Star-Crossed is the fifth studio album by American singer Kacey Musgraves. It was released on September 10, 2021, by MCA Nashville and Interscope Records. Musgraves co-wrote and co-produced the album with American musicians Ian Fitchuk and Daniel Tashian, with whom she also collaborated on her fourth studio album, Golden Hour. The album's subject matter was inspired by Musgraves' personal journey of heartache and healing following her divorce from American singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly. She described Star-Crossed as chronicling a "modern tragedy", taking influences from Romeo and Juliet, the famous play by English playwright William Shakespeare, and cited Bill Withers, Daft Punk, Sade, Eagles, and Weezer as her musical references for the album. In contrast to her earlier albums, Star-Crossed is primarily a pop record, infusing elements of folk, dance, rock, and psychedelic music while retaining some of the country poise of its predecessor. It consists of mellow ballads, propelled by steady tempos, analog synthesizers, looped drums, and layered harmonies. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star-Cr...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)