Poor Nana…
Last night, Kacey Musgraves kicked off her Middle of Nowhere Tour with quite a statement… she debuted a stage prop at the United Center in Chicago that gives the traditional disco ball a completely new meaning. Kacey rode around on a set of disco balls during her performance of “Rhinestoned.” A disco ballsack, if you will…
She joked with the crowd that:
“This is what it looks like when no one tells me no.”
@cleerlauren “This is what it looks like when no one tells me no!” Kacey Musgraves Opening Night!!!!! #KaceyMusgraves #MiddleOfNowhere #Rhinestoned #UnitedCenter ♬ original sound – cleerlauren
I’m sure there are plenty of people who will not enjoy that one bit, but no one more so than Kacey’s Nana. Kacey has talked before about how her grandma was not a fan of her song “Dry Spell,” just one of many songs on the new album with sexual innuendo, especially one line in particular:
“I’ve never talked about self-pleasure before. So that’s a first for me: ‘Sitting on the washing machine.’ It’s not my grandma’s favorite line, but it’s mine, I guess.”
Of course, you’ll remember Kacey’s very popular reference to her grandma on her 2018 song “Slow Burn,” where she sings about her “grandma cried when I pierced my nose.”
Thankfully, Nana hasn’t seen the video for “Dry Spell” yet, and I think that’s probably for the best… Kacey holds up an eggplant just to start it off if that gives you any indication of what it’s like. Kacey explained that while they were actually filming the video, she got a text that her grandma had been rushed to the hospital, and she was on the phone crying, saying that if her Nana lived, she was going to “hate” the video:
“I don’t know if she’ll laugh. Actually, in the middle of filming the video, I got a text from my dad that Nana had to be rushed to the hospital: She had a really scary extreme high blood pressure incident. So I had to leave and I was on the call, crying, like, ‘If Nana lives, she’s gonna hate this video!’”
Luckily Nana is doing fine, and I would have paid good money to see her reaction to the disco balls Kacey had as part of her set last night. She told the crowd that her grandma was there, and she always told her that if she was going to do anything, she needed to do it “big… and sparkly,” though obviously, I think this is a far cry from what she had in mind:
“It takes a lot of balls to get up here and do what I do every night. It takes two gigantic, anatomically correct sparkly balls.
I’ve actually got my Nana in the house tonight, and she always told me, ‘Honey, if you’re gonna do something, do it big, do it sparkly.’ Nana is this what you had in mind?”
Kacey keeps Nana on her toes, that’s for sure…
@tomasmier KACEY MUSGRAVES HAD A PAIR OF DISCO BALLS DROP BEFORE RHINESTONED #rhinestoned #kaceymusgraves #spaceykacey #kaceymusgravesconcert @kaceymusgraves ♬ Rhinestoned – Kacey Musgraves
I hope she never watches the “Mexico Honey” video, either, and I have to imagine she never plans to: