Kacey Musgraves is facing backlash from some fans after she showed support for immigrant families during a birthday performance.
The Grammy-winning country singer celebrated her 38th birthday on Friday by marking the opening night of her Middle of Nowhere tour in Chicago. At one point during the performance, she paused the show and urged the audience to donate to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights as her “birthday wish.”
“It’s a wonderful organization, and they help give aid — legal aid — and money to children whose parents have been deported unfairly,” Musgraves said on stage. “It’s not a political thing. It’s just, these kids need help.”
She continued: “They have no guidance and no way to get through this thing without their home base or their parents. So anyway, 50 cents, whatever the hell, I don’t know, whatever you want to do, but that would mean a lot to me. If you don’t want to, that’s totally fine too.”
The plea was met with applause and cheers from her crowd at the United Center. However, once videos of the moment started circulating online, conservative political commentators were quick to unleash their wrath on the “Follow Your Arrow” singer.
She has been progressive for years, and I love to see it. A lot of the “outlaw country” genre are down-to-earth grassroots progressives, not at all like the bro country artists heard on mass-market FM radio.
What’s wild is that’s what country used to be. Telling corporations to fuck off. I mean the song “Take this job and shove it” was a massive hit once upon a time
Saw a funny one on FB the other day. An exchange by a rather progressive outlaw style dude and the comment was “you sing all the time about crime and stuff” and his response was “tf do you think the ‘outlaw’ part means???”