Kacey Musgraves is on the cover of Wonderland magazine’s Autumn/Fall 2022 issue and the photo spread is an homage to the Baz Luhrmann movie Romeo + Juliet.
The 34-year-old singer teamed up with Baz to recreate the song “Can’t Help Falling in Love” for his new movie Elvis and she’s been a fan of his for decades.
Kacey collaborated with the Wonderland shoot team “across four countries and three time zones to create imagery that pays homage to one of Luhrmann’s most-loved movies.”
“As we forged on in excavating the concept and sound for star-crossed, I started to see Romeo + Juliet as a bigger and more important reference along the way,” Kacey told the mag. “I craved for the portrayal of that dark time in my life to be carried out in a way that felt really modern, but also much like a tale that’s been experienced since the beginning of time. Classic themes of loss and grief, anger, sadness, regret, and finally joy and hope electrified by the bite of modern elements.”
Baz told the mag, “When I was thinking about how we would interpret Elvis’s classic songs, I knew we needed to use them dramatically within the story, and ‘Can’t Help Falling in Love’ felt like a way to go inside Priscilla [Presley]’s mind. Because Elvis is a southern icon, another southern icon immediately came to my mind and to the top of the list: Kacey Musgraves. What’s so remarkable about Kacey – and it’s something I believe she and Elvis share – is that she’s not easy to label as she so seamlessly flows from one genre to another. And she was just a dream to work with, an artist both obsessed with perfection and yet so flexible. At one point on stage [when performing 'Can’t Help Falling in Love'] at the Met Gala, she decided to throw off her shoes and stand barefooted, singing the song; it was just the most instinctive thing and the act of a true artist, just being completely in the moment like that.”
Check out more from the issue at WonderlandMagazine.com!
