Kacey Musgraves Says ‘Dry Spell’ Lyric About Masturbation Isn’t ‘My Grandma’s Favorite’: ‘I Don’t Know If She’ll Laugh’
Kacey Musgraves Says ‘Dry Spell’ Lyric About Masturbation Isn’t ‘My Grandma’s Favorite’: ‘I Don’t Know If She’ll Laugh’
Jack IrvinWed, April 29, 2026 at 4:56 PM UTC
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Kacey MusgravesCredit: Nino Munoz for Variety -
Kacey Musgraves tells Variety her grandma understands the suggestive lyric in "Dry Spell" but it’s not her favorite
Musgraves revealed her grandma had a health scare during the music video shoot but is now doing well
The singer shared that her "dry spell" lasted over a year and inspired the lead single from her new album Middle of Nowhere
How does Kacey Musgraves' grandma feel about her more suggestive lyrics?
In a new Variety cover story interview, the Grammy-winning country star, 37, opened up about her grandma's reaction to a lyric about masturbation on her recent single "Dry Spell" about an extended period of time where she wasn't having sex.
The song opens with the lyrics, "It's been a real long 335 days / And the last time, it wasn't good anyway / I'm so lonely, lonely with a capital 'H' / If you know what I mean, I've been sitting on the washing machine."
Kacey MusgravesCredit: Nino Munoz for Variety
"I’ve never talked about self-pleasure before," Musgraves told Variety. "So that’s a first for me: ‘Sitting on the washing machine.’ It’s not my grandma’s favorite line, but it’s mine, I guess."
The "High Horse" singer explained her grandma "does" know what the lyric means, but at the time of the interview she hadn't yet watched the "Dry Spell" music video. The clip finds Musgraves walking through a grocery store and encountering many food items that remind her of sex.
"I don’t know if she’ll laugh," said Musgraves of her grandma, who was actually "rushed to the hospital" for a medical issue while the "Dry Spell" video shoot was happening.
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"She had a really scary extreme high blood pressure incident," she recalled. "So I had to leave and I was on the call, crying, like, ‘If Nana lives, she’s gonna hate this video!’"
Luckily, Musgraves' grandma is now in better heath. "She’s doing great — I saw her this morning," she told the outlet.
Kacey MusgravesCredit: Nino Munoz for Variety
As for the "Follow Your Arrow" singer's sex life? "The dry spell was broken at a certain point. It did cross the year threshold — a year and a half, maybe?" she notes.
"Dry Spell" was released in March as the lead single off Musgraves' sixth studio album Middle of Nowhere, which comes out on Friday, May 1.
Around the release of her previous album Deeper Well, Musgraves spoke to Today's Country Radio about her grandma's negative reaction to seeing her nude on an alternate cover of the record.
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