{"id":484817,"date":"2019-04-18T04:39:28","date_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=817307"},"modified":"2019-04-18T04:39:28","modified_gmt":"2019-04-18T10:39:28","slug":"backstage-with-kacey-musgraves-and-the-queens-of-rupauls-drag-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/backstage-with-kacey-musgraves-and-the-queens-of-rupauls-drag-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage With Kacey Musgraves and the Queens of \u2018RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/kacey-and-the-queens.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>In addition to being a breakout country star and winner of this year\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/grammys-2019-childish-gambino-kacey-musgraves-country-hip-hop-792927\/\">Album of the Year Grammy<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kacey-musgraves\/\" id=\"auto-tag_kacey-musgraves\" data-tag=\"kacey-musgraves\">Kacey Musgraves<\/a> is also a massive fan of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rupaul\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rupaul\" data-tag=\"rupaul\">RuPaul<\/a>\u2019s Drag Race<\/em>. A frequent watcher of the show, she even appeared as a guest judge on <em>All Stars<\/em> last December, alongside Ciara. \u201cIt\u2019s a world where anything is possible,\u201d she tells <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>. \u201cMore is more and less is a bore.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-pictures\/opening-act-backstage-photos-821641\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Opening Act: See More Backstage Photos<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While performing at the Ace Theater in L.A., Musgraves invited newly crowned winners Mon\u00e9t X Change and Trinity the Tuck to join her onstage for her disco-country hit \u201cHigh Horse.\u201d \u201cSo if you\u2019re here tonight it means that you\u2019re missing out on the finale of <em>All Stars<\/em> Season 4,\u201d Musgraves told the audience. \u201cTonight we have not one but two winning queens!\u201d <span>The trio danced to the chorus as screams and cheers came from the theater.<\/span> <span>\u201cThe crowd lost their minds when the two queens came out,\u201d Musgraves recalled.<\/span> <span>\u201cAll that was missing was a death drop!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>They prepared for the performance with a glam-session backstage. Though Musgraves admitted the queens are \u201calmost\u201d better at makeup than her, they did share a secret to their success: \u201cWax before you tuck.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1KjhEEYvgUI?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kacey-musgraves-rupauls-drag-race-817307\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to being a breakout country star and winner of this year\u2019s Album of the Year Grammy, Kacey Musgraves is also a massive fan of RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race. A frequent watcher of the show, she even appeared as a guest judge on All Stars last December, alongside Ciara. \u201cIt\u2019s a world where anything is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-484817","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-17 12:17:16","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=484817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484817\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}