Star-Crossed: The Film

It's weird writing this as a super fan of Kacey Musgraves. I adore her. Have seen her thrice, with my favorite show being Nashville. So to say I wasn't blown away by this truly speaks something.

I am a collector of art-house and horror, cult westerns, spaghetti and forgotten films. I see what Miss Kacey was going for here, but as a linear story and visual album, nothing made sense. Nothing. There was no story, no plot except bare threads in between songs linking THEM to one another, not all songs as a whole album. The visuals, the sets, the nods, the makeup, the costumes? 10/10. Kacey and her crew have never looked better. I enjoyed seeing Victoria Pedretti, SIMONE and Princess Nokia, it's just a shame that the segment they were in held now weight because it didn't link to anything. It was a music video, and the starring one of the visual album.

I wanted more, that's what it equals up to. I just wanted more. I wanted epic, I wanted beauty, and if a connection between all segments was going to be attempted, I wanted it to be coherent. This just felt like a very long music video, with recycled elements from the other videos throughout. I still love you Kacey, and adore this album, but the visual album was a miss for me.

I've loved Kacey since the very beginning of her career, but this visual album was a complete misfire, both visually and sonically. Basically it's maybe one or two music videos worth of content stretched into a forty eight minute snooze fest. Nothing about it was particularly interesting or thought provoking. Most of the imagery and symbolism was trite and uninspired. There were a couple of decent songs, but the mastering of said songs was so overly loud that it sounded like it could clip at any moment. Kacey, who I think has a sweet and bell-like voice, came off as an amateur vocalist in a way I didn't expect from her. She seemed very out of her comfort zone. Overall , I wouldn't recommend this to anyone who isn't foaming at the mouth for more content from her.

"The film." Nope. Sorry. It's a collection of music videos VERY loosely connected through VERY short scenes of dialogue. The music videos are pretty good, but let's not pretend this is anything more than a compilation.

A few days after the release of her fifth studio album, Kacey Musgraves made her MTV Video Music Awards debut...

LAPD officer Lisa Travanti takes matters into her own hands after being betrayed by her fiancé Esteban Ruiz, his friend, and the legal system. With the help of her sister Julia, Lisa gets a chance to get revenge...

Visually beautiful, many colors, impeccable costumes, but it took me a while to understand the meaning of the documentary/clip, they are part of the artist's album that I really don't know, but I was deeply delighted with the lyrics, which speak a lot about the expected behavior for women, marriage , submission, demure, home and the like, and finally sentimental and spiritual healing, all masterfully taught and magnificently lit with vibrant colors...

Kacey is the real thing. She writes amazing songs and has a style and approach all her own. I was mesmerized from beginning to end. And I felt like it told a cohesive story in an extremely artistic way.