Blog: Kacey Musgraves envisioned her Grammy-nominated ‘Golden Hour’ as a ‘beautiful hiding place’

For Musgraves, who says her older work painted her not unfairly as a cynic, the optimism of “Golden Hour” — its belief in happiness and her entitlement to it — registers as a distinct shift. It also makes the album, at a moment of turmoil related to #MeToo and, for many, President Trump, feel something like a refuge.