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\n\tSurely, you\u2019ve seen\u2026The Balls.<\/p>\n
\n\tNo one expected that country music<\/a> in the summer of 2026 would be illuminated by the sparkly, gloriously perverse glow of a set of disco testicles. But that low-hanging display, the centerpiece prop of Kacey Musgraves<\/a>\u2019 Middle of Nowhere Tour, has come to sum up country\u2019s year of horniness. Amplified by the whirling of Musgraves\u2019 lonely-girl washing machine<\/a> \u2014 not to mention her use of eggplant emojis, an extremely steamy video, <\/a>and even a lube line<\/a> \u2014 this has undoubtedly been the genre\u2019s wet hot American summer.<\/p>\n \n\tBut it\u2019s not just Musgraves. Nashville first started heating up back in 2024, when Riley Green<\/a> released \u201cWorst Way,\u201d an ode to desire that contained not a single juvenile metaphor (\u201cPut away anything that\u2019ll break,\u201d Green sang plainly), and it\u2019s only smoldered since. There is the art <\/a>for Lainey Wilson\u2019s single \u201cPhone, Keys, Wallet,\u201d which features a close-up of what we can assume is her husband Duck Hodges\u2019 hands on her rear end. Miranda Lambert<\/a>\u2019s \u201cCrisco<\/a>\u201d talks about afternoon delights to a danceable disco beat, and Carly Pearce and Green\u2019s \u201cIf I Don\u2019t Leave I\u2019m Gonna Stay\u201d is all about what happens when you can\u2019t resist a carnal impulse. <\/p>\n \n\tCarter Faith and Wyatt Flores\u2019 \u201cNothin\u2019 Better to Do<\/a>\u201d does the same, but is a bit more about a boredom lay than true chemistry. Even Luke Combs is getting in on the action of singing about getting some action: \u201cSoon As I Get Home\u201d finds him rushing back to his wife to start \u201cmakin\u2019 up for all my gone.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThough country music is a genre that is nowhere near as puritanical<\/a> as its often stereotyped, it is unique to see songs like these finding such an overt embrace \u2014 and a lack of pushback. Especially for women. In 1999, the Chicks rattled Music Row with the mere mention of \u201cmattress dancing\u201d in their song \u201cSin Wagon,\u201d following in the footsteps of Loretta Lynn\u2019s \u201cRated X\u201d and \u201cThe Pill.\u201d Lambert\u2019s masterful \u201cVice,\u201d about indulging in some no-strings one-night-stands, never achieved the Number One spot it deserved back in 2016. Country radio has often only allowed its women to be sexual when they\u2019re dancing in jean shorts in a music video made by a man. But now? Musgraves\u2019 \u201cDry Spell\u201d has turned up on the airwaves and even logged a risqu\u00e9 performance at the ACM<\/a> Awards.<\/p>\n