Sharing the details of your private life online can feel daunting, especially when it seems like every comment will be picked apart.
And few topics feel more personal than what’s happening (or not happening) in the bedroom.
This week, though, country singer Kacey Musgraves decided to be unusually candid, revealing something many people would never dream of telling the public.
Let alone weaving it into lyrics that millions could end up listening to.
Musgraves has just put out her latest album, ‘Middle of Nowhere’, and she’s set to take it on the road around the US this summer.
She’s said the record came together during what she describes as the first long stretch of her adult life spent single, after a difficult breakup with writer Cole Schafer, following her three-year marriage to Rushton Kelly, which ended in 2020.
One track in particular, ‘dry spell’, draws directly from that period — inspired by a very literal lack of action in her sex life.
She explained that she wrote the song precisely 335 days after she last had sex.
Speaking to Variety, she 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.
“It can get really comfortable and easy to stay that way, because you start feeling really protective of bringing transient energy in.
“Like, ‘I’m really peaceful right now. This may or may not make anything better.’
“But then you’re like, ‘Ugh, but I wanna have some fun.’
“You really start weighing out: Is it worth it?”
Variety went on to call it ‘the sexiest song ever written about sexlessness’.
‘Dry Spell’ sits among the more playful moments on Middle of Nowhere. It’s her third album since Golden Hour, the 2019 Grammy winner for Album of the Year that pushed her firmly into the mainstream.
Before that, her 2013 debut, Same Trailer, Different Park, earned a reputation as one of the most celebrated country debuts in years.
Critics have described the new album as a shift back toward her country foundations, with famed Nashville musician Paul Franklin appearing across multiple tracks on steel guitar.
Overall, it’s a project that mixes wry humour with honesty, taking a few unexpected turns along the way while keeping plenty of country charm at its core.