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I chose to do my Music and Media Report 2 over "Merry Go 'Round" by Kasey Musgraves. It's a song about the cultural norms of a southern state small town, including factors that most people outside of the culture wouldn't fully understand. The song contributes a sense of kinship with the term "we" in lyrics like, "We get bored, so, we get married/Just like dust, we settle in this town." The song holds a significant meaning to anyone who comes from a small town and can relate to the lyrics on a personal level. I come from a town who population is under a thousand and where the only relevant things we have are a school and a gas station. More than half of the town fits the stereotype that Kasey Musgraves describes in "Merry Go 'Round". Anyone of those people would also argue that this song definitely hold cultural significance.

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Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go 'Round (Acoustic Performance) (VEVO LIFT)

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It was the next line in “Merry Go ’Round” that showed where the singer was coming from: “We get bored, so we get married / And just like dust we settle in this town.”

Heed that “we.” Though she’s been hailed countless times as a kind of smirking outsider come to save country music from itself, Musgraves in “Merry Go Round” is singing from well inside the genre’s psychic core. In a song about settling for what you know (as opposed to what you want), it’s the “we” that devastates.

--Mikael Wood

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Kacey Musgraves - Merry Go 'Round (Official Music Video)

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If you ain't got two kids by 21,
You're probably gonna die alone.
Least that's what tradition told you.

--Kasey Musgraves