Kacey Musgraves - "Merry Go 'Round"

I really love this song for one simple fact; despite it's pop root,
it has a very dark and real vibe. It's positively revelatory.

It perfectly captures the dark side of small town life; suffocating the
best parts of individuals and free thought with outdated notions, hollow
half-lives, conformity, collectivism, falsehoods, duplicity, and all the
cultish foolishness of this modern world's crutches and clutches.

"You can have all the pretense of love and affection in the world...so
long as you give up yourself and adhere to these demands!"

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