My Kacey Musgraves Story

Prologue

October 8, 2012 is when it all started. At least that’s what I set the alert to look up Kacey Musgraves as. Discovering her was actually kinda funny. Well, I shouldn’t say discovering her considering I later found out she’d been songwriting since the age of nine, but I guess maybe just listening to her for the first time. I give all the credit to my friend Kacey. Without her I might not even know who Kacey Musgraves is right now. Well October 8th must have been a weekend because I was at home on my couch watching CMT channel, and what do you know? A girl with the same name as my best friend comes on, and she has a long last name that starts with M just like my best friend too.  I thought to myself “Okay, that’s kinda weird, but hey why don’t I check her out.” So I stopped what I was doing, which was probably being on the computer, and listened. The song was called Merry Go ‘Round. And something about it just caught me. Maybe it was the intriguing lyrics, the old style video clips, the simplicity of the video, the merry go round noises captured by the instruments, or maybe even all of this, but there was just something about this song that I had never heard of before. I decided I’m gonna look this girl up, you know follow her on twitter, like her on Facebook, all that jazz. I set the alert for later that night when I would have more time. Shortly after, I bought the song on iTunes and was listening to it nonstop. I just couldn’t get enough of this amazing song. And that’s how it all started: what some might call my obsession over Kacey Musgraves, I call my love for her.

Part 1

The brilliant idea came to me right before I was about to go to sleep. You know that time, when you think about your whole day, what you could or should have done, or just think about random things floating around in your head? Well that’s what I was doing. I don’t exactly know the date but it was close to the end of the school year. Of course Kacey Musgraves was a big part of my life by then. I had been tweeting and getting tweets back from Kacey since about the end of October. Her tweets would always make my day, and I wouldn’t be able to stop smiling. Also by this time I had sent Kacey fan mail twice. Once of which she took a picture of herself holding my fan mail. Yes MY fan mail! I would end up calling this the best day of my life for months having no clue it could get better. When I asked my dad, “What’s cooler, Kacey’s picture that she tweeted me or if I met her?”. And my dad plainly said “I definitely think that picture she sent you was as personal as it could get.” With all the tweeting we had done, there was also my eighth grade project, which I had designed and made all about Kacey. The project took a long time and it was the last bit of art that would define us at my school. So as you can see Kacey had changed me and not in a bad way. As I thought through the idea in my head, I realized, everybody’s gonna think I’m crazy or laugh at me.  Then I wasn’t sure if I should even do it. But with the thought in my head I decided I’d just see what my parents’ thoughts were about it, so I would ask them the next morning.

I woke up still thinking about this crazy idea, but when the time was right I asked. “Hey mom, this is gonna sound crazy, but I want to invite someone to my graduation.” That’s all I could manage to say. I was smiling like an idiot and she looked at me and asked who. I told her it was so weird and crazy. She insisted for me to tell her then guessed it. “Kacey Musgraves?” she said with a smile. There it was the secret was out. I wasn’t sure what she would say, but I nodded and looked at her. She said “Sure. That’d would be pretty cool.” I smiled and for the rest of the drive to school I told her all about my plans to get the message to Kacey.

I decided to call it “Operation Get Kacey to My Graduation”. Yes, very original, I know. But I planned a lot of things out. Step one was to write and get more fan mail out to her. I made an invitation and wrote a letter, like I usually do. After I finished I was so excited that I mailed it that day. The next day I initiated step two: hashtag it every day. Persistence was key. I knew Kacey knew my tweets by then, so if I tweeted once a day using some hashtag about the graduation, she was bound to see it.  I decided it needed to just say what I wanted so I came up with: #KaceyPleaseComeToMy8thGrGraduation. So from that day on I would tweet Kacey once a day telling her why she should come to my graduation. She never really noticed those tweets but I was still getting tweets from her. I thought my plan was pretty well executed. She would also be only a state away. So I thought my chances were pretty good.