“Follow Your Arrow” by Kacey Musgraves

"Follow Your Arrow" comes off Same Trailer Different Park, Kacey Musgraves' 2013 major-label debut, and went out as its third single that October. She wrote it with Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally, and Luke Laird is credited as producer. It's a mid-tempo sway in F major with a sharp little thesis: whatever you do, somebody will find fault with it, so you may as well stay true to yourself, and one line in the chorus openly backs the LGBTQ community. The song took some early heat from conservative groups, but most critics have praised it ever since.

It won Song of the Year at the CMA Awards in 2014, and Rolling Stone slotted it in at number 36 when it ranked country's 200 greatest songs in 2024.

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