Ruston Kelly's new album isn't really about his divorce from Kacey Musgraves: 'It's self-help rock, I guess'
Ruston Kelly knows it sounds crazy — that it "kind of teeters on the edge of being unbelievable," as he puts it.
But he insists it's true: Nearly three years after his divorce from Kacey Musgraves, he's still heard only a song or two from his famous ex-wife's 2021 album "Star-Crossed," on which the Grammy-winning pop-country artist chronicled the slow unraveling of their three-year marriage.
"I mean, I f—ing lived it, man," says Kelly, himself a gifted singer and songwriter who made his name in Nashville. "So why do I need to listen to an after-the-fact version of the things that happened? I just wasn't interested in putting myself in that position," he adds. "I didn't think it was wise."
The healthier approach, in Kelly's mind, was to pour his emotions into his own record: "The Weakness," his recently released third LP, which opens with a mournful emo-grunge title track that has him."
