All of Kacey Musgraves' Studio Albums, Ranked

5. star-crossed (2021)

Metascore: 78

The A.V. Club wrote: “While she leaves her full Western get-up at the door, Musgraves continues to bring her Southern sensibilities with her, with a work that reaches to the soul of the country genre, if not the most obvious musical trappings”

Rolling Stone said: “The dramatic title-track introduction and heart-split-in-half album cover are clever misdirections on a record that’s most moving when it’s not forcing any heart-on-the-page catharsis and instead leaning on what Musgraves has always done best: documenting the terrifying, numbing messiness of mixed emotions.”

The Independent said the “Grammy-winner’s new record was inspired by Romeo and Juliet, but it seldom matches the play’s rough passion.”

Pitchfork wrote: “There is a particular irony in Musgraves’ saddest, messiest album being the one she delivers to her largest audience yet, working with a wide team of collaborators to amplify its obsessive self-reflection into something befitting mainstream reception.”