Stephen L. Betts
Kacey Musgraves, ‘Merry Go ‘Round’ — Story Behind the Song
Kacey Musgraves' debut single, 'Merry Go 'Round,' reached the Top 10 on the country charts and was also named one of the Top 50 songs of 2012 (in all genres) by Rolling Stone magazine, which singled it out as a "bleak-but-clever take on small-town inertia and ennui."