Kacey Musgraves has a big year of collaboration behind her that is not over yet.
After joining rising stars Noah Kahan and Zach Bryan on tracks, now the “Camera Roll” musician, 35, teams up with Nashville artist Madi Diaz. On Tuesday, the singer-songwriter, 37, released “Don’t Do Me Good,” which features Musgraves and is the latest single from her upcoming album A strange faith (out February 9, 2024 via ANTI-).
In the country-pop song, the two musicians go back and forth about reclaiming a flawed relationship that’s hard to let go of because of how comforting it once was.
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In the chorus, they sing: “Every time I try to leave, I stay, you knew I would / I know I love you, it doesn’t do me any good / Every time I wake up crying, I deny what I should / I know that loving you doesn’t do me good.”
As they join each other on the song – especially during its climactic closing moments – their voices intertwine beautifully and give what could be a purely devastating song a hint of buoyant tone.
The new release comes alongside an Elizabeth Olmstead-directed music video, which stars Diaz as she struggles with her emotions during a late-night drive.
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The The history of a feeling artist opened up about the song and working with the “Slow Burn” singer in an Instagram post with a sweet selfie of the two working together in the studio.
She revealed the meaning of the text in the description. “‘Don’t Do Me Good’ is about that person we keep coming back to,” Diaz wrote. “It’s about waking up every day and continuing to make decisions to love a person unconditionally without limits, while at the same time it becomes harder and harder to ignore that nothing is getting better. She’s stubborn, she’s defiant, she’s full of hope and she’s aggressively optimistic.”
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Diaz then shared why it was important for her to collaborate with someone in particular on “Don’t Do Me Good.” She wrote: “I wanted this song to feel like you’re calling your friend in that moment when you need to empathize with someone… to talk about an experience you’re having and say it out loud to make sure it’s real. To capture your experience with someone in real time and have that person say ‘yeah man, I’ve been there’ and share the experience with you.”
“This song would be so terribly lonely without that spirit and I’m beyond grateful to hear Kacey’s voice on this alongside mine,” she added. “We talked a lot about life ups and downs and this song feels like an extension of that relationship and I’m proud of it:).”
The post ended with a sweet final note: “(call your friends!!) thank you @spaceykacey 🥲 x.”
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Cover of ‘Weird Faith’ by Madi Diaz.
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The single arrives weeks after Diaz — who joined Harry Styles’ band as a guitarist and backing vocalist during the European leg of his Love on Tour — announced her new album A strange faith. When the “Crying in Public” singer shared her latest project, which was set to drop on February 9, she dropped its lead single, “Same Risk.”
In a statement on Instagram, she described A strange faith as about “reluctant flailing and finally falling in love with trust”.
“Don’t Do Me Good” marks Musgraves’ third release and collaboration this year. She most recently collaborated with Grammy-nominated folk artist Kahan, 26, to turn his 2022 fan favorite “She Calls Me Back” into a duet, and recently joined country star Bryan, 27, on his EP “I Remember Everything.
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