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Country music star Kacey Musgraves stuns fans after debuting wild anime-inspired look: 'Didn't recognize her!'
Country music darling Kacey Musgraves stunned her fans this week after debuting a wild new look at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in Tokyo.
Instead of one of her usual stylish cowgirl getups, the High Horse hitmaker transformed herself into a character from the iconic Japanese series Sailor Moon.
The 36-year-old rocked Sailor Moon's signature 'meatball head' buns and trailing pigtails, which were so long they cascaded down past her waist.
She added the Sailor-themed schoolgirl outfit to complete the look, but wore it in black instead of the usual blue and white.
Fans online were blown away by the look, with one writing, 'Sailor Moon's got nothing on her!'
A second commented, 'Just when I think she couldn't possibly be anymore beautiful, she goes and does this.'
Another wrote, 'Country music? That explains why I don't know her,' while a fourth admitted that they didn't recognize her at first.
Kacey wasn't the only celebrity at the event, with Japanese-British pop star Rina Sawayama also attending.
Instead of going in cosplay, Rina rocked an extravagant designer ensemble consisting of a puffy red frock from Marc Jacobs and sleek black stilettos from Jimmy Choo.
Other stars at the event included boxer Ben Whittaker, Brazilian drag queen Pabllo Vittar, and Chilean singer Paloma Mami.
It comes after the eight-time Grammy winner revealed that she has significantly cut back on her marijuana use during an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
Although she laughed off the notion that she is completely sober, the songstress set the record straight on whether she is still gets high and how often.
'I never said I don't ever partake,' she told the outlet. 'I just don't wake up and hit a gravity bong the size of my face anymore, which is what I did for a long time. But, hey, more power to whatever suits you.'
Last year, it was widely reported that Golden Hour hitmaker was done with cannabis after she told The Cut that pot was 'not for this chapter' of her life.
'Maybe later, when I'm a 60-year-old lady with nothing to do and I'm just doing pottery all day, maybe. We'll see,' she said, at the time.
Still, she said she wasn't quitting all mind-bending substances.
During the 2024 interview, Musgraves also confessed to being a fan of psilocybin, the naturally occurring psychedelic compound produced by more than 200 species of fungi, aka magic mushrooms.
'When used with intention, I think it's a massive dose of compassion and reverence for nature, fellow humans, yourself,' she claimed to the outlet.
In the title track to her sixth studio album, Deeper Well, released last year, she admitted that she 'used to wake and bake.'
After those eyebrow-raising lyrics, she went on to declare she was 'getting rid of the habits that' she feels are 'real good at wasting' her time.
During her chat with THR, Musgraves also reflected on how her 2013 track, Follow Your Arrow, which embraces weed and homosexuality, upset a lot of conservatives.
'Oh my gosh, it was so controversial. I was told not to [release the song] and all these reasons why,' she recalled to THR. 'I was nervous... it ended up tanking — it was banned by country radio.'
Still, the singer insists she would never had traded that 'for the love and the people it brought' into her world.
'I'm not going to present a watered-down version of myself to be accepted,' she explained. 'Anyway, it ended up working out.'
