Kacey Musgraves Sings 335 Days on Middle of Nowhere Kacey Musgraves Album Review
Kacey Musgraves album review starts with a lyric that does the job without any costume changes: “Sitting on the washing machine.” In a Variety interview, Musgraves discussed Middle of Nowhere, her sixth studio album, and framed Dry Spell around self-pleasure, a subject she said she had never talked about before.
The song’s reach comes from its specificity. Musgraves cited “Sitting on the washing machine” as her favorite lyric, and Dry Spell pairs it with “It’s been a real long 335 days / And the last time, it wasn’t good anyway,” making the track one of the bluntest entries in her catalog since she burst onto the scene in 2013 with Same Trailer, Different Park.
Musgraves and Dry Spell
Musgraves said, “I’ve never talked about self-pleasure before,” and added that she wanted people to know how little she had going on in that department. She also said, “I feel like most people are trying to convince you how much they’ve got going on in that department, and I just wanted to let people know how little I had going on.” For a country crossover artist, that choice is the point: she is not softening the material for broad radio-friendly framing.
Musgraves said she could perform the lyric as 547 days live, and she said the dry spell was broken at a certain point and may have lasted a year and a half. That stretch gives Dry Spell a real-world clock, not just a wink, and it puts the song closer to diary entry than innuendo.
Middle of Nowhere on May 1
Middle of Nowhere was out May 1 and is Musgraves’ third studio album since Golden Hour, which won the Grammy for album of the year in 2019. That sequence matters because it shows she is still writing from inside a mainstream frame while pushing further into material that can be more explicit than a standard country rollout.
Musgraves also said her grandmother had not seen the video for the song yet, though “She does — although she hasn’t seen the video yet.” During filming, she got a text from her father saying Nana had been rushed to the hospital, and Musgraves described it as a “really scary extreme high blood pressure incident.”
Nana, the video, and the risk
Musgraves said, “If Nana lives, she’s gonna hate this video!” Later, she said, “She’s doing great — I saw her this morning.” That leaves the project with a sharper edge than a typical album-cycle talking point: the song’s subject, the video, and her family’s reaction all landed in the same public conversation.
For listeners, the practical takeaway is simple. Middle of Nowhere is already on the calendar, Dry Spell is the track Musgraves chose to talk about most directly, and the lyric she singled out tells you exactly where she wants the record’s center of gravity to sit: plainspoken, personal, and unbothered by the usual country-polish filter.
