Kacey Musgraves performed her current single, "Blowin’ Smoke" on 'The Tonight Show With Jay Leno' last Friday. The second single from the fast-rising singer-songwriter's debut album, "Same Trailer Different Park," describes a group of waitresses talking trash while on a smoke break from work. It is the follow-up to her career-launching hit "Merry Go Round," which helped propel the 24-year-old's debut album into the No.1 spot on Billboard Top Country Albums chart upon its release in March. It's just extremely hard to break out on a major label with a record that sounds gleefully as independent.
"Blowin’ Smoke," is an interesting story about how we all say we're gonna do things and change our lives but we end up not doing it. It's honest, real and effective in its portrayal of a life waiting tables, unlike so much of Today's music. Musgraves penned this portrait of the dead end life of a small town waitresses with big dreams and big mouths with top Nashville songwriters Shane McAnally and Luke Laird. "We were just sitting there trying to picture these waitresses just sitting around talking about people and smoking and waiting on customers to come in," she told Radio.com.
Musgraves added that she is not poking fun at anyone in particular, but the protagonist Brenda is a character from her imagination. "We always like to put characters in the song like Brenda, ol' Brenda," she explained with a smile. "Well, Brenda she's given up smokes, but now she's eating cake a lot." The rhythmic Country-Blues track credits Waffle House for diner noise. Musgraves told Radio.com that they wanted what the listener is hearing to lineup with the greasy spoon diner she's singing about. The country newcomer sings with more than a hint of her character's jealous contempt, and she plays the part of a bored diner waitress, trapped in a mundane job in her slice-of-life "Blowin' Smoke" video.
Directed by Honey, and filmed in Los Angeles at a local diner, the clip sees Musgraves and her fellow waitresses appear to break out of their boring, low tipping gig in this smoky, side-of-the-road restaurant, coming to life in a scene that feels like a fantasy. She passes the time smoking out back with her equally disgruntled co-workers, in between delivering blue plate specials to patrons and refilling coffee mugs and scrubbing tables. They want to change their life for the better, but all of her aspirations are only "blowin' smoke." They are working hard for a few tips while making plans on which they'll never follow through.
"Blowin’ Smoke," is an interesting story about how we all say we're gonna do things and change our lives but we end up not doing it. It's honest, real and effective in its portrayal of a life waiting tables, unlike so much of Today's music. Musgraves penned this portrait of the dead end life of a small town waitresses with big dreams and big mouths with top Nashville songwriters Shane McAnally and Luke Laird. "We were just sitting there trying to picture these waitresses just sitting around talking about people and smoking and waiting on customers to come in," she told Radio.com.
Musgraves added that she is not poking fun at anyone in particular, but the protagonist Brenda is a character from her imagination. "We always like to put characters in the song like Brenda, ol' Brenda," she explained with a smile. "Well, Brenda she's given up smokes, but now she's eating cake a lot." The rhythmic Country-Blues track credits Waffle House for diner noise. Musgraves told Radio.com that they wanted what the listener is hearing to lineup with the greasy spoon diner she's singing about. The country newcomer sings with more than a hint of her character's jealous contempt, and she plays the part of a bored diner waitress, trapped in a mundane job in her slice-of-life "Blowin' Smoke" video.
Directed by Honey, and filmed in Los Angeles at a local diner, the clip sees Musgraves and her fellow waitresses appear to break out of their boring, low tipping gig in this smoky, side-of-the-road restaurant, coming to life in a scene that feels like a fantasy. She passes the time smoking out back with her equally disgruntled co-workers, in between delivering blue plate specials to patrons and refilling coffee mugs and scrubbing tables. They want to change their life for the better, but all of her aspirations are only "blowin' smoke." They are working hard for a few tips while making plans on which they'll never follow through.
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