In a tiny town in East Texas sits a 935-square-foot home painted bubble-gum pink. You can now find photos of it on Zillow, but it’s not a typical house listing—or an average homeowner. Instead, singer-songwriter Kacey Musgraves has partnered with real estate site Zillow to share a look inside her childhood home in conjunction with the May 1 release of her new album Middle of Nowhere.
“Past the Dairy Queen, the county line, where there ain’t any fences,” the Zillow description begins, referencing the opening lines to the album’s title song. In addition to the typical home specs like the number of bedrooms and bathrooms (that’s 2 and 1), the listing is full of on-brand references to horse parking, coyote watching, no reckless men, and no bad energy. You can see for yourself how many lyric references and visual Easter eggs you can find throughout the listing, its photos, and the 3D tour.
Don’t miss the Texas flag painted on the porch ceiling by Kacey’s mom either (pictured below). “I was the little girl who was singing all the time, and the porch of this house was my stage, so to speak,” Kacey says.
Kacey’s roots on the property are deep. The house and the land around it in Golden, Texas (pop. 156) have been in her family for more than 100 years. A few years ago, she saved the house from being sold after her beloved grandmother passed away, and she painted the house her grandmother’s favorite color, pink. In doing so, she fulfilled a dream many people have; 44 percent of adults say they would buy their childhood home if they could, according to research from Zillow.
“There have been so many births, deaths, marriages, celebrations, human struggle—the human experience on every level for generations—here on this land, so it feels really peaceful and really special and definitely like it’s own little world away from the world,” Kacey says.
As a self-described late-night Zillow scroller, Kacey has now released a listing of the home that allows fellow scrollers to walk through her past in a unique way. Zillow will also be posting videos with Kacey about the home and its influence on her life on Instagram and TikTok.
It’s also only fitting that Kacey revisited the Golden property and her home state of Texas many times while writing her new album, whose title was inspired by a nearby sign she found that says, “Golden, Texas: Somewhere in the middle of nowhere,” Kacey told NPR. For her, the phrase reflected the idea that mundane or ordinary places still hold deep meaning and a strong spirit.
“I think it’s easy to grow up in a small town and be like, I’m getting out of here,” she says. “And then it’s been cool to return to it time and time again and find different ways to be inspired by it.”
In fact, it was the place where she wrote her first song and first connected to music. Her 2015 song “Dime Store Cowgirl” references that she’s “still the girl from Golden,” and her ties to the area are still inspiring her words more than 10 years later. As she writes in the song “Middle of Nowhere,” “Gonna find my own peace, I wanna be / Somewhere in the middle of nowhere.” Tour the full listing here.
