doesn’t fuckin pay attention.
Same. Kacey Musgraves is now the only nominee for the “only decent person in county music” award.
hey don’t speak so quickly! Country music is full of people like Nick Shoulders and Willie Carlisle, who are also two names you really should add to your repertoire.
just gotta go lookin for em, they won’t be promoted to you
Happy to hear it! I’ll check them out.
Tyler Childers, Chris Stapleton, Jesse Welles, Bryan Andrews… there’re there. You just gotta look.
yes thank you! all great artists
Jesse Welles is definitely folk music. Folk is not country and has always been fairly progressive.
folk/country/americana run hand in hand, arguing about genre is futile
You know what you’re right. Its semantics level bullshit my bad. He has twang lol.
How do I know if a civilization is failling?
When you have to make any of the remarks she mad!
How do you know it will be a very dumb downfall?
When you abject to anything she said!
How dare she care about children!?
Wait until you hear about Ms Rachel caring about amputee children…
phil donahue was cancelled for going against the iraq war and he was a beloved TV personality for 20 years.
i’ve never heard of kacey musgraves.
more bullshit journalism.
You may not have heard of her, but she’s a very popular country artist. If you listen to country radio or go to country bars in the US you’ve definitely heard her stuff.
Conservatives: we’re Christian and love everyone. Except those fucking immigrants.
…And ‘em damn gays. Coun’ 'em in too.
And everyone and everyTHING else that isn’t a white cishet male Christian fascist.
Are you seriously gonna come in here and pretend that Jesus didn’t say “fuck immigrants”? Cause that’s the message they remember. “In fact,” he said, “anyone you don’t like, too.” It’s right there in the bible. Look it up.
Clicked on the link and got sent to a scam website
You may have clicked on some advertising or something. The Independent is an established newspaper.
‘It’s not a political thing’ Grammy-winning singer said on stage
Ooh boy
Taking care of kids shouldn’t be political but here we are
Everything is political, including society allocating resources and manpower to taking care of children.
they have better chance with SWIFT, since shes hangs out with MAga.(but not openly so)
And those folks are WAY more vocal & principled than most of us who consider ourselves to be progressive.
Scum fucks, the lot. Pure scum and villainy.
