Kacey Musgraves is starting to hit the airwaves with her new single, “Follow Your Arrow,” which has already touched a lot of her fans – and beyond — with its “be who you are” and “live your life” theme. What you may not realize is the song actually began as a poem for a friend. “It started off as a poem, honestly, for this friend who was going off to Paris for four months studying and she was leaving everything she knew behind, going to a foreign country [and] didn’t know the language,” explains Kacey. “I gave her this little arrow necklace and I wrote a little poem and it had ‘follow your arrow’ in it, ‘kiss lots of boys,’ and it kind of started there, but it turned into a bigger idea.”

“Follow Your Arrow” is from Kacey’s debut album, Same Trailer, Different Park, which has been nominated for the CMA Album of the Year Award.

Kacey Musgraves (Follow Your Arrow origins) OC: …bigger idea. :35
“‘Follow Your Arrow’ means so much to me. I could literally get emotional talking about it because it’s so near and dear to my heart. I wrote it with two friends of mine – Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally. It started off as a poem, honestly, for this friend who was going off to Paris for four months studying and she was leaving everything she knew behind, going to a foreign country [and] didn’t know the language. I gave her this little arrow necklace and I wrote a little poem and it had ‘follow your arrow’ in it, ‘kiss lots of boys,’ and it kind of started there, but it turned into a bigger idea.”