Kacey Musgraves is going into Wednesday night’s CMA Awards with six nominations, including Song of the Year, where she is competing against herself! She is nominated twice in the Song of the Year category (which is presented to songwriters) — once for “Merry Go ‘Round” with songwriters Josh Osborne and Shane McAnally and for the No. 1 hit that Miranda Lambert took up the country charts, “Mama’s Broken Heart,” with songwriters Brandy Clark and McAnally.
Kacey, who has hit the airwaves with her latest single “Follow Your Arrow,” is also nominated for Female Vocalist and New Artist of the Year, as well as Album of the Year for Same Trailer Different Park andSingle of the Year for “Merry Go ‘Round,” which she co-produced with Luke Laird and Shane McAnally.
The 47th Annual CMA Awards air live from Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena next Wednesday (November 6th) at 8pm ET on ABC.
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Kacey Musgraves (CMA 2013 Song) OC: …is unreal. :45
“It’s really crazy to think that I’m competing against myself in the category for Song of the Year. How lucky can you get? I mean, some people don’t even get have the chance to have one song heard or cut, let alone two. It’s like a huge perspective for me. I mean, just as a songwriter I feel like I’m able to achieve the best of both worlds with having a song that I wrote and got to sing and perform on the radio, and then another artist, a girl that I grew up with 10 miles down the road. So, it’s really unreal to have that up there and the songs – both of them – were written with some of my best friends in town. To be able to share that and to be recognized for the words that came out of my brain, it’s just like, is unreal.”