KACEY MUSGRAVES BRINGS HER CHRISTMAS SPIRIT TO THE CMA COUNTRY CHRISTMAS.

Artist: Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves will perform on the CMA Country Christmas special airing Monday (November 28th), and she’s offering up her own version of “Mele Kalikimaka,” as well as her original “Christmas Makes Me Cry,” which she co-wrote with Shane MacAnally and Brandy Clark for her new holiday album, A Very Kacey Christmas.

Kacey says sometimes Christmas is melancholy, so she decided to write a sad Christmas song for her new holiday album. “I bawled when we wrote it and it was really, really hard for me to actually sing, you know, and I’m away from my family a lot, and you know Christmas is a time to reunite and see people that you haven’t seen all year long and you realize that there’s a lot of distance in the ins and outs of everyday you don’t see each other,” she says. “So, for me, tapping into the sad side of Christmas was also, it was actually weirdly, ironically fun.”

The CMA Country Christmas special airs Monday (November 28th) at 8pm ET on ABC.

Kacey Musgraves (Christmas Makes Me Cry) OC: …ironically fun. :48
“I wrote a really sad Christmas song for this album too, which was something I was really excited to do to kinda tap into that unspoken, sometimes just melancholy like heaviness that we kinda go through when we think about people that were here with us and maybe aren’t now, you know? We see our parents getting older and the passage of time and nostalgia is a very, it can be kind of a sad subject for me. So, this song called ‘Christmas Makes Me Cry,’ I bawled when we wrote it and it was really, really hard for me to actually sing, you know, and I’m away from my family a lot, and you know Christmas is a time to reunite and see people that you haven’t seen all year long and you realize that there’s a lot of distance in the ins and outs of everyday you don’t see each other. So, for me, tapping into the sad side of Christmas was also, it was actually weirdly, ironically fun.”